Pre-Con with Dr David Drake: Creating Moments of Meeting- An Experiential Introduction to Narrative Coaching
About the Half-Day Pre-Conference Workshop: Wednesday 23rd November 2016 from 9-12 noon
We live and work in a time when the ability to connect this way and hear one another’s stories is more important than ever. This highly experiential session will show you how to get to the crux of issues more quickly. Your important conversations (coaching or otherwise) will become more spacious and more generative. As a result, you can bring forth more of the whole story and address more of what truly matters.
You will gain a basic understanding and experience of radical presence, attachment theory, relational meditation and zones of proximal development—four of the building blocks of narrative coaching. We will explore them using Daniel Stern’s “moments of meeting” as a frame for any conversation. This work has been used with thousands of people and dozens of organizations around the world to help shape culture and bring about change.
The key learning objectives are:
• Learning what people most need from conversations at work
• Understanding the essential elements for creating “moments of meeting” in any conversation
• Understanding the four phases of narrative coaching to make the most of these moments
• Experiencing three simple processes to deepen your capabilities to create these moments
This workshop is for: Practitioners who work in or with organizations to develop people
About Dr David Drake:
Dr David Drake is the Director of the Center for Narrative Coaching & Design. He is the founder of the field of narrative coaching and has taught this work in 15 countries. He is a regular presenter at WBECS and a Thought Leader for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School.
David is the author of Narrative Coaching: Bringing Our New Stories to Life (available at conference) and over forty publications on narratives and coaching. His next books are on narrative design and as co-editor of the first reference-level handbook on coaching (Sage).
David has worked with 70 organizations in designing and delivering innovative change, coaching and leadership programs. He has taught coaching skills to over 10,000 leaders, managers and professionals, primarily in support of change initiatives. Clients include CBA, Google, IAG, Logitech, Nike, PwC, Westpac, US and Australian federal governments.
David lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Pre-Con with Kym Arthur – Unlocking your Story
About the Half-Day Pre-Conference Workshop: Wednesday 23rd November 2016 from 9-12 noon
Storytelling is a powerful tool. It help us engage heads, hearts and hands to drive change. Whether that change be at an individual, team or organisational level. “If you want to build a movement you have to tell a good story”. This session will help you unlock your own story and in doing so highlight the essential components of good storytelling.
In this session we will be use rapid prototyping techniques to develop a narrative to influence change. At the end of this session you’ll come away with YOUR story ready to inspire others for change. Everyone has a story. Let us help you find yours!
The workshop is for anyone who has ever told a story and would like to tell another. Whether you need to tell stories to influence change in your workplace or to more effectively communicate with those around you, this session is for you.
About Kym Arthur:
Kym Arthur has extensive experience in using storytelling to influence change at both personal and organisational levels. In her current role in the Department of Premier and Cabinet she has used it to navigate complex organisational change and enhance culture. In her previous work in social welfare she used it to help individuals and communities navigate challenging circumstances. As a children’s yoga and meditation teacher she uses it to engage the heads, hearts and hands of the next generation. Kym lectures in Storytelling and Leadership in the Masters of Communication at RMIT.
Kevin Bishop – The Failure of Success Stories
Workshop Title:
The Failure of Success Stories
Workshop Description:
Simply put, in the vast majority of organisations the way we collect and share success stories doesn’t work. This session looks at the reasons why and what you can do to change this. It will give some practical tips on how to use these incredibly powerful drivers of change – a mechanism that builds belief, provides concrete examples of the behaviours that lead to success and increases motivation to perform. For something this powerful in driving change, why would you now want to use it successfully in your organisation or community?
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
Key practical strategies on how to use success stories to create change. What are they, how do you find them and how do you best tell them.
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
Sharing success stories, when done well, can be a key intervention to drive change in organisations and communities. The challenge is that very few people do it well. This practical, interactive session will show how you can use one element of story to influence change.
