explore how to relate, work and thrive in complexity
January 19 09.00-16.30 CET
January 19 09.00-16.30 CET
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2020 was a year of re-arrangements, the complexities being impossible to ignore. Our own fresh experiences of creatively adapting provide us with important perspectives and new questions. We have experienced that the systems set up to support us proved themselves outdated when pushed by the climate-crises, covid and growing inequalities.
Do we need to reframe the challenge and purpose that guide our work? What kind of action is needed now? How do we navigate when our well-defined strategy and control mechanisms are proving insufficient for a complex, fast-paced and uncertain landscape? How do we prepare to successfully create collaborative cultures in which it is ok to not have answers and certainty? The situation we are in calls for radical shifts in how leadership and organisations operate. Welcome to start the new year by making sense of 2020 with peers, finding your starting position and intention moving ahead! Reimagine Leadership isa gathering for leaders, practitioners and activists from all sectors that share an ambition to embrace the complexity, responding more effectively to our challenges with strategy grounded in insights from complexity sciences and practices. How do we, in the midst of all this turmoil, create the conditions for prosperous organisations and sustainable futures to emerge? Welcome to co-create! |
Dave Snowden, Sonja Blignaut and Nora Bateson reunites at Reimagine Leadership 2021
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When? Jan 19 2021. 09.00-16.30 CET How? Zoom and other technical platforms. How much? Free to attend. Opportunity to contribute financially afterwards. How do I register? > To registration What to bring? Bring you curiosity and a willingness to contribute. We promise inspiring conversations with practitioners from many communities and countries. We recommend that you invite colleagues, partners and friends and make this a shared experience to support your learning journey. Who are contributing? > Check out the programme > Check out the list of contributors Who are inviting? > Read more about the purpose and background of Reimagine Leadership. Contact: David Ershammar, Malmöakademin david.ershammar@omtank.se |
The main sessions binds the modules together creating a full and co-created learning experience.
Tailor your learning experience by choosing any of the workshops on aspect of theory and practices needed to work effectively in complexity. Or choose one of the explorative sessions on some key concepts, community, collaboration and growth. Some sessions will be recorded and made available to participants. 
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During Reimagine Leadership 20-21 Jan 2020 in Malmö, the participants created an atmosphere of connection and creativity supported by workshops, key-notes, full group dialogue and joint work on five pressing Malmö-challenges presented by actors from the city. Welcome to contribute and be part of the Reimagine-spirit in this online reunion/new beginning.
Programme
08.45 Technical warm up
09.00 Welcome and introduction
Connect in ways that generate serious-playful curiosity about the day ahead while beginning to get to know other participants. This introduction brings clarity to todays offer as well as to your own learning objectives. David Ershammar and Jesper Hök
Connect in ways that generate serious-playful curiosity about the day ahead while beginning to get to know other participants. This introduction brings clarity to todays offer as well as to your own learning objectives. David Ershammar and Jesper Hök
09.35 Transition
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09.40 - 11.40 Parallel workshops
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You can choose from one of these workshops. Some of the sessions will be recorded. A break is included in these morning sessions.
