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the KCC Foundation
Leadership and Organisational
Summer School 2008
Sunday 6th July to Friday 11th July 2008
Programme for Skilful Leadership - Transforming organisations through Appreciative Practices
Programme includes the following workshops
Rom Harré
New Directions in the Psychology of Action
The shift away from a causal model to the re-introduction of the concept of person as initiator of actions
The introduction of the conversational model for the understanding of psychological processes – leading to the idea of `collective cognition’ – various examples.
The development of `psychology as a moral; science' with the advent of Positioning Theory’ and its application to conflict resolution and amplification – various examples.
and Ann Christin LiaIn his presentation Rom Harré will share some of the work he has been doing with the Pentagon revealing what can be achieved by using positioning in situations of global conflict.
Carsten Hornstup
The theory of social constructionism in action – training the whole organisation and creating the differences that make the difference.
John Shotter
Listening through speaking and insights in organisation
Fresh insights through exploring withness talk. John will present his excitements and help us to learn how to perform our worlds.
Erling Westh
Aikido in performance
Peter Lang and Elspeth McAdam
Systemic Narrative Appreciative Practice for transforming organisations and Communities
How do you do it? Skills and abilities for transformative action in organisations.
Harnessing insights from neurology and research
Exceptional practices with Carsten Hornstrup & Kevin Barge
Over the last years Kevin and Carsten have developed their cooperation around the MSc in Systemic Leadership. One of their mutual interests is to grow and enhance systemic constructionist ideas and practices by studying examples of exceptional practices in organisations.
One interesting example of exceptional practice will be highlighted. They will present details of how this was done and how the knowledge learnt from this example can be used in the future. A number of Danish organisations have chosen to use systemic ideas and practices as an essential part of their everyday work to become a systemic working organisation.
In this workshop Carsten and Kevin will share both some of the ideas and practices from these organisations and using the results from these organisations for exceptional futures.
Doctorate students, enriching Leadership and Organisation practice
This workshop will explore some of his experiences of working with services before and after periods of inspection and in particular the impact on management teams. Alex will discuss some of his experiences of working with teams and through trusting others, and "in the moment" responses, the opportunities to create change and transformation.
Pragmatism and organisational consultancy with Andreas Granhof Juhl and Jacob Storch
Pragmatism, read through Dewey in particular, holds in our view an unexplored potential for enriching the systemic practice traditions. From our doctorate studies we have seen how practice was changes from the influences of reading and discussing Dewey especially, but also revisiting Bateson, Wittgenstein and others through this position experiencing new possible directions for our practice. This workshop will present possible practical implications of working from a pragmatic systemic position as consultants in organisations presenting at least 4 moments of significant change in our own practice from our recent work. The participants will be invited into short exercises in relation to these themes.
Jacob & Andreas, who are giving the workshop, are participant at the KCC Professional Doctorate Program, so the workshop will also be a presentation of the pragmatic research methods used with the inspiration of such writers as Wittgenstein, Dewey, Rorty, Bateson and Watzlawick to research into ones own practice as collaborating researchers and the results from this research.
A detailed itinerary is included in the Conference Brochure. Please see below for link.
has a wide experience of enabling organisations to create transformation through strategic story telling. She has worked with commercial organisations, public service organisations, whole communities in England, Scotland, Scandinavia, South America and Africa. Her range of experience is valued by leaders in different kinds of organisations. Elspeth is an Organisational Consultant and practitioner in the arts of appreciative practices.Presenters
ELSPETH McADAM
Elspeth McAdam
KEVIN BARGE
Kevin Barge is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Baylor University, Texas and a member of the Public Dialogue Consortium. His communication research regarding leadership within organizations and groups as well as his textbooks in leadership and group communication are oriented toward developing high-quality working relationships among people. Recently, Kevin has become interested in issues relating to the use of dialogic and appreciative methods within organizations and communities. His work includes issues regarding communication and parental involvement with school districts.
