Wednesday, December 8, 2021
HOST: Svenja Rüger PRESENTERS: Rob Evans & Matt Taylor
This model describes a way of creating the There that makes it most effective as an attractor to enable the transformation of the present. The origin of the vision of a compelling There cuts to the root of creativity itself.
BACKGROUND
This model reminds us that, regardless of its source and origin, for a compelling, transformative vision for the future to make any difference in the material world, a group must commit to bringing that future to life. That group must embody it. If they are wise, they physically embed their vision in experiences and an environment that can give others a foretaste of what could be.”
Occasionally it arises in an individual, often in times of reflection, relaxation, or repose. Meditation, mindfulness, awareness training, or more body-focused practices like Tai-Chi, Qigong, and yoga can help create the conditions for an individual to receive the gift of insight.
What an interesting model to explore in our current times to build the best future we can with as much scale and detail as necessary to engage the whole system. Or in other words: “You can’t get there from here, but you can get here from there.” (MGTaylor Axiom) You have to BE the there.
Workshop Hosts
Svenja is a facilitator and designer of large scale collaborative sessions. Her passion lies in building resilient communities and facilitating collaborative processes to solve complex challenges on a systems level. She cares a lot about the challenges the world is currently facing and wants to support connecting the dots in order to create impactful, meaningful solutions. She promotes listening to understand, not listening to speak, and holds the space for what is trying to emerge.
Being part the The Value Web, she took on lead design and facilitation roles for international engagements with the World Economic Forum, LEGO Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, International Red Cross & Red Crescent, INSEAD Business School, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Berlin Civil Society Centre, and many others
She believes in servant leadership, and that facilitation is all about making it easy.
Rob Evans is recognized as one of the world’s best known and most respected facilitators. He has taught thousands of leaders and facilitators in the private, public, and NGO sectors.
THE COLLABORATION CODE® is a book series curated by Rob Evans co-founder of Imaginal Labs. Book three in the series, Models: Frameworks for Transformation presents the entire set of models and terms of art in the MG Taylor Modeling Language, including many never-before documented models with illustrations by Kelvy Bird, Christopher Fuller, and Kelly Adams.
For information about purchasing books, The Collaboration Code®
Matt Taylor is a designer, inventor, teacher, facilitator, sailor and entrepreneur. He has focused his career on the application of architectural design methods to solving complex, systemic problems found at the intersection of physical environments, ecologies, organizational practices and visionary ideas. This work involves business processes, tool-sets and software programs, and includes their expression and utilization in the design, construction and use of virtual and physical environments for collaborative work and sustainable creative living. The components of these environments, and the environments themselves, are designed and built in regards their fit with, and long term impact on, social-economic-ecological systems.
The sum of his work is outlined in a System and Method co-invented with partner Gail Taylor. He is cofounder of the MG Taylor Corporation.
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