Stepping Into Your Transformational Agency (SITA)

Workshop Overview

In this four-and-a-half-day online workshop led by Grove CEO Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., you will explore how to embrace the unknown and inevitable destabilization that any real change brings with it. Tap into your own and the transformational agency of those you are working with, and find individual and organizational renewal. Along with the other participants, you will consider important distinctions between types and drivers of change and how the core patterns of change unfold across levels of systems.

You will be able to appreciate the competencies of working with the uncertain and emergent aspects of change, you already have and identify those you feel are important for you to develop. You will discover new ways to tap into your generativity, work with resistance, envision possibilities, and connect to your personal pathway for a more promising future. You will learn to support individuals, groups, and organizations to develop their own.

Each participant is invited to bring a change challenge to ground the learning in real-time situations. Coming together with a select group of other change leaders and practitioners allows everyone to experience deep learning through well-facilitated explorations of ideas, cases, practices and each other's change challenges. And, most importantly, you will make progress with the change challenge you are working on.

You will receive a printed copy of The Liminal Pathways Study and a comprehensive workbook to support your learning in the workshop.

About Liminal Pathways

With more than 30 years of professional exploration, Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., has developed a successful methodology and framework for working with transformational change. Practitioners across continents have been using the Wendling Liminal Pathways Change Framework™ (LPF) for nearly two decades, and it is reaching an increasingly wider audience.

A recently concluded study of its efficacy demonstrates its important instrumental and psychological value for working with the most challenging aspects of designing and leading change. And now, Gisela has identified competencies and practices that help individuals, organizational leaders, and those who support these processes as facilitators, consultants, and coaches to develop their change confidence.

This Course Is for You If:

• You are an executive or leader guiding an organization through change.

• You are a manager leading a team or responsible for implementing change.

• You are a facilitator or organizational consultant supporting clients through change.

• You are a coach, companioning individuals through their change challenges.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn to apply the LPF and related practices to a variety of contexts and understand why change agents find this framework so helpful.

• Explore a change challenge you are experiencing, pinpoint where you are on your change journey and learn how to tap into the momentum of change no matter where you are in the journey.

• Understand why it is so important to design and lead a change process that supports individuals and groups along their inner process of change.

• Experience and design rite-like activities to help you move beyond stories, habits and mental models that keep you in the past and to discover those that are supportive of the new future you are creating.

• Learn about The Change Maker’s Spindle—a holistic competency model and identify the transformational competencies you need on your change journey and those you wish to cultivate as a change leader or guide supporting others.

• Recognize how you are affected by change and how your ability to respond to change through change literacy, accessing inner and outer guidance, somatic awareness, and emotional fluidity positively affects others.

• Join a wonderful cohort of colleagues and feel supported by the insights and community that emerge.

Workshop Leader & Developer of the LPF and The Change Maker’s Spindle

Dr. Gisela Wendling is CEO at The Grove Consultants International. With more than 30 years of experience, she supports leaders, their teams and their organizations to realize visionary futures. She helps her clients to embrace challenges as transformational opportunities and frequently engages people from across stakeholder groups to tap into their intelligence, vision and capabilities to initiate and realize their desired future.

As a coach, Gisela works with leaders to develop their ability to lead effective change, connect to their own vision, grow their self-awareness and relational skills and increase their capacity to stay centered through turbulent times. Born and raised in Germany, she has lived in Australia and Canada and has spent most of her adult life on the West Coast of the United States.