Workshops
Workshops at the SoL European Forum 2012
We are happy and proud to announce the inspiring, co-creative workshops below. More workshops will be added.
You will later be asked to tell the Program team in what workshops you intend to participate.
The art of leading the young
Ulf Boman, Kairos Future,
Cristina Lázaro Morales, Kairos Future,
In this workshop, we will present the major findings of the study “The art of leading the
young”. We will also include some findings from other surveys regarding values and work
life.
The participants will then work on the implications for their own learning and their organizations’
learning. What are the similarities and differences between Sweden and other
countries? What can I learn as far as my own leadership? How can we go about to engage,
involve, and attract young people to our organizations?
The workshop will be interactive, using mind mapping and power analysis as major tools.
Time: 2 x 40 minutes. Up to 40 participants.
The Art of Leading Yourself in Turbulent Times -
Developing Your Authentic Leadership for a Just, Resilient,and Thriving World
Christopher Baan, The Lotus’ & Project Coordinator, ‘Stichting Nederland Krijgt Nieuwe Energie’.
Paul van Nobelen, De Heerlijke Duurzaamheid
This dialogue-basedworkshop explores nine personal capacities of authentic leaders and ways to developthose capacities through practice. The emphasis lies in leading systemic,complex change towards sustainability within and across systems, bybeing authentic and increasing one’s levels of awareness in mind, body, heart,and spirit during collaborative work.
The workshop presents an integrative perspective on the ‘interior of the intervener’ for leaders and facilitators. It weaves together many existing approaches and theories (among those the Five Disciplines, Bohmian dialogue, TheoryU, and The Natural Step’s Unifying Framework for Sustainable Development) and puts them in a practical and engaging format. The workshop helps participants pay attention to and leverage their internal states of being in order to effectively facilitate transformational change across disciplines, systems and sectors.
Time: 40 – 45 minutes
A new learning process based on Lean principles
Bjarne Berg Wig, Lean Learning Institute
Tor-Arne Bellika, Learntec Cluster
Lean Learning – is a redesign of the learning process based on the principles of Lean.
The workshop shall through interaction and collaborative learning develop a broader understanding of the Lean learning concept and the challenge of further developing this concept. The workshop will address these questions:
- How to capture the real learning value from people at the workplace (freedom from curriculum..)
- How to design a learning process linked to the practice field
- How to utilize technology enhanced learning (TEL) so participants get access to 24/7 best learning resources?
- How to develop a process for cooperative production and sharing of learning resources. E.g. real learning community.
Bjarne Berg Wig will present the methodology description of Lean Learning.
Tor-Arne Bellika and Ingvild Svendsen will outline the experiences so far from two of the NEVU pilots.
The participants are invited to develop the storyboard by refining the problem description and proposed actions (what and how to improve).
Time: 40 – 45 minutes
Tacit knowledge can be found in your inner images and covered perspectives
Svante Björklund, Gestalthuset
Gunilla Brolund, Stockholm
We will use systemic models and experiential work that generates long-term results.
Long-term results come from handling complexity and uncovering systemic entanglement in individuals and organisational parts. Whether this is deeply private parts snaring the work persona or boundaries being crossed and violated in the organisation an holistic, systemic view and corresponding methods will dissolve what is stuck and create forward constructive motion.
We will use ourselves to work with the room and the floor to uncover our inner images of reality so we can shift and shape them into what sustains us in our true values and goals in harmony with the organisational values and goals. Models like the Value Triangle and the Butterfly will be used in this work. Just enough theory to give you a handle on the process will be put forward and included in final handouts.
It will truly be an exploration on how to efficiently transform Organisations and Values into a new reality! Please bring yourself and maybe a current issue to work on.
Time: 2 x 40 minutes
Cultivating Leadership Presence – experience Leadership Embodiment practices
Anouk Brack, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Agneta Dieden, Stockholm
Leadership Embodiment gives tools and practices to be a skillful listener, a powerful advocator and an inspirational leader, while under pressure. The centering practice allows us to re-balance into an uplifted, inclusive presence.