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Solve problems together – teaming and psychological safety in practice Solving complex problems is about bringing people with different perspectives together, and creating a platform for collaboration and the courage to experiment. There are some great buzzwords around the challenge of working together; teaming, psychological safety, trust etc. But what do they look like in practice? What skills are needed to be able to quickly start from scratch and create the conditions for a good enough level of collaboration to meet complexity? Magdalena Musiala and Marcus Degerman invites us to dig into what we can do practically to handle complexity better on the individual, team and organisational levels. Connection Design 101 Our relationships with other people determine much of the health and happiness of our working life. In this two-hour-crash course we will learn how to transform our remote work culture from one filled with draining and passive video conferences to one where people genuinely enjoy their time together. Helsinki-based The Magic Department invites us to learn how to: - create an atmosphere where people feel safe and welcome to show up as they are - use facilitation methods that support meaningful encounters and dialogue. - create a sense of intimacy with the basic principles for creating connection-rich online spaces. Cultivating Leadership will host an interactive workshop, where we will begin practicing some habits that can help work between the inner complexity of our minds and the outer complexity of a bewildering world. More details soon. How to support communities grow and drive change? “I have often been thinking that the idea that I just came up with is the best ever, and everyone will think so too and join the movement. But to often the response is lame and I realise it takes something else to get a new initiative to take off. Great ideas are not enough”. Maybe that it has to do with our understanding and ability to build community. How do we create the conditions for engagement, energy and a sense of ownership of initiatives that comes from a few? What actions do we take when we are building community? What key features needs to be in place? What enable both diversity in people and ideas and at same time coherence and sense of common direction? Tom Roodro and Joel Verborg invite you to explore these questions and to support each other making progress in our own ambition to support communities to grow. What are lessons we have learned from the past that can inspire ourselves and others? |
Exploratory session: Rhizomic Interplay in Human Systems Our current forms of organising and leading no longer seem congruent with our context. We are interested in exploring new lenses and new metaphors that may lead to new ways of being and doing in the world. In this workshop Sonja Blignaut, Anne Caspari, Hannes Entz-von Zerssen explore new ways of working with human systems through the lenses of complexity and natural science. Much like mycorrhiza fungi work as a connectome in so many generative ways, we wish to explore the generative interplay between the individual and the collective in human systems. From this exploration we will be asking different questions, such as: what does development mean from this vantage point? What does leadership look like now? What about change? Format: Interactive play on ConceptBoard followed by “exploratory style” unpacking via Zoom. Embracing complexity in your work - the first steps The insight that groups, organisations and societies we are part of function as complex systems are spreading fast, re-writing the foundations for us that work for change and leadership. In this introductory workshop, we present four basic shifts in position and some practices for a more complexity conscious work. Together, we will explore both inner reactions and outer practical implications of these shifts. How do I, as an individual in a system fit for linear work, create space for more complexity conscious work? What could be the first steps for me and what context and constraints help me speed up my learning? David Ershammar and Jesper Hök Reimagine Democracy What are the shifts in roles, identities, power and relationships – the new social contracts – that are necessary for us to imagine the transition from the welfare state to the welfare society? Johanna Tysk and Sara Huang will offer a workshop where we use embodiment and object constellations to explore relationships between the public sector, civil society, citizens and the private sector. We will also invite participants into reflection and rituals around what we each need to embrace or let go of in order to support a more fluid, care-taking and activated democracy. Participants will bring objects that represent each of the actors listed above. These will be used in modeling your understanding of roles and relationships, and explore the possibility of specific shifts. |
11.40 Lunch break
12.30 Plenum conversation: What can we learn from 2020 - looking through a complexity lens.
What have we learned this wicked year of 2020? How has our practice evolved and mutated in response to the current context? What do we need to learn and unlearn? The panellist will use their experience of complexity, leadership and change to explore what we need to bring forward into 2021. All participants will be part of the conversation, bringing questions and insights to the table.
For this retrospective, we invited a group deeply connected to theory and practice relevant when working in complexity. They support institutions, movements, organisations and leaders all over the world to adapt and better respond to the complexities they face.
Dave Snowden, Sonja Blignaut, Nora Bateson and Jennifer Garvey Berger
What have we learned this wicked year of 2020? How has our practice evolved and mutated in response to the current context? What do we need to learn and unlearn? The panellist will use their experience of complexity, leadership and change to explore what we need to bring forward into 2021. All participants will be part of the conversation, bringing questions and insights to the table.
For this retrospective, we invited a group deeply connected to theory and practice relevant when working in complexity. They support institutions, movements, organisations and leaders all over the world to adapt and better respond to the complexities they face.
Dave Snowden, Sonja Blignaut, Nora Bateson and Jennifer Garvey Berger
13.40 Transition and break
14.00 - 15.30 Parallel workshops. You can choose from one of these workshops. Some of the sessions will be recorded.
