MOTM 46: Play a Glass Bead Game

By April 15, 2024Design, MOTM

The Model of the Month

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Join host Svenja Rüger with Rob Evans & Matt Taylor for a 90-minute live discussion.

Americas
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT/Los Angeles
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT/Chicago
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT/New York

EMEA
16:00 – 18:00 BST/London
17:00 – 19:00 CEST/Paris
18:00 – 20:00 EEST/Helsinki
18:00 – 20:00 EAT/Nairobi

(Check your timezone here)

FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP
Click Here to View the Recording and Session Notes

How can we as practitioners become better at what we do in the service of humanity?

HOST: Svenja Rüger PRESENTERS: Rob Evans & Matt Taylor

We are pleased to announce that our 46th MG Taylor Model of the Month Workshop will be on April 24th. Join us as we explore new ideas and insights through collaborative and innovative approaches.

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.

Play a Glass Bead Game 

As described in Herman Hesse’s Magister Ludi, a Glass Bead Game is a highly complex exercise played by young intellectuals-in-training to synthesize all the arts and sciences, including seemingly unrelated topics. It is all about creative, generative connections (sound familiar?)

The Glass Bead Game inspired Matt and Rob when they were outlining the Models book (and long before) and led them to “tell a story” with the sequence in which they placed individual models in the book.

Want to play?

Join us on Wednesday, April 24th. Limber up by taking a look at the attachment – the Introduction and Table of Contents to the Models book.

See you there.

Warmly,

Matt, Rob & Svenja

Celebrating 45 Model of the Month Workshops
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 Ruger

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

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 BirdChristopher Fuller, and Kelly Adams.

Matt Taylor

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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