Key questions that participants bring to Communitas
Communitas events present a rare opportunity and unique learning environment to enquire into questions such as:
- What psychological dynamics within and between people are at work to make groups and organisations thrive or flounder ?
- How do groups and organisations get blocked from functioning at their full potential ?
- How does organisational culture get generated and replicated, what makes it stagnate or evolve ?
- What makes for an inspiring and vibrant organisational culture that is adaptable and robust, stable and innovative ?
- How can you (whatever your role and position) as an individual lead, manage, facilitate, participate, contribute in such a way as to bring the best out of the groups and organisations you are involved with ?
- What personal skills, qualities and capacities are required for this and how can these be further developed ?
- How can both leadership andco-operation, initiative and participation, activity andreceptiveness, doing and being be valued and enhanced ?
- What kind of psychological tools, structures and paradigms are needed to do justice to the fast pace and complexity of 21st-century organisations ?
- How can you develop the psychological skills to work through those ingrained habitual and repetitive patterns which so much organisational energy is wasted on ?
- How can you both participate and exert influence in the groups which constitute your social world ?
How will these questions be answered ?
“These questions cannot be answered through knowledge - they can only be answered through experience.” |
These are basic and fundamental questions, underlying everyday work practice and leadership behaviour. They are psychological questions and therefore underpin everything we do and don’t do at work, creating a particular inclination and atmosphere around us and informing our communications with colleagues, staff and customers.
At Communitas, we will not pretend that there are simple answers to these kinds of questions. They cannot be answered just with the mind or solved like mathematical equations. They require a process of engaged experience, and a process of learning with and from others.
At Communitas, we will not attempt to give you facile guidelines (how to become the perfect leader in three simple steps), tick-lists and check-boxes, supposedly applicable across the board in all kinds of scenarios. We think it is simplistic to assume that there are general solutions, applicable for all organisations in a great variety of fast-changing circumstances.
What we propose to do instead is support you in finding your own answers, valid for you and your situation. We will provide you with the communicative tools, the psychological models and principles as well as the feedback mechanisms that will allow your learning process to unfold. Within the learning community, you will develop your skills and capacities to the point where you will feel confident to re-create your own answers and solutions, responsive to ever-new and unique circumstances.
Through group participation, practical experimentation, experiential exposure and personal integration, you will discover within yourself the perceptive and intuitive skills, the creativity and understanding, the authority and courage that are the hallmarks of an inspired and inspiring leader.
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