Integral Practice
Creative Pathways uses art-based practices in combination with reflective dialogue to immerse you in the processes that trigger the abilities and potential of you and your group. Integral practice aligns a holistic learning experience with situations you are experiencing. As an approach it leads to practical skills that open our own creative pathways. It does this by supporting all the related qualities that result in successful outcomes regardless of your specific focus.
WHEN? Broadly speaking an integral approach to business solutions can support any starting point by considering two elements; basis and process.
BASIS. Wherever integral practice is applied it first grounds itself in raising awareness and mindfulnes of the individual, the group, their environment, and how they might inter-act. This sits in conjunction with generating a clear and motivating vision of what is desired. These basics are raised and clarified through integral practice as an enquiry.
PROCESS. By holding these two positions as the drivers, a similar approached is taken to maintaining the emergence and implementation of chosen strategies that will generate the desired outcome. This alignment of people and processes through integral practice focuses the desire, work skills, and means to assess progress that will support outcome.
Implementation. Establishing new levels of order through change can be chaotic and challenging. Integral practice ensures we recognise and include our natural resistance to its uncertainties and develop and embrace the significance of our vision as the drivers of the process. Resistance to uncertainty and habit are some of the reasons we often fail to adapt and remain circling in a field of certainty. Integral practice ensures we do not exclude development of imagination and possibility while still embracing the importance of structure and boundaries.
Outcomes Scientific research confirms that the interrelated outcomes of integral practice, used as an implementation tool, are known to emerge in the following places as;
Individual skills resulting in development of motivational and attitudinal changes and will regularly include new behaviours in; listening; communication; critical thinking; awareness; leadership; problem solving; self-knowledge; creativity.
Collective capacities affected include; effective team-work; an ability to succeed with organizational objectives. Improved dialogue and shared understanding; ability for teams/collectives to engage in more productive and meaningful discussions. Collective intelligence/creativity; enhanced collective capacity for idea development. Collective identity; ability to find shared understanding;
Organizational phenomena include improved organizational performance; effective reorganizing of functional structures and workflow designs. Organizational learning; balanced strategic planning. Organisational identity; cultural changes and organizational identity development. Improved services and product quality; increased customer satisfaction through holistic customer experiences. Better work environment; reduction of accident rates and increased productivity through lower sick leave and absenteeism.
Case study
PRACTICAL LESSONS ON TEAM DYNAMICS
In 2008 Laurence Moss, organisation development portfolio manager for a large local authority, had a problem. His team of project managers and analysts, responsible for delivering big internal projects with the council, had doubled in size in a year and was experiencing “some of the typical challenges you get on growing teams”.
Find out how an Integral Practice workshop provided a solution to this challenge ...
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