Kennan Salinero – REIMAGINE SCIENCE

Suzanne Daigle’s New Book: ‘Open Space on the Open Road – A Love Story’
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Suzanne Daigle’s New Book: ‘Open Space on the Open Road – A Love Story’

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Suzanne Daigle’s New Book: ‘Open Space on the Open Road – A Love Story’

Suzanne Daigle has just come out with her book ‘Open Space on the Open Road: A Love Story’ (https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/open-space-on-the-open-road-a-love-story/38130954/all-editions/), causing us to reminisce about our formative years. Tobias Mayer – educator, facilitator, consultant – connected Suzanne and me in ReImagine Science’s (then Yámana Science & Technology) formative months, leading to a rich and rewarding [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2023-02-02T19:24:48+00:00January 30th, 2023|Categories: Past Events, Recommended Reading, RIS history|Tags: Open Space, Science Unsummit|0 Comments

Initiatives for Teens
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Initiatives for Teens

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Initiatives for Teens

I first met Cristina Cismas Florea when I was in the 2018 Leadership Palo Alto cohort, and was immediately impressed by her 'math forward' education for high school students at Gunn High School in Palo Alto California, using a place-based, community outreach platform for applicable, hands-on math skills. Students that joined her after-school math [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2022-12-28T22:56:58+00:00December 28th, 2022|Categories: Others in our Network|0 Comments

What have we become resigned to in the workplace?
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What have we become resigned to in the workplace?

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What have we become resigned to in the workplace?

A group of us participated in this year’s Opening Space for Peace and High Performance – Kári Gunnarson, Kennan Salinero, and Annick Corriveau – and found a common thread around the topic of grief and death (Grief in Businesses was the session topic Annick hosted; Death and Open Space was co-hosted by myself (Kennan) and [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2022-12-23T04:23:22+00:00August 2nd, 2022|Categories: Events, Upcoming Events|0 Comments

A Tremendous Loss

William A. Fenwick, a champion of ReImagine Science's work and the loving partner of Kennan, passed away peacefully Oct. 4th 2021. His kindness and presence will be sorely missed for a very long time. He broke new ground in law, seeing early on that the emerging field of computers and the software that ran on [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2022-12-23T04:26:57+00:00October 5th, 2021|Categories: RIS history|0 Comments

Showcasing our partners and champions

This year we completed updating our contribution page - a project designed to share, celebrate and champion those who have championed us. We loved showcasing some of our ardent supporters who believe in ReImagine Science. A couple of them have been with us since our inception in 2008! Lynne McWilliams is one of those, and [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2021-01-05T21:30:48+00:00December 31st, 2020|Categories: Donate/Participate|Tags: collaboration, funding, social impact|0 Comments

Networks – a brief history of ‘finding’ – and adopting: Liberating Structures
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Networks – a brief history of ‘finding’ – and adopting: Liberating Structures

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Networks – a brief history of ‘finding’ – and adopting: Liberating Structures

Liberating Structures Global Gathering - photo from Lisanne Lentink Flickr stream - http://bit.ly/Lisanne_Lentink. In August of 2018 Keith McCandless sent out an email notifying the community of the first Liberating Structures Global Gathering, to take place March 13-15, 2019 in Seattle Washington. This would be my second immersion into Liberating Structures in person, [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2023-10-08T01:21:17+00:00January 1st, 2020|Categories: RIS history|Tags: change, complexity theory, self-organizing|0 Comments

Part 2: Networks – a brief history of ‘finding’ – and adopting Liberating Structures

Where it all started - this is the original email from Plexus Institute, announcing the Liberating Structures webinar, that I got from Geoff: Finally, I want to share a page I brought back from Seattle, penned by Keith McCandless, about the books that shaped the development of Liberating Structures. Keith's original document is on [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2020-01-01T02:06:45+00:00December 30th, 2019|Categories: RIS history|Tags: change, complexity theory, self-organizing|0 Comments

Launching our Third Space® Events

ReImagine Science rolled out our next phase of Third Space dialogs on March 27th at Stanford University. The presentation – The Third Space: Shifting the hierarchy of academia to release the best potential of science – was a joint effort of Kennan Salinero, executive director of ReImagine Science, and Doug Kirkpatrick, a recognized leader in [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2023-10-08T00:13:11+00:00April 19th, 2019|Categories: Events|Tags: Academia, change, collaboration, collaborations, complexity theory, Ethics, funding, future of science, grand challenges, innovation, Open Space, organizational change, science, Science and Society, science leadership, Science of Team Science, self-organizing, silicon valley, social impact, Stanford University, STEM education, system mapping, Third Space, Tools for teamwork, Trust, u.lab, workforce|0 Comments

ReImagining our Logo

Dr. Michael Pope was chair of the department when I began my faculty position in the Chemistry Department at Georgetown University. He is part of a generation of chemistry faculty that seem to have done very well – working on interesting problems, with a close knit community of fellow faculty that seem to still like [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2019-04-13T05:26:55+00:00April 12th, 2019|Categories: RIS history|Tags: complexity theory, history, science, self-organizing|0 Comments

Science of Team Science Meeting – sharing our u.lab learning journey
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Science of Team Science Meeting – sharing our u.lab learning journey

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Science of Team Science Meeting – sharing our u.lab learning journey

'Establishing Trust in a Distributed Team to Cultivate Systemic Change' session at the SciTeamSci 2018 meeting, Galveston TX Three of us traveled to Galveston Texas from May 21-24th 2018 for the Science of Team Science annual conference. While there we presented a panel on Establishing Trust in a Distributed Team to Cultivate Systemic [...]

By Kennan Salinero|2023-10-08T00:22:32+00:00May 28th, 2018|Categories: Events, Impact Issues, Our Events, Past Events, RIS In Action|Tags: Science of Team Science, TheoryU, u.lab|0 Comments

About Kennan Salinero

Suzanne Daigle’s New Book: ‘Open Space on the Open Road – A Love Story’

Initiatives for Teens

What have we become resigned to in the workplace?

Networks – a brief history of ‘finding’ – and adopting: Liberating Structures

Science of Team Science Meeting – sharing our u.lab learning journey

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

– Carl Sagan

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

– Arthur M. Schlesinger

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

– Stephen Hawking

All scientists, regardless of discipline, need to be prepared to confront the broadest consequences of our work.

– Jennifer Doudna

In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us".

– Robin Wall Kimmerer

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life.

– Leonardo da Vinci