Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Join host Svenja Rüger with Rob Evans & Matt Taylor for a 90-minute live discussion of the “Mosquito Strategy” model.
Americas
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST/Los Angeles
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST/Chicago
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST/New York
EMEA
16:00 – 18:00 BST/London
17:00 – 19:00 CET/Paris
FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP
How can we as practitioners become better at what we do in the service of humanity?
HOST: Svenja Rüger
PRESENTERS: Rob Evans & Matt Taylor
You are invited to join us for the 38th Model of the Month session.
We would like you to join us for the 38th Model of the Month session. We would be delighted to have you participate in this beautiful experience of knowledge exchange, group work, and conversation. The facilitated session will last for 90 minutes, with an additional 30 minutes in which we will still be around for an informal discussion.
This discussion will focus on Mosquito Strategy.
The Mosquito Strategy model helps remind us that the solutions we help develop must be requisite, both in frequency and magnitude, to the problems
they address. These distinctions alone may not bring us to a solution, but they can save us from being stupid in all-too-familiar ways. There are ways to work that are in harmony with the problems you are trying to solve. You have to have a requisite response, and a requisite response is not an overwhelming response. A requisite response is reasonable, not too much. Requisite means more than just magnitude. It means being at one with what you are responding to.
Magnitude and frequency are essential distinctions in designing and guiding a group’s path to a solution requisite to a problem. The flexibility to speed up or slow down and to increase or decrease the impact of particular modules on the group are essential considerations in managing the felt experience of a DesignShop.
Let’s explore this Model in the context of our work as designers and facilitators and in the larger context. The job of good design is to mitigate impedance mismatches between means and ends. The job of a good DesignShop facilitator is to shape a path for the group to develop an appropriate response to their challenges.
Once you register, please look at the attached diagram to dive deeper into the Model and what you can draw from it.
We are very much looking forward to our conversations.
Warmly,
Matt, Rob & Svenja
NOTE: This online workshop is free to all participants. Members of our TVW Learning Community on Mighty Networks will have access to the recording and resources, including all future and past MOTM series and TVW workshops.
Workshop Presenters
SVENJA RUEGER
Münich, Germany | Facilitator | Process Designer
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.
ROB EVANS
New York & San Francisco | TVW Member since 2015
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.
MATT TAYLOR
Kansas City, USA | Designer | Inventor| Teacher| Facilitator
For over 60 years, Matt Taylor 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 regard to 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 co-founder of the MG Taylor Corporation.
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