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Stimulating Conversation: How to Get People Talking (Jeffer London)

Activism, Branding, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Digitization, Disruption, Engagement, Human Resources, Jeffer London, Leadership, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops

Changes happen better when people can talk about them. Stimulating Conversation is easy. But it takes practice. This session helps you examine your own conversations, test out ways to converse, and get feedback to enhance your style. You may very well become a better conversationalist, but our real goal is for you to help other people to enter into conversation – conversations about change, about working together and about your shared future. By getting other people talking, you will find the secret to Stimulating Conversation.

Get ready to:

Rethink the questions you ask. – Be more present for those around you.
Find more meaning in your exchanges.
Jump into this conversation and find insights, stories and tips from others who see the value in getting people talking.

/by Marina

Theory U as a change catalyzer (Barbara Zuber)

Barbara Zuber, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops

Experience Theory U by Otto Scharmer, MIT as a tool in an interactive setting to deeply understand its implications and collect ideas how you can implement it into your own work. Why Theory U? It implies Co-Initiating, Co-Sensing and Co-creation. It provides a sound orientation in change processes as it shows you where you are in your own process and what could be the next meaningful step. It helps you to generate solutions from different perspectives, get in touch with your Future potential and activate the courage to prototype.

In our approach „ Facilitating Change“ we are using Theory U by Otto Scharmer as a change guideline. We combine it with the art of facilitation to deal with complexity and change dynamics.

/by Marina

Voice and Vocation (Martine Reyners)

Activism, Courage, Leadership, Martine Reyners, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops

Speaking with inspiration, projecting confidence in your abilities, feeling connected to your team and your job, transforming stress into creativity and inspiration; these are the themes central to the workshops I organize for businesses and organizations. Your voice is critical as a means for you to radiate presence, trustworthiness and authenticity. Learn to allow your own voice to resonate in harmony with your true nature and the message you want to convey. Through vocal and singing techniques to get in touch with your inner sound you will develop tools to deal with stress, and find that your speech and communication skills have a new and very different dimension. You will find out how unique your voice is, and that she has the power to guide you on your path in this changing world.

/by Marina

Leadership Transformation Through Activism (Simone Sloan)

Activism, Collaboration, Courage, Leadership, Simone Sloan, Workshops

Activism is driven by excellence and innovation. It is a sustained organizational effort driven by passion and inclusion of a diverse group. The objective of this workshop is to explore activism through improvisation and experiential exercises. Tools will be introduced as building blocks to explore. Using improvisation through play, participants will explore self-expression, interpersonal relationships, and stress management as methods to empower their activism. Participants will use their emotional intelligence IQ to tap into their ability to empathize through active listening, understand their gradient to social responsibility, impulse control, and being flexible. Utilizing these emotional intelligence skills to gain the courage to become the activist for positive corporate change.

/by Marina

Lego-Together – How to Lead Change With Others (Rich Batchelor)

Collaboration, Courage, Disruption, Leadership, Performance, Power, Rich Batchelor, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops

Let your fingers do the talking! This Lego® Serious Play® activity, will encourage participants to think beyond their own world of change, extend their own change role and see how they depend on others to successfully deliver change. Tables will work together to build the best change team they can, using a range of unique and different Lego® bricks whilst also getting the opportunity to understand the power of collaboration, co-operation and change agent networks to deliver change.

/by Marina

Percussion & Disruption (Nik Beeson)

Collaboration, Courage, Disruption, Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, Nik Beeson, Performance, Power, Trust, Workshops

Percussion & Disruption uses rhythmic disruption as a metaphor for organisational disruption. In the course of this workshop participants learn how to play three rhythmic patterns used in Afro-Cuban music. Afro-Cuban percussion is a rich and complex tradition which is played both in 4/4 time (typical of almost all western music) and in 12/8 time. Participants viscerally experience the disruption of trying to bring rhythmic patterns in different time signatures together. They then learn and experience how the third very simple rhythmic pattern, called the ‘clave’, is designed to be played in both time signatures and hence serves as a ‘hinge’ or ‘bridge’ across the disruptive forces from one pattern to the other.

‘Disruption & Percussion’ is a fully integrated hands-on workshop. Participants learn rhythmic structures by actually clapping them out, and are carried through a journey in which they viscerally experience rhythmic disruption and work to resolve it by learning new skills. The fundamental theme of disruption, and how it relates to organizational strategy and culture, are consistently returned to through ongoing conversation, questioning, reflection and analysis.

/by Marina

Lift your story to the next level (Jacques Chlopczyk)

Activism, Branding, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Disruption, Innovation, Jacques Chlopczyk, Leadership, Self-Improvement, Workshops

What is it that you want to bring alive in your work? In this workshop you are invited to work on your story, dig deeper and lift it to the next level. A good story inspires heads, hands and hearts. A great story is connected to our dreams and hopes and speaks to issues and topics in the wider world. It is authentic and purposeful. It extends an invitation and makes ideas concrete and actionable.

These elements are part of a powerful story framework that we are going to explore in this session. After a short introduction we will revisit your personal backstory. With the gems and inspiration found there, we will travel to the future you want to create – constructing the building blocks for your story along the way. The session closes with a story circle in which you share your story, gather feedback and partake in the stories of your colleagues.

/by Marina

Understanding the energy in group work: Reciprocal Leadership (Charo Lanao)

Charo Lanao, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Disruption, Innovation, Leadership, Self-Improvement, Trust, Virtual Collaboration, Workshops

When doing facilitation and training, it is very important to understand the energy in the group, also is important that the energy flows in a reciprocal way. This introductory workshops to the Inka tradition offer a good mix of theoretical background information and practical exercises for connecting with the world of living energies and harmonizing your energy field. The workshop invites you to develop your personal and collective practice of Reciprocal Leadership.

The training offers:

To learn what is Ayni (Reciprocation), Minka (Collective work), and Ayllu (Community)
To reclaim and grow our relationship to Mother Earth
To understand and grow our practice of Reciprocal Leadership

/by Marina

Build trust through the ancient art of juggling! (Yannis Angelis)

Activism, Collaboration, Courage, Creativity, Culture, Disruption, Engagement, Human Resources, Performance, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops, Yannis Angelis

So, a merger or an acquisition has taken place

… or you are assigned to conduct a new project team which involves various competences and mindsets and you find yourself struggling because

… in this novel situation, you and your teams need to work with new people that you don’t know, coming from a different personal and organizational culture. Moreover, you may have even been competitors just some months ago. So how can you make sure that you can, as soon as possible, create a collaborative field of trust in such a complex environment where things seem to be a bit chaotic?

The ancient art of juggling in its principal is a continuous attempt to bring a kind of stability to chaos. Juggling is not so difficult as it appears to be and participants in this workshop will learn to juggle 3 balls in a clear time of 30 minutes! Even if juggling is considered to be an individual art, they will have the opportunity to juggle together. The whole process combines both physical and social interactions, which are essential for creating connection and initiating trust. Juggling introduces a self-trusting attitude, a kind of “I can learn anything I wish to”. Most importantly for participants, by increasing their self-confidence, they will feel more trustful and will shine out more trustworthy.

/by Marina

Theory U: a methodology for deep change (Vincent De Waele)

Courage, Disruption, Leadership, Vincent De Waele, Workshops

Theory U is based on a concept called “presencing.” A blend of the words “presence” and “sensing”, presencing signifies a heightened state of attention that allows individuals and groups to shift the inner place from which they function. When that shift happens, people begin to operate from a future space of possibility that they feel wants to emerge, people avoid reproducing solutions from the past when disruption is needed. Being able to facilitate that shift is the essence of leadership today.

/by Marina