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Dialogue Programmes.
Inclusion is complex. It involves real people with a multitude of different identities, people with differing beliefs, attitudes, feelings, and requirements.
This complexity is best embraced through dialogue with each other and through the co-design of solutions that work for all of us.
Executive and Group Coaching
Coaching offers individuals and groups confidential, non-judgement spaces within which to explore what inclusion means for them. It enables participants to articulate and work through their views, attitudes and feelings about inclusion. This is done in a manner that allows for deep exploration, facilitates healthy self-reflection, and develops an authentic attitude to inclusion.
Matt's coaching approach is rooted in existential philosophy with a focus on authenticity, values, and beliefs, with freedom and responsibility as central components.
We offer the following forms of coaching with Matt in person and online -
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1-1 Coaching for Exco and C-Suite Leaders
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1-1 Coaching for Managers and Emerging Leaders
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Coaching Circles for Leadership Teams
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Team Coaching
Action Learning Sets for Inclusion
Facilitated Dialogue Sessions
Action Learning Sets bring people together over seemingly intractable problems of inclusion. These can relate to business functions e.g., recruitment and retention, or organisational cultures and sub-cultures. They can also relate to the laws and cultural norms in the context in which you work. These problems may be surfaced through staff surveys or internal organisational analysis, or from horizon scanning and market analysis, but often there will be no ready solution to hand.
The Action Learning Sets approach to co-designing and testing different solutions to these problems creates a sense of inclusion for those involved and embeds learning across the organisation.
Keynotes and Knowledge Seminars
Leaders need to understand the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion to develop strategy, make decisions, and create inclusive cultures.
Staff teams need an understanding of what inclusion means and how they are pivotal to its implementation on a day-to-day basis to ensure it is sustainably delivered.
Everyone needs knowledge about the socio-cultural factors that condition organusational cultures and norms. From this knowledge, we can collectively design solutions that include everyone.
Wide Open Voices offers keynotes, knowledge seminars, and training workshops on inclusion developed from Matt's research and experience.
Dialogue Sessions go beyond traditional listening sessions, developing meaningful exchange and collective learning. These facilitated, confidential spaces allow participants to express their concerns, questions, and perspectives on inclusion and engage in open, non-judgemental dialogue. Through thought-provoking questions and activities, participants are encouraged to critically examine different viewpoints.
By actively engaging in these conversations, participants feel heard and included in the conversation as well as developing a deeper awareness of the different narratives around inclusion.
These collective, reflective processess are essential for co-designing and implementing solutions that benefit everyone.