About the Workshop Presenter:
Kevin Bishop has been working on the front line of making organisational change happen for over 20 years. In that time, he has specialised in using story-based techniques to understand, create and embed change, working globally with some of the world’s largest companies. For Kevin, it’s all about the practical application of story in creating and sustaining change. UK story expert Jamie Jauncey summed up Kevin nicely when he wrote; “An energetic and engaging chap in a smart suit, he had none of that whiff of the smoke-filled tepee that one sometimes associates with storytellers. Quite the opposite, everything about him suggested that he does serious work with some big global players, thank you very much.”
Dr David Drake – Changing the way we change
Workshop Title:
Changing the Way We Change: An Experiential Introduction to Narrative Design
Workshop Description:
We will draw on David’s work in scaling narrative coaching to explore a new paradigm for developing people and organisations at the same time so they both can flourish. The session builds on his pioneering work in the formation of integrative development theory and offers four cases through which you can experience narrative design in action. It is about bringing our approach to development in line with the world in which we live and the challenges we face. It is about creating what he calls “cultures of contribution” that goes beyond mere engagement, gets more value from investments, and enables people and organisations to adapt more quickly.
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
- Appreciating the mandate for a fundamental shift in how change and development happen at work
- Understanding the four needs that people have at work and why engagement is no longer enough
- Understanding the four phases in narrative design and their corresponding element in integrative development theory—and why each of them is needed in order to sustain change
- Experiencing this work first-hand through engaging with peers on one of the client case stories:
- A bank’s finance team became significantly more influential through better narrative leadership
- An international NGO improved the working relationship across a food supply chain
- A nonprofit shifted from a medical model to a coaching model in response to changes
- A government agency realigned its staff, services and resources based on client data
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
It provides a fresh approach to change and culture from an integrative and narrative perspective.
About the Workshop Presenter:
Dr David Drake is the Director of the Center for Narrative Coaching & Design. He is the founder of the field of narrative coaching and he has taught this work to practitioners in 15 countries. He has worked in the coaching space for the past twenty years and developed a deep knowledge of how to facilitate transformative change using people’s own stories in unique ways.
He is the author of the new book, Narrative Coaching: Bringing Our New Stories to Life (available at conference) and over forty publications on narratives and coaching. His next books are an introduction to narrative design (narrative coaching at scale) and as co-editor of a reference-level handbook on coaching (Sage). He is a Thought Leader for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School.
He also has worked with over 70 organizations in designing and delivering innovative change, coaching and leadership programs. He has taught coaching skills to over 10,000 leaders, managers and professionals in organizations, primarily in support of strategic and culture change initiatives. Clients include CBA, Google, IAG, Logitech, Nike, Suncorp, Westpac and US and Australian federal governments. David lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and has collaborative partners in a number of countries.
Cathryn Lloyd – Reflections on a conference
Workshop Title:
Reflections on a conference: Making the Intangible Tangible – working with arts and aesthetics in organisational life
Workshop Description:
In September 2016 I will be convening a stream Making the Intangible Tangible and attending the 2016 Art of Management and Organization Conference in Bled Slovenia. We have over 20 proposals for this stream ranging from workshops to short presentations. My intention would be to share the experience and give highlights from our stream and from across the conference theme, which embraces the arts and aesthetics as critical design elements – as inquiry, methodology, development resources, to explore, feel and express the felt, sensory and emotional aspects of management, leadership and daily organizational life. The session would be a combination of presenting ideas, discussion and possible activities.
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
An insight into the ‘artful’ and creative ideas and concepts presented in relation understanding the intangible aspects of organisational life. This is the felt, sensory and emotional aspects that so often go under the radar seeks out novel ways of exploring, feeling and expressing management and organization through the arts.
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
At this stage this is an emerging proposal as the conference happens in September. My intention would be to share ideas and experiences from the conference. Given the focus is on how the arts can be used to understand organisational life I believe there will be a number of new ideas that can be shared with conference delegates. It will be a combination of presentation and emergent discussion. There may well be activities and processes that can be shared with participants. There will be a number of stories to share that will highlight how the arts and aesthetics can influence and transform organisational/cultural change.
