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Warrior of the Heart dojo

22/8/2017

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Brisbane QLD | 16 & 17 September 2017

How can we use our power consciously for meaningful action?
How can we restore balance and centre to act wisely and courageously in the world? ​
You are invited to a weekend dojo to connect and practice with other warriors of the heart.

In dealing with the challenges, complexities, and demands of modern life, this 1.5 day gathering offers us an opportunity to explore ways to work from a place of peace and strength: a place that has the heart at the centre, is balanced, calm and clearly decisive when action is needed. Through guidance and fellowship, let's explore practices that offer insight into the nature of leading self and others as a ‘Warrior of the Heart’.

If you are a leader of any background, in service of others – this weekend is an opportunity to be of service to yourself – to refuel and strengthen clarity and heart, to continue your work in the world.

In the dojo we will:
  • Bring together the principles and practices of Aikido basics as a stimulus for conversation & reflection, and apply the Flow Game to seed wise action
  • Explore ways of engaging and aligning personal passion and purpose with the work we want and need to be doing in the world
  • Offer an opportunity to focus on improving our sense of well-being in good company with old and new friends, and with informed guidance

You do not need any prior experience of Aikido or any of the practices here – and you are invited to come and participate fully, with an open mind and open heart. The practice and place is accessible.

This is the fourth time Warrior of the Heart has been offered in Australia, and we are committed to nourishing this beautiful practice here.

Dates: 2pm-5.30pm Saturday 16 & 9am-5pm Sunday 17 September
Location: SPACE at Kenmore Cnr Paley St & Branton St, Kenmore Hills BRISBANE
Fees: Adults $220 (inc.GST), young people $66 (inc.GST) – Bring your own food to share, potluck style!
Team: Toke Moeller, Mel Geltch, Robin Payne and David Newell
Register: complete this online form
Contact: Robin Payne robin10payne@gmail.com 0422 003 547

Visit the website for details and to register   www.wohaustralia.weebly.com
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Groundwork training

20/7/2017

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The art of preparing the field for powerful collaboration

  • How do we prepare and organise for powerful collaboration in our organisations, communities and society? 
  • What practices and principles can create the right conditions for collaboration that matters?

19 & 20 September | Brisbane

You're invited to a two-day intensive training in the practice of Groundwork - looking at the nature of organising and collaborating. It uncovers the foundations of powerful collaboration by exploring a practice through which we cultivate the conditions that support people to self-organise and do their best work together.

The purpose is to build our shared capacity to collaborate more effectively and with more powerful results. 

We will identify the elements of Groundwork practice through a framework called the Foundations of Powerful Collaboration, applying this to projects and initiatives that you are already working with. 

Using this framework we will explore principles, practices and tools that can support us in practising conscious Groundwork. 

Come as an individual, or a team!

The Groundwork model and practice is pioneering work in the Art of Hosting community. The first training was held in Denmark in 2016, with trainings since in Canada, Scotland, Denmark and coming up in Scotland and Colombia. 

This 2 day deep-dive follows a 1 day introduction to Groundwork held in Brisbane in January 2017. There is a discount for returning Groundwork practitioners

Team: Toke Paludan Moeller, Mel Geltch, Pam Burley, Moze Crozier, David Newell

  • Find out more & register  
  • Learn more about Groundwork   
  • If you already know that you want to come, register now 
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Come and play the Flow Game!

25/11/2016

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Do you have an important personal question to explore?

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Sunday 11 December 2016, 10am-2.30pm
Annerley, Brisbane
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Please register here

The Flow Game is a unique opportunity to give and receive wisdom on questions that are important to us, in a safe, supportive environment. Its purpose is to ground, strengthen and bring clarity and flow to you, your life, leadership and actions.

In December, a small group of new Flow Game hosts is being trained in Brisbane by one of the game’s international stewards, Mary Alice Arthur. We invite you to join us on the final day of our 3 day training to experience the Flow Game for yourself.

You will have the chance to explore a question that has meaning to you in your life or work right now, in a Community Flow Game. You will also be supporting newly trained hosts to practice hosting, guided by Mary Alice and experienced hosts.

To participate, we ask that you have a clear intention or question to explore with old and new friends.

During the game, we’ll jointly reflect and share knowledge related to your question or intention. We will play multiple games in parallel, each in small groups of 4-6.

Come and spend the day in the cool of Annerley Hall, and play the Flow Game with us!

About the Flow Game
To help illuminate possibilities and explore your future, eight people co-created this game in Denmark in 1998. It is played all around the world, in life and in organisations. Learn more about Flow Game at www.flowgame.net

 “Flow Game is a wonderful way of really connecting with people and talking about some important issues in your life. (It) creates a wonderful atmosphere of togetherness and mutual growth in an inoffensive and non-pressured way. I can´t wait for the next time to play the Flow Game!”

