Susan Raphael and Maree Upton – Changing your Story One Step at a Time

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Workshop Title:

Changing your Story One Step at a Time

Workshop Description:

In spite of our best efforts and intentions to change either individually, as a team or an organisation, we frequently fall short of our improvement goals or have trouble sustaining our achievements. Often we have one foot on the brake and one foot on the accelerator at the same time. This model blends both personal and professional aspects of change by addressing big assumptions and underlying causes that get in the way of progress. It addresses and unpacks our individual, community, and workplace assumptions and provides a method of changing culture through storytelling at a deep and sustainable level.

If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?

The workshop will provide insight into why good intentions and previous actions on addressing change may not translate into expected outcomes   •    Identify your own Immunity to Change, focusing on goals that will lead you to be a more effective contributor in leading change   •    Explore Immunity to Change in relation to leadership from an organisational and system perspective   People will leave feeling energised, thoughtful and informed, having had a meaningful experience and a taster of working with a different model that helps people uncover what gets in the way of change for them and their organisation. People will understand how deeply held beliefs and assumptions get in the way of change and begin to see how this tool can lead to a different approach.      By applying the Unlocking Immunity to Change model people will discover their ‘big assumption’ which will in turn lead to moving along a new path of discovery.

How is this session connected to the conference theme?

The model Unlocking Immunity to Change can be applied in diverse spaces both within organisations and within us as individuals who make up our communities. It reflects the conference theme as it explores stories we tell about ourselves and others both individually and collectively.

About the Workshop Presenters:

Susan has been facilitating in a diversity of contexts for over 30 years and has been the Principal Consultant of her own business for the past 10 years. This includes working both interstate in Tasmania and overseas in Singapore and in Seoul. Her aim is to introduce new ways of thinking and being that are solution focused, supportive of practical, challenge usual ways of doing things and inspire in fun ways that are connected to peoples’ hopes and dreams.   Maree has been working as a facilitator, developmental trainer, coach and independent consultant for over 15 years, establishing her own business, People Fundamentals, in the past 3 years.  With clients across Australia in the not-for- profit, private and public sectors, she utilises her psychology background in facilitating processes to enable individuals and groups to do their best thinking and to have fun whilst learning with and from each other to achieve their objectives.

| May 7th, 2016 | Posted in Uncategorized |

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