“The power is in the recovery” – Wendy Palmer
Leaders today need an additional set of competences to deal effectively with complex challenges as can be read in Barrett Brown’s recent research on conscious leaders in complex change initiatives. Leadership Embodiment techniques provides us with a practice -“the how”- to cultivate a number of these conscious leadership competences in ourselves.
When embodiment is practiced by conscious innovators and change-makers, like members of SoL, actions towards catalyzing and supporting systemic change in organizations, business and society will be more confident, compassionate and clear and therefore more successful.
This workshop is highly experiential and brings insight in participants’ unique leadership patterns and offers a fast practice to recover center.
“The greatest gift you can give someone is to get yourself together.” – Wendy Palmer
Time: 2 x 40 minutes
One Tonne Life – what does it take to move us from consuming single CO2 lean products to a truly sustainable life?
Håkan Axelsson, Vattenfall,
Ellinor Lindblad, Vattenfall,
Nils Lindell, Baseline Mgm,
2011 a Swedish family of four took the challenge to find out if they could live a truly sustainable but still a modern and comfortable life. They aimed to reduce their carbon missions fro m 7.3 tonnes per person and year, (which is roughly the average in Sweden and in the world) to a minimalistic one tonne. How far could existing technology and knowledge take them? For six months they lived in a climate smart house, drove an all-electric car, and where coached by experts from the fields of energy, transport, food and general consumption. The project attained massive and positive media interest, also “green” voices in the society gave their appreciation. This experiment was made possible through cooperation between companies from different branches and Chalmers University of Technology.
Vattenfall will, as one of the initiators of One Tonne Life, share the experiences and learnings:
- Describe and give insight in the project as such.
- Present the surprising result, conclusions and learning on sustainable living.
- Share and discuss the challenge of cross-over organizational units cooperation and organizational learning with One Tonne Life and Vattenfall as example.
Time: 2 x 40 minutes
Lean and learn - Implementing day by day transformation
Jacques Chaize, Socla, www.socla.com
Etienne Collignon, Solvay
The purpose of this workshop will be to present the lean journey of Socla, a French valve manufacturer, which first implemented lean practices, but failed to produce the desired large-scale transformation. Only when the company integrated lean with the disciplines of organizational learning – and built learning into everyone’s jobs, every day – did they achieve dramatic process and performance improvement.
Jacques Chaize, President of the company during this journey, will describe how learning organization theory has greatly contributed to the lean field by clarifying the purpose of the lean tools and spelling out for managers what the tools are supposed to achieve: making people before making products.
Then, this experience will be shared with participants and possibly other ”lean and learn” experiences in order to build capabilities within SOL to embed learning skills into lean initiatives to create real sustainable, operational and strategic transformation.
Time: 40 – 45 minutes
Being Intrapreneur as a driver to transform
organizations and values
Etienne Collignon; Solvay
Javier Ruiz; Tecnalia
Where do I see intrapreneurs in my organization?
Am I an intrapreneur in my company?
What are my values, thoughts, dialogue and actions as intrapreneur?
This workshop is a combination of:
- Storytelling, sharing inspiring histories coming from a global company as Solvay and a research institute as Tecnalia.
- Reflection, using a journaling approach
- Deep dialogue on our leadership skills as intrapreneurs.
As an outcome of this session participants will be able to cultivate intrapreneurship within their own workplace.
Who is it for?
- For those who see themselves as Intrapreneurs; in search of models and experiences to situate their own way of life.
- Executives and Organizational Development leaders, looking for the best method to leverage Intrapreneurship.
- The educational network – attracted by learning on the concept of
entrepreneurship inside existing organizations.
Time: 2 x 40 minutes. Up to 25 participants
From shared reality to shared vision
Barbro Curman, Gestalthuset
Marie Örnesved, Pilipala Life and Business Guidance
The NOW from different perspectives as the origin of a transformation and innovation of business and society. How do weexperience the now? The paradoxical theory of change. A dialogue-based analysis of the now – creating a shared reality. The essence of dialogue. A Gestalt experiential approach – I-Thou, Here and Now, What and How.
