Working with complex problems and change: getting beneath the surface

I've been an OD and leadership consultant, coach and facilitator for 25 or so year, working across all sectors including big Global Brands, the UK Civil Service and NHS.  I mostly design and run leadership and OD programmes, and do a lot of coaching.  My work is based on taking a systemic and 'vertical development' approach, helping people and teams find new perspectives and choices in these messy times.For the last 5 years, I've also been researching, writing and speaking about love and the role it could and perhaps should play in our organisational lives, with published research exploring this.  I'm an unashamed advocate for love, looking for ways we can ‘lead from love’ more often and in ways that are robust and useful for us in our work.You can find more on me and my work  onTwitter,LinkedInor viamy website.  And you can email me using helena@helenaclayton.co.uk. And my monthlyNewsletter sign up is here.

HELENA CLAYTON CONSULTING

A powerful - and playful - one day workshop for new ways of seeing and working with complex problems and change.

Initiatives of Change

In organisations today we spend a lot of time trying to solve complex problems. Many of us are trying to change something and find ourselves stuck at some point and don’t know what to do next. Things feel blocked or difficult. It&#x27;s hard to make progress. Or things move much slower than we hoped for.Perhaps something feels impossible, a stalemate - and we don’t know where to even begin. Or even before starting something we know we need some deeper insight into what the real issue is, or what might be unseen just beneath the surface. If some of this feels true for you, this <a href="https://helenaclayton.co.uk/system-mapping/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Systems Mapping</a> workshop, based on systemic constellations principles, will offer you new ways of seeing and working with complex problems and change.People often describe this approach as enlivening, surprising and dynamic, bringing clarity and confidence to their practice.The workshop will likely: <ul><li>give you deeper insight into what&#x27;s really going on</li><li>give you a better understanding of the competing forces that may be at play</li><li>reveal what might be getting in the way of movement or progress</li><li>understand what the system has to &#x27;say&#x27;</li><li>see more clearly through the complexity</li><li>see previously unseen dynamics, possibilities and new ways forward.</li></ul>We&#x27;re keeping numbers deliberately small, just 12 participants.Your facilitators are <a href="https://helenaclayton.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Helena Clayton</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-fairbrass-9058bb2/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Matt Fairbrass</a>, both deeply experienced in organisational change and transformation as well as Systems Mapping.During the day, you&#x27;ll:<ul><li>learn how an approach that draws on systemic constellations, spatial mapping, intuition and embodied knowing brings a fresh and useful dimension to the more traditional ways of approaching change and complex problems</li><li>develop your capacity to ‘switch on’ intuition and embodied knowing in yourself and others</li><li>experience elements of Systems Mapping for yourself so that you understand it from the inside</li><li>have the opportunity to ‘workshop’ an issue using Systems Mapping with one of our facilitators</li><li>leave with some simple tools that you can apply immediately in your organisation or with clients.</li></ul>Come along and play! We think you’ll find this workshop a timely opportunity to step back and look at something that’s knotty, using contemporary thinking and underused ways-of-knowing. This approach we take can only complement what you already know and do and you’ll leave with a greater sense of expansion and possibility. Modern ways to work with changeAs well as being a practical and practice-based workshop, it will also act as an introduction to some of the more leading-edge ways of working with change including systemic constellations, emergent change, polarities and paradox, &#x27;parts&#x27; work, dialogic approaches and embodied knowing. We&#x27;ll provide short bursts of theory as we go along and can point you to much more, if you&#x27;re interested. Who is this for:If you’re working in a dedicated OD, HR or Change role, or if you’re an operational manager or leader grappling with complex change this is a perfect workshop for you. All are welcome and no previous experience of Systems Mapping or constellations work is necessary. Matt &amp; Helena We&#x27;ve both been working in the field of Change, OD and Leadership Development for many years with organisations like EY and Jaguar LandRover, Accenture and Interserve, as well as the British Council, various departments in the UK Civil Service, and Housing Associations. We&#x27;ve been in both in-house roles and as external consultants. Our work – and this workshop – draws on the work of many great teachers and many disciplines. Matt and I have learned so much from the work of <a href="https://www.wholepartnership.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ed Rowland </a>from the field of Systemic Constellations, for example. Our training in <a href="https://shadowwork.eu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Shadow Work</a> and voice dialogue practice has also made a powerful contribution. Ideas from Deep Ecology from <a href="https://campus.dartington.org/schumacher-college/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Schumacher College</a> also inform our practice, as does Keegan and Lahey’s <a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/hgse100/story/changing-better" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Immunity to Change</a>. And of course, somatic and embodied practices as well as John Heron’s ‘ways of knowing&#x27;... and much more. .﻿

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