Our 1-1 purpose led present leadership training + 4 supportive corporate group programs help you and your business build muscle to stay present and lead from purpose: even amidst great turbulence.
We use attention training as a key enabler to achieve this. (See our Whitepaper for scientific evidence) in 4 levels of learning:
- Learn to manage your own vitality & balance
- Learn to act from presence & purpose
- Master the team art of connective communication
- Facilitate collective change, involving stakeholders
The 1-1 program (grey arrow in diagram, see home page) trains 1 leader across all 4 levels. The other 4 programs trains larger groups of people per level. Start with what your organization needs most: see our 4 proposition descriptions below.
Find vitality, balance & resilience
Corporate Mindfulness Program
Lay the foundation for change: corporate mindfulness program Goal of this training: Self-management of own vitality, resilience, boundaries & balance at work (home will thank you for it). Mindfulness is not a relaxation tool. Mindfulness training is an awareness training. Daily practice builds awareness of our personal stress reaction: when and why it gets triggered and what our automated patterns of reactivity are. Rooted in Neuroscience, this training helps participants to start to recognise when functional stress (=adrenaline to boost performance) spills over into dysfunctional stress and how this phenomena affects body, mind, mood, balance & effectiveness at work. In 5 modules + daily home practice (commitment needed!) people learn how to recognise and manage their energy and boundaries. They start to see through stress triggers, automatic patterns of reactivity and learn how to give a flexible response under pressure. Practicalities: Goal of this workshop: Test interest with employees in training Mindfulness. Mindfulness is often considered only as a wellness tool to help employees increase vitality and balance at work. But it’s concrete value applied to business context is much broader. Mindfulness trains fundamental attention skills enabling successful self-awareness and self-management of own vitality, resilience and balance. This self-awareness and self-management forms the basis for working from presence & purpose, building team trust and managing collective change. In the workshop the following aspects will be highlighted: What is the Corporate Mindfulness Program? Demystifying Mindfulness introducing it’s Neuro-scientific background. And more specifically: what is the applied value of the Mindfulness Foundations Program for Vitality, Resilience, and balance at Work? With Brief Mindfulness exercises woven into the session. Practicalities: Goal of this workshop: create buy-in and support from managers for employees training Mindfulness. Introduction to the Mindfulness Foundations Program and it’s benefits for people and business. Highlighting neuroscience and the rationale for allowing employees to practice Mindfulness at work. Understanding what to expect and how employees and managers can integrate mindfulness based ways of working. Practicalities: Goal: Embed Mindfulness lessons learned and practices into the organization. A practical guide to apply Mindfulness @work. Is needed in combination with Senior Manager workshop to create understanding, buy-in and subscribe to the ‘Support Manifesto’. Practicalities: toolkit includes: Eur: 1500,- Optional add-on: Train up internal ambassadors to Cost dependent on # ambassadors and needs.
Learn to act from presence & purpose
Attention training program
Learn to act from presence & purpose – Attention Training Goal of the training: Build attention muscle to successfully work from presence and focus on purpose. Why: Our minds are wired to follow distractions and react from habit, especially under pressure. Our digital, ‘always on’, profit driven world has the daily power to pull our attention into distractions, targets and short term gains. Making it hard to keep mind and heart-space for what matters most. Strong attention skills are fundamental for all of your employees if you want them to navigate the current VUCA world with presence and focus on purpose. A strong stable attention can – and needs to be – trained! Contents: The Program consists of 6 modules addressing the 6 aspects of Attention: The 6 modules are taken in sequence, with home practice in between. Practicalities: Goal of the workshop: Test/gain openness for the Attention Training Program. Contents: Understanding the need to train the attention. Introducing it’s Neuro-scientific background. Understanding the applied value of training the mind to focus on the right priorities & purpose. With Brief Mindfulness exercises woven into the session. Practicalities: Goal of the workshop: Generate manager buy-in and support for the Attention Training Program. Contents: General introduction to building attentional muscle as key enabler for working from presence and purpose. Highlighting neuroscience. Understanding what to expect and how employees and managers can integrate attention-based ways of working. Practicalities: Goal of the masterclass: Co-design the best approach to weaving Attention Training into your existing L&D/MD offers. Contents: This Masterclass gives insight in the value of training the attention as a fundamental part of L&D/MD. Together we co-design the best approach to unlock the full potential of people and organizational purpose. Practicalities:
Build team trust
Connective communication team building day(s)
Build Team Trust: 0,5-2 day teambuilding days Goal: Increase understanding & appreciation of differences in perspectives, backgrounds, values, personality types & communication styles. Learn to practice connective communication: from basic common human needs. Connective communication improves team bond & trust. Elements covered: Practicalities: Goal: In addition to increasing understanding differences & practicing connective communication, team members learn to work with personal- & team stress patterns, practicing how to reconnect to self and others under pressure. This maintains trust in stress & turbulence. Elements covered: Practicalities: Goal: Increase understanding of differences & practicing connective communication. work with stress patterns and build trust under pressure. Apply learnings for effective decision making in a real team meeting (around purpose or key theme). Elements covered: When desired, these days can include working on an actual Change/Innovation case using World Café and Uprocess. (See also: Leadership Team Change Journey) Practicalities:
Master collective change management
Change journey(s)
Change journeys for individual change agents and leadership teams Insights into the integral approach to disruptive change and innovation (Uprocess TheoryU) for People, Planet, Purpose and the importance of training the attention to stay balanced, present and focus on purpose. Unplug and connect to your collective (new) Purpose or disruptive change/innovation question. With the shared responsibility of People, Planet, Purpose as a guidance. 6x 1-2 day facilitated modules using Uprocess (TheoryU) tools and attention training. Modules build on each other over the course of ±1 year depending on client pace. In between sessions there are essential assignments for change agent + company to take on. Goal: Map system and stakeholders, identify system representatives & define approach to start. Assignment: Invite system representatives for Convening Day. Goal: Bring together system representatives. Lower the barriers created by silos; hierarchy & conditioned minds. Assignment: System mapping, ‘Shadowing’ participants for a workday & stakeholder interviews. Goal: Build a trust container. Opening the Heart: shift from personal like/dislikes to diversity & inclusion Assignment: Co-sensing journey in subgroups to enhance awareness of all stakeholder perspectives Goal: Digesting insights of assignments, connecting to source and the emerging future Goal: Crystallizing new vision, Purpose and start outlining tangible & intangible aspects of the new. Assignment: continue crystallisation process in company. Goal: start identifying and building a prototype of the new system. Defining first experiments. Assignment: continue prototyping process in company. Goal: Identifying ‘what does not serve’ and practicing honesty, vulnerability and letting go of invested efforts. Even when under pressure to deliver results. From alienation to reconnection to your authentic self and purpose In this current, fast changing world where insecurity and complexity are continuous drivers, alienation is a risk. Our natural reflex is to grasp for control and analyse. Important question: what responsibility do we have and take ourselves? The retreat gives you a chance to explore the conscious and unconscious triggers driving your behaviour. It provides you with a chance to experience what choices you have. A shift from alienation to reconnection with yourself and the environment. To be able to act (again) with authenticity, from your purpose. Re-energised.