Time 2 x 40 minutes
My values consciousness – the key to transformation in to a new reality
Tor Eneroth, Barrett Values Centre and Volvo,
Transforming of values and organizations in a new reality is based on each one of us being more conscious about our own values and how these values impact our motivation and decision making. This workshop will provide a “language” built on a framework of models and tools that can enable you to have a constructive dialogue to enhance the consciousness about our own values, and thereby the values of the organization and society we operate in.
NB! All participants need to complete an Individual Values Assessment, at least 2 weeks before this event. A personal invitation to this survey will be sent by mail.
Time: 40 – 45 minutes. Up to 25 participants
Positive interaction yields business results
Merja Fischer, Wärtsilä,
Ville Keränen, Monkey Business,
This session is a combination of a lecture and dialogue based on Merja’s leadership experiences and her PhD thesis research on profitable service businesses. Her Doctoral thesis shows how employees’ perceptions of their organisation predict customer satisfaction and company profitability. Specifically, the positively deviant behaviours of the actors (supervisors, employees, peers and customers) in the service profit chain are recognised as potential sources for the co-creation of mutual value. She also introduced a new model and a new leadership paradigm that may foster the creation of positively deviant service businesses.
This session will also include examples in the stage, how supervisors, employees, peers and customers can cultivate positive organizational climate to emerge through interactions.
Finally the participants will be provided such positive means which they can utilise in cultivating their own workplace climate.
As an outcome of this session participants will be able to apply such positively deviant behaviours that can transform their organizations towards flourishing workplaces. The ultimate target is to provide insight what drives profitable companies, employee well-being and satisfied customers.
Time: 40 – 45 minutes.
Why we don’t do, what we know?
Anita Frank, SoL Austria, emergo consult, Vienna AT,
Ines Omann, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Vienna AT,
In this workshop we will try to understand why a transition towards a sustainable and more conscious development is so hard although we have enough insights and generated sufficient knowledge about what to do.
The aim is to explore (1) reasons for the so called “belief-behaviour gap” and (2) apply one or two methods that address the reasons for this gap, help that way to overcome it and thus (3) support a transformation towards a new reality.
Together with the participants we want to step deeper in one or two of the following methods:
THANCS (Thriving for Awareness for Non-Conflicting Strategies) and/or Dragon Dreaming
Planned workshop programme:
- Introduction into the themes of the workshop – belief behaviour gap, value conflicts and tensions, inner and outer dimensions (20 minutes)
- Collect themes that present conflicts and address the inner context and activate social learning and apply the methods in groups (40 minutes)
- Harvesting and reflecting together (20 minutes)
Time: 2 x 40 min
Children are the leverage for a sustainable future
Guus Geisen, Foundation for Sustainable Learning
This is a storytelling workshop about children and adults working together solving tough dilemma’s concerning sustainability in companies like Unilever, Rabobank, KLM-Air France, Desso, Vitens, Nuon, etc. It shows good practice and inspiring examples of the shared learning between children and adults towards new generations of leadership. Sustainable leadership can be learned at a young age.
This workshop also shows how concepts like Organizational Learning and systems thinking, Theory U, and The Five Minds for the Future are used not only on an organizational level but also in the classroom.
In the end participants are invited to reflect on their ability to use and develop their “Five Minds for the Future”.
Time: 40 – 45 min
Emergent Learning Practice for collective reflection and results
Heidi Sparkes Guber, Fourth Quadrant Partners, LLC, www.4qpartners.com
“Emergent Learning Maps are more than a tool. They are a blueprint for how living systems learn” —Arie de Geus
In these complex andchanging times, there are no right answers…at least not forvery long. What there is is ourbest thinking, informed by our experience, about what it will take this time,in this next situation, to achieve the results we intend. Emergent learningpractices enable organizations, collaboratives and networks to bring their bestcollective thinking and experience to the table, and to adapt their strategiesand action plans in real time to stay on course. In this 80-minute workshop,participants will learn an elegant framework and time-tested methods for theapplication of emergent learning to improve thinking, action and results forteams and individuals in any organization.
