Guided Program:
Patterns for Self-organising Teams
3 months Learning Journey |
March - May 2024
In this course you will find practical guidance on how your team can share leadership, distribute decision-making, stay aligned on priorities, deal with conflict, and create a thriving culture that cares for everyone. You will immediately get a much clearer understanding of your team challenges, and experience team practices that you can bring back to your team.
Thought this 6 weeks program you will connect with us with peers facing similar challenges, and get support to understand how to work with the patterns in your own context.
Course Content
You will get access to our self-paced course material, includes:
video lessons + case studies + exercises to integrate the lessons + team practices & links to curated resources for your team to go deeper on each topic.
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Introduction (click to expand)▶️ Welcome 📄Who we are and how we work 🛠 Assessment: how decentralised is your team? [Free Assessment] ▶️ What is a decentralised organisation?
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Rhythm & Retrospective▶️ Align your priorities with work rhythms ▶️ Retrospectives: stop, reflect, and learn 🛠 Exercise: Rhythm mapping 🧭 Journaling 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Developmental Culture▶️ The self in self-management 🛠 Exercise: mindful breathing ▶️ Personal growth mindset 🧭 Journaling ▶️ Develop a team growth culture 🛠 Exercise: collaborating across difference 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Decision Making▶️ Decide how to decide ▶️ Four decision methods for a decentralised team ▶️ Make your own decision protocol 🛠 Exercise: Make your own decision protocol ▶️ Getting unstuck 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Trust & Care▶️ Psychological safety ▶️ Practices for a new culture 🧭 Journaling ▶️ Accounting for care ▶️ Internal support systems ▶️ Get unstuck with an external peer 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Distributing Tasks & Roles▶️ Roles: Who is working on what 🧭 Journaling ▶️ Holding each other accountable 🛠 Exercise: accountability mapping ▶️ Ownership is not a feeling 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Asynchronous & Remote Work▶️ The asynchronous opportunity ▶️ A shared map of your communications tools 📄 The trinity of digital comms tools 📄 Introducing new tools with care ▶️ Asynchronous decision-making on Loomio 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Money, Leadership & Power Dynamics▶️ Including people in money decisions ▶️ Unpacking money stories 🛠 Exercise: Understanding your money stories ▶️ Power dynamics at work 🧭 Journaling 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Dealing with Conflict & Feedback▶️ Dealing with conflict in your team 🧭 Journaling ▶️ Personal approaches to conflict 🛠 Exercise: Trigger log ▶️ Giving & receiving feedback 🛠 Exercise: Get clear before giving feedback 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Course Conclusion▶️ Where to from here? 🧭 Journaling 🛠Action plan
Rich Bartlett
He's enthusiastic about co-ownership, self-governance and building relationships of partnership instead of domination to create collaborative workplaces.
Cofounder of Loomio and Director of the Enspiral Foundation.
He has a unique way of seeing patterns and speaking about complexity in simple words.
Nati Lombardo
Born in Argentina, she travelled the world learning about community development through permaculture and creative activism.
She helps groups to cultivate a nourishing collaborative culture through values-driven behavioral change and relationships of
peer-to-peer support.
She is a Member of the Enspiral network.
Your Guides
Together, we’ve established our own self-managing workplaces, and we’ve shared our knowledge with thousands of people in training workshops in 20+ countries around the world.
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Introduction (click to expand)▶️ Welcome 📄Who we are and how we work 🛠 Assessment: how decentralised is your team? [Free Assessment] ▶️ What is a decentralised organisation?
