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ETHOS: Transformational Leadership Workshop

THEME: "Ethical Holding of Organizational Space - ETHOS"
BY: Organised jointly by EASUN and Reflective - Learning UK
VENUE: Moshi Tanzania
DATE: 24th to 28th May 2009

All indications in Africa today are showing that Leadership could be the glaring underdeveloped critical avenue for transforming institutions and renewing hope for change and development on the continent.

EASUN has planned, in its next strategic block (2010-2013), to use its training and coaching activities, to shape the knowledge, practices, skills and personal qualities of future leaders toward developing transformational leadership in civil society organization. In its current work and immediate future strategies, EASUN is driven by a desire to promote reflective practices as a way of advancing an alternative discourse on leadership. EASUN is working jointly with Reflective Learning-UK (based in Maisemore Gloucestershire, England) to strengthen such practices, toward greater democratization of organizations, institutions and, ultimately, nations in East Africa.

Transformation

Transformed situations bring about equal development in specific areas such as language, education, learning situations, religion, gender, leadership, decision-making, income and other opportunities for individual, organizational, community and national advancement.

Transformational leadership is a proven way for bringing about positive development in organizations in areas such as:

- Power and trust;
- Appreciation,
- Participation in action and reflection;
- Responsibility and freedom;
- Creativity and innovation;
- Change and consolidation.

Ethical leadership

The overriding principle for organizing and conducting the workshop is influenced by the understanding that ethical leadership leads to greater effectiveness of organizations, as well as ethical outcomes in social development. All structures and methodologies for programme implementation carry value-systems. How conscious are we of these values? In what ways do they permeate our practices of leadership and the systems that support our processes of decision-making and collaborative work in organizational settings?

Ethical leadership is the process most likely to move organizations beyond the tension of competing identities and support ongoing meaning making through participatory & appreciative action and reflections.

Ethical holding of organizational space is a proposition, suggesting that there are particular values that underlie what governments, business and, particularly, civil society organizations claim to characterize their purpose in development work. In practice, the ethical content of such a claim is to be assessed around specific qualities such as: 1) Appreciative processes and relationships in carrying the organizational vision, mission and values; 2) Distribution of leadership and responsibility-taking in the workplace; 3) Shared learning practices and systems for team/organizational development; 4) Team based task-performance and accountability; 5) Working for change outcomes that empower organizational members and communities served.

About the workshop...

The "Ethical Holding of Organisational Space" (ETHOS) Workshop will take place in Moshi-Tanzania, from 24th to 28th May 2009. It is jointly organised by EASUN and Reflective Learning-UK (RL-UK). Professor Tony Ghaye and Dr. Phillip Chambers - the facilitators from RL-UK, will bring to the workshop a wealth of experience and great expertise around such themes as Alternative Language Channels (ALC), Participative and Appreciative Action Research and Reflection (PAAR) and democratising reflective practises. EASUN on the other hand has a track record of introducing and training East African civil society leaders in facilitative and transformational leadership practices, including powerful change management skills through the practice of organisation development (OD).

In terms of new knowledge to be gained from the workshop, participants will learn leadership skills for generating creativity, equitable gender relations, commitment and responsibility-taking in organisations. The workshop will also help establish ETHOS as an essential discourse framework for assessing leadership practices and leadership development, toward nurturing human centred organizations and wellness of communities in East Africa.

Particular emphasis of the workshop will be upon ethics, appreciation, reflective leadership skills and participation. This will firmly put the workshop learning process and its outcomes in the field of Participatory and Appreciative Action and Reflection (PAAR).

Specific skills to be imparted will include: use of alternative language channels (ALC) for transforming leadership in organisations, i.e., enabling positive engagement, team-work and team accountability, as well as participation of all organisation members in taking responsibility. Planned workshop processes include exercises in physical trust activities, role plays of different kinds, reflective styles of movement and writing reflectively.

Please indicate your interest to attend the workshop immediately. Please contact doly.anyona@easun-tz.org and request logistics information and/or a registration form.

We look forward to your participation in the workshop and to expand opportunities for future collaboration with your organisation.
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