This innovative two and one-half day program presents an integrated approach to the art, fundamentals and practice of building and maintaining containers to achieve extraordinary results, increased creativity or sustainable change.

Participants will deepen their capacity learned in the Dialogos Leadership for Collective Intelligence and Art of Thinking Together programs to use models, techniques and social technologies to create functional and sustainable containers. The program will enhance the capability of participants to work in complex and seemingly intractable situations, creating the conditions for breakthroughs and innovation.

OVERVIEW
In most organizations, communities or teams where people work together to achieve results, produce outcomes or facilitate change, conventional wisdom tells them to move as quickly as possible from idea to implementation and delivery. Often such an approach results in limited success or produces indifference-if not opposition-as the project develops.

This is because of the lack of a coherent "field" which can hold the complex energies, multiple personalities and creative factors present. In the Dialogos model, we say there is no stable container when such a space is not present. A container is a field of attention and energy that can hold various factors, including aggression, delicate nuances of meaning, subtle signals of cultures, qualities of character and relationship. When the factors or energies are held, worked and integrated properly extraordinary creativity and achievement is possible.

Paying attention to the quality of the container is a simple but largely ignored practice that, if engaged in seriously, will produce lasting success and create significant strategic advantage. Build better containers; achieve enhanced creativity, greater productivity and sustainable change.

A stable container is required for Dialogue, Team Building and a successful Spiral Model Process.

OBJECTIVES
Participants will learn how to:

• Create personal, team, project or sponsorship containers within the context of a change environment or new endeavor
• Develop greater capacity for resilience, empathy and creativity in pressured, or challenging circumstances
• Apply container principles and practices in their own organizational situations
• Use examples of successful container building in projects to develop personal practice models
• Develop the capacity to recognize and address fragmentation
• Value the importance of active balance in all four leadership archetypes to the creation of stable containers
• Use knowledge of boundary profiles in container building
• Unleash the creativity that lies in peopleʼs differences and move to a higher level of results
• Guide a group of people through the cycle of development from incoherence to coherence

REQUIREMENTS
This course is for Leaders and Senior Practitioners who have completed the Dialogos LCI course.*

*Upon request candidates who have completed the Dialogos Art of Thinking Together program may be admitted.

Please contact Marianne Picard for more information, at (617) 576-7986 or via email at marianne.picard@dialogos.com