Chris Hogan, Malin Morén, Jonas Roth Sjöblom

Your hosts

christina.hogan@lorensbergs.se
malin@facilprofundo.com
jonas@vindoga.nu

Wednesday September 23

Inside-out SWE with Sara Sjöblom

Meditation

För att komma nära varandra på distans behöver vi först komma nära oss själv. Rensa lite, hitta närvaron och fokuset. Var med oss i en meditation innan du går in i faciliteringsdagarna.
Vi har en kort introduktion och sen sitter vi i 20 min.
Kommer du in senare i meditationen är det bara att hänga på.
Meditationen leds av Sara Sjöblom på Vindöga. Sara är utbildad mindfulnessinstruktör och yogalärare.

Technical check-in

This is the time to check your connection, your sound and your image. We will support if needed.
Bring your coffee/lunch and see who is there.

ENG with Chris, Malin and Jonas

Introduction to the conference

Welcome and introduction
Practicalities of the conference
Large group facilitated session

Short-break to transfer to your session

Brain power ENG with Josh Lenn

Uncool School: Making your vulnerabilities your superpowers

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” Brené Brown
This is a workshop that inspires the participants to let go of their coolness and crippling ideals and instead embrace and share their imperfections and authenticity.
Many of our learning-institutions have taught us to be strong, positive and in control. It is just now that organisations are starting to realize that if you shut out everything that you judge imperfect then a lot of good stuff, actually the best stuff, is left out too. A culture striving for perfection burns people out and lacks the capacity to be brave, open, generous and playful. All capacities we need to use to tackle the increasing complexity of business and collaboration.
UnCool School is a session that is full of playfulness, is tons of fun and creates a space for people to dare to show themselves and be vulnerable. We will investigate how to celebrate and harvest our individual quirkiness for the benefit of the group. This will build trust in the group, helps us understand how to work better together and allow us to be more real and sincere with each other.
Josh Lenn: I am very passionate about helping people, teams and companies be more creative, collaborative, bold and confident. Aside from being a coach and facilitator, I am also an actor and director. I combine these talents to help people change their mindset towards failure, in order to dare more and lead bigger, bolder work lives. People tell me I have lots of energy, so get ready for a very active session.

Inside-out ENG with Mette Lindgren Heide

Presence at a distance

To be present, hold space and create connection are high ranked features when trying to characterize a professional facilitator. They are (or were?) also features considered to be at risk of being lost, when facilitating virtual meetings compared to a face to face event. That is, at least “before Corona”.
In this session I’ll invite us to co-explore what new possibilities are emerging in facilitation and in the facilitator role, when our meetings are moved into the virtual space. Based on research on virtual meetings and the nervous system as well as my own experiences and reflections as a participant and facilitator during the Pandemic, the sessions aims to create a space for reflections and co-learning among participants, around the following questions:
– How can we understand and grab the virtual space and which opportunities does it may hold for new or even deeper kinds of connections as well as a higher level of inclusion and participation?
– What does it mean to “hold space” virtually?
– What does presence and connection in the facilitator role implies and how can you be present and create connection when facilitating virtual sessions?
Mette Lindgren Helde is an expert inintercultural communication, conflict management and dialogue, based in Sweden and working internationally as a consultant, facilitator and process leader. She is trained in Art of Hosting and an IAF Certified ™ Professional Facilitator, currently attached to emerging.earth, an agency of consultants strengthening leadership and guiding organizational development.