Important information

Your RSVP is important
Please register here
Contact Mel Geltch for information: 
mel@purposepartners.com.au or 0400 412 498

Timing
Sunday 11 December.
​Please arrive by 9.45am for a 
10am start. We will finish by 2.30pm

Contribution
We would be happy to accept voluntary contributions of between $20 and $40 per person. Donations will go towards covering the cost of the Hall, and extra to the Youth Leadership Program at Kufunda Village in Zimbabwe. If you are unable to contribute, you are still very welcome

Venue
Annerley Hall – the blue house
13 Waldheim Street, Annerley (corner of Ipswich Road)

There is limited free parking on site. Visit Translink for public transport information.

Picnic lunch
Please bring something to share (there are full kitchen facilities at the venue)

Invitation
Download a printable version of this invitation
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​Graphic Facilitation

13/11/2016

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Brisbane, 10 & 11 January 2017

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PLEASE NOTE: DAY 2 of this workshop is now full. There are still places available for Day 1

Day 1: Introducing the visual toolbox

Content
  • Hands on introduction to graphic facilitation
  • Introduction to the 3 visual methods
  • Drawing technique and icons
  • Visual storytelling
 
Day 2: Applying to your own context and diving deeper
(ALL PLACES FOR DAY 2 HAVE BEEN FILLED)

Content
  • Graphic facilitation and process design
  • The 5 competencies
  • Introducing the big paper
  • Individual projects

The workshop will be hosted by Anne Madsen

Anne Madsen’s specialty is Graphic Facilitation and Strategic Visual Communication. Her great passion is the process of learning and how we can move beyond what is known and comfortable to the place where learning and disruptive innovation reside. With big pieces of papers and markers Anne works with teams and organisations of all sizes and sectors to create overview, transparency and a shared language with which to navigate the ever-changing field of (work)life. Anne is a co-founder and partner in Status Flow; a consultancy offering process design, facilitation and capacity building for organisations within the fields of leadership, learning communication and collaboration. Anne lives in Denmark and often visits family in Australia.
 
When:         9am-5pm Tuesday 10 January 2017

Where:       Former NDS Innovation Hub
                     Level 1, Lutwyche Shopping Centre
                     543 Lutwyche Rd, Lutwyche BRISBANE

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Contact:    mel@purposepartners.com.au or 0400 412 498
 
Cost:           From 16 December 2016
                    1 day: $350 (+GST) full fee / $275 (+GST) students / low income
                    The price includes meals and materials.
                    If the fee is a barrier to your participation, please get in touch.


Further discounts are available if you also register for the Groundwork workshop on 9 January 2017.
 
Please fill out the registration form online or download a printable version
​Download the fee structure here
Download a printable invitation 


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Groundwork: the art of preparing the field for collaboration that matters

13/11/2016

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Introductory workshop, 9 January 2017, Brisbane, Australia

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"Just as every good farmer focuses all his attention on sustaining and enhancing the quality of the soil, every good organisational leader focuses all her attention on sustaining and enhancing the quality of the social field that she is responsible for."
Otto Scharmer
 
How do we prepare and organise for powerful collaboration?

What practices and principles can create the right conditions for collaboration that matters?
 
Collaboration may be in fashion but we are long past the time for just thinking or talking about it. So many issues in our lives demand that actually collaborate, and do it relatively well. While this is clear, the process of organising and collaborating is experienced by many of as difficult, slow and ineffective, particularly if the group is large. So how do we go about changing this?

This introduction to Groundwork looks at the nature of organising and collaborating. It uncovers the foundations of powerful collaboration by exploring a practice through which we cultivate the conditions that support people to self-organise and do their best work together. It all starts from there for as Otto Scharmer says, the quality of the field determines the quality of the yield.
 
The workshop will be hosted by James Ede, Mel Geltch and Penny Hamilton
 
When:         9am-5pm Monday 9 January 2017

Where:       Former NDS Innovation Hub
                     Level 1, Lutwyche Shopping Centre
                     543 Lutwyche Rd, Lutwyche BRISBANE
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Contact:      mel@purposepartners.com.au, tel: 0400 412 498
 
Cost:           From 16 December 2016
                    $350 (+GST) full fee
                    
$275 (+GST) for students and others with low income
                    The price includes meals, materials and a digital practice guide.
​                    If the fee is a barrier to your participation, please get in touch.

Discounts are available if you register for the Graphic Facilitation workshop
on 10 January 2017.

  • Please fill out the registration form online, or download a printable version
  • ​Download the fee structure for all workshops
  • Download the full invitation

We invite you to join us in exploring Groundwork and the nature of organisation and collaboration in your own context

More about Groundwork

The purpose this workshop is to support each other in building our shared capacity to collaborate more effectively and with more powerful results. We will identify some of the elements of Groundwork practice through a framework called the Foundations of Powerful Collaboration. Using this framework we will explore principles, practices and tools that can support us in practising Groundwork more consciously.
 
