In response to the shock, division and disaray unleashed by the Brexit referendum, we feel it is essential to make space for people to come together. This is a participant-led ‘Open Space’ event, so the experience and discussions you have is up to you. But with many people distracted from fancy notions of reinventing work by very real and immediate worry, fear, anger, despondency this is your time to let off steam, ask big questions, get support and support others, or get constructive.
One thing seems certain: If it is true that many people have reacted to feeling ignored, impoverished and powerless, then making the workplace work for everyone, of making sure that everyone has a voice and can participate is more important than ever.
How can we respond? How we drive this movement forward? How can we help make work better for everyone? What can you contribute?
Thanks. In despair, in hope, and with determination…. see you there?
Workshop Saturday 18 June, Green Park 16:00 – 18:00, Free
No need to register, just show up
Don’t we all want to change our organisations?
Experiental workshop exploring new ways of changing human organising, not by planning and imposing new systems, but by inviting all affected to co-create the new together.
It is said most culture change interventions fail, partly due to resistance to change. Change resistance is a myth, most people don’t resist change, after all wouldn’t most people want to change their workplaces, to make them more democratic, purposeful and human? What people resist is the imposition of alien systems which they had no say in. However good the new ways are, imposing them is doomed to fail – and this applies just as well to new ways of organising, like teal, responsive, holacracy, B-Corp or other great ideas.
A better way of transitioning from old to new forms of organising, is by inviting al those affected to co-create the change together. Come and find out how do do that at scale in larger organisations. Transformation by co-creation.
This event is part of Human Organising Festival 16 – 18 June in London – go to Festival website
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OpenSpace Agility™ with Daniel Mezick
Workshop: On Demand, London+, U.K.
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Co-creating Transformation At Scale
Booking information below
Struggling to get buy-in? Brilliant implementation plan getting stuck in reality?
Caterfly is excited to be teaming up with Daniel Mezick, whose OpenSpace Agility™ method is the foundation of Caterfly’s model for introducing organisational change. Daniel has developed a new approach to creating an adaptive and customisable, collaborative culture shift at scale; for example introducing Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum or new ways of working, becoming more ‘responsive’, ‘teal’ or self-organising, implementing sustainability programs and more.
How you can create a culture of enthusiasm, agility and effectiveness in your organisation
How you can prevent resistance to change
Why on average 70% of change programs ultimately fail
What actually works, and how you can transform your workplace with proven tools that get the job done
How to save money by reducing coach / coaching days to get solid results and continuous improvement.
Why the power of invitation, co-creation and self-organisation avoids cultural inertia and change fatigue
How to harness latent ingenuity and collective-intelligence
How to invite the whole organisation to collaborative action using Open Space Technology
How to integrate and consolidate what’s already working well
Each student receives
A proven and repeatable method for rescuing faltering change initiatives
A very rich learning experience with colleagues from diverse backgrounds working in a highly interactive self-organising peer-learning environment
The OpenSpace Agility™ certificate of completion
Listing in the OpenSpace Agility-certified consultants list, on the OSA web site.
Membership of the private online group of certificate holders, for continued peer-development
A free copy of Daniel’s OpenSpace Agility Handbook
Who Should Attend
Leaders, managers, facilitators, consultants, coaches and anyone involved in process and culture change in organisations. Although the process has so far been used most for the adoption of Agile working, it is a tool for a broad and diverse range of contexts. Professionals familiar with Open Space Technology and tools for self-organisation will be interested to learn of new applications in the workplace.
In these times of rapid change and complexity, the triple-win of organisational culture is engagement, agility and effectiveness. Our framework will help you get there, together: a radically different approach to leading change, which is confoundingly simple and practical. The whole team or organisation is invited to co-creative change together, in a way that is more effective, manageable and genuinely long lasting, while reducing stress and change fatigue.
In place of change initiatives that rely on a disenfranchising mandate from above and a rigid, pre-planned roll-out, OpenSpace Agility™ approach integrates the power of invitation, leadership storytelling, iteration, self-organisation and game mechanics to achieve rapid, lasting and effective change across an organisation.
There is growing awareness that the reason many change programmes fail or do not work as expected is not because of the often quoted poor communications and people’s ‘resistance to change’, but because the people affected by the change are not asked, never mind invited to contribute to the change. Culture shifts and new ways of working cannot simply be imposed. What is needed is to invite all affected to co-create and customise change together, in a manageable and iterative way.
OpenSpace Agility works for one simple reason: it generates extremely high levels of engagement across your organisation. This engagement is essential to the success of your program, and no other method does this better than OpenSpace Agility.
