Community Builders Workshop - Enhancing Community & Business Prosperity through Experience, Storytelling, Fun and WOW Factor!
May 6, 2026
Enhancing Community & Business Prosperity through Experience, Storytelling, Fun and WOW Factor!
Aussie Community Builder Peter Kenyon returns to Saskatchewan with a new workshop agenda aimed at strengthening rural economies.
If you are interested in Cultural Asset Mapping, finding strategies for finding your community's uniqueness and coming together, and or reviving your community, this will be a good opportunity.
About the Speaker:
Peter is motivated by the desire to help create caring, healthy, inclusive, connected and enterprising communities, where all community members feel ‘they matter, belong and can contribute’, and where communities discover and mobilize their strengths and transform themselves.
Peter has had over 35 years of experience working in the field of community and economic transformation. Such opportunities have enabled him to design, implement, test and refine a variety of change and renewal methodologies and tools in a wide range of rural and urban communities and local economies throughout Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa, Asia, Pacific, Middle East and North America. Project work has been undertaken in 59 countries.
Peter is especially passionate about small-town reinvention and has worked with over 2000 rural and small urban communities seeking to spark their own ideas and invest themselves in building sustainable economic futures.
Agenda:
- 9:00 am - Registration, coffee and networking
- 9:30 am - Workshop overview
Introduction to key concepts and themes
Discovery of the people and experience assets of the room - 10:15 am - Overview of the “Experience Economy” with examples of impact on community and business life
- 10:45 am - Refreshments and conversations
- 11:20 am - Application of the “Experience Economy” in the small manufacturing and artisan business sectors
- 12:00 pm - The story of reinvention of communities across the globe through one “Giant” experience Idea
- 12:30 pm - Lunch and conversations
- 1:20 pm - Creating Wow factor via storytelling and humour in reinventing community and business districts
- 2:00 pm - Tools and processes for treasure mapping community and local businesses
- 2:45 pm - Refreshments and conversations
- 3:00 pm - Open Space experience: “What I care about and who else also cares about it”
- 3:45 pm - Final questions, contributions and useful resources
- 4:00 pm - Workshop closure
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