Wednesday, May 14, 2025

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

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

We are delighted to invite you to the 53rd MG Taylor Model of the Month Workshop on Tuesday, May 14th at 11:00 AM EDT. This month, we’ll dive into two foundational MG Taylor frameworks: the Seven Domains and the Transforming Organisation Models.

These models offer vital lenses for understanding how organizations build, sustain, and evolve their capacity for creativity, productivity, and innovation—without relying solely on hierarchy.

What We’ll Explore:

The Seven Domains

This model identifies the seven interdependent areas of activity managed within every thriving organization:

• Body of Knowledge: The essential information an organization needs to evolve.

• Process Facilitation: The design of efficient systems and the art of removing friction.

• Education: How the organization learns, adapts, and integrates new knowledge.

• Environment: The physical and emotional context that shapes and is shaped by the system.

• Technical Systems: Tools and technologies that amplify and support the other domains.

• Project Management: Structures for organizing and resourcing time-bound work.

• Venture Management: Approaches to long-term sustainability and exploration.

Together, these domains form a network, not a hierarchy, and when balanced, they create the conditions for systemic health and adaptability.

The Transforming Organisation

This model outlines a path for shifting from traditional hierarchical structures to networked, adaptive systems. Rather than “fighting the system,” it honors the strength of hierarchy while building new capabilities through five evolutionary phases:

1. Project – Sponsored by top leadership, focused on breakthrough work.

2. Proof of Concept – Begins to integrate middle management and external resources.

3. Network Expansion – New practices scale across the organization.

4. Established Success – A new form begins to lead.

5. Pre-eminence – The networked system becomes the dominant organizational model.

This model helps us ask: How might we transform without dismantling? How do we create spaces for autonomy and emergence inside legacy structures?

Why You Should Join:

Whether you’re a facilitator, strategist, organizational leader, or transformation practitioner, this 90-minute facilitated session will give you tools and language to:

• Reflect on the state of your own organization or system

• Identify which domains may need attention

• Explore how transformation happens in large, complex environments

• Engage in deep conversation and generative group work

We’ll also have 30 minutes of optional informal dialogue after the main session for those who wish to continue the conversation.

Event Details:

• Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2025

• Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT (+ optional 30 min discussion)

• Location: Online (Zoom link provided upon registration)

• Hosted by: The Value Web

This event is free and open to all who are curious about systems transformation and collaborative design.

Let’s map out new ways to think, collaborate, and create together—see you there!

Warmly,

Matt, Rob Evans  & Svenja Rüger

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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