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Thank you!
What an amazing day we created together! Now, let us make this learning site to a place for inspiration and memory as we move forward into 2021! Most ot the content will remain the same, with two changes. You find the a condensed harvest and recordings from the whole day in the Harvest - section. And under each sessions section you will find more material and documentation from that session. And mark the 30th of March in you calendar! We invite you to participate in, or contribute to a new Reimagine Leadership gathering.
The organising team and partners, Malmöakademin, Gro organisationsutveckling, Cognitive Edge and Liberating Structures User group Skåne/South Sweden ------ Welcome! What have we really learned this crazy year 2020? How has our practices evolved in response to the current context? What do we need to learn and unlearn now? We are a great group of participants and contributors that gather to share, learn and reimagine what leadership could mean, as we move forward into 2021. We share an ambition to respond more effectively to our challenges with strategy and practices grounded in insights from complexity sciences. Some sessions are about practices for leading in uncertainty and complexity. Others are inviting you to reimagining key concepts or mental models. Warmly welcome to co-create! Quick guide to Qiqo-chat and our workspace You are now in the our Reception and information workspace. To the left you have a list of the sessions. Click on the session to enter the workspace and when you a ready to join the Zoom meeting. Start that sessions designated Zoom meeting using the green button in the top left corner. If you have questions you can always join the Reception Zoom-meeting you reach from this landing page. Each workspace has tabs above where you can navigate to more information or tools we will use in the different sessions. When you are ready to join in the first plenum session move to that workspace and start Zoom by clicking on the green button in the top left corner. Let others know who you are! Via the dropdown in the upper right corner you can edit your profile. Check out our mingle space, move around and open up for unexpected conversations! Check out our Harvest space and contribute with notes, drawing, insights, poems or whatever your see could support our collective learning! It will expand during the conference and also after. |
A few snapshots from the harvest.
Program outline
08.30 Optional tech-warm up reception 09.00 Welcome and intro in plenary. 09.40 Parallel sessions (break included) 11.40 Lunch 12.30 Plenum conversations in plenary 13.40 Break 14.00 Parallel sessions 15.40 Integration / cross learning in plenary 16.30 End We welcome you to challenge your first instinct when choosing sessions and make a creative choice when tailoring your learning experience! The sessions marked with📷 will be recorded and made available to all participants. Some sessions has a maximum number of participants and the hosts might close the Zoom-meeting when that is reached. |
Programme
08.30 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
09.30 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 the morning sessions.
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1. 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 and 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. 2. Learning to be afraid We need to learn to be afraid to be able to try new things and start solving complex problems. We need to deal with not having all the answers and having no idea what will happen after we start. Launching an experiment is very similar to standing on a skateboard, ready to drop in on a new ramp, and hoping not to break anything essential. We as individuals and our organizations need to practice dropping into new experiments and learning to be afraid again in order to succeed in this fast-paced world. During this workshop Magdalena Musiala and Marcus Degerman will start with the metaphor of learning how to skateboard, and then look at models and concrete methods on how to experiment, learn and fail continuously in your organization. 3. Demystifying tech startup leadership approaches to complexity and uncertainty The journey to lead and adapt in complexity has a very different starting point in a fast-growth tech startup compared to the journey that starts in a more traditional environment. This interactive session will navigate us through how to identify and lead in different types of complex, uncertain, and fast-paced tech startup organizational environments. Based on perspectives and experiences how to creatively adapt to the ever-changing surrounding. Victoria Vallström invites you to a session which intended harvest includes a combination of mental models, strategies, and tactics on how to reimagine leadership with perspectives from the tech startup world. 4. 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. 5. Noticing and working with our urge to control In complex systems we are often faced with a paradox: as the behavior of the system seems less predictable, our urge to control grows deeper. What to do? In this workshop, Cultivating Leadership partners will facilitate an experiential session to notice the dynamics of control in complexity, and will leave you with reflections and practices to work with it. We will be looking at the individual and team dynamics that might produce such behavior. We will walk away from the workshop with some novel reflections and a practice or two that can equip us to deal with this urge and at the same time see what is that we can actually influence in a productive way. Cultivating Leadership is an international consultancy spanning all continents and 60-people strong. We work in pursuit of freeing people from simplistic thinking using simple and powerful habits informed by adult development and complexity thinking 6. 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? 7. 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. 8.Warm Data, People Need People and emergence of the new What if the work that is needed in this critical moment is not about great ideas or trying to fix the system, but rather about how 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. The Warm Data process is now active in 40 countries around the world. There are 500 certified trained hosts. We are working in parliaments, and in refugee camps, with legislature and with community, with intergenerational groups, with hardship, with healing. Nora Bateson invites to an experience of the online warm data process, known as People Need People, followed by a discussion of what we are all learning. |
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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10. Reflect on 2020 to open up the road for 2021 while at the same time learning 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. 11. Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis The forthcoming field guide to Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis is the result of a is a shared effort between the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, and the Cynefin Centre. Prof Dave Snowden, Director of the Cynefin Centre is the prime author of the guide and this session will give people a basic introduction to the guide. This includes among other things explanation of the core four stage process of Assess, Adapt, Exapt Transcend and the process of radical repurposing of existing capability for novel use (Exaptation) has associated methods and tools which wlil be explained. The field book talks about the need to set up specialist crews in a crisis to more effectively manage the situation, each with a different focus and function and the key six stage process for managing a crisis will be elaborated. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. 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) 15. Reframing: Growth to serve us all We live in an era where the 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 have 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 invite you to embark on a an explorative quest, visiting contexts , allowing for emergent thoughts and perspectives increasing our collective consciousness about a kind of growth - endlessly meaningful to us humans. 16. Reimagine diversity and inclusion - why conferences like this fail Conferences like Reimagine Leadership often gather experts or people with a cultural capital to include themselves, using the right words. How can we build more inclusive and diverse spaces where there is not only equality but also equity for change makers, leaders, practitioners and activists? Bringing diversity into the process is key when working with complex challenges. And maybe where most well-intended change-efforts fail because does diversity mean equity? Does access mean inclusion? In this session Shamail Haydar from Initiatives of Change in collaboration with Individuell Människohjälp Sweden invites us to explore these questions and the importance of reimagining diversity and inclusion in our personal lives, in our work spaces and in society at large. The workshop is interactive and participants re offered opportunities to listen to a personal story of transformation, hear from grassroot initiatives and the challenges they faced and the lessons learnt and share personal experiences. |
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 are my first steps 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 are my first steps in 2021 to continue to develop capacity for more complexity conscious work?
16.30 End
