Kathia Laszlo will be part of a panel discussion during the Social Change Conference to be held in Washington, D.C. on September 30, 2009. The theme of this year's conference is "Social Entrepreneurship: Taking Action, Leading Change." The conference is sponsored by Walden University. Learn more about this event here.

In October and November we had the opportunity to share the work we are doing as Syntony Quest in four events:

• California Student Sustainability Coalition's Fall Convergence at San Francisco State University, October 24th-26th, 2008. During this event we were invited to present at a panel discussion on Green Careers.
• Evolving Leaders Collaborative, held at the Presidio of San Francisco. Kathia participated in a panel on leadership for sustainability on October 25th.
• 4th Brazilian Systems Congress, held in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil on October 29th and 30th. Kathia was a keynote speaker on "An evolutionary view of development: creating human and social capital through evolutionary learning communities."
• 3rd Reunion of ALAS (Latin American Systems Asociation) , November 6th-8th in Mexico City. Kathia and Alexander have been the US representatives for ALAS. Kathia participated in the plenary dialogue on Systemic in the International Context.

To learn more about these last two systems events and how the systems communities in Latin America are creating sustainable development initiatives, read our recent blog.

Alexander and Kathia Laszlo will give a talk as part of the Holistic Lectures Series offered by the Presidio Community YMCA. "Going Green with Integrity" is an exploration of the choices we can make to live more healthy lives, create vibrant communities and organizations, renew our ecosystems and bring about the possibility of a better future for ourselves and our children. Learn more...

Sustainable Silicon Valley's Educational Forum will focus on the topic of Green Teams—exploring voluntary groups of employees collaborating to create sustainable workplaces. Syntony Quest will be part of a panel together with representatives of eBay, BJG Architecture + Engineering, Genentech, and Gunn High School. Alexander and Kathia Laszlo will share their perspectives on evolutionary learning communities as a useful model to create effective Green Teams. The Forum will take place on April 30th from 9:00am to 12:30 pm in the eBay offices in San Jose. For more information and to register click here.

The work of Syntony Quest was conceived within the community of the International Systems Institute, under the guidance and mentorship of Bela H. Banathy. Bela passed away in 2003 and left a legacy of love and knowledge to comprehensively redesign our social systems: education, business, healthcare, society at large. One of the projects that he left unconcluded was a compendium of writings by members of the systems community on the role of dialogue in design conversations -- or conversations that create the future.

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