Spiral Dynamics at Utrecht College (HU)

The Utrecht College runs a minor called "Charismatic leadership" . 50 students from different studies wollow this program this year. Theay are challenged to co-create the program with a series of teachings, a retreat and a seminar on authentic leadership.

CHE school of Synnervation is involved in the seminar and tomorrow I'll act as co-creator for one of the teachings on spiral dynamics and charismatic leadership. The seminar will be held on January 29th.

There are few things that I really appreciate about the setup of this minor. Co-creation is part of the program. This aligns with my perception of co-creation as a carrier for individual authenticity in service of collective leadership and purpose. The retreat offers possibilities to party and to meditate or do yoga. It is functional and fun. The way the students are involved in designing their own learning material and series of teachings gives space for creativity and co ownership.

The students I work with tomorrow had a clear idea on what they wanted and it seems to be quite easy for me to step into this. I am part of their program, not the experienced professional coming over to tell them what they need to know. We aligned the individual contributions and created a program that hopefully will be flexible, interactive, inspiring and fun for all 50 students. I know I'll be having fun.

The students will start the session with this video. It explains briefly the vMemes of the spiral. From there the students will go into more depth of the vMemes and I'll step in sharing about characteristics of leadership in the differente vMemes. 

Possibly I'll write more about the seminar in January.