BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6dd6059005c3ae328c8a79ec44f7b58d CATEGORIES:CircleForward CREATED:20151005T202624 SUMMARY:BUILDING ENTHUSIASTIC COLLABORATIVE TEAMS with Sociocracy LOCATION:London DESCRIPTION:BUILDING ENTHUSIASTIC COLLABORATIVE TEAMSwith Sociocracy \nLearning Worksho p,  21 January, 2016, London, 09:00 - 17:00Symbiotic Decision-making\n   (h ttp://2bwow.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Soc-Kalikalos-Banner.png)\n \ nSeries: Building Enthusiastic Collaborative Workplaces with sociocracy\n\n  \nModule 1: Building Engaged Teams with consent decision-making\n\n \n\n - Are your team decisions being met with resistance, with no or little buy-i n or alignment?\n\n - Does the workforce feel disengaged and demotivated, l eading to high staff turnover?\n - Is there too much pressure on managers a nd leaders to ‘perform’ and have all the answers?\n - Do staff members feel undervalued, with little outlet for staff creativity?\n - Does lack of con sultation result in difficulty implementing the decisions?\n - Are you and/ or is your team keen to change all (or any) of that ? \nIf so, you may bene fit from applying consent-based decision-making in your team or organisatio n:\n Consent-based decision-making offers you a proven way for groups with common aims to reach optimal collective decisions. Member feel comfortable implementing these decisions because the perspectives of each member are ta ken into consideration, and objections are resolved by incorporating refine ments into the decision. Members may not like or agree fully with a decisio n, but they can live with it as far as achieving the team's aims is concern red, it is within their range of tolerance to execute. The system creates g roup agreement in a very time efficient way.\n Who is this learning worksho p for:\n Teams and project groups with common aims needing to take collabor ative decisions, working across departments, including any planning or poli cy-making groups of people.  This course should be of particilar interest t o those wishing to implement change in their organisation, get more engagem ent and commitment in the workforce and implement participative working pra ctices.\n\n What you will learn:\n You will learn the basic steps, rules an d roles of the consent-based decision-making process (also known as formal consensus), with lots of chances to practice. You will learn how to make co llaborative decisions by consent, and learn the basics of facilitating the process. The focus is partical with plenty of opportunities to practice.\n\ n Unique Value:\n This is a unique approach to get team decisions quickly, by harnessing, unlocking and drawing on group mind for sharper solutions. R ather than trying to get all to agree on an issue, through adversarial deba te as is conventionally the case, consent-based decision-making focusses on fine-tuning proposed solutions to a degree where no-one has any paramount objection that would hamper the execution of the decision, and if there are objections, further fine-tuning the solutions.\n \n Benefits:\n \n - Inclu sive (all perspectives considered)\n - Everyone supports decisions made\n - Speedy implementation\n -  Differences turn to advantage\n - Conflict beco mes resource\n -  Wiser decicions, highly innovative \n (http://www.even tbrite.co.uk/e/building-enthusiastic-collaborative-teams-with-sociocracy-ti ckets-18966894492?ref=ebtnebtckt)\n \nModule 1: Building Engaged Teams with consent decision-making\n \nThe focus of this workshop is practical skills which you take back with you and apply immediately.  This module is a self -contained course, you will learn valuable skills regardless whether you al so participate in any of the other modules.  This module, however, forms th e basis of all other modules.  The modules in this series are:\n\n - Collab orative Decision-making ("short-form" consent)\n\n - Holistic complex Probl em-solving ("long-form" consent)\n\n - Effective Governance Meetings (witho ut the superfluous)\n\n - Circle Role Distribution & Tasks (consent ele ctions)\n\n - Facilitation Skills & Other Circle roles \n\n - Defining Common Purpose (VMA) and Double-linking\n\n - Prototyping and Iterations, R eviewing and EvaluatingWhile the practical tools emanate from sociocracy, t hey are introduced here independently, so you learn particular skills you c an apply immediately in the workpace, irrespective of whether the organisat ion is sociocratic, or indeed without you needing to know anything about so ciocracy. This is a highly practical skills co-learning workshop.  \nNote t hat these skills also form the basis of sociocracy, as well as its derivati ves, like Dynamic Goverance, Sociocracy 3.0, Flox, Circle Forward, IDM (int egrative Decision-Making) and in particular Holacracy.  The latter is a mor e elaborate system which also comprises the operational side of organisatio ns and other add-ons.  Learning collaborative decision-making through conse nt-building first is thus an effective way of familiarising oneself with th e basics and testing the waters, before committing to sociocracy or to a mo re fully fledged system like Holacracy.