Moving U

Moving U – A Theory U Workshop to Transform your Team
In the face of a tidal wave of new thinking about decision-making, leadership, strategy and
innovation, some businesses and many individual managers and leaders know that
things need to change radically. Piecemeal change is not enough. Teams, divisions
and entire organisations must reinvent themselves. Somewhere in this tidal
wave (some of it incomprehensible, some unthinkable) lies the solution.
Embodying Mindfulness in Organisational Decision-Making
Managing the Organisational Shadow Side
You’re probably familiar with many of these terms and their
Myth and Story Telling in Business
creators: Peter Senge, Daniel Goleman, Charles Handy, Fritjof
Self-Transcending Knowledge
Capra, Warren Bennis, Gary Hamel, Otto Scharmer and others…
Transformational Leadership
But do you have the time, skills and resources to implement
Organisational Intelligence
Organisational Awareness any of them? In our experience, if you’re going to get to grips
Transformational Enquiry with them you need to have the skills of a:
Wisdom in Organisations Negotiator ~ Psychotherapist ~ Meditator ~ Coach ~ Mediator ~
The T-Shaped Enterprise Charismatic ~ NLP master ~ Theatre director ~ Clairvoyant
Learning Organisations
The Triple Bottom Line Bodies in Business can’t give you all these skills. Nor can we distil
Aesthetics in Business
the collected wisdom of all the writers and theories mentioned here to
Emotional Intelligence
single out the solution to your team’s particular concerns or challenges.
Participative Enquiry
The Fifth Discipline What we can do at a Moving U workshop is to help you set in motion
Servant Leadership the process of transforming the whole way your team works together.
Complexity Theory
Clumsy Solutions The process we follow is, broadly speaking, that of Otto Scharmer’s Theory U.
Systems Thinking In this process we emphasise ‘the social field’ – which is the wider environment.
Situated Learning
We shift attention away from the individual, the group or the organisation
Spiritual Enquiry
and become aware of each individual present in the group, of the group in the
Neuroleadership
organisation and of the organisation in its social, cultural and physical environment.
Open Innovation
Triarchy Theory
While we will think and talk about this process, the main vocabulary that
Cultural Theory
we use is that of movement. Not dancing or acrobatics but walking, sitting,
Action Enquiry
Synchronicity arriving, leaving, leaning, lying. Simple movements that we all perform every
Stewardship day. Why do we use movement? Our experience is that it will often bypass our
Presencing usual thoughts, ideas and prejudices. It opens possibilities and offers an effective
Phronesis way of changing our habitual patterns of thinking, relating and working together.
Theory U
[For more on Theory U, see www.theoryu.com]
Who are the workshops for?
Our workshops are designed for a team (which may be a board of directors or a project team or a
regular work team) who work together closely and consistently (though they may be geographically
widespread) – so that the team will together attend the workshop and together build on it afterwards.
You may be facing a particular problem or set of challenges or you may simply be looking for new
resources for dealing with the usual challenges. You may be up against the wall in the economic crisis
and needing innovative thinking to save your business. Or you may be finding recurring problems in
working together. Or you may find that, as a team, you’re feeling stuck or running out of energy. Or
you may be hugely successful and still wanting to innovate.
What happens?
Of course, much of what happens is up to you. But, using the structures of Theory U, we invite you to:
• Witness yourself, your condition and your situation – simply slowing down, experiencing how
things are without jumping to conclusions or bringing any previous judgements to bear
• Let go of established habits, patterns and prejudices
• Open mind, heart and will to sense ‘how it is’ and ‘how it could be’
• Use Presencing to widen potential and turn letting go into letting come
• Crystallise vision and intention
This workshop will help you address issues in new ways; if you’re facing intractable problems, it will
help you work together at a deeper level to resolve them. We use movement alongside Theory U and
Presencing to help us access resources that we might tend to discount in the working environment.
Depending on your starting point, this process may seem necessary and obvious or ridiculous claptrap.
We will simply ask you to try it anyway. Then we suggest you take the process back to your workplace
and just keep practising it.
Why Bodies in Business?

We are not Accenture or PwC. But the kind of change we’re talking about requires transformational
thinking, practices and structures. The old order may not be best placed to deliver that kind of
transformation. Our experience brings together a range of skills:
Joy Kearney has worked as a Andrew Carey has been writing Sandra Reeve is a movement artist,
management and OD consultant for about organisation, management teacher, Senior Registered Dance
20 years. She designs and delivers and leadership theory since 1983. Movement Psychotherapist and
senior management development He led a teambuilding company director. She lectures on movement,
programmes and works closely (The Elephant of Surprise) for leads workshops on her Move into
with senior teams in FTSE 500 several years, works as a psycho- Life practice, works with groups,
companies and in the NHS. Her therapist and is a publisher at individuals and organisations to
specialities include facilitation, Triarchy Press (whose authors help them expand their movement
teambuilding, change management, include Russ Ackoff, John Seddon vocabulary. Her work and recent
coaching and negotiation skills. Joy and Michael Thompson). He PhD on The Ecological Body draw on
is also a Registered Dance recently wrote an account of the Buddhist mindfulness principles,
Movement Psychotherapist and Project Red Stripe innovation Javanese Amerta movement and
works with myth and gestalt. programme at The Economist. Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘poor theatre’.
What’s the deal?
We’ve developed the 3-day Moving U workshop to help your team transform itself. Before we sell it, we’d like to
prototype it. So we give our time and skills free of charge and ask you to give your time, open minds and
constructive reaction free of charge. You leave the workshop having crystallised the possibility of transformation
in your team. We get invaluable feedback to help us take the workshop to other (paying!) clients.
Interested? Please visit:

www.BodiesinBusiness.org
[email protected] ~ 07860 261355 (Joy) ~ 01297 560511 (Sandra)

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