Towards a community of practice
Co-creation processes for collective intelligence and practices
Course description
Rediscover and reaffirm your connection with inner and outer values and perspectives, be challenged to take a wider view of situations and how you manage them. Increase the quality of your listening and the awareness of the assumptions you make. As you do so, you begin to ask new questions.
This course paves the way for joy, deep and long-term personal and professional success, self-completion, and a better life in physical and psychological dimensions.
We support participants to:
- Reclaim the joy of learning together within system limitations
- Rebuild trust in oneself and in others
- Facilitate positive relationships key to attaining good results
Methodology
We hold space to allow the collective potential and intelligence of the group to emerge. The course builds on proven methods for positive change:
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Mindfulness and Embodied Self-leadership
- Sociocratic Elements
- Art of Hosting Collaborative Change Processes
- Action Learning
- Organisational Systemic Constellations (Representations)
The participants receive a toolkit of methods transferable to their professional settings.
Benefits
Using processes that invoke the collective intelligence in the room, we capture and harvest our insights and make our learning visible at individual, organizational, and ecosystemic levels. Our holistic processes helps you see more of the complexity in which your organisation operates. It stretches you as an individual to your own next level and developmental edge.
Programme
This workshop is highly experiential and participatory. It consists of short theoretical lessons, concrete exercises,and group discussions.
- Opening and introduction
- Aligning individual and collective learning goals for the week
- Introductions and frameworks
- 4D Model
- From downloading to generative listening
- Discovery process – Positive core of resilience
Local Evening – welcome reception
- Envisioning process – individual and collective level
- Reflection circle
- Participatory processes and tools for building coalitions part I
- Practice
- Homegroup learning teams
- Participatory processes and tools for building coalitions part II
- Practice
- Mindfulness practices
- Design process: Appreciative problem solving
- Self-empathy: tool for building intrapersonal awareness
- Practice
- Action Learning
- Revisioning your business model
- Walking reflection
- Discovering and mobilising sources of collective intelligence in environment
- Pro-acton Cafe
- Experiential circle reflection
- Organisational Systemic Representations
- Co-learning from nature
- Outdoor activities
From theory to practice: Principles and methods of participatory learning and design
- Project design lab: Working on participants’ cases
- Evaluations – Appraisals
- Closing round
Duration: 6 days
Dates: Upon request
Location: Chania- Crete, Greece
Designed for participants/groups
This workshop is designed for individuals and groups interested in working more effectively, more intelligently. Teams working in agile projects and self-managed workspaces increase their awareness and set of tools.
This is a participatory, active learning workshop designed for managers, coaches, counsellors, organisational development professionals and staff members who are action driven. You care deeply about your organisation and the world we live in and want to succeed at a higher level of performance.
Instructors
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
Total price:
With double room accommodation: 1,300€ (approx. depending on the period)
With single room accommodation: 1,550 €
All prices include:
– 5-star hotel accommodation; 5 nights
– Breakfast
– Welcome cocktail
– Lunch
– Full 6-day workshop tuition fee
– Educational materials
– Certificate of participation
Additional option:
A half-day excursion with the group led by locals.
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.