Stepping Into Your Transformational Agency (SITA)

Workshop Overview

In this online workshop led by Grove CEO Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., you will explore how to embrace the unknown and proactively work with the inevitable destabilization that any real change brings with it. You will learn to tap into your own transformational agency and of those you work with to initiate 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 change competencies you already have and identify those you feel are essential for your development. You will discover new ways to access your creativity, work with resistance, envision possibilities, balance planning with being responsive to the emergent nature of change, and design your pathway to a more promising future. And you will learn key practices to support others through their change journey.

Each participant is invited to bring a change challenge to ground the learning in real-time situations. Coming together with a select group of 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 on which you are working.

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 practice, Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., has developed a successful methodology and framework for working with transformational change that is now central to The Grove’s approach. 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.

In 2018, she co-authored Visual Consulting: Designing and Leading Change with David Sibbet. This book outlines The Grove’s practical approach to organizational-change work, integrating her Liminal Pathways Change Framework™ with the Theory of Process that underpins all of The Grove’s methods into the Seven Challenges of Change™ model.

In 2023, Gisela Wendling published The Liminal Pathways Study, which highlights the efficacy and benefits of the framework and examines how change agents have applied it across a wide range of personal, professional, and organizational contexts. The ideas and insights presented provide a much-needed understanding of what truly occurs during change.

Her deep appreciation of the true challenge of engaging with the unknown—the liminal phase between what has been and what will be—has led her to develop The Change Maker’s Spindle, a competency model and assessment tool for change leaders and practitioners.

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 the competencies you wish to cultivate as a change leader or guide.

• Recognize how you are affected by change and how your ability to positively affect change takes conceptual know-how, emotional fluidity while resting in inner stability, and planning while being responsive to the emergent nature of change.

• 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 strategic change, empower those they work with, 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.

Check out the exclusive coaching package with Gisela Wendling for SITA participants.