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This the list of tested workshops we can offer to be embedded in the design of your event. The short descriptions are meant to be a source of inspiration. Browse through the list and when we talk about your design, let us know which ones you like. And which others you want to include with facilitators from your own ranks. The list is searchable by categories which are displayed in the sidebar.
Humans at the Heart of Change (Lindsey Ostrosser & David Ip Yam)
David Ip Yam, Human Resources, Leadership, Lindsey Ostrosser, Lindsey Ostrosser, Workshops, Workshops-DuoWorking with and/or inspiring others in your organization to change through the traditional change or project management approaches can be frustrating. Try a coaching approach instead! In this interactive workshop, you will Develop Change Intelligence®,…
Really, Physically, better meetings. (Scott Tate)
Human Resources, Innovation, Mind:body development, Performance, Power, Scott Tate, Self-Improvement, Workshops“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?!)…
This Changes Everything (Kathy Taberner)
Activism, Branding, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Disruption, Human Resources, Innovation, Kathy Taberner, Leadership, Self-Improvement, WorkshopsWe 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…
Stuckness (Nathan Bragg)
Activism, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Disruption, Innovation, Leadership, Nathan Bragg, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsHave 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…
Going Deeper! How to Lead Change more Effectively (Yvonne Ruke Akpoveta)
Collaboration, Leadership, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops, Yvonne Ruke AkpovetaThe 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…
The Learning Brain (Lauren Waldman)
Human Resources, Lauren Waldman, Leadership, Performance, Self-Improvement, WorkshopsHow 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…
Firewalking for a strong community spirit (Jutta Goldammer)
Activism, Branding, Collaboration, Courage, Jutta Goldammer, Leadership, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops, WorkshopsFirewalking 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…
What’s worth tracking? (Scott Tate)
Digitization, Disruption, Human Resources, Innovation, Performance, Scott Tate, Virtual Collaboration, WorkshopsBio and psycho-metrics are Easier to track and record in this digital age, but what’s worth tracking and recording, and what analog activities matter to change them? This foundational workshop will introduce some digital tools and apps in…
Culture Map (Renate Bia Franke)
Activism, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Innovation, Leadership, Power, Renate Bia Franke, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops, WorkshopsBringing 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…
Team Discovery (Nathan Bragg)
Activism, Collaboration, Courage, Disruption, Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, Nathan Bragg, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Team Assessment, WorkshopsWho 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…
The Politics of Change (James McCalman)
Disruption, James McCalman, Leadership, Power, Trust, WorkshopsPolitical behaviour in organizations is an acceptable and pervasive dimension of organization life. There is a growing body of literature that views organisational politics as central to our understanding of the workings of the organization.
The…
Arrow Breaking: A full-body experience to give power to your visions (Jutta Goldammer)
Courage, Innovation, Jutta Goldammer, Leadership, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops, WorkshopsIt 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…
Creating your future NOW, via a disruptive Story-Work approach. (Yannis Angelis)
Activism, Collaboration, Community Management, Creativity, Curiosity, Disruption, Engagement, Human Resources, Performance, Power, Storytelling, Trust, Workshops, Yannis AngelisCan you imagine the future of your organization, department, product, yourself in a highly disruptive world? Who will be you at that time and what will be your role? How disruption will have transformed you and your work? Are you interested…
Developing Change Management Sponsorship with Lego® Serious Play® (Rich Batchelor)
Courage, Innovation, Leadership, Rich Batchelor, Trust, WorkshopsChange Agents are constantly challenged by senior leadership to show the value of change management to deliver successful change initiatives. Before we can discuss the right approach, we need get them sponsoring the change and supporting the…
The Focused Leader in Change Management (Douglas Gilbert)
Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Douglas Gilbert, Leadership, Power, WorkshopsFocused leadership is crucial to the success of change management. Neuro-science based models of human interaction explain the domains of focus for leaders of change. The SCARF model, developed by Dr. David Rock, helps leaders focus on key concerns…
Shifting from Power-Over to Power-With Leadership (Ute Franzen-Waschke)
