Roles, Membership and Self in Organizations (RMS)
For whom:
- Senior and middle level executives in corporate, government, social organizations, entrepreneurs and self employed professionals
Objectives:
- To gain deeper awareness and insight into the roles we play in various systems – the context, patterns of role behaviour, and choice making
- Examine the links between our identities and role taking
- To examine one’s ideas of membership – inclusion and exclusion – within any system
- To examine patterns of authorising and empowering oneself in systems
- To examine the pathos and the potentials that lie behind role performance; and evolve fresh perspectives
How does this happen:
- Learning is facilitated by encounters within the group
- Facilitator creating safe conditions to promote self disclosure, dignity and mutual respect
- Working with the ‘here and now’ data, roles that emerge as experienced by some or all members of the group and systems that are experienced
- Facilitator offers relevant frameworks for the participant to place his / her experience of systems and role taking in the group
Expectations from the participant:
- A willingness / readiness to inquire, question, explore and act
- Willingness to share feelings, thoughts and experiences
- Listening without making quick judgments
- A willingness to explore and act from one’s own authority, power and resources
Some possible take aways for participants:
- An understanding of roles as potentially negotiable, also based on individual choice and not only as defined by the system
- Rediscover one’s authority
- A sense of replenishment and renewed commitment to engage with certain roles
- New lens to interpret systemic phenomena
- Insights into leadership and systemic transformation processes