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We all want a different relationship with the work we do for our livelihood, but where might we start? What might we try? How do we do it? What if it was possible to radically transform how you work together with others? To find meaning and impact together with your peers? To consciously organise how you startup, grow, or transform your organisation? The answer is yours to discover in the what, the why, and The HOW. It’s time to practise a new kind of leadership, to interrogate hierarchy, wrangle with power and centralised decision making, and subtract ‘management’ from change management. You don’t have to wait for the future of work: we’re already broadcasting it here and now on The HOW. www.greaterthan.works

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August 13, 202645 min

Affectively - The Enspiral transformation process with Hailey Cooperrider | The How

In this episode, Alícia interviews Hailey Cooperrider about the transformative process of Enspiral, focusing on action research and the importance of care and collective intelligence in organizational transformation. Hailey is a game designer, workshop facilitator, and all-around collaboration geek, with a mission to take the advanced collaboration techniques used in large organisations and spread them out to the edge. One day, while playing Dungeons and Dragons, she realised that tabletop role-playing games might hold the key to realising this goal. In 2019, she co-founded Amble Studio with four fellow adventurers to realise this big idea, and explore the borderlands between ways of working and games. This in turn led to an epic collaboration with Ben Pederick to create TAG: The Adaptation Game - a tabletop climate drill. Hailey and her fellow Amblers regularly share their serious game journey on The Amble Podcast. To know more about Hailey you can visit her work here: https://amble.studio/

December 6, 2023Episode 250 min

Affectively - Collaborative Fantasies and Practices in Greaterthan with Elena Denaro | The HOW

In this episode of the Affectively mini-series on The HOW, Alícia has a conversation with Elena Denaro to reflect on the main insights and learnings from writing a first version of her academic paper. Alícia and Elena also engage in reviewing some of the main concepts present in the paper that can help you reflect on your own collective, network, community or self-organised endeavour. The current version of the paper looks very different (although all old learnings still hold) from how it looked back in July when the podcast was recorded…more on the current version in another episode! The research for this podcast is financed through a PhD conducted in the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia through a European grant managed and fostered by the P2P Lab in Greece. 🔎 Learn more at https://www.greaterthan.works 👍 Please share! Help these ideas spread 🙂 🔔 Subscribe to our podcast if you want more thinking and practise on organisational development and change, transformative leadership, and the future of work ⚡️ What spoke to you today? What did you notice? Leave a comment on your favourite podcast app Gratitude! 🎤 Our lovely host: Alícia Trepat Pont and our lovely guest Elena Denaro 🎬 The production crew: Stefan Morales and Heather Cosidetto 📣 Communication guru: Anna Kopacz 🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped fund the production of The HOW!! 🙏 Thank you to https://taltech.ee/en/ & https://www.p2plab.gr 🎶 To OO Ray for their piece, Silhouettes - a wonderful backing to our intro! CC BY-SA 4.0

June 17, 202555 min

The Politics of Decentralized Tech with Jaya Brekke | The HOW

Jaya Brekke is a strategist, researcher, and blockchain expert, mixing cryptography with political groove. She’s advised the European Commission, led projects on decentralized tech and digital privacy, and now, as Chief Strategy Officer at Nym Technologies, she’s crafting tools to counter digital surveillance. In this conversation, Francesca Pick and Jaya cover lots of ground: from discussing societal implications of new technologies and reflecting on the original promises of the blockchain space in supporting societal change--all the way to the personal, reflecting on Jaya's journey as a leader in a tech startup while staying true to her anarchist roots. 🔎 Learn more at https://www.greaterthan.works 👍 Please like and share 🔔 Subscribe 🔗 A curation of Jaya's speaking & writing: https://www.jayapapaya.xyz/ 🔗 Deep dive into techno authoritarianism & digital commons: https://particollective.substack.com/p/hacking-techno-authoritarianism-digital Gratitude! 🎤 Our lovely host: Francesca Pick 🎬 The production crew: Manel Heredero 🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped fund the production of The HOW!!

