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13.00 Extra lunch activity: Behind the curtains with Circus Cirkör Welcome to take a peak behind the curtain and the rehearsal in a new genre - circusopera! Circus Cirkör has pushed the boundaries in art and society for 25 years and are now ready for a world premier of a brand new Philip Glads piece, in collaboration with Malmö Opera. So welcome to get a glimpse of the daily work and pre-preparation. Who knows, you might want to join the circus! Two sessions during the conference are drawing on what we can learn from contemporary circus. |
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Afternoon program 13.30-17.00 CEST
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13.30 Welcome and introduction to afternoon
Inner Development Goals - supporting transformation The ideas and ambition with the Inner Development Goals initiative. Presentation of the IDGs and how they can inspire reflection, action and learning. 14.10 Parallel thematic panel conversations. Starting points and focus for human growth Listen in on a conversation between leading researchers, thought leaders and practitioners on their perspectives of human growth. Each conversation explore one of the categories of the Inner Development Goals and are guided by a conversation host. |
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Thinking - cognitive skills
Theo Linda Dawson and Peter Senge Jonathan Reams Agency - acting from the heart Jennifer Garvey Berger and Sonja Blignaut Walter Osika Being - relationship to self and indetifications Amy Edmondson and Frank Bond Frida Pemer |
Relating - social skills
Otto Scharmer and Ulrika Modeer Emma Stenström Alla IDG:er (This conversation will be in Swedish) Jonna Bornemark and Lars Strannegård Tomas Björkman All IDGs Erik Fernholm and Jakob Trollbäck Stefan Einhorn All IDGs Robert Kegan and Fredrik Livheim Caroline Sahlborn |
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15.00-16.10 Parallel sessions
Connecting inner and outer development The workshops explore the connection between inner and outer sustainable development from many different perspectives and how mindshifts could be crucial for success in the new era of business, societal challenges, governance and climate crises. |
Participants choose what session to attend on site the 12th of May. Scroll down for complete descriptions.
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1. Unleashing your complexity genius
Jennifer Garvey Berger 2. How do you create an inclusive, fearless team? Amy Edmondson 3. Inner Compassion and Outer Change Kristin Neff 4. Learning by Doing - transferring inner skills from creative practices to foster human sustainable development. Kajsa Balkfors, Emmanuel Bochud 5. Vilken sorts människa kräver framtiden? Den bortglömda subjektivitetens plats i vårt arbete för samhällsutveckling. (in Swedish) Jonna Bornemark |
6. Applied Learning for Transforming Systems
Otto Scharmer, Laurel Patterson, Alissar Chakar, 7. ALIVE - model of human understanding, meaning, and performance Frank Bond, Erik Fernholm 8.What’s most systemic is most personal Peter Senge 9. Uncovering and Engaging Our Immunity to Change Robert Kegan 10. Supporting robust learning: A workshop VCoL Theo Dawson, Jonathan Reams |
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16.15 Co-creative break-out: Next steps - acting, reflection, learning our way forward. Concluding sensemaking-session to support action and next steps in life, work and possible shared initiatives. Contribute you experience, learnings and ambition in this last co-creative dialogue. 16.45 Concluding plenary: Wrap up and final message. Presentation of the result from the co-creative work and a quick overview of highlights from the day. A preliminary roadmap for the work ahead will be presented. |
Sessions
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1.Unleashing your complexity genius Jennifer Garvey Berger, Phd, Cultivating Leadership This workshop is for you if you want to lead yourselves and others to find grace, creativity, and connection inside the sometimes overwhelming complexity of today. One core human paradox is that we have many gifts for thriving in complexity, but that complexity itself often stresses us which reduces our ability to use those natural gifts. In this workshop Jennifer Garvey Berger helps you understand why complexity can exhaust us. And, more importantly, we’ll explore (and practice) the habits, rituals, and practices that support you to shift from a smaller, more constrained, fear-led space into a more open, experimental, possibility-led space. You’ll leave the workshop with a sense of what you can do in your own practice and how you can unleash the complexity genius in others. (This workshop is also for you if you like to test out new ideas. These are emerging practices from Jennifer’s upcoming book on this subject.) |
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2. How do you create an inclusive, fearless team? Amy Edmondson, professor Harvard Business School This workshops explains the concept of psychological safety and why it matters more than ever in today’s organizations. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and engagement, it is essential to attract, cultivate and retain talented employees – but even more important to ensure that they are able to speak up to contribute to shared work. The workshop will provide tips and tools for leaders at all levels to increase the level of psychological safety for candor, to enable them to have more open, productive conversations about the most challenging topics. Topics: • The link between psychological safety and high performance • How leaders can create psychological safety that welcomes diverse perspectives. • Why candor is inherently challenging and how to help yourself and others rise to the challenge • The essence of productive team conversations |
