During an Introductory Day participants form a collaborative learning group and continue to meet for 7 additional sessions drawing on their experience to work with systemic ideas.              
Next Introductory day:           26 January 2012

Subsequent Session themes
All sessions include systemic frameworks and models to work with organisational issues in context. The specific topics reflect the learning needs of the group and contemporary management and leadership debates. Those covered in past and current years give a taste of what’s possible:

Organisational and individual learning to set a context for second order and transformational learning. Practising essentials of working systemically: reflexive inquiry abilities - hypothesising, questioning, reframing, curiosity, irreverence.

Organisational resilience through creative innovation and when resilient vs turbulent change takes place.
Conversations which create change, the skill of dialogic communication

Staff engagement its usefulness and constraints critique current survey and research which aims to discover engagement, morale, committment motivation. Creating an ethos of engagement in organisations, developing your repertiore of alternative methods: concepts of safe-uncertainty, relational responsibility.

Skills build to focus on circular questioning technique, practise using frameworks as a lens through which to enhance abilities: Domains of Action for simultaneously working-in-the-moment and observing from a meta perspective.

Relational leadership and resilience in teams enabling work at the creative edge. Expanding leaders' ability at a time of economic austerity and uncertainty. Frameworks: 5 principles of group relational dynamics, responsible use of power.

Complexity and ambiguity in leadership and the containment of anxiety. Practical use of CMM methodology Coordinated Management of Meaning.

Talent discovery, management and development organisational contexts which enable talent to flourish. Exploring the effect of cultural legacies. Framework: CMM for unravelling unwanted repetitive patterns of stuckness.

Appreciative approach, critical appreciative inquiry and skills extension on reflexive questioning techniques
           
Groups and facilitation of group process systemically using the concepts of grammar and deontic logic, focus on the relational dynamic of this learning group as a live case study.

Celebrating application of learning and participants' enhanced systemic skills with examples from presentations of applied systemic concepts to work projects. Framework: Approach-Method-Technique. Acknowledging learning within the group dynamic, appreciating eachother and endings as new beginnings.

Course tutors

For more information or to express an interest please contact:
elspeth@ozten.demon.co.uk or teresa.norman@btinternet.com