ALEX CHARD
Alex Chard is an organisational consultant who has advised on youth crime management and children’s services for the last 16 years. He has an MSc in Systemic Leadership and Organisational Studies and is a Member of the Institute of Directors. He is currently studying on the Doctorate programme at the KCC Foundation, his research and consultancy interest being change and development within the public sector.
ROM HARRÉ
studied mathematics and physics and then philosophy and anthropology. His published work includes studies in the philosophy of the natural sciences such as "Varieties of Realism and Great Scientific Experiments". He has been among the pioneers of the `discursive' approach in the human sciences. In "Social Being, Personal Being and Physical Being" he explored the role of rules and conventions in various aspects of human cognition, while in "Pronouns and People", he and Peter Mühlhäusler developed the thesis that grammar and the sense of self are intimately related. His most recent work, "One Thousand Years of Philosophy" follows the philosophical enterprise in India, China, Islam and Europe since 1000 AD.
He is Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at American University, Washington, D.C. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Helsinki, Brussels, Aarhus and Lima. Professor Harré has worked with a growing understanding of the place of neurology in emotions and in discursive psychology.
CARSTEN HORNSTRUP
Carsten has an MSc in Political Science and is an MSc Student in Systemic Leadership. He is Director of MacMann Berg, Denmark and works as an organisational consultant, and is author and co-author on a number of books and articles on Systemic Leadership issues. He works with leaders, organisations and researchers around the world. His ambition is to develop and expand appreciative – systemic - constructionist ideas and practices in business and organisations, creating better social worlds.
ANDREAS GRANHOF JUHL
Andreas is educated as psychologist and director for Granhof Juhl ApS, a consultancy firm working with leadership and organizational development in public and private companies and with the defence in Denmark.
At the moment Andreas is researching into and exploring the implication of the postmodern and pragmatic turn and the different practical implications for organisations and consultants working with leadership and organisational development.
PETER LANG
Peter is working with appreciative storytelling with organisations, schools and communities in different parts of the world . His skills include working with people to develop ways to choose the language we use when telling stories and how managers and leaders can connect to the emotions of people in organisations. He is keen for leaders to find ways of using emotional passions to give life, energy and purpose to the organisation or business. Peter is an Honorary Co Director of the KCC Foundation.
ANN CHRISTIN LIA
works as a Legal Consultant in the legal department at the Mayor's office in Hvidovre municipality, situated just outside Copenhagen. During her studies for her law degree, she got interested in the concept of win-win negotiation and conflict resolution. She met Erling Westh during Aikido practice and has since worked with him on numerous occasions, last time in Durban, South Africa, assisting him with his Aikido workshops.
MARTIN LITTLE
Martin Little works with networks of people in organisations enabling people to develop collaboration and team work through the shared storying process. He has been working with a whole community in the middle of Sweden developing transformative practices involving the life-giving power of community. He consults to organisations in Scandinavia and England. His skills include helping managers to become leaders through developing story telling as an organisational tool, going beyond simple notions of individuality so that leaders can manage large groups and varieties of people in the organisation. Martin is a Co- Director of the KCC Foundation and Organisational Consultant and Management Trainer
JOHN SHOTTER
John Shotter
John Shotter is professor emeritus of interpersonal relations in the Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire. His long-term interest is in the social conditions conducive to people having a voice in the development of participatory democracies and civil societies. He brings valuable insights to the social constructionist ways of working and suggest change can take place through attention to details in organisations especially when leaders are sensitive to unique moments that open up possibilities.
JACOB STORCH
Jacob is a dedicated systemic practitioner who continually seek new opportunities and areas of work to adopt even more coherent and life giving ways of working with people. His experiences range from family work to large scale community empowerment via organisational and leadership development. His current interests is to maintain alive the systemic tradition with its many unique ways of enriching peoples lives, he is therefore combining the latest appreciative ideas with with more traditional systems ideas. Further he is a co-founder and director of ATTRACTOR and part time teacher at the University of Aarhus.