Time: 2 x 40 min
The Butterfly Model for organizational transformation
- Giving clients and colleagues access and mobility within the systems in which they work
Heidi Sparkes Guber, Fourth Quadrant Partners, LLC, www.4qpartners.com
In this workshop, we will provide an overview of the Butterfly Model, a powerful framework for understanding human systems and the impact we can have within these systems. Using real case examples, we will explore three sets of forces: the external world/social context in which we and our organizations live; the internal world, where our thoughts, feelings and systemic stories shape our response; and the face-to-face world that occurs moment by moment. Participants will experience a practical exercise that helps embody and internalize the model more fully, while gaining a greater awareness of areas in which we are most effective and those that may offer new opportunities for learning and growth.
Time: 40 – 45 min
Combining the power of crowdsourcing with the discipline of critical thinking to meet complex challenges
Greg Hart, Make It Good
Crowdsourcing is a reaction to the promise of the internet to access the
‘wisdom of the crowd’ and it is an accelerating trend. More and more
organizations are doing it. What exactly does it mean? Can it really be
harnessed to move towards a new reality? Critical thinking is another
buzzword that carries a fuzzy promise. We will explore the possibility
of mixing these two ideas to create a truly promising result that just
might change the way we meet important challenges.
Time: 40 – 45 min
U-Process, Effectuation and Lean Start-Up:
Leading in the Regime of Radical Innovation
Christoph Mandl, University of Vienna, AT, www.mlp.co.at
Hanna Mandl, metalogikon, AT, www.metalogikon.com
Based on Scharmer’s U-process, enriched by Sarasvathy’s theory of “entrepreneurial contingency” and Ries’ ”lean start-up” we derived a process that since 2005 has proven very robust with enterprises and with NGOs alike to bring about radical innovation and to foster (social) entre- and intrapreneurship. One of the core methods of this innovation process is the Dialogue Interview.
As we guide teams from quite diverse organizational cultures along this process we learned what it takes for managers to act as entrepreneurial leaders and what it takes as consultants to lead teams and organizations into the risky and unknown regime of radical innovation.
In this workshop we will share some of the empirical findings from our experience with this innovation process but also let participants get a glimpse of the art of Dialogue Interview by practicing this way of perceiving each other’s inspirations and aspirations.
Time; 40 – 45 min
Authentic self-leadership
Dominic von Martens, Selfleaders, www.selfleaders.com
Jan Henriksson, Selfleaders, www.selfleaders.com
SelfLeaders will run an exciting workshop on how to act on the basis of your authentic values and create relationships based on trust. The workshop is based on experience-based processes from modules at companies and educational institutions such as Stockholm School of Economics.
You as a participant will get support on raising your awareness about your inner motivation and personal values. The workshop will connect to the overarching question around how to make a shift happen through personal transformation: ”To lead others, first you have to understand yourself”.
Time: 40 – 45 min
Co-Creating Future in this Moment – Renewing Ways of Seeing in Organizations and with Ourselves
Using the CoCreativeProcess approach
Teuvo Metsäpelto, the Office for the Government as Employer in Finland
Seija Petrow, the Office for Government as Employer (OGE), in Finland
Pilvi Pellikka, the Office for the Government as Employer in Finland
Terhi Takanen, Co-Creators Ltd
In our comprehensive renewal process in the Office for the Government as Employer (OGE) in Finland since 2006 we have been co-creating our future in this moment by the CoCreativeProcess Inquiry® (later CCPI). In this approach, the future is viewed forming just now. In every second, in every encountering; it is not somewhere out there in distance.
In this workshop you can get an experiential insight of the CCPI as emerging approach, which is awareness-based and combines both individual and social renewal. The CCP Inquiry makes us all participants and contributors in the process, and it concretes how to work from this moment. We are working as individually, with pairs and as a group enabling possibilities to listen to you and others and giving space and time to stop. In this workshop, we will crystallize the core of CoCreativeProcess Inquiry as emerging change work approach. This is based on our experiences by co-inquiring (incoming action research-based PhD thesis from Aalto University 2012). This could be considered as first exploratory research on being present in action in the field of mindfulness studies in change work.