\n\nThis co-learning workshop is hig hly practical, interactive and involves a lot of peer-learning in self-orga nised groups.  There is a tremendous amount of practice involved, actually doing and practicing the skills.  If there are sufficient numbers there wil l be a second workshop facilitator, Francois Knuchel, who will be introducing some new s elf-organising peer-based approaches we are developing and beta-trialling.  \n \n (http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-enthusiastic-collaborative-t eams-with-sociocracy-tickets-18966894492?ref=ebtnebtckt)\n \nWork Better To gether\nWhile the word Sociocracy may be unfamiliar, its roots go back to p hilosopher and founder of Sociology Auguste Comte, via Quaker peace activis ts. Today it is used in businesses and communities looking to work more eff ectively and enjoyably. You might think of Sociocracy as what comes after d emocracy; a deeper, more genuine form of democracy, that can help us do a b etter job of working and relating with each other, whether at work, in comm unity or at home.\n\nIn this workshop you will experience and learn for yourself that beyond big words and ideas, the essence of Soci ocracy is simple and elegant, that it can easily be applied to improve many aspects of your life and work. Sociocracy is a system and set of tools, wh ich puts in to practice the values that humans instinctively hold dear, but which often disappear when we try to get things done with others, even if we try to do things ‘democratically.’ It is how we might go about getting t hings done if we forgot everything we’ve learned and started from scratch, as if common sense was common.\n \nSociocracy is work as it should be.\n \n - You will learn how to solve problems and make better decisions together, despite different opinions, without resorting to bullying or giving in, wi thout taking all day over it, and that everyone can get behind.\n - You wil l learn how to better use your time in and out of meetings, while keeping e veryone on board.\n - You will learn how Sociocracy embraces respect, trust , diversity, empowerment, shared leadership, honesty, collaboration, effici ency, transparency, responsibility, innovation and the equivalent value of us all.\n - You will learn how to get stuff done, do more of the right thin gs, and do more of what works.\n - You will learn how to make sure that you are learning from what you do, how your team can learn and grow wiser, hea lthier and sharper over time. (http://www.pilioncentre.com/wp-content/uploa ds/2014/12/double-linking300px.jpg)\nThis workshop will be great for anyone who wants to learn and practice healthier and more effective ways of worki ng and relating. You can be a complete beginner, or if you have experienced something like this before, this might be a useful opportunity to deepen y our practice and understand it from a different perspective. Sociocracy is sometimes referred to as an ‘empty method’, which enables it to sit alongsi de and enhance other tools in a variety of settings.\nParticipants will lea rn together in the mornings, have the afternoons to walk, swim, play and pr actice in a stunning area of natural beauty surrounded by mountain, forest and sea. To deepen your experience of co-learning, of co-creating, of being at the centre, as well as to provide this course at an affordable price, a little time each day will be for participants to help with the running of the place, which might include cooking, cleaning or gardening.\n \n \n\n  \nAbout Martin Grimshaw: “Putting the fun into Fundamental Change”\nMartin Grimshaw is a facilitator (http://www.pilioncentre.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2014/02/martinGrimshaw200px.jpg), trainer and organisational consultant com mitted to helping people do a better job of working on what matters. He co- founded SociocracyUK, along with the UK’s first fully incorporated Sociocra tic company and probably the world’s first fully incorporated Sociocratic c o-operative business.\nHe has been practising Sociocracy in work and in life since around 2008, training extensively with Nathaniel Whitestone and John Buck, and learning, practising and teaching with many others ever since.\nLearning efficient collaborative decision making skills may have he lped to save his life high up on a mountain. Martin especially enjoys shari ng important work in a way that his Grandmother could understand it.\n“Mart in is a master, it’s like watching Roger Federer on Centre Court. It brough t tears to my eyes, I’ve never seen anybody conduct… training with such kin dness and patience. It was very impressive… He was playful, fun and unthrea tening: exactly what was needed.”\n  \n Contact Martin (http://2bwow.org.uk /contact/) if you have questions\n  \n  \n A joint project between Thriving Planet (T/A There's Better Way s of Working (http://2bwow.org.uk/)), Cater fly and Open2Flow (http://open2flow.co.uk).  Administered by Thriving Planet CIC\n \n  \n (//uk.pin terest.com/pin/create/extension/)\n\n (//uk.pinterest.com/pin/create/extension/)\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