Brain power SWE med Roy Bartilson

Hur kan vi skapa bästa förutsättningar…

…för hjärnan att vara med?
Tror du att du har en egen fri vilja att vara den du själv vill, oavsett din omgivning? Tror du att dina personliga åsikter och uppfattningar format dig? Tänk igen. Mycket av detta har ”inplanterats” av andra. Det mesta vi gör från det att vi föds, är att se till att vi anpassar oss till vår sociala omgivning för att få uppskattning, känna att vi tillhör och passar in. Vi strävar hela livet mot det som ger oss lycka och undviker det som ger oss olycka. Att ”passa in” ger oss mer lycka än att inte passa in.
Hur kan vi som ledare, facilitatorer och coacher underlätta för hjärnan hos våra medarbetare/deltagare/Coachees att lättare uttrycka det man egentligen tänker och tycker? Lättare skapa delaktighet i förändringsarbete? Lättare skapa högpresterande team eller bara team som arbetar mer effektivt? Detta vill jag gärna dela med mig av där jag bland annat, kommer att prata om SCARF, Tänkande miljö mm.
Roy Bartilson är ledarskapskonsult och jobbar med ledningsgrupper, styrelser och ledningsutvecklingsprogram i större organisationer. Har tidigare jobbat i en dynamisk IT bransch där han bl.a. suttit i ledningsgruppen för ett av Sveriges största IT-företag.
Han är speciellt intresserad av de faktorer som påverkar människors engagemang och utvecklingskraft. Det som händer inom neuroforskning och neuroledarskap är spännande och har hjälpt oss att bl.a bättre förstå människors drivkrafter. Med denna förståelse kan vi bättre skapa delaktighet och engagemang i våra team, mer mottaglighet för förändring, större förutsättningar för innovation mm.

Essentials SWE med Karin Grönberg

Fånga upp budskap och uttryck dig visuellt…

…under onlinemöten – som komplement till skrivna anteckningar.
Ju fler möten online – desto större anledning att använda papper och penna. Bara för att vi har många möten online, betyder det inte att allt behöver vara digitalt. Jag upplever ett ännu större behov av att göra enkla skisser som tankehjälp, speciellt när mötena innehåller komplexa frågor. Kom ihåg att vår hjärna är visuell! Det handlar om kommunikation – inte om att rita snyggt! Du behöver alltså inte vara ”bra på att rita”.
Under denna workshop kommer du få tips på:
– Enkla bra-att-ha-symboler under onlinemöten.
– Hur du lyssnar aktivt och omsätter det du hör i enkla skisser.
– Hur du förstärker känslor och uttryck visuellt.
Det du behöver för att delta i denna workshop är en svart, lite tjockare tuschpenna samt en tuschpenna i valfri färg. Dessutom behöver du ett skissblock. Gärna olinjerat A4.
Karin Grönberg arbetar med grafisk facilitering och visuell dokumentation. Hon har en masterexamen i organisation från Gestaltakademin och har tidigare arbetat som art director.

Share and connect + coffee break

Get into your tribe and share your learnings in a fun and exciting way.

Design ENG with Farah Ismail

5 Key Elements of Facilitation Design

The Coronavirus outbreak has got us all to connect with nature and recognize the need for balance. How can we link this to facilitation design? How might we thoughtfully apply 5 elements to the design and enrich the experience of the group? Join in to experience a creative, thought provoking and easy to use framework to apply to your facilitated sessions and meetings. In the session, we will:
– Explore a metaphoric framework to apply to your workshops or meeting designs
– Increase your confidence and ease in designing your next workshop or meeting.
Farah Ismail is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and Executive Coach (ICF) with more than 25 years of experience in the field of leadership and cross cultural competence development. She has shaped her career starting with the Aviation industry in the Middle East, the IT and services boom in India, to Learning and Development in a new liberalized economy. She is the Founder and Principal of Interact Consulting, and is passionate about helping leaders rise to the challenges of leadership. She believes that everyone has the potential to make a difference and her role is to inspire change and realize this potential.

inside-out ENG with Mary-Alice Arthur

Awaken and activate your practice

Your story is your foundation for being — the roadmap for enabling your purpose in the world. Step one is discovering and cultivating the story of your most flourishing future. Get clear about where you are and where you want to be. Your story acts as a beacon for you to follow in the world and for others to find you.
Your hosting is your foundation for action — how you work with others towards your  story taking root in the world. Step two is creating the capacity to activate and empower your stories to life. Living into and living out your story brings it into the world. How you take action, especially with others, matters.
People tell me I am a powerful synthesiser and meaningmaker, and that they value my insight and ability to make the complex understandable, the simple profound and the pathway clear. People often say they love my stories, feel faith in groups again and feel well and wisely held. Mary-Alice Arthur

Essentials ENG with Malin Morén and Trevor Durnford

Impact! The real power of Facilitation!