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Dave Snowden just finished a handbook on complexity and crisis-management for the European union that will be the starting point for this session. More information will follow. Participatory OD de-centralised processes How might we co-create emergent strategy? We are interested in alternative and more complex conscious ways to work strategically together in an organizational context. What are the alternatives to invest time, money and energy in structural processes like classical employer surveys and trickle down business strategies? We have been exploring in many contexts for quite some time. We would like to share some thoughts and have a dialogue around this. Johan Holm, Pontus Holmgren and Jesper Hök - Gro organisationsutveckling Warm data and emergence of the new This past year has really been a test on us as agents in systems. So much that many take for granted are up for questioning. Developments due to climate crises, covid-19, mental health/burn-out and new political landscapes confront us with new choices again and again. And many feel trapped in systems that clearly do not serve us and the planet - so grounded in culture, identity and so connected to power and wealth they seem impossible to change. What if the work is not about great ideas or trying to fix the system, but rather to tend to the grounds, prepare the soil, create new connections and hold the tensions? In this workshop we will hear stories on how Warm Data labs open up possibilities. Nora Bateson will be accompanied by Warm data-hosts that share stories from different contexts. From books on paper to education services in the cloud. A case study of the transformation of a traditional publisher of schoolbooks. In this workshop we will present the work promoting transformation of a traditional publisher of schoolbooks along two intertwined dimensions many organisations struggle with: From product to service. From paper to digital. We have followed an approach to change based on own experiences, concepts, interventions and intuitions. Just over a year ago, when we got to know the Cynefin framework and the Warm-Data approach, what we had been doing acquired a deeper and broader coherence. This workshop is as much a learning process for us as for the participants. We will share how we have been thinking and doing during these years, and the participants will be invited to help us make meaning through the lenses of Cynefin and Warm Data. Eugenio Moliní, (the external consultant) and Magí Almirall (the IT manager of the paper based company who became promoter of its digital transformation) |
Support groups learn from experience, using Liberating Structures. A key practice when working with complex challenges it to act fast, learn from the experience and adapt before taking the next step. During this session we will model and experience a set of methods – Liberating Structures - put together to a complete mini-workshop that support groups to learn from shared or specific experiences. During the session you will both get concrete support exploring your experience in-depth making sense together, and finding your next move, at the same time as you are equipped with a concrete workshop-format ready to be used in your context. Hosted by Elin Turesson, Karolina Lundahl, Karolina Nilsen and Lotta Adelståhl from the Liberating Structure User Group Skåne/South Sweden. Can “feminine” qualities contribute to self-organization and complexity conscious teamwork? Most organizations are coded by masculine norms. What would an organization look like that invites and builds on feminine qualities? We have a hypothesis that we would like to explore with you; that an organizational culture that invites the feminine, or yin aspects of our being, can be a recipe for a more humane and complexity conscious organization. What would that look like on team-level? What organs and collaboration muscles do we activate and strengthen to enable all of us to bring our whole selves to work? Lennart Wärmlind and Greta Rask. From Inner Leadership to Co-creation Together we will explore the qualities of the different dimensions of leadership, how to unfold their potentials through us. What circumstances and conditions, inner and outer, does that depend on? Ursula Hillbrand will guide us in a dialogical walk through the different stages of co-creation, starting with ourselves, exploring when we are at our best, and what conditions we have when we can truly radiate and unfold. Then we will move onto how to contribute authentically in conversation, support others and build on each others contributions, then we will transit into enabling authentic conversation and innovation spaces into finally entering the stage of true co-creation where we are in dialogue with the full potential of any given context. Reframing: Growth to serve us all We live in an era where our familiar ways of achieving prosperity have become insufficient. An era in which the concept of Growth has been taken hostage by the “market” - an authority and the point of reference in our society. A definition of growth synonymous with unbridled expansion at someone else's expense, as if our resources were limitless and whose aggressive terminology - conquering market share, beating competition, winning customers, occupying geographical areas - brings to mind the battlefields of war. This idea of growth is insensitive to the symbiotic, infinite play of all living and deaf to the values being destroyed in its progress. But does it has to be this way? Is it possible to open up, reframe and fill the concept of Growth with a meaning that serves humanity? In this session Lina Fogelberg and Petra Trobäck takes us on a explorative quest, visiting contexts , allowing for emergent thoughts and perspectives increasing our collective consciousness about a kind of growth - endlessly meaningful to us humans. |
15.30 Transition and mini-break
15.40 - 16.30 Integration and cross-learning
Support for individual and collective learning. We will meet in a creative space around what we can learn from this day. Pontus Holmgren and Caroline Stiernstedt Sahlborn will help us examine our experiences from different perspectives and support us in starting to integrate our insights. What is my first step in 2021 to continue to develop capacity for more complexity conscious work?
Support for individual and collective learning. We will meet in a creative space around what we can learn from this day. Pontus Holmgren and Caroline Stiernstedt Sahlborn will help us examine our experiences from different perspectives and support us in starting to integrate our insights. What is my first step in 2021 to continue to develop capacity for more complexity conscious work?
