A 2- DAY EVENT ON DIALOGUE AND THINKING TOGETHER.

Learn to get unstuck at crucial moments and surface the best in others during conversations that matter most to you.

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What ?
A 2-day workshop on creating connection, getting unstuck at crucial moments and surfacing practical collective wisdom in conversations that matter the most to you.

Get involved, join the movement and make a difference in the world with conversations that matter.

Participant Fee ?
Corporate Workshops @ $965pp (minimum 12pax) Available everywhere for organisations wanting to shift the culture of conversation and collaboration. Public Workshops @ $365pp (minimum 30pax) Available in selected cities on weekends for people who want to make a difference in the world.

Note: All rates exclude GST. Public workshops are BYO food, water bottle and snacks.

Contact Us
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We want to shift the culture of conversations.

Research shows that we routinely get stuck in patterns of talking nice, talking tough or not talking at all about the big issues that affect our lives, our workplaces and society. Imagine the impact if this changed.

So we invite you to a 2-day intensive learning experience to move beyond everyday habits of conversation and collaboration, and get into more transformative forms of dialogue, reading the room and thinking together.
What would this mean for your capacity to influence change around the most pressing problems and crucial issues affecting your team, organisation, industry or community?

Grounded in the theory and practice from some of the worlds best, we offer a program that engages all your senses, not just your mind, in a learning experience that is made to stick.

Learn how to? Create conditions for building relatedness and Get unstuck at crucial moments when people Read group dynamics and unlock stuck patterns Amplify shared understanding and collective Cultivate unconditional positive regard and Design participative processes for teams and Shift from thinking alone to thinking together.
groups. mutual respect. sense-making. of interaction. blow-up or clam-up. making it safe to speak-up.

THE CURRICULUM
CREATING CONNECTION
HIGHEST PURPOSE Get to the heart of the matter by starting with your highest purpose and cultivating a mindful presence. CLARIFY CONTEXT Generate a clear sense of purpose, intention, form and process for coming together. MONITOR CLIMATE Develop telescopic observation to spot signs of downward spirals, blowups, shutdowns and unmet needs. GET UNSTUCK Seek permission, clarify purpose, name observations, reflect together and ask whats possible.

BUILDING SHARED UNDERSTANDING

RESPECTING STORY Cultivate unconditional positive regard by deeply understanding personal stories and paradoxes. SUSPENDING THOUGHT Recognise pathologies of human thought and what we can do through practicing mindfulness. GENERATIVE LISTENING Learn to access frames of listening and inquiry that transform relatedness and meaning-making. FINDING YOUR VOICE Appreciate others, speak to purpose, make assumptions available and check for understanding.

READING GROUP DYNAMICS

FIELDS OF CONVERSATION Learn to distinguish, navigate and transition between four different fields of conversation. PATTERNS OF ACTION Read the room by getting visibility on the Four Player Archetypes and naming patterns of action. STRUCTURAL TRAPS Identify hidden language and value systems that are impacting relatedness and understanding. SHADOW WORK Attend to hidden aspects of ego and interior condition through your impacts and inner experiences.

HOSTING CONVERSATIONS
THE INVITATION Create a sincere invitation that sets context, clarifies intent, shapes inquiry and attracts others. ESSENTIAL AGREEMENTS Learn to introduce groups to dialogue practices that foster relatedness and mutual learning. PARTICIPATIVE DESIGN Use principles and methods from the Art of Hosting to design participative processes for groups. POWERFUL QUESTIONS Design powerful questions that evoke fresh inquiry, reflection and sense-making.

THE AGENDA
Day 1 Forget regular classrooms.
We dont want to drown you in slides and talk at you all day with case studies. We want to engage all your senses, not just your mind, to create learning experiences that stick.
12.30 1.00 1.00 5.00 8.00 8.30 8.30 12.30 Register Creating Connection: Safety & Relatedness Highest Purpose Clarify Context Monitor Climate Get Unstuck Lunch Reading Group Dynamics: Predictive Intuition Fields of Conversation Patterns of Action Structural Traps Shadow Work 5.00 6.00 Reflections 12.30 1.00 1.00 5.00

Day 2
8.00 8.30 8.30 12.30 Arrive Building Shared Understanding: Thinking Together Respecting Story Suspending Thought Generative Listening Finding Your Voice Lunch Hosting Conversations: Wisdom, Alignment & Commitment The Invitation Essential Agreements Participative Design Powerful Questions 5.00 6.00 Reflections

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THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Group Coaching

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Bring an open mind and prepare for plenty of inquiry, reflection and practice that takes you to your learning edge. Our workshops involve challenging paradigms, inner reflection, learningby-doing and real-time feedback in practice zones that will prepare you for the conversations that practice zones matter most.

