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 The Competence in Complexity programme offers a year-long process for participants to develop their 21st century competencies and to demonstrate them in practice in effective, transformative action. Next ProgrammeMay 2021 – May 2022 The programme is hosted in our online Atelier space, a dedicated virtual space for participants to connect, converse, share and access materials, resources and insights and to remain ‘on campus’ throughout in a dedicated community of practice. All workshops in the programme are conducted online to allow for international participation.  The curriculum is designed around three modules (see graphic). Each is designed to be a valuable and rounded experience in itself. We recommend, however, that participants take the full programme in order to gain maximum benefit from a supported learning environment designed for slow, substantial growth and development over the course of a full year. Click the blue button above for a full programme description and other details about scheduling and fees. The programme is based on IFF’s books Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organisation in the 21st Century by Maureen O’Hara and Graham Leicester, Three Horizons: The patterning of hope by Bill Sharpe, and Transformative Innovation: a guide to practice and policy for system transition by Graham Leicester. A distinctive approach to competenceDancing at the Edge takes a distinctive stand in relation to competence:We follow the OECD definition that competence is not an abstract achievement but “the ability to meet important challenges in life in a complex world”; This is not a capacity of the individual. Our competence is always demonstrated in a human system, in a culture, in a pattern of relationships; Competencies are qualities of persons as a whole. They cannot be distinguished one from another, developed in isolation and mastered one stage at a time. The 21st century competencies are innate – we come designed for a complex world. But they require the right setting to show themselves and a supportive environment in which to develop. We know that these competencies exist because we have seen them demonstrated in practice by the ‘persons of tomorrow’ all around us. Fundamentals: the core processThe first step is awareness: ‘waking up’ ways of reading the landscape and our capacities for being, knowing, and being together comfortably in complexity. The second step is tuning up the qualities that sustain us in powerful times and that provide a facilitating environment for growth, development and action. The third step is to demonstrate and develop 21st century competencies in effective action that feeds our purpose and our aspirations for the future. This is the practice of transformative innovation: introducing the new in the presence of the old.  Note that this framework builds on Delors’ UNESCO report on education for the 21st Century, Learning: the treasure within. It identifies the four critical tasks for today’s world as learning to be, learning to know, learning to do and learning to be together. In practice people move back and forth across this map, always blending awareness, development and action, always reflecting, always learning. The ProgrammeThe full programme for individuals and organisations contains three modules roughly corresponding to the three steps outlined in the process map. Each module involves preparation and follow-up. The full programme runs over the course of a year with substantial gaps between intensive workshops. This is a reflective and recursive process to allow for growth. The first module, awakening psychological, knowledge and cultural literacies (ways of reading the complex landscape), is focused on being, knowing and being together. This last embraces culture, but also organising and working together. That provides a bridge into the second module, focused on how to work with insight derived from ways of being and seeing explored in the first module to develop and implement a transformative initiative, demonstrating 21st century competencies in action. The third module is a guided process of action learning, with regular check-ins and learning sets, focused on delivering results. At the end of the Programme there is a completion process to review and consolidate learning and graduation for those who have completed the programme and delivered their projects. Note that we also offer individual Modules, including the six month Capability Accelerator, to organisations, adapted to context as necessary, for a minimum cohort of 10 participants. We also host a half-day workshop that serves as an introduction to the full programme for newcomers and a useful refresher for previous participants. This is scheduled from time to time (check the Calendar) and is also available on demand for interested organisations and groups. Book Your PlaceYou may pay online or request an invoice to reserve your place. For more information please contact Camilla Storrie at IFF either by email or on +44 (0)1383 324002. Enquire about participation in a Competence in Complexity programme |
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