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Learning Journey to Finland: Intrapreneurship & Innovation
10th - 14th of September 2013
“Not all those who wander are lost.” With these wise words of J. R. R. Tolkien we want to cordially invite you to a journey to
Finland, the land of thousands of lakes, Angry Birds and Sibelius, as well as top notch innovation, intrapreneurship and leadership.
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What is it that we don’t know but want to find about on Intrapreneurship & Innovation?
How might we encourage more intrapreneurial activity within ourselves and thus our organizations?
What is it that I want to change in my work and my organization as the new working year starts after the summer holidays? Why? How will I do that?
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Our PhilosophyJourney is the reward. The one who is ready to slow down and stop will get most out of the journey. Learning is a journey. If we enjoy the journey we are not in a hurry.
The in-between is what matters. Like Liher has said “I feel that every time I go to a new place I discover something new. But something that you cannot find in a book, in internet, not even someone can tell you. You have to experience it, and feel it.”
It’s good to have a goal but we also need an open mind for emerging things, which may end up being more meaningful than the original goal.
As Peter Senge says, the goal of a learning journey is not to see something, but to see each other.
What we don’t know matters more than what we know. We need action and dialogue in a proper balance.
Be ready for an adventure and expect the unexpected. Trust your intuition and the team you travel with. Listen and look around. Smile and wonder.
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
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Program BlueprintTue 10th of Sept
ArrivalWed 11th of Sept
ActionThu 12th of Sept Transformation
Fri 13th of Sept Crystallizing
Sat 14th of Sept De-Brief
Morning
Check-In for the dynamic day!
Workshop on Designing the Futures
of Leadership
Visit to Tiimiakatemia, the future of
management & entrepreneurship
education.
Check-in for the day. Workshop on
Intrapreneurship w. Tools and Methods examples hosted by
Thomas
Reflection about the process.
Travel back to Helsinki.
Afternoon Arrival to Helsinki
Visit to a Finnish Innovative Company.
Train to Jyväskylä.Reflection time.
Interactive workshop with emerging leaders
on teams and innovation.
Mini Vision Quest. Time for personal &
shared crystallizing of the ideas born at the
journey.
Free-time in Helsinki
Evening
Check-In for the Journey
Dinner TogetherPower Sleep in
Helsinki
Dinner.Night in Jyväskylä
Transport to Countryside.
Dinner & possibility for sauna & swim.Sleep in Cottages.
Birth-giving. Smoke Sauna &
Informal celebration.Sleep in Cottages.
Travel back Home
Bon Voyage!
All Rights Reserved. The organizers reserve the right to change the world, as well as the program in case needed.
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
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In a nutshell:4 Days packed with action but also time for reflectionTime: Tuesday 3rd to Saturday 7th of September 2013Theme: Intrapreneurship & Leadership for InnovationLanguage of the program is English
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
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OutcomesNew ideas to be implemented back home at your work and lifeLoads of energy to kick start the year after holidaysFun time with good peopleSelf-reflection and transformation
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”
– Lillian Smith
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Price & RegistrationsPrice of the journey is dependent on the number of participants. The journey will be organized if we get at least 12 people to sign up. Price includes program, meals, travel expenses within Finland but not flights to Helsinki.If you a willing to share a room with another participant, you will get a discount of 150€ + VAT.
Number of Participants Price
12 or more 2290 + VAT
15 or more 1990 + VAT
18 or more 1790 + VAT
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How to Register?Register to Mr. Thomas Gresset +33 6 98 02 15 72 or via email at [email protected] Thomas will sent you a confirmation email with instructions how to complete the paymentWe are good to go - Welcome a board!
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
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About the OrganizersMonkey Business is a lifestyle co-operative with a mission to make the world more fun and yellow. We work together with our clients for a better future in the field of change facilitation and learning design.
Thomas Gresset is an independent consultant from Alsace, France. Together Thomas and Monkeys have designed this learning journey for you.
More info about Monkey Business at www.banana.fi & Thomas Gresset at www.red-kiwi.fr
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
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VocabularyDialogue In Dialogue, one speaks and others listen. Dialogue is a reflective group activity which starts when we speak from our
hearts, meaning we honestly share how we think and feel right then. For more ideas about dialogue see this blog post.
Check-in Check-In is a metaphor that we use for a dialogue that happens in the beginning of a meeting or a process. It's kind of like tuning mentally into the present moment and situation. Check-In, according to Peter Senge, is simply answering question "What's up?" but sometimes it may have a more specific question, too. It's kind of the same thing as in a jazz band when in the beginning the musicians tune their instruments to be in the same tone.
Workshop By workshop we mean an interactive working session. It is not a lecture, but it can also include a little bit of lecturing, or sharing stories.
Company visit Company visit is a visit to an organization with the idea to learn from their ways of working and potentially together create best next practices together.
Birth-giving Birth giving is a session where the participants give birth to new knowledge. Sometimes it includes loads of frustration.
Team Academy Team Academy or Tiimiakatemia is a special unit of team entrepreneurship in Jyväskylä University of applied science. It's special model that combines running a cooperative company, having 8hrs a dialogue a week, and reading latest business books has been adapted internationally by many unversitities. It's a business, or life, school without teachers or exams, but a real customer projects and team learning.
Sauna Sauna, a room with hot temperature is a traditional Finnish place for relaxing and refreshing your body and soul.
Solo Experience Vision Quest
From Wikipedia: A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures. The ceremony of the Vision Quest is one of the most universal and ancient means to find spiritual guidance and purpose. A Vision Quest can provide deep understanding of one's life purpose. The idea is to spend some time alone in nature - in our case it is going to be few hours. During the time you can reflect about your life and work in peace. This insight, typically in the form of a dream of Vision, relates directly to their purpose and destiny in life.
Motorola-reflection
Back in the 80s at the ICT-company Motorola they had struggled with the long project reports that were hard to create and boring to read. They decided to make an easy but effective way to report projects. It's made of four questions: 1. What went well? 2. What went poorly? 3. What did I learn? 4. What will I do differently next time? This is a good way to reflect in the end of a project or a learning process.
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More information
Ville Keränen+358 40 731 [email protected]
Thomas Gresset+33 6 98 02 15 72