16.30 End
We have called on a network of experienced practitioners supporting people, organisations and systems in change. Some more grounded in insights from complexity sciences while others brings challenges inviting particiations to co-create.
Contributors
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Dave Snowden, chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge and founder of the Cynefin framework. Renowned for his thought-leadership on strategy, sensemaking and theory-informed action. He travels the world supporting governments, companies and organisation develop their strategies and practises. He will contribute with several topics in key note conversatsions and parallel workshops.
Lennart Wärmlind and Greta Rask are Leadership Consultants, firmly grounded in Gestalt Theory and Methodology. They share a passion for creating whole leaders, self-organizing teams, and vibrant organizational cultures. ,
From the Liberating Structures user group Skåne: Elin Turesson and Karolina Lundahl, facilitators that support public and Non governmental organisation develop more inclusive practices and succeed with collaboration will be joined by Karolina Nilsen from Helsingborgs city and Lotta Adelståhl, leadership consultant hosting a session on Liberating Structures in support of sensemaking and learning.
Tom Roodro, Malmö city , Joel Veborg from Sensus studieförbund are key actors in many collaborative initiatives between non-governmental organisations and the municipality in Malmö.
Eugenio Moliní, consultant since 1989 whose mission is to support change agents is to promote change with more impact and less pain, in the organizations where they work, the territories where they live, the communities they are part of or the networks they connect to. He believes that he contributes best when he does his thing and gets out of the way. His thing is to design and facilitate change processes in complex systems.
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Jennifer Garvey Berger is a founding partner and CEO of Cultivating Leadership, a consultancy that serves executives and executive teams in the private, non-profit, and government sectors around the world. She blends deep theoretical knowledge with a driving quest for practical ways to make leaders' lives better. Author of several books including Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps: How to Thrive in Complexity.
Jesper Hök a freelance at Gro has specialised in facilitating learning and leadership development processes with a background in person-centered health- and social services. He will host a couple of full group sessions. and workshops
Marco Valente and others from Cultivating Leadership, will host a morning session. Marco uses his sustainability background when building dialogue-based processes in support of strategic decision making.
Petra Trobäck -Strategic thinking partner and transformation catalyst. As co-founder of Morphosis she strives to awaken organisations to nurture sensitivity, curiosity and presence - human abilities needed to make sense of the world around them.
Lina Fogelberg -Strategic thinking partner and transformation catalyst. Co-founder of Morphosis. Through a systemic approach she works with organisations to enable higher levels of consciousness and enhancing their collective ability to sense and respond to emergent patterns of change. |
Organisers / Background
Reimagine Leadership is initiated and hosted by Malmöakademin in collaboration with Gro - Co-creating Sustainability, the Liberating Structures User group in Skåne, South Sweden and Cognitive Edge - the Cynefin Co. Malmöakademin is a platform and partner for participatory learning for sustainability and social and human development. We are based in Malmö, Sweden, but collaborate with partners from all over Sweden and beyond.
Malmö is one of Sweden's most vibrant but also challenged cities with a high degree of unemployment. In the joint ambition to work for a more sustainable city community organisations, non-governmental organisation and parts of the municipality are exploring ways to work and organise for change that better match the complexity of the city's challenges. For this endeavour we started turning to others for inspiration and have formed many learning partnerships the last five years. Reimagine Leadership is place for us to meet and learn about practices rooted in insights from complexity sciences.
The network Forward Malmö is a driver for this upgrade of collaborative capacity and Malmöakademin is a resource for this ambition - trying to meet the need for cross-sector learning on collaboration, complexity and social change. Malmöakademin is offering developments programs/trainings such as Medskapa förändring with the latest cohort just starting. We organise and host processes/social labs such as Demokratilabb that we now host for Ludvika Kommun and Rädda Barnen/Save the children and are engaged in many initiatives in Malmö and elsewhere to support with process design and facilitation.
The network Forward Malmö is a driver for this upgrade of collaborative capacity and Malmöakademin is a resource for this ambition - trying to meet the need for cross-sector learning on collaboration, complexity and social change. Malmöakademin is offering developments programs/trainings such as Medskapa förändring with the latest cohort just starting. We organise and host processes/social labs such as Demokratilabb that we now host for Ludvika Kommun and Rädda Barnen/Save the children and are engaged in many initiatives in Malmö and elsewhere to support with process design and facilitation.
Visuals from last year´s sessions