Meeet Mitte, Friday, 21.04.2017, 10.00 am – 5.30 pm:
What is leadership in this moment?
When we look through the lens of interdependency, it is impossible to separate individuals from their contexts of influence and experience. This blurs the ‘hero’s story.’
Dramatic societal transformation is taking place around the globe, and the urge to help steer this transformation toward a healthier future is strong. How do current ideas of leadership both confirm and conflict with our desire to create positive change? Systemic leadership is a process of intellectual stretching, emotional complexity, and linguistic renovation.
Leadership is an evolving process and, as such, our understanding of what leadership is must evolve in accordance. In the past the world understood leadership as the great deeds of heroes, but now we are in another phase of global transition that requires an understanding of leadership based on our understanding of interdependency. This is where the paradox comes in.
Each person filters their experience through the particular frame of their own lives. There are no two of us that perceive identical worlds. And yet…Is there a part of any of us that we can point to and truly say, “that is me, untouched or influenced by any of my history, my culture, education, family, religion, social life…”? Unlikely. Our task is not to solve this paradox, but to discover the productive openings within it.
In our session on leadership we will have presentations, story, discussion, exercises and the Symmathesy Lab to become familiar with the paradox.
Two new terms we will be exploring are:
Symmathesy: An entity forming within contexts of mutual learning (a characteristic of any complex system).
Transcontextual description: The process of description to illustrate the many contexts that co-exist (in any complex system).
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Nora Bateson – Filmmaker, writer, educator. lecturer President of the International Bateson Institute, Sweden, USA
Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”. An international lecturer, researcher and writer, Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles released by Triarchy Press, UK, 2016 is a revolutionary personal approach to the study of systems and complexity.
As an educator she has developed curricula for schools in Northern California, and produced and directed award winning multimedia projects on intercultural and ecological understanding. Her work, which has been presented at the world’s top universities, is described as “offering audiences a lens through which to see the world that affects not only the way we see, but also the way we think”. Nora’s work in facilitating cross-disciplinary discussions is part of her research into what she calls, “the ecology of the conversation”. Her speaking engagements include keynote addresses and lectures at international conferences and universities on a wide range of topics that span the fields of anti-fascism, ecology, education, the arts, family therapy, leadership and many more aspects of advocacy for living systems– she travels between conversations in different fields bringing multiple perspectives into view to reveal larger patterns. She was featured in the Systemic Leadership Summit of 2016.
Memberships and awards: Chairman International Bateson Institute. Associate of The Taos Institute. Board Member: Human Systems Journal of Systemic Practice, Tallberg Foundation, Fellow of Lindisfarne Foundation, Bateson Idea Group (BIG), Club of Rome, Great Transition Foundation, Human Potential Foundation, Awards: Sustainable Thompkins Ecology Award, Winner Spokane Film Festival, Winner Santa Cruz Film Festival, Media Ecology Award.
Further information: bateson.institute@gmail.com
http://www.internationalbatesoninstitute.org
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Date: Friday, 21st of April 2017, 10.00 am – 5.30 pm
Price:
Early Bird: 195,00 Euro (if you buy until 17th of March)
Standard Ticket: 225,00 Euro (registration ends at 20th of April)
All prices excluding fees and taxes!
Place: Meeet-Mitte,Chausseestr. 86, 10115 Berlin-Mitte, U6 Schwarzkopffstraße
Tickets are available under: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/the-paradox-of-leadership-with-nora-bateson-tickets-31178729419
Copyright: Banner: Meeet AG, Portrait: with kind permission of Nora Bateson