About the Workshop Presenter:
Cathryn Lloyd is a facilitator, creative development coach, and educator. She is the Founder/Director of Maverick Minds, a creative professional development consultancy that designs powerful and flexible learning experiences for a range of people and purposes. Cathryn has extensive experience across the creative industries, arts, business, management, and education. With a design background Cathryn brings a multi-disciplinary learning and engagement approach to her work with clients. Cathryn’s clients include corporate, public, not for profit/social enterprises, and individuals. She has worked across various sectors including environmental health and safety, engineering, corrections, education, accounting, human resources, community services and small entrepreneurial starts ups delivering professional development and bespoke workshops designed to help clients reach their optimum potential. Underpinning Cathryn’s work is a belief that creativity is the heart of human endeavour and is a much-needed capability regardless of the work we do.
Michelle Howard and Melissa Greenwood – Walking Together-Sharing our stories
Workshop Title:
Walking Together: sharing our stories
Workshop Description:
“The oldest living culture speaks to us across the generations. We listen, making connections. Walking together we create a shared future where our wealth is in our wisdom and the belief we hold in each individual. Our pride and respect shine a beacon to the world…this is our together dreaming.” To work together across cultures we need to understand and own our stories. We need to be aware of our values, beliefs, attitudes and cultural connections – the strengths and blind spots that we carry with us. Through sharing our stories and listening without judgement we can build connections with others, establishing common ground and exploring how we can walk together. “Walking Together” is a practical and authentic path to reconciliation. In this workshop we use creative techniques to explore cultural connections and identity, break open some cultural assumptions, build understanding of the experience of Indigenous Australians and explore culture as a way to support dialogue and healing.
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
A greater appreciation of the gifts and challenges in their own story.
An appreciation of the complexity in the stories of indigenous Australians.
The power of story to build connection.
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
Our process is deeply connected to supporting cultural change and building more meaningful relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
About the Workshop Presenters:
Melissa is a descendant of the Bundjalung and Gumbayngirr and Dunghutti clans of NSW, Melissa has worked in government and non-government organisations supporting youth leadership and cultural connections with Indigenous young people . Michelle is an internationally accredited facilitator of 30 years experience, who has worked in culturally diverse communities across Australia. Shared values and aspirations for a different future between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians have led us to develop the “Walking Together” process. We invite you to share your stories with us, listen deeply to the stories of others and weave a new story for future generations.
Josh Samuels – Mythology of Your Life
Workshop Title:
Mythology of Your Life
Workshop Description:
Myths are powerful symbolic stories that bind our world together. Just as King Arthur, Athena and Luke Skywalker are the protagonists of their world, you too are the main character in your own individual Hero’s Journey. This class will give you experience of how mythic themes and ideas play out in cultural stories today, and how you can slay the dragon who guards the gold within you. There will be a breakdown of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey as well as interactive and practical tools to help you apply this transformative story structure to your projects, clients and personal life.
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
I would like people to leave the session with the belief that The Hero’s Journey is more than just an academic concept to be debated and thought about. Myth and all stories, come alive when we experience them and use them to go through life changes.
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
My proposal connects with the spirit of the conference by demonstrating how the Hero’s Journey can help people navigate through their lives and careers. The mythological stages identified within Joseph Campbell’s work can be applied to a wide range of areas: personal, professional, and spiritual. By identifying where you are at on the cycle of the Hero’s Journey you can see what practical and inspirational steps need to be taken next.
About the Workshop Presenter:
Josh Samuels is a writer and producer originally from Marin County, California who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating from the University of Southern California he moved down under. Josh has written and produced theatre in New Zealand and written for television in Australia and New Zealand. Besides writing for over 15 years and having a deep abiding love for mythology, he is possibly one of the only Americans to be huge fan of the game of cricket.
Tasman Munro – A physical world to stage a good story
Workshop Title:
A physical world to stage a good story
Workshop Description:
Narrative approaches are powerful in the construction of new social settings, but could they be used to also construct empowering physical environments? This workshop will be held by a designer who is exploring ways to guide communities through a process of re-authoring empowering narratives alongside the construction of physical tools and environments which allow those stories to flourish. This interactive workshop will explore the question of “how can physical artifacts help people construct, ‘try on’ and play out new narratives?” We’ll share our experiences and have a crack at developing activities that support the co-design of story and artifact together.
