Going on together in uncertainty

We are taking advantage of Professor Chris Mowles’ visit to Sydney and felt this is a good opportunity to gather a few friends and colleagues together for an afternoon of learning and enjoyment and to engage in some meaningful conversations. Chris directs a doctorate program for leaders, executive management and consultants. Sophie is a recent graduate of this program.

Being alive in complex times demands more of us than our habituated responses – look at the mess these familiar responses have got us into. It requires us to pay attention to each other in more serious ways, to learn to stay in relation despite our differences, and to endure and explore conflict. Chris believes that if we become more skilful in reflecting, to make sense together and to find ways of recognising our similarities and our differences, we can make better progress with the complex dilemmas facing our societies. To make a difference ‘out there’, we have to first make a difference ‘in here’. Rather than avoiding or collapsing our differences, collapsing into tribes or becoming polarised, we need to learn to go on together in uncertainty to see if we can produce something different. Our futures, and our children’s futures may depend on it.

We welcome you to join Chris and our family for a Sunday lunch followed by an open discussion which you are all invited to participate. Professor Mowles will facilitate the group discussion about what’s going on for you at work? What drives you mad? What exhilarates you? What kind of games do you find yourself caught up in where it feels that you and or other people end up doing all kinds of crazy things which no one wants?

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