Is your team ‘thinking around in circles’ and not getting anywhere with a complex issue? Perhaps it is time for a fresh approach...

 

Imagine a day of creative exploration where you tap into the embodied wisdom of your team. Getting in touch with their collective felt sense of the issue and generating new perspectives that feel authentic. Picture yourselves arriving at the core of the issue together as you let your intellect take a back seat and move from solution thinking to solution sensing. A playful approach will help your team explore possibilities that feel right without you having to know why at first. Towards the end of the day we will move into a phase of sense making and documenting what we have learned.

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Give your team:

• a fresh perspective on a complex problem or issue

• a method to tap the embodied wisdom of the group

• time to make sense of the wisdom that emerges and develop actionable strategies

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working methods

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We will be working primarily with the techniques of InterPlay, a creative, embodied methodology for accessing your body wisdom. InterPlay uses movement, voice, story, stillness and connection with others to tap into what might otherwise remain unconscious knowledge. It gives us access to a rich database of information acquired through our lived experience and to our felt sense of a situation or problem. There will be individual, partner and group exercises, giving you a chance to both explore your personal wisdom and collaboratively build a picture of your issue or problem. In the last phase of the day we will move into reflective and harvesting mode. Sophia will draw on her 10 years experience engaging communities in design and decision making processes to assist you in collaboratively compiling and documenting your insights. She uses methods such as the ‘affinity diagram’ and those of the ‘art of hosting’ community.

 

this one-day (6 hour) programme includes:

• a playful approach to tone down our intellectual side and make space for our felt sense to emerge

• storytelling practices (in pairs and groups)

• movement based exercises to access bodily wisdom (individually and in pairs/groups)

• engaging stillness as a tool to facilitate deeper connection with your issue

• marrying our intellectual and embodied wisdom: generating actionable ideas and harvesting our insights

 

investment

 

One day event: $4600

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This price includes:

• think tank for up to 16 participants ($190pp for extra participants)

• digital photos of the raw harvest of the day delivered after the event (if requested, you may also choose to take the raw harvest with you)

 

Optional extra: $720 

• thematic analysis of harvested information (picking out recurring ideas or information and compiling a short report)

 

This price does not include:

• venue hire (can be done on location at your workplace – space preferred is 5sqm pp, minimum 3.5sqm pp. *Online option also possible)

• catering, should you want any

• travel costs for the facilitator if the event is held outside of Adelaide

 

If you are a smaller organisation or a not-for-profit and this price is beyond your reach, please contact Sophia to discuss possibilities in your case.