Time 2 x 40 min
Introduction to SoL and the five disciplines
Stuart Pledger, Sustainable Leadership
This session will give a short overview of the five disciplines: Personal Mastery, Mental Models,
Shared Vision, Team Learning och Systems Thinking
And of the foundation of SoL; values, methodologies and mindset.
Time: 40 – 45 min
Leadership of tomorrow
Bo Rex, Cordial Business Advisers
Johan Reunanen,
The session will focus on the following issue: Is there a need for a new generation of leadership?
Learning laboratory format / method:
1.Presentation and introduction of topic: The willingness to change and to drive change has increased dramatically with the new generation – what kind of leadership is required to release that force and how do we best guide it in the right direction? And – how do we create a leadership based on followers rather than the traditional power structures?
2.Co-creation, interactive discussions and dialogue around the main question together with the participants.
Time: 40 – 45 min
Playing the IFF World Game.
Frances Tait, www.creative-solutions.se
Ulric Rudebeck, www.ulricrudebeck.com
The World Game – What Is It?
The IFF World Game offers an easy, interactive way for a group to engage in a conversation about everything that is going on in the world. It works best when the players have a specific challenge or question or plan of action that will benefit from being exposed to the myriad trends, discontinuities and possible synchronous failures of an interconnected and uncertain world. The game draws on a set of twelve briefs drawn from scanning the twelve nodes of the IFF world model.(http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com/world-model-structure).
The 12 nodes can be divided into four broad categories: Planetary Viability, Resource Balance, Human Stewardship and Human Quality.
Why Play It?
The game itself (not so much a ‘game’ as an interactive, partly role-playing workshop) might be played for any number of different reasons, for example:
• as an integral part of a wider strategy design process;
• as an initial environment scan for any project;
• as an educational experience, developing the capacity to deal with complexity and interconnectedness in problem-solving or policy-making;
• as a means of engaging a diverse community in a structured but fun conversation about big issues, generating a sense of public aspirations and concerns on a wide canvas.
What Will the Focus be at the SoL European Forum?
Participants in this taster session will role play a group of Special Advisers who need to deliver an agenda that sets out how Stockholm can win an EU competition for the most Resilient City in Europe.
Time: 2 x 40 minutes.
The 2060 prospect – Management consulting for an open future
Lars Wang, insam
Sören Bergström, Sustainable Enterprise Solutions
This workshop is an invitation to take part in creating a network of professionals working here and now with innovation and learning for a sustainable future. It will focus on how business leaders and management consultants can act as innovation fasilitators in addressing the common challenges of our time such as climate change and the need to secure a sustainable future.
A concept for a 2060 management approach will be presented and discussed. The dialogue will thus focus on how to transform and innovate ingrained thinking about leadership or what we call 20th century thinking (and acting).
Time: 40 – 45 minutes.
Catalyse the metamorphosis of big companies
Alain de Vulpian, l’Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, www.solfrance.org/publications-et-ressources/alain-de-vulpian/
Martin Schott, General Manager, Bertrandt France
Pascal Jouxtel, Eurogroup consulting
Today, most of the big companies have though times: ALL around is changing quicker and quicker and sometimes in a disruptive way. New generations of employees and customers comewith new values and needs. Market conditions change form one day to the next, financial markets want return on investment short term while the complexity of the problems might need long term orientation. And there is a growing awareness, empathy and socioperception in society that life and problem solving might not be the same anymore
Alain de Vulpian presented at SOL global Forum in 2005 the results of his field studies in Europe concerning Empathy, Socioperception and Anticipation. Since then the mentioned trends have been confirmed, actions had been taken but most of the big companies decide and handle still the same, the gap is getting larger and larger making it tougher and tougher to cope with the problems and especially with the people, means all kind of stakeholders
Alain and SOL France members will share the process started in 2005, give examples of what has worked out (and what less) in France. And then we want to work out together with you some relevant key factors to catalyse the metamorphosis of companies with the experience and ideas of all participants hopefully coming from many different countries, cultures and types of organization.
Time: 40 – 45 min