ERLING WESTH
More than 20 years ago Erling chose to leave a career as a lawyer, because – as he expresses it – it was to much of a challenge to him to have to look at a given case from one side only. That led him into the organisational world as a consultant where he got very engaged in the appreciative and systemic way of working with people in the organisational environment. He has given numerous courses over the years covering communication and team working and he has lately worked as a senior coach. He has developed a unique way of giving insight and inspiration to conflict resolution by using the Japanese martial art Aikido – in which he wears the black belt - as a very illustrative metaphor for a confluent way of leading the aggressive energy into a new and constructive direction. This way of working with conflict has recently been transmitted on Danish TV. He is the founder and director of TUTOR Training and Development.
Fees
Residential Day Delegates
Early Bird
By 31 March 2008 £765.00 (En Suite)
£695.00 (Standard)
From April 2008 £865.00 (En Suite)
£795.00 (Standard)
KCCF Student & Tutor Rate £670.00 + £55 En Suite Supplement
Fees includes: accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner and tea and coffee throughout the Summer School.
Also included is a complimentary stationary pack.
Group bookings- groups of six or more can have one free place
Extra Nights- If you would like to book accommodation either before or after the Summer Schools, rooms are available at:
£60.00 per night (En Suite)**
£40.00 per night (Standard)**
** Includes bed and breakfast
Day Delegates
Early Bird
By 31 March 2008
Non Residential
£130.00
Residential (1 day + 1 night)*
£149.00
From April 2008
Non Residential
£145.00
Residential (1 day + 1 night)*
£159.00
*Standard Room. Include £11.00 for En Suite Facilities.
For Student Non-residential, a 10% discount applies.
Fee includes: accommodation (where applicable), breakfast, lunch and tea and coffee throughout the Summer School. Also included is a complimentary stationary pack.
Location
A place for Learning
The KCC Foundation Leadership and Organisational Summer School will take place at the Royal Holloway College in Egham, Surrey.
Part of the University of London, the campus is built around the famous Founder's Building and was officially opened by Queen Victoria in 1886. It is based in a 135 acre campus and provides an impressive range of modern academic and social facilities in a parkland setting in Surrey, close to London and the UK's major communications network.
Royal Holloway College was founded by the Victorian entrepreneur, Thomas Holloway as a college for the higher education of bright young women. Almost 100 years later, Royal Holloway merged with Bedford College, another pioneering institution founded in 1849 by Elizabeth Jesser Reid. The colleges became part of the University of London before the turn of the century, when the University first awarded degrees to women, and both began to admit male undergraduates from 1965.
The University is close to Runnymede the location where the Magna Carta (Latin for 'great charter') was sealed by King John in June 1215. Known as the Great Charter of English Liberties, it formed a peace treaty with barons who were in revolt against the King due to his disastrous foreign policy and arbitrary government and formed the future basis of constitutional law. The Magna Carta was the first document which was forced onto an English King by his subjects to limit his powers by law.
Nearby is The Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial on Coopers Hill which commemorates the men and women of the Commonwealth Air Forces killed in World War II.
The University is conveniently located to Heathrow Airport and with good transport links to London, while offering the chance to experience the Home Counties countryside.
To download a brochure and apply
The KCC Foundation Leadership Summer School Brochure
To more information on how to apply, please contact Charles Bell on Tel. 020 77301 or email info@kccfoundation.org
Terms and Conditions
Reservations can be made by phone on 020 7720 7301 or fax on 020 7720 7302 to book your place. Payments by Cheque should be made to
AThe KCC Foundation@ or by usual credit/ debit cards (Visa/ Mastercard/ Switch/ Delta).Reservations can be made and will be held for the next 10 working days, if payment or your Authority
=s confirmation about payment has not been received by that date, the place may be allocated to another applicant.Cancellations If for any reason you need to cancel your place, please let us know in writing to the KCC Foundation, with at least two week notice before the date of the event. If the notice is received later than two weeks before the workshop, the fee will not be refunded, unless the person cancelling can find a deputy to take up the vacant place.
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The KCC Foundation reserves the right to cancel or change any part of the KCCF Summer School.
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