ARCHITECTURE OF DEVELOPMENT
EVO CHECK-UP
PERSONAL STRATEGY
September – November (06.11)
Theories and Practices:- Stages of Adult Development: Vertical Development by Susanne Cook-Greuter, Bill Torbert, and Robert Kegan.
- Unlocking potential through Hogan Assessments.
- Personal story and narrative practice: the structure of identity and how it can be reinvented.
- Sources of strength, energy, meaning, and motivation.
- Inner resources and limitations: defense mechanisms, enduring patterns and programs, assets and developmental gaps.
- Neurophysiological foundations of attention, clarity, and the capacity to hold complexity, based on the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and Daniel Siegel.
- State management, approaches to emotional regulation, and emotional maturity.
- Productive self-esteem: value and self-worth.
- Areas of inner conflict and directions for development: values, beliefs, internal and external roles, context, and environmental factors.
- The architecture of contemporary skills and meta-competencies.
- Embodied intelligence and the relationship with the body.
- Strategic perspective and self-determination: translating strategy into rhythm.
- Formulating evolutionary initiatives and projects.
NEUROLEADERSHIP & EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES
7.11-05.02
Theories and Practices:- Exploring, expanding, and realizing new perspectives. The Bottom-Up & Top-Down approach.
- Non-functional relationships as a foundation for expanding perspectives.
- Inquiry, deep listening, and the observer stance: how to sustain attention, focus, concentration, and the capacity to work with complexity.
- Reframing, reflective thinking practices, and the meta-position. Gregory Bateson.
- Action Inquiry. The Action Inquiry approach by Bill Torbert.
- Neuroleadership based on the SCARF model. Social neurodynamics and the key regulators of behavior and decision-making. David Rock.
- Embodied practices for expanding perspectives.
- State management through inner anchors.
- Superpowers and your personal toolbox: discovering, applying, and developing your potential.
- Ken Wilber's Integral Approach and the practice of working with the AQAL quadrants.
- Coordinating perspectives and working with stakeholders: holding multiple action logics and systems of thought.
- Foundations of group dynamics. Wilfred Bion.
- The inner architecture of the self: coordinating perspectives through Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Voice Dialogue.
- Approaches and practices for decision-making in today's reality: uncertainty, contradictions, and incomplete information.
- Resources and opportunities for implementing projects and initiatives: attention, people, contexts, and windows of opportunity.
TECHNOLOGIES OF INFLUENCE & COLLABORATION
06.02 - 09.04
Theories and Practices:- Meta-language: the ability to listen, formulate, articulate, and communicate a message with awareness of context and audience.
- Positional management, communication strategies, and the exploration of beliefs.
- Practices for working with defensive patterns, protection mechanisms, and resistance in communication; managing the inner struggle.
- Levels of adaptability: moving beyond behavioral patterns, roles, identities, and habitual action logics.
- Creating an environment of trust: non-functional communication, intentional vulnerability, the causes of distortion, defensiveness, and withdrawal in communication, and approaches for working with them.
- Engaging and motivating others: what sustains participation and responsibility in collaborative processes.
- Strategies and tactics of influence; the ecology and hygiene of communication.
- Typologies and individual differences and their practical application. Rainer Schirm's Structogram and MBTI.
- Relationship management: practices for conducting difficult conversations and giving and receiving feedback.
- Mindfulness in communication and interaction: presence, sensitivity, context, and subtext. Daniel Siegel.
- The body and its role in communication and human interaction.
- "Where Do Our Strength and Energy Go?" Exploring resources and opportunities in communication through the Karpman Drama Triangle.
- Communication barriers and ways of overcoming them; conflict mediation.
- Stakeholder mapping. Practices for managing the implementation of projects and initiatives.
CREATING THE NEW & DESIGNING CHANGE
10.04 - 11.06
Theories and Practices:- Adaptive strategies for thinking and acting in conditions of uncertainty and change.
- Creating the new: cycles of destruction and creation. Theory U by Otto Scharmer.
- Attachments, the practice of observation, creating distance, and stepping out of reactive modes.
- Developing sensitivity to weak signals and emerging opportunities: How do we distinguish signal from noise?
- Creating the conditions for the emergence of the new: safety, trust, sensitivity, receptivity, and space for experimentation.
- Life narratives, meaning-making, and the development of identity.
- Empathy and social intelligence as resources and prerequisites for creating the new. Daniel Goleman.
- Feedback loops: how to receive and provide productive feedback. Bill Torbert.
- Immunity to Change: exploring hidden assumptions and beliefs. Robert Kegan.
- Generative dialogue and design methods: collective thinking, prototyping, and inquiry. Otto Scharmer.
- Facilitation and moderation practices for complex processes. Sam Kaner.
- The Decision Diamond: making choices and working with polarities.
- Practices for developing intuition and mindfulness, and managing self-esteem.
- Launching and supporting change: moving from intention to sustainable practice.
REALIZATION: WORKING WITH LARGE SYSTEMS
12.06 - 18.07
Theories and Practices:- Working with large systems: the fundamental principles of systems and how they manifest themselves.
- Systems thinking and the Integral Approach based on AQAL. Ken Wilber.
- Transformative power and influence: influence without pressure, control without control. Bill Torbert.
- The art of achievement through partnership with large systems.
- Liminality as a phase of profound systemic transition.
- Performative leadership: realizing change through presence, intention, precise language, and actions that shape a new reality.
- The ethics of systemic influence and responsibility for its consequences.
- Systemic change through transforming beliefs and renewing immunity to change. Robert Kegan.
- Exploring the unconscious: the Shadow and its manifestations, projections, introjections, assumptions, and shadow dynamics. Carl Gustav Jung.
- Group dynamics in practice. Wilfred Bion.
- ECO Systems vs. EGO Systems.
- Social networks: the influence of relationships, fields, and ecosystems. Shaping your environment.
- Presentation of participants' projects.
- Closing the program: Evolution in Action.