Daniel Mezick
But how do you do that at scale? Surely this involves thousands of conversations and story rewriting across the organisation or department? Surely it’s an impossible and expensive task to get all the networks and collaborations connected without hampering the main operation of the organisation? Yet there is a way, using the principle of self-organisation in large scale gatherings, which not only achieves all these necessary cross-connections, but also produces positive synchronicity and serendipity, efficiently and with results that are staff-led.
OpenSpace Agility is a clearly structured, repeatable framework for introducing, reinvigorating and consolidating agility, lean and other collaborative forms of working in organisations. Daniel Mezick has created this framework incorporating ‘Open Space‘ events to invite all affected to drive collaborative transformation based on staff expertise:
a more human, engaging and participatory approach to leading change.
About the Main Instructor:
DANIEL MEZICK: OSA CERTIFIED TRAINER
DANIEL MEZICK is an author, executive and Agile coach, and keynote speaker. He is the formulator of OpenSpace Agility.
He is the author of THE CULTURE GAME, a book describing sixteen patterns of group behavior that help make any team smarter. The book is based on five years of experience coaching 119 Agile teams across 25 different organizations.
Daniel’s client list includes CapitalOne, INTUIT, THE HARTFORD, CIGNA, SIEMENS Healthcare, Harvard University, and many smaller enterprises. Daniel is based in Guilford, Connecticut, USA. Learn more and contact Daniel at www.DanielMezick.com.
Supported by UK facilitators Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel – See the About US page.
Find out more
Full details of workshop content – This is an experiential workshop which is structured to demonstrate the principles of the approach it teaches, including using some Open Space Technology for participant-led learning and practice, adapted to your needs.
Individuals / not-for-profit: £690 Note: VAT is not applicable
Fees include all course materials and the book. They also include coffee breaks and lunch on both days, but does not include transportation, accommodation or dinner.
No charges for bank transfer payments upon invoice Invoice sent by email following booking, with charges removed. Reservation held for 1 week, booking completed upon payment by bank transfer (or cheque).
Payment by card now We regret that payment processing charges will be added.
In the unlikely event of any cancellation or if you need to cancel, full refunds will be made immediately until 2 weeks before, after which if you need to cancel then we will refund 50%.
This event is brought to you by Caterfly, a collaboration between Thriving Planet CIC and Transcultural Synergy Ltd
If you have (or can gather) a group of at least ten people who would like to take this course in London, or anywhere in the U.K., either in-house or as a public event, then please contact us to explore further.
Team: Daniel Mezick, head instructor, founder of OpenSpace Agility and Prime/OS,
with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel, hosting team.
Contact: events@caterfly.co.uk or call 020 7117 8648
Caterfly presents: a 1 day event exploring the need for transforming the way we work together, the move toward more collaborative, responsive workplaces, for businesses that place the customer at the centre, with respect for people and planet, the reality, complexity and barriers to change, and ways to move forward.
#OrgShift
Share. Learn. Connect: Building alliances for collective impact
Just as the combined efforts of the powers-that-be in the 16th and 17th Centuries were unable to halt the progress of Copernicus’ Revolution in astronomy, so also today’s big hierarchical bureaucracies, though seemingly all-powerful, will ultimately succumb to the power of a better idea for running organizations—better for customers, better for employees, better for managers, better for society, and better for the organizations and their investors.
Steve Denning, Forbes: The Copernican Revolution In Management
Date & Time: Tuesday 19 January 2016, 06:45pm – 10:00pm
Location: St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace 78 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AG London, United Kingdom
For all the talk of self-management, isn’t it time we experienced it in action? What does it look, sound and feel like? Join us for an evening of self-organisation in action where you can experience what one type of meeting of the future – a meeting without manager – might look like.
At our December meeting we explored the role of leadership, in a structured workshop. This time we will examine “leaderlessness” in an “unstructured” workshop – or so it may appear through the lenses of our traditional view of organisations. In this event, we will be self-organising on the spot around YOUR issues and YOUR passions about reinventing work. What are you noticing about the future of work that you haven’t told anyone about?
You are invited to consider what it is you would like to make happen, in your workplace or with others in this network. Bring your thoughts and ideas on the night to share with others. What are you going to do about your intentions? Who knows what collaborations or projects might emerge?
The space will be open for you to follow the issues you are passionate about. To start us off Francois Knuchel and Martin Grimshaw of CATERFLY will open and hold the space and “enable” us to self-organise our event, with a view of achieving two things: Firstly, focus completely on you, the participant, in terms of what you’d like to make happen beyond these events, and secondly to do so in a self-organised fashion, without manager, without speaker, without facilitator, and thus to walk our talk.
