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Business Resilience Programme

A dynamic programme that facilitates a journey of re–thinking business to enhance "success "through learning from, responding to and imitating the cyclical processes of nature. The BRP is a thoughtful and compelling response for, and tool kit to work with, the interconnected challenges of the 21st century.

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Growth or success? Profit or planet? People or technology?

Shareholders and other stakeholders need senior business leaders to respond to a whole new series of challenges and equations as global resources dwindle and population explodes


What we mean by resilience

For many years now organisations have effectively defended and strengthened themselves against the unpredictable using the well worn tools of standardisation, globalisation, market penetration, re-financing and complex and far reaching outsourcing arrangements. However hindsight does not lead to foresight and as we undergo rapid transformation of the political, environmental and social landscape our organisational success but also relevance is under scrutiny. Thus, we must move from a position of global robustness to one of resilience.

Resilience is the development of an exquisite response to, and dynamic relationship with, the winds of change. Resilience is:

Adaptability – treating every situation as unique and requiring a unique locally adapted response.

Reserves – understanding what nourishes us, what our true strengths are that continue to make us stronger, and building our stores.

Networks – openly distributing and sharing our collective responsibility, relationships, values and accountabilities.

Imagination – enhancing our visionary capacity and ability to step out of the current so that the truly novel can emerge.

Diversity – honoring and amplifying difference rather than privileging comfort and sameness.

Experimentation – nurturing an environment of safe failure that legitimises our natural curiosity and instinct to learn from new experiences.

Knowledge – understanding that knowledge is situational and that fundamentally new ways of understanding and knowing are necessary for working with the new context.

Learning – ensuring that new insight and action consequences are integrated through enhanced reflective capacity – tightening the feedback loops.

A highly participative and small-group focused residential programme that recognises that organisational resilience also requires personal resilience – the ability to sustain ourselves and others well - energetically, physically and spiritually – in this important work of our time.

Integration
This programme is designed to have ‘teeth’ – We expect there to be a fundamental shift in personal clarity / focus that leads to action being generated!
Participants are supported in integrating action back into their business through professional one-to-one coaching and strong learning-set relationships. These relationships will share, challenge, listen, create and support throughout the full year of the programme

Seasonal cycle of the Business Resilience Programme

The programme is built around the seasons. Each of the four 3-day modules will take its inspiration from the season in which its held.

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Summer is vivid, luscious, full of expansion, everything in nature is striving to reach its full potential. The warmth and light of Summer facilitates ease of communing with the outside environment and nature inspires our creativity. The focus in this workshop is opening up, expanding our awareness & finding ways to respond to the new knowing that is emerging.

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Autumn is the season of gathering in the harvest. We shift from the divergent expansive phase of Summer towards greater concentration and focus. Slowly everything in nature begins to contract and move its energy inwards and we enter a quieter more reflective period. The focus in this workshop is around relationships; preparing others for change; preserving and letting go.

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Winters arrival marks the end of all seasons, nature is resting and waiting. This is the time of the dark night of the soul, of relinquishing old and outdated beliefs, attitudes, ways of being; making the space for new life and new possibility to enter into consciousness. This workshop explores what we value and how to deeply nourish these values to enable the creation of our visions in the Spring.

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Spring is a new beginning, tiny shoots of green energy push their way into the light and we too emerge from our Winters rest with vitality, purpose and clear vision. This is a joyful and hopeful time, full of anticipation. The focus in the Spring workshop is celebration, appreciation and courage as we are swept along on the wave of abundant growth to the radiant Summer.

What participants will come away from the programme with

A clearer sense of purpose, focus, position and possibility in the relation to the wider context.
New thinking and ways of thinking about and experiencing emerging strategic issues.
The skills to work with, and appreciation of, stakeholder views from a generative standpoint.
The tools to engender effective organisational change.
A support network of like minding learners, change agents and practitioners.

Programme content

Education and insight

Insight into the nature and complex interdependence of the major environmental, social and political challenges of our time, and their implications for us individually and for our organisations.
Thought leadership and opportunity to explore the range of existing and potential responses for individuals, communities, organisations and sectors; from local sourcing and supply chain to industrial ecologies, from embedding Sustainability principles into organisational structure and system to fundamentally redefining business model, purpose and values.
Using a deep connection with nature and the natural environment at Penrhos (a deeply rural eco-conscious natural wonder) as a source of direct learning about ourselves physically and psychologically, and as informing metaphor for new forms of organising.

Capacity building

Developing our awareness of, sensitivity to, and ability to interpret, the multiple sources of information and knowledge that impinge upon us from our human and non-human environments Enhancing our creative and imaginal, as well as our cognitive and analytical, capabilities, in order to develop our own responses on multiple levels of scale and scope.
Building our capacity as leaders of change, using our ‘selves as instruments’, learning the specific skills needed to facilitate, engage and lead effectively in this territory Exploring our attachments, assumptions and beliefs about our current cultures and the change that is required – in ourselves, others, our organisations, sectors, communities and globally.

Building our own resources

Strengthening our own resilience as leaders and agents of change through attending to our own physical or embodied needs – our diet, health and well-being.
Acknowledging the emotional effects of this work and enhancing our affective and psychological resilience.
Broadening our repertoire of sources of ‘knowing’ and acting to include the explanatory (logical/lingual) and the expressive (visual/imaginal)
Exploring and strengthening our own capacity for uncertainty and ambiguity in the service of enabling others to do likewise, stretching ourselves to experiment, create and imagine beyond the reasonable

Module dates
Autumn
Winter
Spring
Summer
30 September – 2 October 2010
9 – 11 December 2010
7 – 9 April 2011
30 June – 2 July 2011

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Beyond the residential – network events etc
The programme will connect with events and associated organisations throughout the year.
During the first module participants will plan how they will engage with the vast amount of new information being made available around the world. It will also have its own blog and twitter presence with which to interact with other communities and individuals.

All about the Tutors

For further information contact David Tinker – david@feelingalive.co.uk




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