POWA Institute also provides Workshops and Presentations specifically for teachers. These workshops are suitable for professional development days, conferences and seminars.
GROWING REFLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THE CLASSROOM
2 hour Workshop
This Workshop explores the need to help students of all ages grow their Reflective Intelligence (knowing their way around thinking), as a primary educational objective when preparing young people for life in a 21st Century knowledge economy.
GROWING A WHOLE-OF-CLASSROOM CULTURE OF
MINDFUL THINKING
2 hour Workshop
This Workshop explores the concepts of mindfulness and mindlessness; 7 positive thinking behaviours and 4 default thinking habits, for teachers who are keen to grow the capacity (mental power) of their students, regardless of what age they are.
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POWA Institute Workshops are suitable for staff professional development activiities, conferences & seminars.
Our Workshops take participants out of their comfort zone to consider new perspectives. Every Workshop has a skill-building component with a new thinking tool or process that participants can take away and apply in their personal life or workplace.
Workshops and presentations can also be custom designed, to meet
your specific needs in the area of new thinking for the 21st Century.
Current Workshops
WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOUR CREATIVE JUICES RUN DRY?
2 hour Workshop
This Workshop busts age-old myths about creativity and challenges traditional thinking about creativity in the context of business. It introduces participants to the concept of serious creativity and provides participants with a practical lateral thinking tool that they can take-away for generating of new ideas, even when they don’t feel creative.
WHAT DO APPLES AND ORANGES HAVE IN COMMON?
2 hour Workshop
This Workshop focuses on the power of concepts and why concept development is so important for sustainable innovation in 21st Century organisations. It explores de Bono’s Concept R&D Framework for organisational innovation and provides participants with a practical lateral thinking process for generating new ideas, through the use of concepts.
WHY IS IT SO COMPLEX AROUND HERE?
2 hour Workshop
This Workshop is an introduction to the new 21st Century concepts emerging from complexity science and the complexity reality that human organisations are complex adaptive systems. Participants learn to distinguish between ‘complicated’ and ‘complex’; ‘chaos’ and ‘chaotic’; what ‘edge of chaos’ means and what happens, and why it’s important to know what happens, when a butterfly flaps its wings in Hawaii.
Participants work through a Checklist of new approaches for managing people within human organisations as complex adaptive systems, that they can take with them to share with other people in their workplace.
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