“Move it or lose it”… It turns out this phrase holds more true than we ever hoped it did. This quintessential workshop will discuss and practice principles of meditation, physical activity and exercise (what’s the difference anyways?!) and connect them to learning and development. Participants will leave with surprisingly simple tools and actionables to immediately make all of their meetings and learning sessions more effective. This may seem like a tall order, but it’s just what happens when you get your systems primed!
Have you ever felt “stuck” or “blocked” when facing a particular issue or challenge?
This workshop uses image games and engages group intelligence to gently define challenges and offer possible solutions. “Stuckness” can be examined for individuals or for large groups of people. While similar to Image Conversation, the Stuckness workshop offers participants the opportunity to go deeper into the examination of a particular challenge.
Stuckness participants will:
- practice creating images to illustrate a problem or challenge
- help hold space for deep examination of challenges illustrated
- practice creating images to illustrate a solution or desired outcome
- practice achieving group consensus non-verbally
- learn to visualize the practical and emotional steps it takes to go from thorny problem to best resolution.
This workshop is especially useful in team building and promoting team problem-solving.
Bringing transparancy into the cultural patterns of organizations can help to speed up transformational change. The culture map is basically rooted in the concept of the spiral dynamics by Claire Graves but made applicable for the organisational context. It is one of theses concepts that is so useful as a frame of mind in the back of your head because “it explains the world” – as a participant called it – and at the same time it can be used as a tool through which you can look at organisations.
We will explore the map in an interactive fashion and give you an idea of your own culture map and how you can use it in an organisational context.
Who is your team? What are their strengths? Where do they feel weakest or in need of improvement? Are they happy with the workload, or are they feeling over-burdened? How about you?
This workshop finds a non-threatening way to answer those questions and more.
The participants will:
- learn the power of making interactive non-verbal polls
- quickly learn the strengths of and challenges faced by teammates and how they feel about those attributes
- potentially discover their own strengths and weaknesses and how they feel about those attributes
Warning: Make sure to play Icebreaker games (and perhaps also go through the Ice-Breaker workshop) beforehand to build trust among teammates. Trust is key here because the best first question may be: “I feel safe expressing my truth in this space.”
It takes courage to follow a dream, a vision or a new idea, especially at the beginning, when no visible results can be seen yet and there is still a way to go to develop and implement the new. If there is trust in the success of an innovation process right from the beginning, it can develop with ease and joy.
This is what this workshop is aiming at: Confidence in oneself an one’s future undertakings. Arrow breaking, an initiation ritual from Fiji will give power to your dreams and visions. With a focused mind and strong will you will not only manage to break an arrow with your throat. Along with it you will vanquish the obstacles that keep you from moving towards what you envision.
In this workshop you will anchor the experience of your own power in your body: The confidence that nothing can stop you until your dream is manifest.
We live in a complex global world where demands of leaders are increasing everyday. With a focus on transparency, inclusion, equality, agility, possibility and collaboration, how can leaders leverage themselves to live, work and play in a way that is respectful, sustainable, and most important, fun?
The answer is simple. Curious conversations. Hiding behind texts, emails and social media, conversational skills are the most important skills leaders are failing to engage in. Research out of Stanford is showing that 9 out of 10 conversations miss the mark. Research is also showing organizations are focused on ‘soft’ skills that have hard impacts: communication skills, critical thinking, agility – all of which require curiosity.
These are skills that are expected of leaders but are never taught. Curious conversations are the disruptor needed to thrive in our global, multigenerational workplace. In our interactive workshop, participants will experience how curious conversations are at the forefront of innovation and collaboration in a time where demands are high and resources are low. Participants will experience and learn:
- The value of different perspectives, there is never just one way to do anything
- Communication skills to shift leaders from reacting to intentionally responding
- Self-awareness, clarity around how they are showing up as a leader, their impact and turning barriers into bridges
- The skills needed to collaborate, innovate, problem solve & manage emotions. Skills that are currently expected of leaders but have never been taught.
An organizations success lies in their leaders’ ability to confidently disrupt the status quo, step out of comfort zones while also being inclusive and collaborative, as they reflect rather than react.
Practicing Change Management is often considered both an Art and Science. This workshop focuses on the art of leading change and the needed competencies, going beyond ‘methodologies’ and ‘models’.
It also explores tools needed to lead change in today’s fast-paced and disruptive business environment, most especially as we embark into the fourth industrial revolution of AI, Robotics etc., where being agile and responsive to change is a must-have.
The workshop will delve into the complexities associated with navigating fear and resistance from a variety of stakeholders across the organization; working with senior leaders to get their buy-in and co-operation; and how to more effectively collaborate with internal project team members, and to overcome common barriers encountered during the process of leading and managing organizational change.
Judgment is inherent in language. Both spoken and written language try to reduce complex ideas into something quickly digestible; a side effect is that language can feel like accusation: “Have you tried this…?” Or “This is how WE do it.” This sort of communication is subtly violent and often drives a wedge between people, separating “Us” into “Us/Them” groups. This violence is stripped away when we communicate through images.
Participants in this workshop will practice making images using their own bodies (and/or using objects in the room); they will be asked to “Show, don’t tell.” They also will also practice “listening” with their eyes; this is important because watchers must provide the words, if there are any to be said.
The participants will:
- practice creating images to illustrate a problem or challenge
- practice creating images to illustrate a solution or desired outcome
- practice achieving group consensus non-verbally
- learn to visualize the practical and emotional steps it takes to go from thorny problem to best resolution.
This workshop is especially useful in team building and promoting team problem-solving.