Do come along to this important evening. You’ll have deep conversations on issues you care about, and do so in a self-managed way; and you’ll have lots of fun in the process!
For information, updates and to book your place go to the RSA Events page.
Join the online discussions on the network’s Facebook page
Location St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace 78 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AG London, United Kingdom
This is a RSA Reinventing Work Network event. It is free to attend and open to members of the public, but all wishing to attend must register.
Caterfly presents: a 1 day participant-led ‘Open Space’ event exploring the need for transforming the way we work together, the move toward more collaborative, responsive workplaces, for businesses that place the customer at the centre, with respect for people and planet, the reality, complexity and barriers to change, and ways to move forward.
This is a follow up event to ‘Why aren’t Organisations Shifting?‘ event in July, for those who want to continue the deliberations as well as for those who missed the first event – a second opportunity.
Share. Learn. Connect: Building alliances for collective impact
Just as the combined efforts of the powers-that-be in the 16th and 17th Centuries were unable to halt the progress of Copernicus’ Revolution in astronomy, so also today’s big hierarchical bureaucracies, though seemingly all-powerful, will ultimately succumb to the power of a better idea for running organizations—better for customers, better for employees, better for managers, better for society, and better for the organizations and their investors.
Steve Denning, Forbes: The Copernican Revolution In Management
The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter.
An experiential 2 day co-learning workshop: Brighton, with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel
#OpenSpaceTech
Why?
Do you want a way to rapidly launch new projects, bring participation, engagement, equality and inclusion to your organisation or event? To harness collective ingenuity for problem solving? To lead transformation that is real and lasting? To drive innovation?
What?
Learn how to organise and facilitate gatherings using Open Space Technology, a method by which a large group of people can organise themselves into a conference, complete with agenda, break-out sessions, action planning and reports, with almost no preparation before-hand. Open Space allows each participant to do what they came to do, and can be a very effective way of launching large-scale change or responding to a looming crisis. Who? This workshop invites those who are new to using Open Space and those who already have some or even extensive experience of using it, to co-learn together, deepen our practice, and share our experiences of using it. In this 2 day workshop we will have the opportunity to experience Open Space as attendees commonly do, with space to reflect and to go deeper into designing an event as part of a broader programme.
How? This workshop will be run as an Open Space so that participants can learn experientially, while learning how to design, prepare and facilitate an Open Space event, including tips and tricks, likely issues that may be encountered, follow up and incorporating an event within a wider context or strategy.
What is Open Space?
Open Space Technology is a format for organising compostable conferences, unconferences, meetings, stakeholder engagement, BarCamps and CityCamps, with maximum efficiency and minimum time and resources. It is a form of ‘crowd sourcing’ which can be used to bring together a company or any group or organisation to focus on a specific problem or question. Open Space allows for participants to co-create experience, learning and solutions in a way that unlocks creativity.
Open Space is used by large companies, local government, community activists, and forward thinking organisations everywhere, from gatherings of 5 to several thousand people, from a couple of hours to several days.
Please contact us if you would like to hire us as facilitators, consultants or trainers. Martin and Francois also use the Open Smart Transformation model at Caterfly to bring about deep and lasting transformation or problem solving in organisations with Open Space.
More workshops and events:
See Martin’s site for coming Sociocracy and Mindfulness workshops: http://2bwow.org.uk/workshops/
November (tbc): Shift2 – an unConference. Following the success of Shift, we’re hosting another.
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The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter.
An experiential 2 day co-learning workshop: Brighton, with Martin Grimshaw and Francois Knuchel
* We regret that this date has been postponed – we are currently arranging a new date in October ’15 – please contact us to request a preference and early bird discount *
A very limited number of ‘pay-what-you-want’ tickets are available on application. You just need to tell us a dazzling (but short) story of why you think the world will be a better place for you being on the course.
Do you want a way to rapidly launch new projects, bring participation, engagement, equality and inclusion to your organisation or event? To harness collective ingenuity for problem solving? To lead transformation that is real and lasting? To drive innovation?
What?
Learn how to organise and facilitate gatherings using Open Space Technology, a method by which a large group of people can organise themselves into a conference, complete with agenda, break-out sessions, action planning and reports, with almost no preparation before-hand. Open Space allows each participant to do what they came to do, and can be a very effective way of launching large-scale change or responding to a looming crisis.
Who?
This workshop invites those who are new to using Open Space and those who already have some or even extensive experience of using it, to co-learn together, deepen our practice, and share our experiences of using it. In this 2 day workshop we will have the opportunity to experience Open Space as attendees commonly do, with space to reflect and to go deeper into designing an event as part of a broader programme.