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
A greater awareness of the role physical space can have in the re-authoring journey and some ideas on how to use and develop physical artifices to support this process.
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
As change practitioners we all seek to move communities through a process of cultural change. We all use stories in our own unique ways and engage with different aspects of our participant’s lives, whether is social, emotional, personal or physical settings we can all learn from each other.
About the Workshop Presenter:
I am a Social Designer. I design socially, and aim to design tools, spaces and services that encourage social growth. Within my practice I’ve worked with communities in immensely difficult places, and often I find it difficult to engage these participants in a co-design process that intends to imagine a positive future reality. Consequently I’ve turned toward narrative approaches as I’ve been inspired by their abilities to shift conversations and draw new meaning, but these approaches are often found outside design. So am currently undertaking a PhD exploring the potential of developing strength based re-authoring methods within Social Design Practice.
Russell Deal – Cultural Change-One List at a Time
Workshop Title:
Cultural Change: One List at a Time
Workshop Description:
This interactive workshop explores the possibilities that emerge from developing lists of strengths, hopes, questions, issues, words, images and metaphors. Creative use of an everyday tool such as list building can provide a platform for cultural change that is sustainable, strengths-based and celebratory of ‘the expertise that is in the room’ rather than building reliance on imported cosmologies of expertise that are often not culturally relevant or respectful and can overlook existing strengths. Listing is a simple highly accessible tool that has ready-made applications in counselling and therapy but also in community building and organisational change strategies.
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
1 Having experienced Stretch Listing
2 Having constructed a ‘Top 8 Program Design’
3 Having begun to construct a ‘conversation-building’ card set around a list of themed questions
4 New friends and collaborators
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
The focus is on small minimalist steps that can be taken through creative use of listing to bring about sustainable cultural change.
About the Workshop Presenter:
Russell Deal is the Director of Metaphors Ink, a freelance consultancy that helps individuals, teams, organisations and communities build conversational resources to facilitate change and growth. As the Founder and former Director of St Luke’s Innovative Resources Russell wrote, designed and/or published over 60 conversation-building card sets and other tools and has facilitated over 600 highly interactive, ‘seriously optimistic’ workshops. In 2014 he was awarded an OAM for service to social work education and the community.
Ivan Chew – Removing Fear and Engaging Your Stakeholders
Workshop Title:
Removing Fear and Engaging Your Stakeholders
Workshop Description:
Fear plays a lot in our lives, and what most people fear is change. The uncertainty, the assumed negative results and the anxiety of not being heard poison both the process and end deliverable of that change. Getting buy-in from stakeholders is easier by making them part of a bigger narrative. In this workshop, we will understand what fear is and how it isn’t a bad thing. Using project management techniques, improvisational games and storytelling, attendees will use skills to help deliver programs encompassing the different learning and influencing types of process and creative.
If people got the best of the session what would they leave with?
Attending participants will gain skills and techniques which they can apply in any situation to affect change and collaboration with minimal associated fear.
How is this session connected to the conference theme?
Using project management, improvisational games and storytelling, provides a practical approach to all levels of organisations which can be tailored more for process at the Executive levels and more hands-on at the “coal face” level.
About the Workshop Presenter:
My passion is helping professionals who want to improve their confidence with presentation and interpersonal communication skills. I’ve helped them manage their fear of failure, enhance communication and confidence. By applying a range of improvisational games, psychology, project management and storytelling techniques I helped a designer who was feeling unconfident, unloved and unworthy to achieving the confidence she needed to secure a job she loved and is able to communicate better with her family. What makes me different? I understand the corporate/commercial environment because I’ve been there since 1996. I understand the nuances, needs and benefits of Western and Asian cultures having been raised in both. I understand the differences, yet how both organisational and project processes can empower creativity and innovation, and vice versa.