Workshops

Complex Adaptive Systems

Practice resilience-based stewardship

Most often, the problems that you face in your system have many components. It can be hard to see with clarity when dealing with complexity

Strategic Planning

In a rapidly changing and disruptive world, it can be challenging to plan with confidence into the future. A systems thinking approach to strategic planning will:

• Map the history and context of your system
• Bring your stakeholders together to explore how you can better fulfill your purpose and deliver value for the people you serve
• Generate where you want your system to be and how to get there
• Build an understanding of the system interactions that will enable you to achieve your goals

Systems Thinking Training

To be leaderful in complexity requires building your leadership skills and toolkit. Our training program offers skill development in:

• Leadership of complex systems
• Aligned action and adaptive governance practices
• Building resilience and adapting to change

Sector Consultation and Research

There are many times in our systems where we need to bring people together to understand what’s really going on, solve problems, and make change. We offer:

• A facilitated systems approach to consultation that generates shared understanding and willingness within diverse stakeholders
• A methodical and data driven research process that maps context and what people care about

Creativity and Innovation

Master your creative mind

Embedded in the neuroscience of creativity this body of work is extensive and delivered across three modules to develop skills for individuals, groups, and leaders.

Be Creative

Creative practice skills that everyone can engage in no matter the situation. These skills are framed around building the personal capacity to be creative.

Group Creativity

Facilitation processes for working with groups that need to think laterally and produce creative solutions.This workshop articulates the factors that guide groups towards creative solutions. The skills cover all aspects of the group process from planning, to facilitation, to follow up.

Creative Leadership

Leadership practices for guiding organisations and communities towards innovative ideas and entrepreneurial outcomes. The skill of Creative Leadership is a complex task. It is critical to understanding the role a leader plays when striving to embed creativity in an organisation, sector, or community.

Communication and Collaboration

Broaden your influence

• Paying attention using perspective.
• Non verbal and verbal communication.
• Building permission and influence.
• Framing and reframing.

Expertise and Elite Performance 

Aim for the best

Enhance your ability to perform at an optimal level.

In workshop settings we explore such topics as:

• Confidence and self-talk
• Use of imagery
• Goal setting
• Anxiety management and relaxation techniques
• Concentration skills and re-focusing routines
• Mental preparation and pre-performance routines
• Motivation and arousal
• Self-awareness and mindfulness
• Stress and time management
• Rest and recovery including life balance
• Injury rehabilitation
• Career planning and transitions
• Body image and disordered eating

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Look after yourself

Informative and experiential workshops that focus on the functionality of stress, mental health, and wellbeing. With an emphasis on how we can support ourselves to integrate self-care skills into our lives with flexibility and compassion.

Topics covered include:

• The functionality of stress and how particular stressors are present in your life.
• How you respond to stress and how to manage stress.
• What self-care looks like for you.
• How mindfulness, grounding, and compassion align with self-care and stress management.
• Physical, psychological, professional, and spiritual self-care.
• Positive psychology.
• Crisis coping.