Leadership, Power, Trust, Ute Franzen-Waschke, WorkshopsIn this workshop participants will go on a quick tour around the human brain to find out where trust 'sits' and how fragile the notion of 'trust' is. The quality of our conversations and our ability to connect with our counterparts play an important…
Deep Democracy - An approach for Change Management (Caspar Fröhlich)
Caspar Fröhlich, Leadership, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, WorkshopsThe aim of the workshop is to present the 'Deep Democracy' approach and to show how that this philosophy can be applied to change management projects. The workshop consists of a short input presentation and a group exercise in which one goes…
Process-oriented Psychology in Business (Barbara Leuner Corpina)
Barbara Leuner Corpina, Collaboration, Human Resources, Leadership, Power, Trust, WorkshopsThe methodology describes social change processes on a individual and collective level. The methodological and ideological roots are based on C.G. Jung, constructivism, quantum physics, taoism as well as on shamanistic ground, psychodrama, gestalt…
Eroding the Power from within: Activist Communication (Esther Barfoot)
Activism, Collaboration, Courage, Disruption, Esther Barfoot, Leadership, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsGet a load of this: in the Netherlands a police officer isn’t allowed to choose the partner with whom he is teamed up in the police car. He has no say in the choice of partner who might or might not save his life in a life or death situation.…
Power of Looking and being looked at - The Practise of Empowering Photography (Eeva-Liisa Vihinen)
Consulting Skills, Courage, Eeva-Liisa Vihinen, Power, Trust, WorkshopsPower issues show up in every encounter we have with other people.We can use our way of looking at each other in either oppressing critical or accepting and appreciating way. Choosing an appreciative look enables trust to emerge. We all want…
The Business Case of Change: Calculating the cost benefits on a napkin. (Christoph Hinske)
Christoph Hinske, Performance, WorkshopsWe dive into dozens of our scientifically validated cases, ranging from German industry associations, European strategy consultancies to Global Networks, small family business as well as shareholder-driven corporations. Doing simple "napkin…
Powerful Collaboration- It´s all about relationship and rank (Barbara Leuner Corpina)
Barbara Leuner Corpina, Community Management, Human Resources, Leadership, Power, Trust, WorkshopsThis workshop is based on Process Work by Arnold Mindell et. al. Process Work is a paradigm how to work within companies these days. Process Work views companies as complex systems in which structural aspects, such as positions, the individuals…
Conversation Catalyst (Nathan Bragg)
Activism, Collaboration, Communication, Courage, Creativity, Curiosity, Disruption, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Nathan Bragg, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Storytelling, Trust, WorkshopsPeople often avoid talking about thorny issues together. This workshop provides an avenue into nonviolent discussion.
Treating a given space like a giant piece of graph paper, participants position themselves in specific places to silently…
The Art of Human Interaction (Jouke Kruijer)
Activism, Creativity, Innovation, Jouke Kruijer, Power, Trust, WorkshopsOrganizations have an inherent world of values, emotions, fears and desires. This most human, and often unconscious or hidden, world is an important part of organizational life. It is the bedrock of power and trust – these two vital forces…
Curiosity & Disruptive Change (Nik Beeson)
Courage, Curiosity, Disruption, Innovation, Leadership, Nik Beeson, Performance, Self-Improvement, WorkshopsReal disruption is a deep wound to the integrity of organisational identity, so real disruption requires radical adaptation, structural transformation… a transformation in identity. The question that disruption is asking is not ‘what is…
The Act of Creation – Working with Dilemmas in Organizations (Jacques Chlopczyk)
Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Creativity, Disruption, Innovation, Jacques Chlopczyk, Leadership, Self-Improvement, WorkshopsSeemingly incompatible alternatives and either/or problem definitions are common in consulting and managing organizations. Starting with Arthur Koestler's theory of humour and creativity we will explore concepts and tools to understand how these…
What Makes us Human (Marlou de Rouw)
Collaboration, Community Management, Courage, Innovation, Leadership, Marlou de Rouw, Trust, WorkshopsWhat changes if I come to a group not as an expert to share knowledge, but rather as a human being coming to learn from the experience of the other so that I may transfer it into my own context?
This workshop will take participants on a deep…
Increasing your capacity to collaborate and communicate (Charo Lanao)
Charo Lanao, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Leadership, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, Virtual Collaboration, Workshops"The world is getting more crowded. Depending on the circumstances, conversations across boundaries can be delightful, or just vexing: what they mainly are, though, is inevitable."
