2017 / Apr / 20

THE ART AND OFFICE OF PROMOTING CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION IN ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER COMPLEX SYSTEMS

It was last year at the Berlin Change Days 2016 where I went to give my workshop: “Use photography to enhance the disruptive power of pure attention and observation” when the invitation to go to the German Systemic Institute to give a broader training happened.
The last day of Berlin Change Days (international meeting of passionate professionals in change and transformation of the organizations … and the world), launched the proposal to all the professionals we were there to perform workshops born of the collaboration and synergy.  This is how Eugenio Moliní and I embarked on this adventure that will take us this September 2017 to Heidelberg ….

bcd 2016 miriaminchange & molini

Our proposal was “Disrupt the system scales in which you love to move” approaching this way the interventions in processes of change from a systemic point of view and supporting this work in visual and graphic aspects coming from the world of photography

The interest aroused generated this invitation to deepen this subject through a three-day training in the German Systemic Institute.

Jacques Chlopczyk und ChristineErlach, Vielen dank für die es ermöglichen.

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

You will get acquainted with the basics of the art and craft of changing and transforming organizations and other complex systems that will allow you to increase the effects and results of your interventions. At the same time you diminish the negative impact of change processes such as that you diminish the suffering that your efforts cause in those that will be affected by the changes you promote, and the harm you may suffer when you meet the resistance.

The model follows four stages: Attention – Intention – Intervention – Withdrawal, and five “arts and crafts”:

  1. Data harvesting through multiple channels and multiple scales of system.
  2. Formulation of change hypothesis.
  3. Depiction of a desired future through results and effects
  4. Design and facilitation of change/transformational processes and meetings.
  5. Withdrawal to the core of your motivation to transform and the organizations mission.

Apart from presenting the basic arts and crafts, some participants will be invited to present real cases that they are currently working on, giving all present the opportunity to apply what they have learned to real cases.

Who should participate:instituto sistemico aleman - info

You are committed to transform the organization where you work, the community you are a part of or the territory where you live. You intervene at any or several scales of system (local, regional, national, continental or even global scale), aiming to transform social, ecological, economical or political processes.  Sometimes you are enthusiastic and feel that no task is too big. Some other times, the resistances you meet make you feel angry, sad, hurt, or even defeated.  But you keep going, aiming always to go beyond cosmetic changes and the mere achievement of results. If you see yourself in this description, most probably you are driven by an deep inner motivation, your “Calling to Transform”.

What we will focus on during the workshop

The overall focus is on how to promote, manage and facilitate change processes, increasing the impact of your interventions while at the same time diminishing the suffering of those that will be affected and your own.

Content:

  • Your “Calling to Transform”.
  • The Field emerging from the contact between your calling to transform and the system you intervene in.
  • Switching back and forth between a Systemic approach and a Field approach.
  • The cycle at multiple Scales of System: Attention – Intention – Intervention – Withdrawal.
  • Attention. Attention kidnappers and blind spots. Comfort zones regarding Scales of System. Understand phenomena at multiple scales of system in terms of change and continuity.
  • Intention: The emerging intentions of different stakeholders at multiple scales of system and multiple time-scales. Intentional strategies for “Bounded Structured Systems” and “Fuzzy Enmeshed Systems”
  • Intervention: Intervene at the right scale of system for maximal impact and minimal effort, in accordance with the emerging intentions.
  • Withdrawal: Closing processes, projects and interventions at multiple scales of system. Re-connecting with your “Calling to Transform”. Silence.

More information and how to register, on the official site of the Center for research and systemic consulting:
https://systemiker.com/html/gait.html