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Rhythm & Retrospective▶️ Align your priorities with work rhythms ▶️ Retrospectives: stop, reflect, and learn 🛠 Exercise: Rhythm mapping 🧭 Journaling 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Developmental Culture▶️ The self in self-management 🛠 Exercise: mindful breathing ▶️ Personal growth mindset 🧭 Journaling ▶️ Develop a team growth culture 🛠 Exercise: collaborating across difference 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Decision Making▶️ Decide how to decide ▶️ Four decision methods for a decentralised team ▶️ Make your own decision protocol 🛠 Exercise: Make your own decision protocol ▶️ Getting unstuck 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Trust & Care▶️ Psychological safety ▶️ Practices for a new culture 🧭 Journaling ▶️ Accounting for care ▶️ Internal support systems ▶️ Get unstuck with an external peer 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Distributing Tasks & Roles▶️ Roles: Who is working on what 🧭 Journaling ▶️ Holding each other accountable 🛠 Exercise: accountability mapping ▶️ Ownership is not a feeling 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Asynchronous & Remote Work▶️ The asynchronous opportunity ▶️ A shared map of your communications tools 📄 The trinity of digital comms tools 📄 Introducing new tools with care ▶️ Asynchronous decision-making on Loomio 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Money, Leadership & Power Dynamics▶️ Including people in money decisions ▶️ Unpacking money stories 🛠 Exercise: Understanding your money stories ▶️ Power dynamics at work 🧭 Journaling 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Dealing with Conflict & Feedback▶️ Dealing with conflict in your team 🧭 Journaling ▶️ Personal approaches to conflict 🛠 Exercise: Trigger log ▶️ Giving & receiving feedback 🛠 Exercise: Get clear before giving feedback 🔍 Practices, Case Studies & Resources
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Course Conclusion▶️ Where to from here? 🧭 Journaling 🛠Action plan
If you have any unanswered questions, fill in our contact form or email contact@thehum.org
What people say about us
Irem Tumer
UNFPA
"The training was the perfect way to equip our team with tools to overcome challenges of organizing in a decentralised and value-driven way. Rich and Nati guided the journey with commitment and positivity at every step and we supported us with their vast experience and knowledge. The atmosphere of safety and trust they created was inspiring and set the tone for our follow-up plans."
Sean Andrew
Forum for the Future
Nicola Round
Adfree Cities
“Participating in The Hum's course brought home and demystified questions of what new forms of governance and organising for change can look and feel like. Their way of grounding theory into practice through simple and clear language, applied learning opportunities and sharing examples from the field encouraged me to try new things out in my own organisational context."
"I have come away from the course understanding that deciding to have a flat structure was just the first step for us. There is a lot of work to be done to build the structures and processes that we need to thrive. The Hum has given us the tools and the inspiration to help us on this journey. I feel much more confident about trying new ways of organising."
Save your place
To make the program more accessible we have a tiered ticket price from €750 to €1,350. We have limited availability, please choose the ticket price according to your circumstances.
When you buy a course you are contributing to our scholarship fund.
We provide scholarships for low income people working on social impact projects, who wouldn't otherwise have access. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, fill in this form.
What We Cover
How it Works
Rhythms & Priorities
Use the right meeting cadence to stay aligned on priorities while working autonomously.
Decision Making
Access collective intelligence with different methods for inclusive & efficient decision-making.
Mutual Care & Growth
Create a psychologically safe culture where everyone is supported in their growth.
Conflict & Feedback
Processes, practices, and skills for dealing with tension, and creating a culture of open feedback.
Shared Leadership
Understand the complex power dynamics that emerge in groups. Learn how to lead together.
Continuous Improvement
Build the habit of consistent & intentional learning to improve your group, and yourself.
This is a deep dive 3 months course which combines homework & group practice.
The course content is delivered in short video lectures, readings, case studies, and exercises accessible through our learning platform. So you can work through it in your own time before the calls.
We will then meet every 2 weeks online for a facilitated workshops, with collaboration practices & discussions on the different Patterns.
You'll get advice and support to design & test practical experiments you can introduce to your team right away.
And you have the option of joining a learning pod (4-6 people) to keep practicing and supporting each other through the course.
Save your place
To make the program more accessible we have a tiered ticket price from €750 to €1,350. We have limited availability, please choose the ticket price according to your circumstances.
When you buy a course you are contributing to our scholarship fund.
We provide scholarships for low income people working on social impact projects, who wouldn't otherwise have access. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, fill in this form.
The Hum training methodology
Our training method combines several elements:
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We don’t have a dogmatic commitment to one framework, we draw from many schools of thought. Our knowledge is rooted in our lived experience, in our own organisations at the forefront of collaborative work practice.
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We focus on practice, interaction and personal reflection over heavy content presentations.
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We support different learning styles - e.g. we have content with visuals, we make space for journaling and silent reflection, we encourage sharing and practice in different group sizes (pairs, small groups, full group), we bring the body into the picture.
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We are trauma-informed - we emphasise consent (everything is optional). And we encourage participants pay attention to their physical sensations, so they can intentionally venture out of their comfort zone and into a growth space, without overriding their own safe boundaries.