Archive for category: Performance

Really, Physically, better meetings. (Scott Tate)

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“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!

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Stuckness (Nathan Bragg)

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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.

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Going Deeper! How to Lead Change more Effectively (Yvonne Ruke Akpoveta)

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The workshop will go beyond methodologies and go deeper to explore the use of Empathy, Deep Listening, and Emotional Intelligence as critical tools to help more effectively lead and manage change. It will also include practical exercises to augment the participants’ learning. It will help participants to develop interpersonal skills that help them manage difficult situations, and relate more effectively with others within and outside the workplace in order to increased performance and create better working environments.

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The Learning Brain (Lauren Waldman)

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How does change happen in the brain? When humans are required to change, overcoming boundaries to do something different or new, the brain gets to work, physically creating the pathways to do so. Without this plasticity, everything would remain the same. What better way to explore this than through learning! We are in an exciting time in learning, where the boundaries of our capabilities keep growing thanks to the amazing findings of Neuroscience Using the science of how the brain learns, come on an adventure inside your brain, and get hands on as we create a living map, that taps into the curiosity of the mind, to chart the path of possibilities for learning and growth in your organizations. Get ready for a change from training, to learning! YARR!!!

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Firewalking for a strong community spirit (Jutta Goldammer)

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Firewalking combines a festive atmosphere with personal and collective empowerment. It is ideal as a community building event strengthening the common vision and purpose. You’ll be thoroughly prepared mentally and physically in order to be able to safely walk over 400-600 °C hot glowing coals. You’ll be astonished to see how powerful you can be as collective in which each individual has connected to their purpose and experienced the full support of the whole group.

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Team Discovery (Nathan Bragg)

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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.”

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Arrow Breaking: A full-body experience to give power to your visions (Jutta Goldammer)

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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.

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Designing Learning for the Brain (Lauren Waldman)

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For well over 300 years eduction has been institutionalized and followed a formal structure when it came to learning, but did anyone ever consider how the brain learns in that time?

In this learning experience, I’ll translate the research from neuroscience and the cognitive sciences into hands on practical methodologies, that anyone can use to design, facilitate and measure learning in organizations. Leave with tips and strategies to implement what you’ve learned for both personal and organizational growth, and discover what it really feels like to learn!

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Image Conversation (Nathan Bragg)

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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.

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