“Show us what methods you know!”, the client said. “Well, that depends on your goals”, we responded. “Tell us about your needs and what you want to achieve to start with. Then we can suggest a process that help you achieve the outcomes in an effective way.”
To be more focussed on how sessions are designed than what the outcomes are, or, wanting to entertain groups in workshops as the main purpose can be a trap for facilitators and clients. Of course engagement, involvement and fun during sessions are essential. The end game for facilitators is however always to make it more easy for a group to reach outcomes and take action. In this session, we will focus on what happens as a result of your facilitation, and on the initial, magic interactions with clients, where the road to successful interventions begin.
Malin Morén and Trevor Durnford are both Certified Professional Facilitators and members of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). Trevor is also a FIA Gold Award winner and Malin is a member of the IAF Hall of Fame. Originally from Sweden and the UK, they today live in Uruguay from where they work with clients all over the world.

Peer-to-peer SWE Naima Clevenhag och Pontus Holmgren

Nära samarbete på distans – stora möten online

Vi utvecklar vår förmåga att facilitera kreativa, lustfyllda och samtidigt effektiva digitala möten. Stora möten är något som vi i Gro har jobbat en hel del med under de senaste åren och här delar Pontus Holmgren och Naima Clevenhag med sig av sina erfarenheter av hur vi gör dessa online. Hur skapar man en upplevelse av närhet trots att man är 50 eller 200 personer som möts bakom skärmar? Detta är en workshop där vi delar med oss av våra bästa tips och tillsammans upplever och provar olika möjligheter som den digitala arenan ger för stora möten.
Mål: Utforska hur vi kan behålla och utveckla effektivitet, samarbete och kreativitet på våra stora möten online.

Short break to get back to main room

ENG with Mary-Alice Arthur

Collecting your gems

Large group facilitated session to connect, share, learn and build community.

Stories ENG

Facilitation Difference-Makers!

Let’s discover the small things that make all the difference! Hear from Josh Lenn, Elena Wallén-Björkenäng & Pär Skoglund Findquist & Mary-Alice Arthur in three mini keynotes from the world of facilitation.

ENG

Check-out: Summary and close of the day

Thursday September 24

Inside-out SWE with Sara Sjöblom

Meditation

För att komma nära varandra på distans behöver vi först komma nära oss själv. Rensa lite, hitta närvaron och fokuset. Var med oss i en meditation innan du går in i faciliteringsdagarna.
Vi har en kort introduktion och sen sitter vi i 20 min.
Kommer du in senare i meditationen är det bara att hänga på.
Meditationen leds av Sara Sjöblom på Vindöga. Sara är utbildad mindfulnessinstruktör och yogalärare.

Technical check-in

This is the time to check your connection, your sound and your image. We will support if needed.
Bring your coffee/lunch and see who is there.

ENG with Chris, Malin and Jonas

Introduction to the day

Welcome and welcome back.
Introduction and practicalities of the day
Large group facilitated session

Short break to transfer to your session

Essentials ENG with Michael Wilkinson

The Secrets of Facilitation

Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for a ride! In this session, the dynamic author of The Secrets of Facilitation will guide you through a preview of his comprehensive methodology for facilitating groups, task forces, strategy teams and other sessions that require groups to come together to achieve a common end.
You will learn:
– The five Ps of preparation
– The four keys for grabbing people’s hearts and souls at the start
– Two important strategies for keeping the group focused and on track
– The surprising secret to phrasing questions so you get a bonfire of responses
– The four-step formula for resolving dysfunction
– The three reasons people disagree and strategies for resolving each
– The secret to using Level 3 energy to transform a group
Michael Wilkinson is the CEO and Managing Director of Leadership Strategies, Inc. – the largest provider of professional facilitators and facilitation-related training in the U.S. He is widely recognized as one of the foremost leaders in the facilitation industry.
Active in both the private and public sectors, he has provided leadership training and strategy development assistance to such diverse organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, Unisys, EPA, CDC, KPMG Peat Marwick, and the American Cancer Society.  He has facilitated more than 200 strategy sessions for major corporations, large government agencies, and a variety of non-profit organizations
Mr. Wilkinson is a much sought after facilitator, trainer and speaker, both in the U.S. and around the globe. He has completed international assignments in more than 25 locations including Beijing, Geneva, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Milan, Moscow, Riyadh, Stockholm, Sydney, Vienna, and Warsaw.
Prior to Leadership Strategies, Mr. Wilkinson spent six years with ADP and eight years in the information technology practice of Ernst & Young’s Management Consulting Group.  He is a High Honors graduate from Dartmouth and resides in Atlanta.

