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Youre probably familiar with many of these terms and their

creators: Peter Senge, Daniel Goleman, Charles Handy, Fritjof

Negotiator ~ Psychotherapist ~ Meditator ~ Coach ~ Mediator ~

Charismatic ~ NLP master ~ Theatre director ~ Clairvoyant

Capra, Warren Bennis, Gary Hamel, Otto Scharmer and others

But do you have the time, skills and resources to implement

any of them? In our experience, if youre going to get to grips

with them you need to have the skills of a:

The process we follow is, broadly speaking, that of Otto Scharmers Theory U.In this process we emphasise the social field which is the wider environment.

We shift attention away from the individual, the group or the organisation

and become aware of each individual present in the group, of the group in the

or anisation and of the or anisation in its social, cultural and h sical environment.

While we will think and talk about this process, the main vocabulary that

we use is that of movement. Not dancing or acrobatics but walking, sitting,

arriving, leaving, leaning, lying. Simple movements that we all perform every

day. Why do we use movement? Our experience is that it will often bypass our

usual thoughts, ideas and prejudices. It opens possibilities and offers an effectiveway of changing our habitual patterns of thinking, relating and working together.

For more on Theor U, see www.theor u.com

Bodies in Business cant give you all these skills. Nor can we distil

the collected wisdom of all the writers and theories mentioned here to

single out the solution to your teams particular concerns or challenges.

What we can do at a Moving U workshop is to help you set in motion

the process of transforming the whole way your team works together.

Moving UA Theory U Workshop to Transform your Team

In the face of a tidal wave of new thinking about decision-making, leadership, strategy andinnovation, some businesses and many individual managers and leaders know thatthings need to change radically. Piecemeal change is not enough. Teams, divisionsand entire organisations must reinvent themselves. Somewhere in this tidalwave (some of it incomprehensible, some unthinkable) lies the solution.

Embodying Mindfulness in Organisational Decision-Making

Managing the Organisational Shadow Side

Myth and Story Telling in Business

Self-Transcending Knowledge

Transformational Leadership

Organisational Intelligence

Organisational Awareness

Transformational EnquiryWisdom in Organisations

The T-Shaped Enterprise

Learning Organisations

The Triple Bottom Line

Aesthetics in Business

Emotional Intelligence

Participative Enquiry

The Fifth Discipline

Servant Leadership

Complexity Theory

Clumsy SolutionsSystems Thinking

Situated Learning

Spiritual Enquiry

Neuroleadership

Open Innovation

Triarchy Theory

Cultural Theory

Action Enquiry

Synchronicity

Stewardship

PresencingPhronesis

Theory U

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Who are the workshops for?Our workshops are designed for a team (which may be a board of directors or a project team or a

regular work team) who work together closely and consistently (though they may be geographically

widespread) so that the team will together attend the workshop and together build on it afterwards.

You may be facing a particular problem or set of challenges or you may simply be looking for new

resources for dealing with the usual challenges. You may be up against the wall in the economic crisis

and needing innovative thinking to save your business. Or you may be finding recurring problems inworking together. Or you may find that, as a team, youre feeling stuck or running out of energy. Or

you may be hugely successful and still wanting to innovate.

What happens?Of course, much of what happens is up to you. But, using the structures of Theory U, we invite you to:

Witness yourself, your condition and your situation simply slowing down, experiencing how

things are without jumping to conclusions or bringing any previous judgements to bear

Let go of established habits, patterns and prejudices

Open mind, heart and will to sense how it is and how it could be

Use Presencing to widen potential and turn letting go into letting come

Crystallise vision and intention

This workshop will help you address issues in new ways; if youre facing intractable problems, it will

help you work together at a deeper level to resolve them. We use movement alongside Theory U and

Presencing to help us access resources that we might tend to discount in the working environment.

Depending on your starting point, this process may seem necessary and obvious or ridiculous claptrap.

We will simply ask you to try it anyway. Then we suggest you take the process back to your workplace

and just keep practising it.

Why Bodies in Business?

We are not Accenture or PwC. But the kind of change were talking about requires transformationalthinking, practices and structures. The old order may not be best placed to deliver that kind of

transformation. Our experience brings together a range of skills:

Joy Kearney has worked as a

management and OD consultant for

20 years. She designs and delivers

senior management development

programmes and works closely

with senior teams in FTSE 500

companies and in the NHS. Her

specialities include facilitation,

teambuilding, change management,

coaching and negotiation skills. Joy

is also a Registered Dance

Movement Psychotherapist and

works with myth and gestalt.

Andrew Carey has been writing

about organisation, management

and leadership theory since 1983.

He led a teambuilding company

(The Elephant of Surprise) for

several years, works as a psycho-

therapist and is a publisher at

Triarchy Press (whose authors

include Russ Ackoff, John Seddon

and Michael Thompson). He

recently wrote an account of the

Project Red Stripe innovation

programme at The Economist.

Sandra Reeve is a movement artist,

teacher, Senior Registered Dance

Movement Psychotherapist and

director. She lectures on movement,

leads workshops on her Move into

Life practice, works with groups,

individuals and organisations to

help them expand their movement

vocabulary. Her work and recent

PhD on The Ecological Body draw on

Buddhist mindfulness principles,

Javanese Amerta movement and

Jerzy Grotowskis poor theatre.

Whats the deal?Weve developed the 3-day Moving U workshop to help your team transform itself. Before we sell it, wed like to

prototype it. So we give our time and skills free of charge and ask you to give your time, open minds and

constructive reaction free of charge. You leave the workshop having crystallised the possibility of transformation

in your team. We get invaluable feedback to help us take the workshop to other (paying!) clients.

Interested? Please visit:

www.BodiesinBusiness.orgbodiesinbusiness@westhay.com ~ 07860 261355 (Joy) ~ 01297 560511 (Sandra)

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