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“Just as every good farmer focuses all his attention on sustaining and enhancing the quality of the soil, every good organisational leader focuses all her attention on sustaining and enhancing the quality of the social field that she is responsible for. For they know that the quality of the field determines the quality of the yield.” – Otto Scharmer
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What is Groundwork?
Groundwork is an approach for organising and collaborating in complexity that is based on the nature of living systems. We work from the assumption, as Otto Scharmer observed, that “the quality of the field determines the quality of the yield”. When we work with organisations, it is the day-to-day practice of cultivating the social field which gives rise to generative collaboration. We call this practice Groundwork.
Through consciously practising Groundwork we can become even better at cultivating the conditions that enable self-organisation, participatory leadership and other capacities we see as essential for collaborating, nurturing life, generating movement and finding new solutions in complex, adaptive systems like ours.
To learn more about Groundwork, check out The Groundwork Framework, download our summary guide or join one of our upcoming trainings.
What do participants say about the groundwork training?
How would you describe the groundwork to someone else?
Expectations and final reflections after the training
Stories and Inspiration
The (Re)defining of Groundwork
What is the DNA of great organising and collaborating? We usually recognise it and appreciate it when we experience it but how often do we consciously plan for it or take the time to reflect on what it was that made it work so well?