Online ENG with Thomas Herrmann

Open Space online

Open Space Technology (OST) is a large group method used around the world since 1985. In this session you will learn how OST can be used for online meetings for groups of 5-1000!
Working in an Open Space meeting invites the full potential of the group/organization. Every topic that is important enough will get on the agenda which is empty/not planned at the start of the meeting! Everything is connected since an OST meeting has a clear purpose and a pre-determined theme. The agenda is created by the participants who form self-managed workgroups. Everyone works with topics of their own choice and can choose to move on to another group at any time. The “engines” that make it work are the passion and responsibility present in the group.
The facilitator is fully present but totally invisible most of the meeting. She/he has some key responsibilities such as introducing the participants to this way of working…and then stay out of the way. During the final part of the meeting the facilitator guides the group in some sort of convergence. Usually action plans are made before leaving the room/space.
We will invite our participants to do some pre-work, watching a video or two or read some materials. This is especially important if you are new to Open Space  Technology and wish to have maximum benefit from this workshop.
Thomas Herrmann “bumped into Open Space Technology” in 1998 and immediately fell in love. Since then he has worked together with the most experienced persons around the world including Harrison Owen (inventor of OST) and Birgitt Williams founder of the International Genuine Contact Organization.
Thomas has facilitated many hundred OST conferences with groups up to 700 persons. He has taught “Working with OST” for almost 20 years to several hundred participants around the world in both public and inhouse workshops. Thomas is a pioneer in using OST in online environments, starting already 15 years ago it is a very natural way to work for him. Now it’s a good time to share this knowledge!

Creativity SWE med Helen Lindahl och Calle Stenlund

Fyll ditt online möte med energi och kreativitet

I denna workshop är övningarna främst hämtade från improvisationsteaterns värld. Övningarna är utvalda och anpassade så att du kan använda dem i din roll som facilitator på digitala möten. Alla möten (både fysiska och digitala) behöver variation, kreativitet och energi.  Övningarna under workshopen kan bl a användas för att skapa närvaro vid incheckningen, för att komma igång efter paus, eller som kreativitetshöjare . Du kan också behöva ha övningar i bakfickan när gruppen är trött, spänd eller ofokuserad.
Välkommen till workshopen: Fyll ditt onlinemöte med kreativitet och energi och lek dig till en ny kompetens!
Aktör Edutainment drivs av  Helen Lindahl, Sofia Czinkoczky och Calle Stenlund. Vi använder humor och skådespeleri för att utveckla organisationer. Vi erbjuder gestaltning inom områden som bemötande, ledarskap och kommunikation. Med oss får ni upplevelser som  kombinerar humor med allvar, ett oslagbart sätt att engagera och skapa förändring. Vi som arbetar på Aktör Edutainment är skådespelare, manusförfattare och pedagoger med  improvisation och interaktiv teater som specialitet. Alla våra uppdrag skräddarsys efter kundens behov, såväl film, teater och kreativa seminarier.

Inside-out SWE med Lennart Wärmlind, Greta Rask och Bodil Björnberg

Skapa närhet med fysisk distans…

…genom att aktivera alla sinnen online
I virtuella möten kan vi bli huvudfotingar, med händerna på tangentbordet och ögonen på skärmen. Vi riskerar att förlora kontakten både med oss själva och människorna vi möter och når inte mötets potential. Kan virtuella möten erbjuda nya möjligheter till närhet? Och vad blir till och med lättare när vi möts så? I den här workshopen bjuder vi in till att utforska olika sätt att skapa närvaro, kontakt och kreativitet genom att aktivera alla sinnen online, trots eller tack vare fysisk distans.
Greta, Bodil och Lennart är kursledare på Gestaltakademins utbildning Självorganiserande Ledarskap, och har mångårig erfarenhet av att facilitera möten och samarbetsprocesser online.

Share and connect + coffee break

Get into your tribe and share your learnings in a fun and exiting way.

Inside-out ENG with Anna Gullstrand

Values that create a safe space – and how to act them out

What do you as a facilitator value when you facilitate, and how can you make sure those values shows in your behaviors? In this workshop we will explore what is important to you and to the participants to be able to reach the group’s full potential. And we will be super concrete and create the actual behaviors and communication that walk the talk. The starting point is our brains and the social needs we all have when interacting in a group setting.
Anna Gullstrand is an experienced leader and facilitator, and VP People of Mentimeter. The workshop is based on her recently published book ”Facilitera – Allt du behöver veta för att framgångsrikt leda människor i workshops”. The session will be in English and is suitable for all levels of experience.