The practice of Groundwork is about much more than just being well-organised. It can be practiced at the individual, team and organisational level and in all cases, it invites a focus on that which is less visible or that happens underground, below the surface. This includes: 
  • the ongoing work of developing the self, the interior condition of each individual and the strengthening of personal and collective leadership.
  • a focus on quality of relationships and hosting or tending to the social field.
  • holding the bigger perspective while defining and navigating long-term purpose and strategy.
 
The introduction will cover: 
  • How to build a solid foundation for powerful collaboration?
  • What if we could practice more harmonious ways of organising ourselves, each other and the work that matters?
  • How to invite others in a humane, real and artful way?
  • How to create inspired and connected teams committed to creating meaningful impact?
  • What are good stories of application that can inspire and strengthen our work? 

This introduction is for people who work with other people - which is most of us. This particular workshop will have a specific focus on working with process, participation and engagement.

Groundwork was first offered as a training in Denmark in May, 2016, after a 4 year exploration by James Ede, Toke Paludan Moeller and Rowan Simonsen. We are inviting a one-day workshop to Australia, the first outside Denmark.

The workshop will be hosted by:
James Ede is a Learning Host and partner in Status Flow, a consultancy offering process design, facilitation and capacity building for organisations within the fields of leadership, learning, communication and collaboration. James’ interest in Groundwork stems from his experience of working with teams and from collaborating to host events, conferences and conversations that matter. James lives with his partner Anne and their daughter in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 
Mel Geltch is a participatory process designer, host and harvester, and partner in Purpose Partners, working for wiser action. Mel is passionate about building the capacity of herself and others to live and work with purpose and authenticity, and supporting the development of sustainable organisations and communities. She loves working in places where everyone is valued, free to learn, take responsibility and have fun. Mel attended the first Groundwork training in Denmark in 2016, and is inspired by the conscious practice of organising for collaboration, impact and sustainability. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.
 
Penny Hamilton is a host and process designer. Her core work is to create and hold spaces for people to have a voice, explore possibilities, build capacity and discover creative ways to do good work together. Penny’s role at UnitingCare sees her coordinating and hosting events and conversations to support organisational transformation. Her interest in Groundwork grows from knowing what it takes to co-create opportunities such as workshops, storytelling symposiums, innovation challenges, learning opportunities and meetings with intention and purpose.  She lives in Brisbane, Australia.
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Putting story to work 

13/11/2016

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Story workshop with Mary Alice Arthur

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​What potential could we activate in our work and lives if we harnessed the power of story?

Story is one of the most powerful agents for transformation and capacity building available. It’s also one of the most potent practices for people at any stage of their leadership journey.

You’re invited to spend the day with international guest and Story Activist, Mary Alice Arthur exploring how you can cultivate new habits of actively choosing how we live and work with stories.

9am – 5pm Thursday 8 December
@ Riverside Receptions, 50 Oxlade Drive, New Farm, Brisbane

How could story best serve you in your work and life? 
Understanding how to work with story is a key leadership capacity.  Mary Alice will work with the following perspectives on story to support you to be a change maker with impact.  These include:
  • Working with story as a leadership practice
  • Seeing story — and yourself! — as a positive change agent
  • Working with story to support your learning practice
  • As a resonance tuner
  • Using story as a potent process partner
  • And as the a foundation for the art of being human
During this one day intensive, we will be hands-on with on your personal work focus by looking at how story travels across, changes and supports projects, initiatives and teams using The 8 Breaths of Process Architecture as a framework.  This will be a highly interactive session.

Join us to deepen your story practice and discover how to unleash your inner Story Activist.

Register

Register for early bird price $220 by 14 November
Final registrations of $250 by 24 November 2016

Send your completed registration form to engagement@uccommunity.org.au      
      
Questions? Call Penny Hamilton 0457 896 062 or email as above. 
 NB:  This is an open workshop, hosted by UnitingCare Community
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Mary Alice Arthur is a Story Activist, working with the stories of people, places and things to discover and activate their greatest potential. 
She brings to StoryWork a leading edge skill in using participatory practice to help groups become high performing communities, able to step up, co-create a compelling story, and from it, wise sustained action.  
To read more go to:  
www.getsoaring.com  ​

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Art of Participatory Leadership 2016

5/7/2016

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How can we shift from transaction to transformation in our leadership?

Sydney 19-21 September | Brisbane 26-28 October 2016​
  • How can we re-think our approach to leadership, to grow our businesses, teams, organisations or communities, and bring all of our humanity to work?
  • What skills and capacities do we need to be flexible and sustainable in the future?
  • What do times of great complexity and change mean for the type of leadership that we need to practice?