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THE THEORY
For those of you who are curious, here is a window into the sources of theory and research behind our practice.
Our theory and practice of dialogue has been mostly informed by Dr David Bohm (On Dialogue), Dr Bill Isaacs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Dialogue & The Art of Thinking Together), Dr David Kantor (Reading the Room) and Dr Otto Scharmer at MIT (Theory U). We also lean on other thought leaders in the field of dialogue, such as Amanda Ridings (Pause For Breath), Christina Baldwin & Ann Linnea (The Circle Way), Nancy Kline (More Time to Think) and Dr Marshall Rosenberg (Non Violent Communication). Along the way additional sources of influence have included Dr Meg Wheatley (Leadership & The New Science), Dr Peter Senge at MIT (Presence), Doug Silsbee (Presence-Based Coaching), Pema Chodron, Dr Kabbat Zinn, Dr Daniel Siegel, Dr Richard Tarnas (The Passion of The Western Mind) and Peter Block (Community). For the module on Monitor Climate we draw on neuroscience research and the SCARF framework by Dr David Rock. All of the modules in Reading Group Dynamics: Predictive Intuition are based on Dr David Kantors approach. However, in the module on Structural Traps we also weave in insights from Geert Hofstede and Robert House on the eight dimensions of cross-cultural values and language systems. The whole section on Building Shared Understanding: Thinking Together pulls out the essence of Dr Bill Isaacs wisdom in Dialogue & The Art of Thinking Together. For those of you who want dive further into the principles and practices of thinking together, we also encourage you to reach into Amanda Ridings fine book (Pause For Breath) and Nancy Klines research explained in More Time to Think. For the practices of Suspending Thought, we incorporate additional ideas from Dr Dan Siegel, Dr Kabbat Zinn, Doug Silsbee, Pema Chodron and Dr Meg Wheatley. The final section on Hosting Conversations That Matter integrates the common body of knowledge around participatory processes known as The Art of Hosting (AoH). The AoH includes World Caf (Juanita Brown), Circle Practice (Baldwin & Linnea), Theory U (Scharmer & Senge), Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology and other methods. In this workshop we focus predominantly on the research and practice that underpins World Caf and Circle Practice; two mature approaches with well developed, publicly available resources that participants can apply immediately into their workplaces and communities. In a different program, we go more extensively into all the Art of Hosting methods. The last module on Powerful Questions is based predominantly on the work by Eric Vogt, Juanita Brown and Meg Wheatley.

More than just getting through difficult or adversarial conversations , we go beyond into other territories of more transformative thinking , listening and talking together.

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YOUR HOSTS

Michael Hann
Michael has worked in more than 20 countries around the world, facilitating high performance team programs, complex multi-stakeholder processes and large-scale collaboration initiatives for industries and communities. He brings extensive experience in the fields of dialogue and participatory processes, with a particular interest in fostering transformative thinking and wiser collective action across diverse networks of stakeholders who are shaping new futures together. Michael is known for unlocking stuck patterns of interaction, expanding the pool of shared understanding and fostering wiser collective action across traditional stakeholder boundaries.

Graham Richardson
Graham has been working with top teams for over twelve years. He is passionate about launching powerful leaders who can make a difference to others and the world around them. Before executive coaching, Grahams corporate career included managing director, board and senior executive positions in marketing and advertising across Europe, the Americas and Asia. He worked for three of the worlds top advertising agencies, serving some of worlds leading brands. Grahams executive presence allows him to interact with very senior clients as their coach, mentor and facilitator. He is known for his challenging style and enormous empathy. He lives and breathes in a world of life changing conversations.

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ABOUT US
The People Shift your patterns of...
More Than Just Talk was created by Michael Hann and Graham Richardson.

Our Purpose

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Today the world needs a diversity of ideas to thrive and flourish as we move through major economic, political, social and ecological transitions. Innovation depends on inquiry into diverse and different ideas. However, in contemporary culture, organisations, politics and society are quick to limit those who have very different ideas. We routinely see patterns of people blowing-up or shutting-down. We blame, label and attack. Or we withdraw and withhold. Sometimes it is very subtle, sometimes obvious and aggressive. We regularly get stuck in patterns of talking nice, talking tough or not talking at all. It is so pervasive in todays culture that people experience it every day. Shifting these patterns of thinking, listening and talking is at the centre of our purpose. We want to create a world where people can expand the pools of shared understanding, relatedness and possibility between them, particularly when there are diverse perspectives and opposing opinions.

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OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMS

We have three core programs that will expand your capacity to hold transformative conversations. They are designed for people who want to enhance relationships and results in their life, with friends, families and colleagues. And they are for people who are involved in sensitive and high stakes conversations about changing the world around them.

1 More Than Just Talk

Conversations That Matter This workshop is for professionals who want to expand their capacity for creating connection, getting unstuck at crucial moments and surfacing practical collective wisdom in conversations that matter the most to them.

2 Team Conversations
Dialogue for Smarter Teams This workshop is for teams who want to discuss undisscussables, shift everyday habits of interaction and transform their capacity to think, listen and talk together about the issues that are affecting them most. Learn to embed the principles and practices of dialogue on your team whilst addressing sensitive, difficult and high stakes issues.

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The Art of Hosting

Collaborating Across Boundaries A workshop for people who are organising, designing and hosting collaborative processes for problem solving and innovation. Use dialogue and large-group methods to foster breakthrough collective thinking and unprecedented cooperation across traditional stakeholder boundaries.

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IT ' S TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE ...

Michael Hann +61 410 505 925 michael@morethanjusttalk.co Graham Richardson +61 418 777 474 graham@morethanjusttalk.co

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