Flawless Consulting workshop with Peter Block and Symphonia Leadership Development

“Flawless Consulting” is often called ‘The Consultant’s Bible’. It is the ultimate guide to getting your expertise used, whether you are an internal or external consultant!   Being a true consultant doesn’t just happen, anymore than quality just happens.  It has to be learned. Quality consulting means partnering equally with line management and clients.  Valuing the relationship between consultant and client and defining how to manage that relationship is where Flawless Consulting has found its niche!

“Block has distilled years of experience into a wise, down-to-earth, and eminently practical guide to excellence in consulting. If you are new to the practice, Flawless Consulting will chop years off your learning cycle. And even if you’re an old pro, Block’s insights will elevate you to new levels of effectiveness. Flawless Consulting is not simply about becoming a better consultant; it is about using consulting as a path toward becoming a better person.” (Barry Oshry, president, Power & Systems, Inc., author of Seeing Systems and Leading Systems)

Who should attend?

This is for anyone who does consulting, even if you don’t call yourself a ‘consultant’.  You are consulting any time you are trying to change or improve a situation but have no direct control over the implementation.  Don’t miss this opportunity to build consulting capability within your organisation and within South Africa.    This is a unique opportunity to meet and engage with the guide and mentor of tens of thousands of consultants around the world.

Workshop dates and venues:

Johannesburg
Date:   Thursday, 4th March
Time:    09:00 – 12:00
(Registration: 08h30)
Venue:  Isisango, Midrand
Cost:   R350.00 vat excl

Cape Town
Date:   Friday, 5th March
Time:    09:00 – 12:00
(Registration: 08h30)
Venue:  Schoenstatt Training Centre, Constantia
Cost:   R350.00 vat excl

Community Building workshop with Peter Block and Symphonia for South Africa

This workshop is about the nature of real transformation and what kind of leadership is required to achieve it.

Transformation is a shift in the nature of things. It promises a culture of chosen accountability, authentic commitment, and stronger social fabric; all elements of a strong community.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the conditions under which transformation can occur
  • Define leadership as listening, convening, invitation, and the triumph of questions over answers
  • Understand the importance of community and how it is created
  • Demonstrate in this session the principles of community being discussed
  • Ways to design gatherings so that transformation can occur
  • Learn conversations that will lead toward a future different from the past

Who should attend?

Business and community leaders and others who are committed to making a contribution to strengthen the fabric of South African Society.

Workshop dates and venues:

JHB: All Saints Church in Fourways – 2nd & 3rd March

CT: Schoenstatt Retreat & Training Centre in Constantia – 8th & 9th March

DURBAN: Saints Hospitality Conference Centre in Sydenham – 10th & 11th March

Contact details:
Person:   Johleen
Tel:   021 913 3507
Email:   johleen@symphonia.net

Hope to see you at one of the workshops. By the way, these workshops in the USA are usually in the thousands of dollars, so these are really bargin prices, use the opportunity!

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Here is a workshop that may interest you. It is being run by two very good friends of mine, and it promises to be a first-class event.

Find the Storyteller inside

Telling stories as a lure to the future is an ancient strategy of sages, philosophers and great religious leaders. – Diarmuid O’Murchu

This workshop will show you how to ritualise and energize your life though engaging with stories – those of your own and of others. Climb inside stories and tell them from the inside. Listen to them, Shape them. Taste them on your tongue. Reconnect to creativity, memory and imagination. This workshop experience will energize you. You will get a clearer understanding of how we construct our lives as fiction and how this can release us into a more abundant life. You’ll emerge with stories in your heart and on your lips.

Storyshop Programme

Week 1: The Why of Stories

The power of storytelling to send us travelling and bring us home.

Week 2: Archetypal Stories

Myths and Fairy tales – the story underneath the story.

Shapes, patterns and rituals. Engaging symbols.

Week 3: Sourcing Stories through observation

Listen with the ear in your chest. (Rumi)

Inner and outer looking. Our looking ripens things. (Rilke)

Week 4: Structure your own Stories

Story stones to step on: the symmetry of a tale. Beginnings and endings.

Week 5: Practical: telling Stories

How to tell a story: how to breathe, climb inside it; ‘if you can’t see it, you can’t tell it’.

Make up stories, finding your voice, your silences.

Fabric and fabrication.

Week 6: The Circle and the Fire – A celebration of Story telling

Participants tell and receive stories.

The Joy and Call of Stories Will:

  • explain the power of storytelling
  • give you an understanding of how stories work
  • give you practical tools to work with in the telling of stories
  • help you develop the ability to tell a good story
  • ignite your creativity and imagination

Facilitators

Dorian Haarhoff is a storyteller, writer, mentor and a former Professor of Literature. He is passionate about developing innate creativity and imagination. He believes that stories can heal, build communities and create new worlds.

Kirsten Pearson is a Dialogue facilitator, published poet and the volunteer Project Lead for the Movement for Sharing Life Stories. She promotes story telling as a way to support change, create new realities and transform the potential of our future.

Who will benefit from attending:

Writers, storytellers, readers, travelers, lovers of words, images, silences…therapists, artists, spiritual seekers, coaches, teachers, magicians, tricksters, ecologists…anyone who wants to raise their story IQ.

Dates

  • Saturday, 26 September 09: 14:00 – 17:00
  • Saturday, 03 October 09: 14:00 – 17:00
  • Saturday, 10 October 09: 14:00 – 17:00
  • Saturday, 17 October 09: 14:00 – 17:00
  • Saturday, 24 October 09: 14:00 – 17:00
  • Saturday, 31 October: 14:00 – 17:00

Venue

Novalis Ubuntu Institute – 39 Rosmead Avenue, Wynberg (a white domed building between Wetton and Ottery Road)

Cost

R900.00 (or R150 per week)

Should you wish to pay in instalments of R150 per week, that option is available.

To register

To book, contact Kirsten Pearson on 021 461 3145 or email: kirstenpea@gmail.com

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