A Five Session Workshop offered in Two-Hour Sessions

Our vision with this workshop is to co-create an environment that radiates a spirit where sustainable-culture-shift possibilities and choices influence the commitments and actions of all who come into the domain.

Our intention is to catalyze people’s thoughts and behaviors so that the group will begin influencing a new movement within the organization. This group movement will then be able to access the leverage points of intentional cultural change. The intention of the movement itself is to reduce the increasing trend lines of need and hopelessness, and to begin to look at how to consciously reduce the marketplace for dependency-oriented goods and services. The ultimate pursuit is to replace these offerings with support and empowerment initiatives in an environment of decreasing hopelessness and despair. 

We seek to co-create an exciting new environment of possibilities and choices for the professionals, volunteers, and the greater community. In essence, by providing the insights, skills, knowledge, and this transformative impetus, we will be creating an internal Enculturator Corps within the organization.

And with this dedicated team of culture-shift champions, we will begin to co-create the here-to-fore inconceivable: How a single organization can successfully continue its caring and funding model of service [the traditional co-dependency model] while concurrently shifting to a sustainable-culture-shift movement of co-creation, answering the question; How do we support the needs of our marketplace today while concurrently beginning to reduce the size of our marketplace?

We will begin a new learning process with this workshop, eventually co-creating support initiatives that will continue on beyond the workshop to affect the shift we all recognize as essential.

In this co-creative process, each participant will be an active player in the success of these connected sessions. Rather than being a conductor of a symphony for which all the notes are already written, and the players are expected only to execute with their particular flair and style as an orchestra, we see this as if we were bringing players together as a jazz ensemble. The charts we will be playing have a tune, direction and theme to them, but the art comes in the opportunities for improvisation that emerge as each player interacts with one another, with what they bring to the ensemble. In this fashion, to continue the metaphor, the outcome will depend, for the most part, on what each player brings to the gig.  It will also depend, in good measure, on the enthusiasm and motivation we can co-create to empower participation and action within those who want to be a part of this internal Enculturator Corps.

Therefore, we would like the first session to be attended by as many of the leadership players, program directors and managers, and board members as possible. We also suggest that this initial session be held at an off-site location to create distance from the way things are.  Once the participants have experienced our focus and direction, our ideal outcome would be to have every participant agree to move forward with the program. However, because of the prevailing cultural perspective, we expect an initial core group will emerge that should include board members, leadership and management. This group, however big or small, will then continue through the remaining four sessions. The result being the co-creation of an internal Enculturator Corps, motivated and dedicated to developing and actualizing a plan that will begin its viral process and shift the organization as a whole.

Session One