BUILDING ENTHUSIASTIC COLLABORATIVE TEA MS

with Sociocracy

 

< h3 style="text-align: center;">Learning Workshop,  21 January, 2016 , London, 09:00 - 17:00

Symbio tic Decision-making
 

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Series: Building Enthusiastic Collaborative W orkplaces with sociocracy

 

Module 1: Building Engaged Teams with consent dec ision-making

 

 

If so, you may benefit from applying consent -based decision-making in your team or organisation:

Consent-based decision-making offers you a proven way for groups with common aims to reach optimal collective decisions. Member feel comfortable implementing these decisions because the perspectives of e ach member are taken into consideration, and objections are resolved by inc orporating refinements into the decision. Members may not like or agree ful ly with a decision, but they can live with it as far as achieving the team' s aims is concernred, it is within their range of tolerance to execute. The system creates group agreement in a very time efficient way.

Who is this learning workshop for:

Teams and project groups with common aims needing to take collaborative decisions, working across departments, inclu ding any planning or policy-making groups of people.  This course should be of particilar interest to those wishing to implement change in their organ isation, get more engagement and commitment in the workforce and implement participative working practices.

What you will learn:Consent hands stock

You will learn the basic steps, rules and roles of th e consent-based decision-making process (also known as formal consensus), w ith lots of chances to practice. You will learn how to make collaborative d ecisions by consent, and learn the basics of facilitating the process. The focus is partical with plenty of opportunities to practice.

Unique Value:

This is a unique approach to get team decisions quickly, b y harnessing, unlocking and drawing on group mind for sharper solutions. Ra ther than trying to get all to agree on an issue, through adversarial debat e as is conventionally the case, consent-based decision-making focusses on fine-tuning proposed solutions to a degree where no-one has any paramount o bjection that would hamper the execution of the decision, and if there are objections, further fine-tuning the solutions.

 

Benefits:

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    •  Differences turn to advantage
    •  Wiser decicions, highly innov ative

     

    Eventbrite - Bu ilding Enthusiastic Collaborative Teams with Sociocracy

     

    Module 1: Building Engaged Teams with consent decision-making

     

    The focus of this workshop is practical skills which yo u take back with you and apply immediately.  This module is a self-containe d course, you will learn valuable skills regardless whether you also partic ipate in any of the other modules.  This module, however, forms the basis o f all other modules.  The modules in this series are:

    While the practical tools emanate from sociocracy, they are introduced here independently, so you learn particular skills you can apply immediately in the workpace, irre spective of whether the organisation is sociocratic, or indeed without you needing to know anything about sociocracy. This is a highly practical skill s co-learning workshop. 

    Note that these skills also form the basis of sociocracy, as well as its derivat ives, like Dynamic Goverance, Sociocracy 3.0, Flox, Circle Forward, IDM (in tegrative Decision-Making) and in particular Holacracy.  The latter is a mo re elaborate system which also comprises the operational side of organisati ons and other add-ons.  Learning collaborative decision-making through cons ent-building first is thus an effective way of familiarising oneself with t he basics and testing the waters, before committing to sociocracy or to a m ore fully fledged system like Holacracy.

    This co-learning workshop is highly practical, interactive and involves a lot of peer-learning in self-organised groups.  There is a t remendous amount of practice involved, actually doing and practicing the sk ills.  If there are sufficient numbers there will be a second workshop faci litator, Francois Knuchel, who will be introducing some new self-organising peer-based a pproaches we are developing and beta-trialling.  

     

    Eventbrite - Building Enthusiastic Collaborative Team s with Sociocracy

     

    Work Better Together

    While the word Sociocracy may b e unfamiliar, its roots go back to philosopher and founder of Sociology Aug uste Comte, via Quaker peace activists. Today it is used in businesses and communities looking to work more effectively and enjoyably. You might think of Sociocracy as what comes after democracy; a deeper, more genuine form o f democracy, that can help us do a better job of working and relating with each other, whether at work, in community or at home.

    In this workshop you will experience and learn for yourself that beyond big words and ideas, the essence of Sociocracy is simple and elegant, that it can easily be applied to improve many aspects of your life and work. Socioc racy is a system and set of tools, which puts in to practice the values tha t humans instinctively hold dear, but which often disappear when we try to get things done with others, even if we try to do things ‘democratically.’ It is how we might go about getting things done if we forgot everything we’ ve learned and started from scratch, as if common sense was common.

     

    Sociocracy is work as it should be.

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    This workshop will be great for anyone who wants to learn and practice healthier and more effective ways of working and relating. Yo u can be a complete beginner, or if you have experienced something like thi s before, this might be a useful opportunity to deepen your practice and un derstand it from a different perspective. Sociocracy is sometimes referred to as an ‘empty method’, which enables it to sit alongside and enhance othe r tools in a variety of settings.

    Participants will learn together in the mornings, have the afternoons to walk, swim, play and practice in a st unning area of natural beauty surrounded by mountain, forest and sea. To de epen your experience of co-learning, of co-creating, of being at the centre , as well as to provide this course at an affordable price, a little time e ach day will be for participants to help with the running of the place, whi ch might include cooking, cleaning or gardening.

     

     

    Eventb rite - Building Enthusiastic Collaborative Teams with Sociocracy

     

    Abou t Martin Grimshaw: “Putting the fun into Fundamental Change”< /span>

    Martin Grimshaw is a facilitatormartinG rimshaw200px, tra iner and organisational consultant committed to helping people do a better job of working on what matters. He co-founded SociocracyUK, along with the UK’s first fully incorporated Sociocratic company and probably the world’s first fully incorporated Sociocratic co-operative business.


    He has been practising Sociocracy in work and in l ife since around 2008, training extensively with Nathaniel Whitestone and J ohn Buck, and learning, practising and teaching with many others ever since .

    Learning efficient collaborative decision making skills may have he lped to save his life high up on a mountain. Martin especially enjoys shari ng important work in a way that his Grandmother could understand it.

    “Martin is a master, it’s like watching Roger Federer on Centre Court. It brought tears to my eyes, I’ve never seen anybody conduct… training with such kindness and patience. It was very impressive… He was playful, fun an d unthreatening: exactly what was needed.”

     

    Contact Martin if you have quest ions

     

     

    A joint project between Thriving Planet (T/A There's Better Ways of Working), Caterfly and Open2Flow.  Administe red by Thriving Planet CIC

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