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Today’s rapidly changing and…
Building interpersonal trust; using a relational signaling perspective (Edu van der Werf)
Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Edu van der Werf, Human Resources, Leadership, Trust, WorkshopsIn a world in which traditional hierarchy slowly but surely is substituted (or complemented) by new forms of organizing, the development of strong organizational relationships has become even more important. Trust is a fundamental aspect of…
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, WorkshopsChanges 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…
Theory U as a change catalyzer (Barbara Zuber)
Barbara Zuber, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsExperience 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.…
Cultural Change (James McCalman)
Culture, James McCalman, Leadership, Power, Trust, WorkshopsClient organisations and individuals will be introduced to some of the important themes associated with leading cultural change in a dynamic organisation. Our objective is to raise the awareness of key issues related to leading cultural change…
Trusting the Power of YOU! (Minna Taylor)
Collaboration, Leadership, Minna Taylor, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Workshops
This workshop will focus on developing authentic leadership skills through the distillation and experiential activation of core brand values and personal value propositions. We will explore tools and techniques for understanding and implementing…
Voice and Vocation (Martine Reyners)
Activism, Courage, Leadership, Martine Reyners, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsSpeaking 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…
How to build trust by using effective influencing styles (Holger Prante)
Consulting Skills, Holger Prante, Leadership, Power, Self-Improvement, WorkshopsEach of us has a specific (unconscious) way to influence others in order to reach a certain goal. Only few know that several influencing types have been thoroughly investigated and can be applied in various situations. For change programs as…
Smart Leadership & Collaboration - Activate your Brain Skills (Ute Franzen-Waschke)
Collaboration, Leadership, Trust, Ute Franzen-Waschke, WorkshopsElevating leadership capacity and creating a strong foundation of leaders across entire organizations through Conversational Intelligence® by activating your brain skills.
In this interactive workshop you will gain insights in
what…
Leadership Transformation Through Activism (Simone Sloan)
Activism, Collaboration, Courage, Leadership, Simone Sloan, WorkshopsActivism 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.…
How neurosciences can contribute to leadership: some new insights and tools (Vincent De Waele)
Collaboration, Leadership, Performance, Self-Improvement, Vincent De Waele, WorkshopsOver the past 20 years, neurosciences have substantially increased our knowledge of the human brain. A new approach developed by a group of scientists led by Jacques Fradin have developed a framework and related tools to help us in our understanding…
Social Architecture (Luc Galoppin)
Collaboration, Community Management, Luc Galoppin, Power, Trust, Workshops"Tapping into Social Architecture – Unlocking the Power of Community to Enable Change" Today’s digital economy has changed the way we think and how we work. As command and control declines in its power to deliver the full benefits of organizational…
Developing Collaborative Competence. A needed skill for successful change. (Douglas Gilbert)
Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Disruption, Douglas Gilbert, Performance, WorkshopsOrganisational change does not take place in a vacuum. The social systems surrounding an organisation seeking to change interact in ways that form a reality of social interaction which can help, hinder, or even stop change. Developing awareness…
Lego-Together - How to Lead Change With Others (Rich Batchelor)
Collaboration, Courage, Disruption, Leadership, Performance, Power, Rich Batchelor, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsLet 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…
So, You Think You Can't Paint? Ha! (Jouke Kruijer)
Collaboration, Disruption, Jouke Kruijer, Leadership, Self-Improvement, WorkshopsDealing with volatility and uncertainty is rapidly becoming the number one challenge of corporate life. We live in a world where all things are intricately related. One thing here may have a huge effect there.The more complex the system the…
Percussion & Disruption (Nik Beeson)
Collaboration, Courage, Disruption, Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, Nik Beeson, Performance, Power, Trust, WorkshopsPercussion & 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…
Lift your story to the next level (Jacques Chlopczyk)
Activism, Branding, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Disruption, Innovation, Jacques Chlopczyk, Leadership, Self-Improvement, WorkshopsWhat 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…
Understanding the energy in group work: Reciprocal Leadership (Charo Lanao)
Charo Lanao, Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Disruption, Innovation, Leadership, Self-Improvement, Trust, Virtual Collaboration, WorkshopsWhen 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…
“You’re not Listening to Me!” (Ute Franzen-Waschke)
Collaboration, Leadership, Trust, Ute Franzen-Waschke, WorkshopsThis interactive workshop focuses on how you can transform your conversations simply by the way you listen and connect with others. At the end of the workshop you will:
Understand the impact of listening on how people engage and interact
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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 AngelisSo, 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…
The Change Journey - a concept to facilitate complex change processes (Holger Nauheimer)
Collaboration, Holger Nauheimer, Innovation, WorkshopsThe Change Journey is a radical approach to change. It is based on the paradigm that change in organizations is not a linear path from A to B. As many of us experience, what happens in a change process is largely unpredictable. Our Change Journey…
Place and space as key elements of organisational change (Douglas Gilbert)
Collaboration, Douglas Gilbert, Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, WorkshopsThe impact physical and virtual surroundings on organisational culture have been clearly documented by major research studies. Place and space, both physical and virtual, can foster or disable change. The elements of place and space must be…
Theory U: a methodology for deep change (Vincent De Waele)
Courage, Disruption, Leadership, Vincent De Waele, WorkshopsTheory 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.…
As You Open Your Eyes: The story of a shared dream (Marlou de Rouw)
Activism, Collaboration, Community Management, Courage, Innovation, Leadership, Marlou de Rouw, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsAs You Open Your Eyes invites you to the homes and places of communities the world over. We will be the guests of people who have found a way to overcome sometimes life threatening challenges.
