The Communitas Project

As a starting point .... some basic assumptions

If you share a good few of these assumptions, Communitas can help you develop the actual practice that will action and manifest them ...

You are convinced that your organisation ...

• depends on people-skills as essential to its success
• could work in a way that is both more effective and more satisfying
• relies on good communication as a vital ingredient at all levels of operation, whatever the actual task, and that communication can be improved through specific input
• needs to pay attention to the involvement, motivation and commitment of its people
• needs to develop a shared culture that is aligned with its purpose
• is capable of generating more energy and synergy in its meetings
• could expand its collective learning process, creativity and innovation
• derives its strength to a large extent from the quality of its internal and external relationships
• has not yet accessed its potential in terms of human resources
• is made more robust through the diversity of its people and their conflicting views
• can benefit from an added injection of 'emotional intelligence'

You think that good leadership ...

• stands and falls with the capacity to make key relationships work
• involves more than an autocratic style with directives, policies and top-down instructions
• requires flexibility and responsiveness and that a variety of leadership styles and behaviour may be appropriate in different situations
• depends on sensitivity to the organisational culture and emergent trends
• strikes a balance between masculine and feminine forms of authority
• extends across all levels of communication, including non-verbal messages
• grows out of self-awareness as an essential key to good relationships
• relies on intuitive faculties as well as rational-analytic thought

You believe that ...

• the psychological models and methods used in modern organisations are out-dated and inadequate
• an organisation needs to serve its people as well as the people the organisation
• people are complex beings with a physical and emotional as well as rational reality
• much organisational energy is wasted on ingrained habitual patterns and that working through these patterns requires some key psychological skills

You want to learn more about ...

• multiple intelligences and how to access their potential in an organisational context
• the conscious and unconscious dynamics of individuals, groups and social systems
• engaging with a broad range of people and turning diversity into synergy
• integral models for understanding emergent processes and evolutionary trends in social organisms
• dealing with irrational human reactions and limiting habitual patterns
• your own leadership habits and their developmental origins and potential
• a 21st-century understanding of psychology, based on modern neuroscience, applicable to everyday situations

If a good number of these points are true for you, Communitas events are going to be an ideal environment for you to enhance your presence, skills and capacities as a leader. You will see the point of participating in a large group that mirrors the dynamics of any social organism and thus allows real-time organisational learning.