Presenters:
Christine Oliver from University of London and
Carsten Hornstrup from MacMann Berg

This workshop offers a systemic - constructionist orientation to how to take reflexivity some steps further – from activities in individual coaching or working with small groups, to developing organizational-wide reflexive capabilities. Using a mix of theoretical ideas and inspirations from our practices as teachers, consultants and leaders, we will offer a number of ways of understanding (theories) and working with (practices) developing organizational reflexivity. The aims of the workshop are: to facilitate understanding about how roles/positions are taken up in the organizational system; to facilitate management and development of role in alignment with organizational strategy; to enable coherence and coordination of a system’s purposes. The organizational system is seen as comprising conscious and unconscious forces arising out of context and experience, constructing cultural rules, relationships, roles and responsibilities. Position is taken up as a person links the purposes and strategy of the organization to his or her own purposes and behaviors.  This is different from a conventional approach to role, which is prescriptive, static and linear.