Next Stage World gathering practical dimensions of your leadership
Course description
Next Stage World gathers a global community of practitioners and leaders, entrepreneurs and teams establishing themselves in ‘new work’ habits of working and being. Together with other next-stage practitioners and innovators, you bend the beam of your observation into the practical dimensions of your leadership from the interior work of developing self and embodying self-led culture to the exterior work of structure and process of organizations.
At this gathering, the programme is driven by the cases, questions and contexts of the participants. The content is adapted to the needs and questions of the participants day by day. Focus is more on improving the questions than needing to know answers.
This is for people yearning to explore next stage organising and the next stage of self and wanting to interact and learn from a wider community.
Methodology
The course builds on proven methods for positive change:
- Appreciative Inquiry and Action Learning
- Holocratic and Sociocratic Elements
- Art of Hosting Collaborative Change Processes
- Mindfulness and Embodied Self-leadership.
- Organisational Systemic Constellations (Representations)
- Living Strategy Framework for leadership teams
- Warm Data Labs
Participants receive a toolkit of methods transferable to educational settings.
Benefits
Your Burning Questions + Community Intelligence = Evolutionary Action
In every Next Stage World gathering participants bring their most urgent challenges and pressing questions to the fore. Using processes that engage the collective intelligence in the room, we capture and harvest our insights and make our learning visible across individual, organizational, and ecosystemic levels. From these insights we further refine our questions, discover new insights and resources, and commit to action.
The Next Stage World gathering supports the transformation of your thinking, your business models and your impact. Our holistic process of facilitation helps you see more of the complexity in which your organisation operates. It will stretch you as a leader to your own next stage and developmental edge.
Our programme takes place on the island of Crete in Greece in the pleasant seaside town of Platanias close to Chania, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Porto Platanias Village Resort, located on the northwest coast of Crete, provides luxurious accommodations and fully serviced workshop facilities. Beaches, local eateries, shops and sites are within walking distance of Porto Platanias. This setting provides ample opportunity for participants to continue discussions outside of formal workshop hours in a relaxed atmosphere. For further information about the venue, see https://village.portoplatanias.com/
The closest international airports are Chania International Airport (24 km) and Heraklion International Airport (165 km).
Programme
- Purpose: what you and your team want and need in practice
Local Evening – welcome reception.
Exploring the field: what your stakeholders want and need
Revisiting or reinventing your business model
Reinventing your organisation: structure, processes, talent
- Learning by doing: prototyping
- Setting up the living infrastructure for implementation
Duration: 5 days
Dates: Upon request
Location: Halki, Greece
Designed for participants/groups
The Next Stage World gathering is a workshop designed for you if your role contributes to re-imagining your business within the context of societal transitions. Together, we re-position the strategy and development of the organisation to create and deliver results that consider stakeholders including people and the planet.
This workshop is ideal for those in organisation development roles, in-house consultants, project managers, leaders and coaches who are action driven, care deeply about their organisation and the world we live in.
Facilitators
Aftab Omer PhD, teaches in the Transformative Leadership graduate program at Meridian University. He is a sociologist, psychologist, and the president of Meridian University. Raised in Pakistan, India, Hawaii, and Turkey, he was educated at the universities of M.I.T, Harvard, and Brandeis. His publications have addressed the topics of transformative learning, cultural leadership, generative entrepreneurship and complexity capability. His work includes assisting organizations in tapping the creative potentials of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Formerly the president of the Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, he is a Fellow of the International Futures Forum and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Maria Bakari Is an organisational psychologist passionate about activating the magic and catalysing power of synergy in individuals, teams and organisations. For this she designs and utilises processes and tools that create conditions for connecting to self, collaboration, creativity and participation. Maria has been part of the “midwifing” field that brought participatory methodologies enhancing collective and participatory leadership and the Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversations in service of organisations and communities. She is an initiator of new ways of communicating and working involving more empathy and purpose.
Dr. Markos Perrakis, founder and managing director of Fractality, designs and implements projects in the areas of leadership development and strategic planning to promote effective communication and individual and collective process development.
Dr. Perrakis is one of the first persons in Greece to apply the methodology of appreciative inquiry for individual and organizational development. This approach seeks to strengthen human capital and social bonds to generate organizational capacity.
Fractality offers services in coaching, training, assessments, supervision, process facilitation and speaking, systemic consultation, solution focused and cognitive behavioural approaches, methods of participatory design, spiritual intelligence and psychometric assessment. Dr. Perrakis is a certified provider of Vocational Guidance and Professional Orientation and an ISO 9001 lead auditor.
Dr. Perrakis is a representative of the Association of International Institution Supervision in Europe, a member of International Intervision Groups, scientific assistant of the Society for Organisational Learning, and scientific partner of the European Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (EUMU) in Greece in the Strategic Planning and Human Capital Development programmes.
Dr. Perrakis holds a Ph.D. in social psychology on leadership styles and their efficiency in organisations and an M.A. in clinical psychology.
Venue
Our programme takes place on the island of Crete in Greece in the pleasant seaside town of Platanias close to Chania, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Porto Platanias Village Resort, located on the northwest coast of Crete, provides luxurious accommodations and fully serviced workshop facilities. Beaches, local eateries, shops and sites are within walking distance of Porto Platanias. This setting provides ample opportunity for participants to continue discussions outside of formal workshop hours in a relaxed atmosphere.
The closest international airports are Chania International Airport (24 km) and Heraklion International Airport (165 km).
Participation Fee
Full rate is 1,250€
Travel and accommodations are not included
All prices include:
– Full 5-day workshop tuition fee
– Educational materials
– Certificate of participation
Contact us
Questions or concerns? please contact us at [email protected] or call +302106010522. Cancellation Policy*
Until 30 days before the starting date of the selected workshop, cancellation will be free of charge and the pre-payment will be fully refunded. Between 30 to 15 days before the starting date of the workshop, 50% of the fee will be refunded. Within the 15 days before the starting date of the workshop no refunds will be made.