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3. Inner Compassion and Outer Change Kristin Neff, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin There are huge challenges facing our planet today - entrenched poverty, systemic racism, global warming, just to name a few. I order to take on those challenges, we need to draw on the power of compassion and aim it both inwardly and outwardly. We need self-compassion to provide the inner strength and grit necessary to heal ourselves and do the hard work of creating a more compassionate world. An exploding body of research shows that self-compassion - giving yourself the same care, respect, and support you would naturally show to a good friend when they struggle is powerfully linked to coping and resilience. Self-compassionate people are less likely to be overwhelmed in the face of difficulty and have more resources to help others without burning out. Compassion is aimed at the alleviation of suffering, and has both a tender and fierce side. Tender self-compassion allows us to accept our flawed selves and our imperfect lives with kindness rather than harsh judgment. This results in less anxiety, depression, and stress. Fierce self-compassion spurs us to alleviate suffering by standing up to injustice or making needed changes to improve our lives. This results in more motivation, greater ability to learn from our failures, and a growth mindset. When fierce and tender compassion are combined and integrated, and aimed inwardly and outwardly, it creates a type of caring force that is extremely effective and powerful in terms of mental and physical wellbeing, improved relationships, and commitment to social justice. In this session Kristin Neff will provide an overview of theory and research on self-compassion, and also teach a short self-compassion practice for use in daily life. 4. Learning by Doing - transferring inner skills from creative practices to foster human sustainable development Kajsa Balkfors, Tillitsverket Emmanuel Bochud Welcome to an experience-based workshop that makes the case for integrating the practical and the intellectual as we aim to create a more humane future, via inner and sustainable development. What does the Circus Arts, children's play and creative collaborative processes have in common? They are all exceptional fields of practices that are made possible when its practitioners develop abilities such as trust, solidarity, inclusion, diversity, risk, performance, challenge, collaboration, creativity, security, lightness, resilience and the "Yes it is possible!”. In this workshop we are going to explore how we can learn from those who depend on integrating inner development with outer performance and collaboration. How can we strengthen core human values and abilities by learning from life and practicing ourselves? How can embodied experiences become our best learning tools for developing as individuals and collectives? How can integrating the practical and intellectual/conscious enable the inner development needed from all, if we are to be able to reach the SDGs? As a participant in this workshop you will be guided by Kajsa Balkfors, Sweden and Emmanuel Bochud, Canada, who for this occasion and for the first time bring their combined more than 40 years of practical research in inner to outer skills and “circus transfer”-work together. 5. Vilken sorts människa kräver framtiden? Den bortglömda subjektivitetens plats i vårt arbete för samhällsutveckling Jonna Bornemark, Södertörns University (This session will be in Swedish) Med boken “Det omätbaras renässans” gav Jonna Bornemark ny luft och djup åt samtalet om vår övertro på mätbarhet, kontroll och yttre motivation som strategier för styrning och förändring. Här bjuder hon in till ett fördjupat samtal om vad subjektivitet är, vilken roll det spelar i samhällsutveckling och hur vi kan ge större plats för det. Vilken roll spelar subjektiviteten i kunskapsproduktion och förändrade tankemönster? Hur kan ett större utrymme för subjektiviteten hjälpa oss i våra hållbarhetsambitioner, oavsett om det gäller psykisk hållbarhet, arbetsmiljö eller ekologisk och social hållbarhet? Och hur hänger subjektivitet ihop med objektivitet, hur hänger ett inre ihop med ett yttre och hur hänger känsla ihop med förnuft? Kan vi undersöka hur det vi vanligen uppfattar som motsatser vid närmare påseende behöver varandra? 6. Applied Learning for Transforming Systems Otto Scharmer, Senior Lecturer MIT, Co-founder Presencing institute Laurel Patterson, Head of SDG integration, UNDP Alissar Chakar, Deputy Resident Representative Tunisia The United Nations (UN) is diving into the “Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Decade of Action” cognizant of the complexity and uncertainty that lies ahead. As a result, UN agencies are asking: what do we need, and how can we be ready to drive changes in complex systems? This workshop will dive into how UN practitioners are learning and applying systems approaches to navigate the complex challenges of the 21st century. UNDP SDG Integration and Presencing Insitute teamed up to build systems leadership capabilities through awareness-based collective action. Hundreds of practitioners are joining global dialogues to learn foundational Theory U concepts and methods, and over 450 practitioners from seven UN agencies have joined an action-learning lab to apply the learning in their contexts. In this workshop, we ask: how might large global institutions invest in systems capabilities to drive culture change? Speakers will offer insights about designing and implementing democratized spaces, applied learning, and inner transformation models. |