The Art of Participatory Leadership training offers simple and powerful participatory models, processes and practices to work with complexity, uncertainty and change.

If you want to explore these questions and learn new ways of working in deep collaboration with others, you are warmly invited to join us.

What will we explore, learn & practice?
  • The Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter as a core leadership framework, practice and skill set.
  • Simple and powerful social tools such as: Circle, World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, ProAction Café, Designing for Wiser Action, storytelling and more.
  • Complementary models and frameworks including complexity theory and practice, and self-managed organisations
  • Authentic leadership and working with emergence
  • Real world application

Who is it for?
  • Community and non-profit leaders, social entrepreneurs, business leaders, department heads and program managers, community organisers, next generation leaders and individuals who want to help. 
  • People who want to explore the power of collective creativity, intelligence, and collaboration to improve their communities, teams, and organisations.
  • Individuals and groups who are eager to build stronger teams and partnerships with each other and within their communities. 

Find out more  
  • Visit the website for details and to register www.aoplaustralia2016.com.au
  • Learn more about The Art of Hosting / Participatory Leadership www.artofhosting.org
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A COMMUNITY GATHERING

25/4/2016

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How can we be in learning together to deepen our connections?

28 – 31 July 2016 | Ballina, NSW

A group of friends from around Australia and internationally, have felt the call to host themselves and others working in movements for change in Australia.  

We warmly invite practitioners of Art of Hosting and other inclusive change methods and movements, to be together in community. You are invited to 3 days of good conversation, storytelling, deeper connection, learning, sharing and fun – using Art of Hosting / Participatory Leadership practices as a way for being together.

When
Thursday 28 July 2pm – Sunday 31 July 2016 2pm, or for as long as you can be there

Where
Ballina Beach Village, South Ballina, northern NSW. 

More information & registration
On this website! Visit the event page

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Warrior of the Heart dojo

14/1/2016

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​Coochiemudlo Island, Brisbane
​11-13 March 2015


‘Wherever practitioners show up and are ready to learn and teach both, there the dojo arises’.


You are invited to a 2 day residential dojo to learn and to teach in a beautiful setting with other rainbow warriors of the heart.

In dealing with the challenges, complexities, and demands of modern life, this gathering offers us an opportunity to explore ways to work from a place of peace and strength: a place that has the heart at the centre, is balanced, calm and clearly decisive when action is needed.

Through guidance and fellowship, let's explore practices that offer insight into the nature of leading self and others as a ‘Warrior of the Heart’.

In the dojo we will:
  • Bring together the principles and practices of Aikido basics as a stimulus for conversation and reflection, and apply the Flow Game to seed wise action
  • Assist to explore ways of engaging and aligning personal passion and purpose with the work we want and need to be doing in the world
  • Offer an opportunity to focus on improving our sense of wellbeing in good company and with informed guidance.

Dates: Friday 11 (evening) – Sunday 13 March 2016
Location: Coochiemudlo Island, Brisbane, Australia
Accommodation: Simple, shared cottage accommodation in a peaceful setting.

Team: The gathering is being organised by Toke Moeller, Mel Geltch and Martin Challis.
Toke is the host and facilitator of the workshop; Toke is a warrior of the heart Aikido practitioner and host of participatory leadership processes. He is a co-creator of The Art of Hosting, The Flow Game, The Warrior of the Heart dojo and Designing for Wiser Action.

Register your interest by contacting
Mel Geltch mel@purposepartners.com.au 0400 412 498
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Print the date claimer
www.warrioroftheheart.net
We will soon share the full invitation with registration details, fees and other information.

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Art of Participatory Leadership training

6/10/2015

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Queensland, January 2016

Join us this summer on the Redcliffe Peninsula, overlooking Queensland’s Moreton Bay, for a 3-day training in The Art of Participatory Leadership.

 DATE CLAIMER
 Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 January 2016

 Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia                                    

The Art of Participatory Leadership training offers simple and powerful participatory models, processes and practices to work with complexity, uncertainty and change.
 
What will we explore, learn & practice?
  • The Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter as a core leadership framework, practice and skill set.
  • Simple and powerful social tools such as: Circle, World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, ProAction Café, Designing for Wiser Action, storytelling and more.
  • Complementary models and frameworks including complexity theory and practice, and self-managed organisations
  • Real world application
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Who is it for?
People who want to explore the power of collective creativity, social intelligence, and collaboration in work and community.

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST
Our complete invitation and registration information will be coming soon. If you wish to reserve a place, or want to find out more, please contact Jane jane@purposepartners.com.au or 0403 769 863

Download this date claimer

LINKS
  • Visit the website from a recent training in Queensland to get a sense of what to expect (every training is unique)     
  • Learn more about The Art of Hosting / Participatory Leadership        
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