May 27, 202550 min

Lessons from a Global Community Weaver with Michel Bachmann | The HOW

This episode's guest is Michel Bachmann, global community weaver from Switzerland. His work in the social impact space began as co-founder Impact Hub Zürich, where he also led the transition of the global Impact Hub network towards a distributed organization with 100+ spaces across the world. Since then, has worked with numerous global networks to grow community and cultivate a culture of genuine co-creation for the regeneration of our planet, and co-authored a powerful Community Weaving Framework (www.community-weaving.org) as partner of Together Institute. In this conversation, we talk about how Michel's work within the field of systems change has evolved over the last decade, the challenges of creating a community FOR community weavers, as well as his own leadership journey as a "community entrepreneur". 🔎 Learn more at https://www.greaterthan.works 👍 Please like and share 🔔 Subscribe 🔗 Community Weaving Framework: www.community-weaving.org 🔗Great article by Michel, Start with 'Who' (not Why) https://medium.com/@michelbachmann/start-with-who-15b8857ed718 🔗Source Principles (Peter Koenig): https://creatinglovein.business/about/ Gratitude! 🎤 Our lovely host: Francesca Pick 🎬 The production crew: Manel Heredero 🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped fund the production of The HOW!!

February 6, 2024Episode 51 hr 15 min

Affectively - Emotions at Work with Tomomi Sasaki | The HOW

In this episode of Affectively, Alicia interviews our very admired fellow member Tomomi Sasaki. Tomomi runs together with other colleagues a programme called Emotions at Work. As simple as that…and so challenging that we even forget that emotions are with us continuously and that they can play in our favour if we learn to be aware of them and move through them. Tomomi talks about the coaching framework she and her colleagues base her work on and she gives me a present in the form of one of the most insightful questions I have heard in a long time: when you are working on a project, how do you want to feel? Unconsciously, I think this has been one of the strongest compasses for me in the past couple of years when doing my work, but now that I’m aware of it, I feel that I have much more agency and have gotten to the heart of one of the things I care the most about. One more reminder that it’s not only what we do, but also how we do it and how we can bring this into consciousness. Thanks Tomomi! The research for this podcast has received support from project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. 🔎 Learn more at https://www.greaterthan.works 👍 Please share! Help these ideas spread 🙂 🔔 Subscribe to our podcast if you want more thinking and practise on organisational development and change, transformative leadership, and the future of work ⚡️ What spoke to you today? What did you notice? Leave a rating and a review! :) 🔗 Emotions at Work: https://emotions-atwork.com/ Gratitude! 🎤 Our lovely host: Alícia Trepat Pont 🎬 The production crew: Stefan Morales and Heather Cosidetto 📣 Communication guru: Anna Kopacz 🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped fund the production of The HOW!! 🎶 To OO Ray for their piece, Silhouettes - a wonderful backing to our intro! CC BY-SA 4.0

June 28, 2023Episode 450 min

Size Matters: Helping Groups of Any Size Unlock Collective Intelligence | The HOW

When it comes to groups of humans collaborating and actively distributing their power and authority, size matters! In this episode of The HOW, Lyssa Adkins, Susan Basterfield and Francesca Pick explore different group sizes, and the what, the why and The HOW of facilitating each. At Greaterthan, we believe that the future of leadership is facilitative leadership - put another way, leading by facilitating is a better tuning to the collective and emotional intelligence of everyone in the team or organization. 🔎 Learn more about group size, facilitative leadership and patterns you can try in your org: https://www.greaterthan.works/academy/liberating-structures-studio 👍 Please share! Help these ideas spread 🙂 🔔 Subscribe to our podcast if you want more thinking and practise on organisational development and change, transformative leadership, and the future of work ⚡️ What spoke to you today? What did you notice? Leave a comment on your favourite podcast app Gratitude! 🎤 Our lovely co-hosts: Susan Basterfield, Francesca Pick and Lyssa Adkins 🎬 The production crew: Stefan Morales and Heather Cosidetto 📣 Communication guru: Anna Kopacz 🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped fund the production of The HOW!! 🎶 To Releigh Moncrieff for their piece, Nocturne No. 3 - a wonderful backing to our intro and outro! CC BY-SA 4.0

