----------------------------------------------------------------- Shaping Futures, Managing Change: A Retreat for Senior Museum and Heritage Managers Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bring your knowledge, experience, anxieties and visions - along with your beach shoes - to The Haven on Gabriola Island for a productive, highly focused learning session with your colleagues. In this intensive workshop, you will focus on management approaches that help you and your institution respond to current challenges and implement changes that ensure your institutional (and individual) survival. Sharilyn Ingram draws on her extensive museum and human resource management experience to provide a framework in which you can discuss, debate and analyze the problems that are confronting you and shape creative strategies for leadership and effective change. The Haven provides an environment in which you can take a brief respite from the demands of your office to focus, reflect, build new perspectives, strengthen collegial networks, and master new management skills. Participants: Museum, gallery and heritage site directors and senior managers, with a minimum of five years experience. Facilitator: Sharilyn Ingram is the newly appointed Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens; she has directed major change processes at several Canadian institutions, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Vancouver Museum, and the National Museums of Canada Dates: November 27 - 29, 1996 Location: The Haven, an educational retreat centre on Gabriola Island near Nanaimo, British Columbia Please register by: October 18 Fee: $545 Canadian, including accommodation, meals and taxes, based on double occupancy in two-room cabins. Single accommodation in lodge rooms can be arranged for an additional $44. For more information on this course and others offered this fall, please contact: Joy Davis, Program Director Cultural Resource Management Program Division of Continuing Studies University of Victoria PO Box 3030 Victoria, BC V8W 3N6 Telephone (604) 721-8462 Fax: (604) 721-8774 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/