Inside-out SWE med Sara Sjöblom och Jonas Roth Sjöblom

Yoda som facilitator – frigör gruppens visdom och kraft

Som facilitator behöver du behärska många verktyg och metoder. Ta reda på målet och syftet med din facilitering. Planera och designa ett bra upplägg. Ha en medveten kommunikation och förmåga att skapa relationer.
Och, facilitering handlar också om ditt förhållningssätt. Vilket tillstånd befinner du dig i som facilitator? Vilket tillstånd låter du dina deltagare befinna sig i?
I denna workshop kommer du komma i kontakt med olika bikaraktärer du har som facilitator: Egorollen, expertrollen och den vise rollen. Vi tänkte fördjupa oss i och vägleda oss till att komma i kontakt med den visa delen av oss själva. Där har vi fri tillgång till vår inre kraft som kan frigöra gruppens fulla visdom och potential.
Sara och Jonas är båda Certified Professional Facilitators och har arbetat med facilitering under hela 2000-talet. Välkomna!

New approach ENG with Jeffer London

Facilitating Better Dialogue

Better conversations bring better decisions. But most team’s struggle to have constructive dialogue. In this session, you will get a way to:
– Let teams discover how to improve their dialogue
– Use a simple approach that improves conversation
– Share dialogue insights with teams around the world
We have been collecting a lot of data on what makes conversations better – but not many people want to hear about the best practices for dialogue. That’s why we designed this session as a Dialogue Experiment– an exercise that lets you get into interaction, and then see what is helped or blocked the dialogue.
Our hope is for you to help other people to enter into conversation on any topic, and be able to use this debriefing approach to generate better questions, better exploration and better outcomes for your teams. Dialogue Experiments are led by people like you. Have a peek at #stimulatingconveration to see what #helpsdialogue in the Stimulating Conversation Project.
PRIZES: We will give away three of Stimulating Conversation dice sets.
BONUS: All participants will receive The Tiny Book of Dialogue.
Jeffer London is on the board of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). His services focus on the facilitation of conversations within management teams, strategic forums and large community events – on innovation, strategy and work culture. Jeffer is the founder of the Stimulating Conversation project and conducts research on dialogue and the way people work together. Based in Brussels, working globally, to promote the power of facilitation. @jefferlondon

Peer-to-peer ENG with Mike van der Vijver

Informal Communications when Working Remotely

Office life will not be the same again: many people are working from home and they are unlikely to return to their offices for 5 days. The cautious trend towards remote working has now swept ruthlessly across almost all medium to large organizations. This has had and will continue to have an enormous effect on the way their staff communicate. So what? You may ask. Online we can accomplish exactly the same things we did before. In fact, in many cases it is even more effective and efficient.
At the same time, however, we know that there is a gap between live and online communications. Probably the biggest difference is in informal communications: chit-chat, gossip, quick questions and answers. They lubricate processes such as informal learning, alignment, motivation, companionship, leadership. And ultimately, these informal communications shape the organisational culture – they are an essential part of ”how we do things here”.
This session will zoom in on the impact of this communication shift. We will investigate 4 themes around the topic: positive and negative impact; resistance against formalising informal communications; differences between individuals and the consequences for organizations; and solutions. For each theme, we will start with some first ideas on how to tackle the topic and then explore the best ideas together in peer-to-peer learning. For meetings and the way they are facilitated will play a major role in how leaders will navigate though this different communications landscape. What can facilitators tell them to help them along?
Mike van der Vijver is a facilitator, moderator and chairman of the day at meetings and alternatively provides content and training on topics such as meeting effectiveness, innovative meeting formats, facilitation and especially Meeting Design. In addition he works with culture – national or organisational – as a management and leadership tool.

Short break to get back to main room

ENG

Building our collective wisdom

Large group facilitated session to connect, share, learn and build community.

Stories ENG

The Future of Facilitation

Where is this world taking us? Hear from Chris Hogan, Tamara Eberle and Hedvig Mossvall in three mini keynotes from the field and practice of facilitation.

ENG

Check-out: Summary and close of the conference