Worldview Intelligence™ : Transforming Differences into Progress
Building connectedness in a 21st Century world of highly divergent perspectives, experiences and cultures to work and learn together more effectively
Each of us has a worldview. It impacts how we see and interact with the world, events, situations and other people. Our Worldviews influence our communication, decision-making and workplace cultures. Most of this happens unconsciously. Worldview awareness helps us explore individual and collective assumptions, beliefs and value systems with curiosity and non-judgment. This opens the potential for more comprehensive approaches and solutions to emerge on a range of issues and opportunities, including those that might be mildly oppositional to completely divisive to seemingly unsolvable. Experiencing and understanding the transformative power of worldview awareness often leads to more creative solutions to the human dynamics challenges we routinely encounter in all kinds of places.
TWO DAY WORKSHOP
9:00 am – 4:30 pm each day
March 26 and 27, 2015 in St. Paul, MN ~~~ April 9 and 10, 2015 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
For information and registration details for both Minnesota and Nova Scotia check out this flyer: Worldview MN and NS Offerings Spring 2015
During these this workshop, you will:
- Learn more about worldview, what it is, how it is shaped and how it influences dynamics at work, in our social systems and relationships
- Become aware of ways to invite and engage other worldviews more fully into conversations, organizations or social systems
- Explore how to draw on the power of worldview awareness in business development, customer service, employee retention and recruitment and addressing divisive or contentious issues across ideological divides
Day 1: Exploration of Worldview Intelligence as a Personal Leadership Practice
The willingness to bring curiosity and non-judgment to understanding worldviews and how they impact our lives and the lives of people we interact with is a personal leadership practice. In this day we will:
- Explore your worldview, how it was formed and how it influences your relationships and communication
- Look at how systems thinking influences the development and perpetuation of our worldviews
- Examine the neuroscience behind our physiological responses, learn to recognize triggers and identify how to use this information in helpful ways to expand or shift worldview(s)
- Understand how storytelling influences our worldviews and use reflective listening practices to expand awareness
Day 2: Exploration of Worldview IntelligenceTM Patterns and Practices in Organizations
Organizational Worldview Intelligence is essential when there are differences of opinions, belief or value systems or if your role requires you to work with distinctly different worldviews in client interactions, internally with staff or in policy development. Building on Day 1, we will:
- Use Systems Thinking to uncover organizational breakthrough points made possible through worldview awareness
- Explore how an organization’s worldview impacts its internal operations and external relationships
- Identify and explore how to bring in organizational practices that welcome multiple worldview perspectives
- Grow understanding of generative processes that build creativity and innovation in work and community settings
Who Should Come?
- Organizational Leaders responsible for creating inclusive workplaces and engaged teams
- OD consultants responsible for change initiatives, continuous learning and restructuring
- HR consultants (internal and external) responsible for leadership development and policies on diversity, equity and inclusion
- Art of Hosting practitioners wanting to deepen their hosting practice
- Social change agents inside organizations, systems and communities
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Workshop Hosts
Jerry Nagel, Kathy Jourdain and local collaborators
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