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7. ALIVE - model of human understanding, meaning, and performance Frank Bond - professor, University of London Erik Fernholm - CEO 29k You learn and change by allowing yourself to act in ways that are important to you, in each situation, and this workshop will give you the opportunity to experience if this may be true for you! We will briefly mention the research evidence that underpins ALIVE, but this is your opportunity to discover and practise strategies for detecting and deciding how to take meaningful actions, in your everyday life. You may come to see, through small-group exercises and sharing, as well as interacting with all participants, how you can approach each moment of your life—even those difficult ones—in ways that make sense and matter to you. In fact, you may experience that pursuing purpose, even in this workshop, can give you a feeling of contentment and sense-making, through how you choose to interact with your fellow participants. Our aim is that our time together will help you begin to develop skills for how to let a sense of purpose guide you in doing the things you do in each of your life's' situations. Most importantly, we will strive to give you the opportunity to discover that, if you choose to pursue purpose in your life, you can help to shape the type of successful and flourishing individual you see yourself becoming. 8. What’s most systemic is most personal Peter Senge Few appreciate how much real systems change is a deeply reflective undertaking. The “systems” we seek to help change are not just ”out there” but also “in here,” embodied in how each of us think, act and interact. This is especially true for change in systems that embody deep taken-for-granted cultural assumptions and world views that shape how modern societies operate, like that "benefits must exceed costs" and "change comes from people in positions of power". In this short working session, we will: - explore how principles that reflect how natural systems operate, are mirrored by inner principles that characterize how we operate ourselves - introduce a few simple tools for learning how to attend better to how the ways we "show up" influence the social fields in which we do the work. |
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9.Uncovering and Engaging Our Immunity to Change Robert Kegan, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Why is it so difficult for us to make changes in the way we behave even when we are very clear we want to? Why is it so difficult, when we do make the changes, to resist returning to our old ways? Most of us are operating with a mental model for personal change that is some mix of "New Year's Resolution," dieting (in one form or another), and "will power." In this workshop, Harvard professor Robert Kegan will help us to see a completely different path for progress more consistent with what we now know about adult development and the brain. Prerequisite: You must bring a personal improvement goal--something you want to get better at, in any aspect of your life. 10. Supporting robust learning: A workshop VCoL Theo Dawson, Lectica Jonathan Reams, Norwegian University of Science and Technology All healthy newborns are addicted to learning. They learn how to crawl, walk and talk with very little actual instruction, persisting in the face of repeated, often painful, failure. As they learn, knowledge and skill are woven together with emotion and thought, resulting in robust, usable, and enduring knowledge and skill. This happens not only because their brains are wired for learning but also because they are equipped with a sophisticated motivational system that supports continuous learning through feedback loops called virtuous cycles. Rather than leveraging our inborn learning mechanisms, educational systems across the world employ forms of instruction that dismantle them. The consequences are dire. For example, in American inner city schools, most students fail to reach their developmental potential and many come to view learning as either a necessary evil or a form of torture. All of this is taking place in a world in desperate need of more minds that are richly developed and hungry for learning. In this workshop, you will learn about a method for reconnecting adults to their brain's built-in learning system so they can become highly effective, agile, and addicted life-long learners. (This method is called micro-VCoLing, and VCoL stands for "virtuous cycle of learning.") You'll also have an opportunity to observe part of a debrief of an assessment that measures the sophisticaton of people's skills for working with knowledge, information, and other humans. Afterward, you'll be invited to help with the design of a development plan based on that debrief. |