How? This workshop will be run as an Open Space so that participants can learn experientially, while learning how to design, prepare and facilitate an Open Space event, including tips and tricks, likely issues that may be encountered, follow up and incorporating an event within a wider context or strategy.
What is Open Space?
Open Space Technology is a format for organising compostable conferences, unconferences, meetings, stakeholder engagement, BarCamps and CityCamps, with maximum efficiency and minimum time and resources. It is a form of ‘crowd sourcing’ which can be used to bring together a company or any group or organisation to focus on a specific problem or question. Open Space allows for participants to co-create experience, learning and solutions in a way that unlocks creativity.
Open Space is used by large companies, local government, community activists, and forward thinking organisations everywhere, from gatherings of 5 to several thousand people, from a couple of hours to several days.
Please contact us if you would like to hire us as facilitators, consultants or trainers.
Martin and Francois also use the Open Smart Transformation model at Caterfly to bring about deep and lasting transformation or problem solving in organisations with Open Space.
Caterfly in partnership with There’s Better Ways Of Working present:
The art of hosting participant-led unConferences, solving complex problems, accelerating action, leading change in organisations, and hosting conversations that matter.
Why? Do you want a way to rapidly launch new projects, bring participation, engagement, equality and inclusion to your organisation or event? To harness collective ingenuity for problem solving? To lead transformation that is real and lasting? To drive innovation?
What?
Learn how to design and facilitate gatherings using Open Space Technology, a method by which a large group of people can organise themselves into a conference, complete with agenda, break-out sessions, action planning and reports, with almost no preparation before-hand. Open Space allows each participant to do what they need to do, and can be a very effective way of launching large-scale change or responding to a looming crisis.
Who?
This workshop invites those who are new to using Open Space and those who already have some or even extensive experience of using it, to co-learn together, deepen our practice, and share our experiences of using it.
How? This workshop will be run as an Open Space so that participants can learn experientially, while learning how to design, prepare and facilitate an Open Space event, including tips and tricks, likely issues that may be encountered, follow up and incorporating an event within a wider context or strategy.
What is Open Space?
Open Space Technology is a format for organising compostable conferences, unconferences, meetings, stakeholder engagement, BarCamps and CityCamps, with maximum efficiency and minimum time and resources. It is a form of ‘crowd sourcing’ which can be used to bring together a company or any group or organisation to focus on a specific problem or question. Open Space allows for participants to co-create experience, learning and solutions in a way that unlocks creativity.
Open Space is used by large companies, local government, community activists, and forward thinking organisations everywhere, from gatherings of 5 to several thousand people, from a couple of hours to several days, even with little notice or preparation.
* A very limited number of ‘pay-what-you-want’ tickets are available on application. You just need to tell us a dazzling (but short) story of why you think the world will be a better place for you being on the course.
Please contact us if you would like to hire us as facilitators, consultants or trainers.
Martin and Francois also use the Open Smart Transformation model at Caterfly to bring about deep and lasting transformation or problem solving in organisations with Open Space.
More workshops and events: Going Deeper with Open Space (August, 2 days), Shift: Why Aren’t Organisations Shifting? (21 July). Click on events for details.
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Caterfly presents: a 1 day participant-led ‘Open Space’ event exploring the need for transforming the way we work together, the move toward more collaborative, responsive workplaces, for businesses that place the customer at the centre, with respect for people and planet, the reality, complexity and barriers to change, and ways to move forward.
Share. Learn. Connect: Building alliances for collective impact
Just as the combined efforts of the powers-that-be in the 16th and 17th Centuries were unable to halt the progress of Copernicus’ Revolution in astronomy, so also today’s big hierarchical bureaucracies, though seemingly all-powerful, will ultimately succumb to the power of a better idea for running organizations—better for customers, better for employees, better for managers, better for society, and better for the organizations and their investors.
Steve Denning, Forbes: The Copernican Revolution In Management
Caterfly is excited to be teaming up with Daniel Mezick, whose OpenSpace Agility™ method is the foundation of Caterfly’s model for introducing organisational change. Daniel has developed a new approach to creating an adaptive and customisable, collaborative culture shift at scale; for example introducing Agile, Lean, Kanban, Scrum or new ways of working, becoming more ‘responsive’, ‘teal’ or self-organising, implementing sustainability programs and more.
In place of change initiatives that rely on a disenfranchising mandate from above and a rigid, pre-planned roll-out, OpenSpace Agility™ approach integrates the power of invitation, leadership storytelling, iteration, self-organisation and game mechanics to achieve rapid, lasting and effective change across an organisation.
