This workshop will build the capabilities of individuals, teams and entire organisations to respond to the increasing instability, complexity and resource constraints of our world.
One day workshop
At The Creater Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol
Wednesday 14th July 9.30am to 5.30pm
Sliding scale from £50 see www.shiftbristol.org.uk for details.

We explore the concept of resilience and complex adaptive systems theory, showing how these often abstract ideas are of major practical relevance when intelligently applied. We help you understand your own current levels of resilience and how your capabilities may be strengthened in order to achieve your vision of a successful thriving organisation in an unpredictable future.
The course gives an understanding of how resilience is an emergent property, where it comes from and why it is so important for the future success of organisations as well as communities. We will show why an approach to developing resilience is not just another ‘quick fix’ or ‘one size fits all’ solution. We will help you to begin to formulate your own resilience-building strategy and understand how to take the first steps. The resilience concepts introduced will be in the context of energy and resource related issues but are applicable to any challenges faced by your organisation today and tomorrow.
The course covers:
• the context and need for organisational resilience
• an evolutionary understanding of different approaches to social and organisational problems
• understanding 4 aspects of organisational life which can be worked on to help make the organisation more resilient:
• inner personal resilience of leaders, managers and staff
• what types of behaviour by leaders, managers and staff can help an organisation become more resilient
• developing organisational culture for resilient organisations
• organisational structures, processes, policies & infrastructure for resilient organisations

For 15 years Nick Osborne has worked in management, leadership, training, consultancy or activist roles with organisations including Changemakers, Shell, Amnesty International and the Ecovillage Network. He works freelance as a Trainer & Consultant, as a founder of Response-Ability, working to help people to respond creatively and flexibly to today’s challenging change and complexity. Nick is an active member of Transition Glastonbury, helped develop a network of Transition groups in Somerset and delivers Transition Training nationally. Nick is currently developing ways to support all kinds of organisations to become resilient organisations which sustain the social and ecological systems on which they depend.

http://www.response-ability.org.uk/