“THE ART AND CRAFT OF PROMOTING CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION IN ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER COMPLEX SYSTEMS”

zsfb meets GAIT

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22.03.: 14:00 - 18:00
23.03.: 09:00 - 18:00
24.03.: 09:00 - 16:00

Kursleitung
Eugenio Molini
Miriam Moreno

Kosten
EUR 590.- (zzgl. MwSt.)

We who lead this workshop – Eugenio Moliní & Miriam Moreno – have the experience that most attempts to promote change with traditional approaches have very little impact in proportion to the investment in time, energy and money; and that they cause more pain than gain. This tension is increasing exponentially as new challenges emerge in our networked, liquid and VUCA society.

We offer this workshop to Change Agents – people who motivated by their profession or their vocation – promote change in the organization they lead, work in or work with; the communities they are members of; or the territory they live in.

Our purpose is to teach so that the participants can increase the impact of their interventions and at the same time decrease the suffering they cause unto others and themselves, as well as the “tear and wear” in the systems they want to influence.

The workshop will focus on two emerging challenges:

• how to promote change in fuzzy enmeshed systems (systems in which, despite the real power differences, no player has the formal right to define anything a priori) by taking initiative to move the system in a direction that makes sense for you, while at the same time acknowledging the autonomy of all other players and their right to influence it in any direction that makes sense for them.
• how to promote change in bounded structured systems (systems in which there is an instance that has the formal right to define a priori) so that they can develop networked ways of operating in their internal operations, and in their operations in the fuzzy and enmeshed social-ecological environment of which they are part.

The double focus emerges from Eugenio Molini’s and Miriam Moreno’s existentially rooted values:

EUGENIO MOLINÍ | molini.es

It is my heart’s burning desire to experience organizations in which a person can shine with her own light at the same time that everybody else also does. All too often, the light is dimmed either through demanding of obedience or through expectations of conformity. And with dimmed lights, down goes the organization’s performance.

OD-consultant since 1990. His specialty is to design and facilitate transformational processes in which success depends on the collaboration between parties with different perspectives, professions, cultures and even diverging interests. His practice as a consultant follows two lines of work:

• promoting the transformation of bounded structured systems (such as companies, international, national and local organisms, municipalities, etc.) so that they thrive in their fuzzy enmeshed social-ecological environment, and operate in it without wreaking havoc.
• promoting the emergence of robust task-oriented networks in fuzzy and enmeshed systems (such as territories, cities, markets, multi-stakeholder networks, etc.)

Apart from his consulting practice, he is the initiator of of GAIT – “Guild of Agents for Intentional Transformation”, a network of people who commit themselves to support each other to increase the impact of their interventions, while at the same time diminishing the pain they cause to those that will be affected by the changes, and avoiding to put themselves in harm’s way.
He has worked mainly in Sweden and Spain, but also in Africa and Latin America, with national, multinational and global companies; with international, multilateral, national and local organizations.

MIRIAM MORENO | miriaminchange.com

I am convinced that the only systems where people can be truly effective and engaged when working together are those in which people have a high level of autonomy, are rewarded for their ability to connect and collaborate, and are integrated as a whole. The networked organizations is the organizational system closest to this scenario.

Consultant in Change facilitation, Participatory Processes & Networked systems.
She has experience in public and private organizations. Some of them: networks, liquids & co-management systems, startups, digital nomads and entrepreneurs, working with the unknown she helps them grow and last over time without losing their networked nature. Some others: corporations that operate at an international scenario, local organizations and other systems, working with the already known she helps them to incorporate networked spaces, values, practices or elements.
Her work integrates concepts, methodologies and tools from multiple disciplines, especially Systemic Intervention and Agile Principles.
Miriam is also a photographer who, under the brand Thorn Fotografin, promotes disruptive projects, exhibitions and artistic movements. Since she connected her two areas of professional practice, interesting synergies began to emerge, leading to a completely new field of practice that she is developing within the project “In change we thorn”.

Ziel des Workshops:

Im Seminar möchten wir die Gelegenheit bieten, sich anhand des GAIT-Modells mit der Kunst und dem Handwerk der Gestaltung von Veränderungs- und Transformationsprozessen zu auseinanderzusetzen.

Ziele des Modells und der damit verbundenen Methodik ist es Veränderungen wirkungsvoll zu begleiten, die negative Betroffenheit der Beteiligten zu verringern und gleichzeitig auch die Akteure der Veränderungen in Ihrem Umgang mit Widerstand zu stärken.

Das im Workshop vorgestellte Modell ist in folgende Phasen unterteilt: Aufmerksamkeit – Intention – Intervention – Rückzug. 5 „Arts and Crafts“ begleiten diese Phasen:

• Informationssammlung durch multiple Kanäle und verschiedene Skalierungsebenen
• Formulierung von Hypothesen für gelingende Veränderungen
• Beschreibung der angestrebten Zukunft mithilfe von erwarteten Ergebnissen und Effekten
• Design und Durchführung von Veränderungs-/Transformationsprozessen und Meetings
• Rückbesinnung auf den Kern der eigenen Motivation für die Veränderung sowie auf die Mission der Organisation

Neben der Vermittlung dieser grundlegenden „arts and crafts“ werden die Teilnehmenden eingeladen, eigene aktuelle Fälle vorzustellen und diese gemeinsam in der Gruppe mit den Workshop-Inhalten zu bearbeiten und zu reflektieren.

Für wen ist der Workshop gedacht?

Für alle “Akteure des Wandels” die Veränderungsprozesse innerhalb Ihrer Organisation, Ihrer Community oder innerhalb Ihrer Region gestalten und auf verschiedenen “Systemebenen” (lokal, regional, national, kontinental, oder sogar global) intervenieren.

Der Fokus im Workshop:

Der übergeordnete Fokus liegt auf der Frage, wie man Veränderungsprozesse anstoßen, managen und begleiten soll, wenn man auf der einen Seite den Effekt der eigenen Interventionen vergrößern und zugleich „das Leiden“ der Betroffenen und der Akteure selbst verringern möchte.

Inhalte

• Ihr „Ruf nach Transformation“
• Das Feld, das aus dem Kontakt zwischen Ihrem Ruf und dem System, in dem Sie intervenieren, entsteht
• Changieren zwischen einem systemischen und einem feldtheoretischen Ansatz
• Der Kreislauf der multiplen Skalierungsebenen in Systemen: Aufmerksamkeit – Intention – Intervention – Rückzug
• Aufmerksamkeit: Aufmerksamkeits-Kidnapper und blinde Flecken. Komfortzonen in den Skalierungsebenen. Das Verständnis von Phänomenen auf multiplen Skalierungsebenen in Bezug auf Veränderung und Beständigkeit
• Intention: Die Intentionen verschiedener Stakeholder auf multiplen Skalierungsebenen und in multiplen Zeitachsen. Intentionale Strategien für „Bounded Structured Systems“ („geschlossene Systeme“’) und „Fuzzy Enmeshed Systems“ („Offene, vernetzte Systeme“)
• Intervention: Intervenieren Sie in Übereinstimmung mit den gefundenen Intentionen auf der richtigen Skalierungsebene für den maximalen Effekt und zugleich mit dem geringsten Aufwand.
• Rückzug: Abbinden von Prozessen, Projekten und Interventionen auf multiplen Skalierungsebenen. Wieder-Verbindung mit Ihrem „Ruf nach Transformation“. Stille.

Seminarsprache ist Englisch!