During the workshop we will watch and discuss…
“Yes and..” Applied Improvisation for an Empathy Revolution. (Charo Lanao)
Activism, Charo Lanao, Collaboration, Courage, Culture, Leadership, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsIn this workshop, participants will be exposed to the basic principles and tools of applied improvisation and will be invited to use these principles and tools for personal development, team building, creativity, innovation and wellbeing. Applied…
Strengthen collective identity and shared values (Rik Berbé)
Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Courage, Human Resources, Leadership, Rik Berbé, Trust, WorkshopsA workshop to strengthen the collective identity and shared values of your team, organisation or community.
Many signs indicate that complex human systems are fragmented by traditional management methods and techniques. Organizations and…
The Time Paradox - Delayed time as a catalyst for progress (Odette Meyer)
Caroline Serré, Courage, Creativity, Disruption, Leadership, Odette Meyer, WorkshopsIn today's world we are experiencing more than ever the urge to intervene, but we often do not know how. We expect our leaders and ourselves immediately to come up with the best solution, but for complex problems a simple answer is not obvious.…
Fierceful Listening (Holger Nauheimer)
Collaboration, Consulting Skills, Holger Nauheimer, Leadership, Power, Self-Improvement, Trust, Workshops"The problem with listening is that it is so easy not to do. Listening is very hard work.” (Emma J. Justes)
Most of us believe that we are good listeners. In fact, few of us are, and many of us have little to no awareness, let alone control…
Humour to boost compassion (Belina Raffy)
Activism, Belina Raffy, Collaboration, Communication, Courage, Disruption, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Sustainability, Trust, Virtual Collaboration, Workshops, WorkshopsHumour, if done well, gives us the ability to focus on and to understand difficult, complex situations which we would normally be inclined to avoid. It can give us courage to feel like we are all ‘in it together to create a better response.…
Sticks & Balls: Using Physical Play to Prepare for Change (Scott Tate)
Collaboration, Courage, Human Resources, Performance, Power, Scott Tate, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsThe “Sticks and Balls” approach is all about using fun constraints (sticks, balls…) to connect our bodies through physical curiosity to the agility, creativity and stamina needed to change and grow. Trusting and experiencing a real feeling…
Ice-Breaker (Nathan Bragg)
Collaboration, Communication, Courage, Creativity, Curiosity, Disruption, Engagement, Innovation, Nathan Bragg, Performance, Power, Self-Improvement, Storytelling, Trust, WorkshopsNever underestimate the power of creative play and "goofing off". The games in this set are the jumping off point for all the deeper questions to be asked in Nathan Bragg's Image Theatre workshops. This is a cornerstone.
This workshop will:
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This Changes Everything (Kirsten Siggins)
Collaboration, Disruption, Innovation, Kirsten Siggins, Leadership, Self-Improvement, Trust, WorkshopsWe 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…
The Art of Leading Change (Yvonne Ruke Akpoveta)
Collaboration, Disruption, Innovation, Leadership, Power, Trust, WorkshopsPracticing 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…