No workshop is ever the same, so neither is it’s business model. We use fairness, aiming stances and value stream mapping for forming our business models in an adaptive manner.

All rates and prices are in euro’s and excl. VAT and lodging.

Controlled Folly

Controlled Folly is aimed at organisational development and systems thinking consultants to increase their own effectivity and that of their customers with. The gains of organisational sculpting, the climax of controlled folly, are tremendous. Organisational sculpting is a powerful and versatile tool that can reveal dynamics an organisation has tacitly agreed not to talk about. A sculpt can generate large amounts of useful data for a long term program of work on key organisational issues. The only restrictions are our imagination, skills, and abilities. But in nearly all instances, sculpting evokes powerful feelings of dismay when participants see the representation of what they are dealing with. After all, that is why the agreement to not talk about it existed in the first place.

Controlled Folly prepares participants for receiving critical feedback, before they take the road less traveled by. That makes all the difference.

The workshop serves between 8 and 16 people, and is facilitated by 2 facilitators, plus a local consultant or facilitator. After the workshop, the local facilitator or consultant is required to address specific organisational problems and for working on manifesting solutions. This may require following up with problem solving workshops on priority areas, and choosing early projects where success can come quickly and visibly.

The sculpting choreography in the workshop has survived an alpha run at Consultants Camp, and a beta run at Agile Open Holland 2009. You can keep track of further developments here.

Rates: 20.000 euro facilitator fee total, plus expenses (travel and stay) if a local organisation organises the workshop.
Or else, if we have to organise location and catering, participants pay euro 4000 each for the workshop (if participants pay for their own lodging, food and drinks), and all income minus operational costs is split between the facilitators/organisers in accordance with respective time and energy spent.

And that’s just a first proposal. Have a value proposition for us? Contact us.

Unfolding Wings

Unfolding Wings is a workshop aiming at the horizontal small businesses and in(ter)dependents market. People just starting out with a new business. A workshop for making going independent as easy as possible. We do not fight the highly politicized legacy system. We go for the freedom to express our individuality and autonomy and we go with what works and moves to resolution in ever faster changing contexts. Lean! And with confidence. Being an in(ter)dependent, whether that is as Reiki master, carpenter, car-mechanic, care-giver, consultant or shopkeeper, you name it … is a life style. Doing that with success requires discovering when to use which stance when.

Plays simulate situations in reality and can give players an opportunity to practice new skills, or acquire new abilities and skills, and many a person solidified — or changed — plans after participating in an experiential workshop that gives “close enough” field experience. This workshop puts scenario planning into action in a simulation of a mini-economy/community running through the entire workshop, in which we can rewind (parts or the entire economy) and try out other futures.

The workshop can serve up to 16 people, and takes between 4 weekends with business building exercises in real life in between. Tangible results are dependent on participant contexts and purposes and can range from a well grounded and convincing business plan to an actual business ready to go for a first round, and we will have used what the free economy offers as much as possible:

Products and services that don’t cost most consumers anything at all, either in cash or ad clutter. (Most of this is online, where the marginal costs are near zero). This includes companies that use the “freemium” model (where a minority of paying customers support a majority of non-paying customers) …

The total value of the scarcity/money economy is a very small percentage of the total goods and services that we use.

The entire free economy also includes gifts and services by family and friends such as child rearing, care of sick, handicapped and elderly people, cleaning, cooking etc. Volunteer work and charity also need to be included in the total reach of the free economy.

Farming, fishing, mineral extraction and energy take free resources which nature has provided at no cost and sells them to consumers after some processing.

This workshop is in idea/design state. It has run for ourselves, but hasn’t even run in alpha mode (yet) for others yet, and can probably also be very useful at the start of projects in organisations. Challenge us for an instantiation in your context!

Open source work

Game of Goose, Balancing Act, and Making an Entrance use the “freemium/open source” business model. All are half day sessions that can be used as a part of a workshop or as a stand-alone session. You are free to facilitate it in your local context. If you use or alter our “freemium/open source” work, we want you to credit us by including a link to this site, and by only distributing the resulting work under the same, similar or a compatible license.

And by all means, let us know what happens. We’re very curious people.