Courage to Lead Award Suzanne Jackson, ICA CANADA Board Director, presented our friends and admired colleagues ICA ASSOCIATES INC. with 2016’s Courage to Lead Award. Congratulations to Duncan Holmes, Jo Nelson, John Miller, Bill Staples, Jeannette Staples, Christine Wong and Darlene Fisher. Your mission to ‘Facilitate a Culture of Participation’ is an excellent demonstration of having The Courage to Lead.

40th Anniversary Event Toronto This Fall we are looking back on the 40 years since we registered in Canada as a charitable organization. We invite you, our members, colleagues and friends to wonder what turning 40 means for us. ICA stories stretch way back into the ether of Modern Canadian life. ICA’s way of doing things has shaped how many of us approach our personal and professional lives. Join us on November 12th from 5pm to 8pm at the Friends’ House 60 Lowther Ave. near St. George Station for the celebration. We will have a word from our board, and some information about the projects and partnerships currently developing. And we’ll have lots of chance to talk together, enjoy food and drink, and to bring together some of our finest memories. Please bring a memory, be it a person, place or thing. Contact David atica@icacan.org with questions. 5pm Tea and Talk Time 6pm Looking Back 7pm Looking Forward 8pm Drinks at the Bedford Academy Please RSVP here. A donation is appreciated but not necessary. On street Parking is available. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ica-canada-40th-anniversary-tickets-28564988650?aff=es2

Leadership Community Evening Tonight, ICA CANADA hosts our first Leadership Challenge event in our training room at 401 Richmond Street West. There will be opportunity to meet new people and to immediately engage together around leadership challenges we all face in our daily life. This is the first event in 2016 put together by our Leadership Community and we are excited by the great response we’ve had to our invitation. The theme for tonight’s challenge is ‘Everyday Care’ which opens questions about ‘how’ we care and how others respond to care. It gives our guests the chance to reflect on the challenges incumbent in different ways of caring, and gets us thinking of ways to positively effect our environment – “to lead from where we stand.” Through thinking together in open dialogue about leadership we encourage each other to reflect and renew our own leadership practice.

Leadership Challenge: Signal Presence As leaders we are challenged to develop an attitude of consciously being there, ready to act, paying attention to the details while operating from a posture of gratitude. This attitude requites an internal discipline of calm affirming respect and confidence, and persistence in the face of challenges while being open to unexpected possibilities. By simply being our care, leaders are making the world a better place. We are challenged to engage in a way that when we show up in a situation we create a significant positive difference. – pg. 198 Chapter 9: Signal Presence from The Courage to Lead by R. Brian Stanfield The Courage to Lead engages participants to consider leadership from many perspectives.  It challenges us to lead from our current situation, not only later when we have time or money or position available to us. It teaches us to ‘lead from where we stand.’ How Much Is Our Membership Fee? In 2017, we are offering an annual membership for $20. The fee covers some of the cost of

Annual General Meeting ICA held its AGM last Thursday, June 16th at ICA’s training facility in Toronto. We thanked outgoing board member Mohamed Khaki for many years of support and service and we moved to include Virginia Kanyogonya as our newest board member. Welcome aboard! With our hard work out of the way, the group of 20 members participated in a World Cafe around the question: What can we do to make the most of our 40th Anniversary event on Saturday, November 12th in Toronto? A lot of creative energy went into this and we formed four categories of activity: Event Planning, Highlighting History, Outreach/Marketing, and Interactivity. Through these four areas we took in loads of exciting ideas for an interesting event and we even found a couple volunteers in our group. We could still use more and all of our members are welcome to participate in our purpose to: engage people in the future of ICA CANADA based on the passion that originally caught them up in ICA. How Much Is Our Membership Fee?

A Few Remarks From The Courage To Lead Participants The Courage to Lead is a hard course to capture in words. Rather than transfer information about leadership strategies, it is a course developed to encourage new ways of personal reflection as a means to moving things forward. As one of our participants put it, the course “doesn’t teach Leadership Skills” but emphasizes “Leadership Development.” You, me, all of us, can “lead from where we stand.” Instead of trying here to describe The Courage to Lead, I have excerpted a few phrases shared by our most recent course participants at the University Health Network. These explain something of the experience of the courseand how it benefit them: I was feeling skeptical that the course would be “fluffy”, but was surprised how “real” the concepts were and that they truly could be applied to our everyday and work lives. Asking the question of what is necessary and acknowledging that things I may have viewed as bothersome tasks (i.e. laundry, groceries, cleaning etc.) are part of care and that there is no