August 27, 202548 min

Self-management in Practice, with Michael Arnoldus | The HOW

Michael Arnoldus is a CTO and organizational thinker with decades of hands-on experience in self-management. With roots in software architecture and agile practices, and a background in psychotherapy and meditation, he bridges the worlds of tech and human development. In this conversation, Michael and Francesca explore the complexities and challenges of self-management in practice, in vastly different organizational contexts. They discuss the importance of recognition, the need for clarity in roles, and the balance between giving freedom and setting direction in leadership, and the role of hierarchies within that. They also touch on the evolving nature of leadership in the face of rapid change. 🔎 Learn more at https://www.greaterthan.works 👍 Please like and share 🔔 Subscribe 🔗Source Principles (Peter Koenig): https://creatinglovein.business/about/ Gratitude! 🎤 Our lovely host: Francesca Pick 🎬 The production crew: Manel Heredero 🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped contribute to the production of The HOW!!

May 15, 20251 hr 24 min

Affectively - Social Learning Spaces with Dorian Cavé | The HOW

In this episode Alicía gets an update on the learnings of the Deep Adaptation Forum on their Diversity and Decolonising Circle. The discussion then focusses on Dorian's research and practices on Social Learning spaces. Specifically, Dorian names the 4 conditions that help people stay with uncomfortable topics and we dive into how to use social learning spaces to unlearn cultural patterns. And...attention..."culture is not your friend" Terence McKenna. The research for this podcast has received support from the project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. 🔎 Learn more at https://www.greaterthan.works 👍 Please like and share 🔔 Subscribe 🔗 https://madocollective.org/connecting/ Dorian's website where he summarised ALL his incredible research!! Check it out! 🔗 https://youtu.be/CCeby8runhU The first podcast I recorded with Dorian and Wendy

December 6, 2023Episode 121 min

Affectively - Intro to Affectivity & Self-Organizing | The HOW

In this introductory episode, Alícia talks about what the mini-series 'Affectively' is and what motivated her to do her research and she introduces the concept of Affect. The research for this podcast is financed through a PhD conducted in the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia through a European grant managed and fostered by the P2P Lab in Greece. 🔎 Learn more at https://www.greaterthan.works | https://taltech.ee/en/ | https://www.p2plab.gr 👍 Please share! Help these ideas spread 🙂 🔔 Subscribe to our podcast if you want more thinking and practise on organisational development and change, transformative leadership, and the future of work ⚡️ What spoke to you today? What did you notice? Leave a comment on your favourite podcast app Gratitude! 🎤 Our lovely host: Alícia Trepat Pont 🎬 The production crew: Stefan Morales and Heather Cosidetto 📣 Communication guru: Anna Kopacz 🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped fund the production of The HOW!! 🎶 To OO Ray for their piece, Silhouettes - a wonderful backing to our intro!

July 25, 2023Episode 647 min

Onboarding & Leaving Well | The HOW

People come and people go - the movement of people coming inside and going outside of your company, non-profit, community group, network, etc. is a vital thing. How do we onboard well? What does it mean to leave well? 🔎 Learn more about our people agreement: https://handbook.greaterthan.works/agreements/people-agreement 👍 Please share! Help these ideas spread 🙂 🔔 Subscribe to our podcast if you want more thinking and practise on organisational development and change, transformative leadership, and the future of work ⚡️ What spoke to you today? What did you notice? Leave a comment on your favourite podcast app Gratitude! 🎤 Our lovely co-hosts: Susan Basterfield, Francesca Pick and Lyssa Adkins 🎬 The production crew: Stefan Morales and Heather Cosidetto 📣 Communication guru: Anna Kopacz 🙏 Thank you to everyone in Greaterthan who helped fund the production of The HOW!! 🎶 To Releigh Moncrieff for their piece, Nocturne No. 3 - a wonderful backing to our intro and outro!