Central to our practice was working within organisations across industries, from fashion to tech, to explore how we could create the conditions that would enable 'whole-self decision-making', where our own personal, intrinsic values could be present and heard. How could the ways in which we work and come together support deeper change?
Our research and practice has shown that within the workplace, there is often value misalignment, where personal values are rarely engaged and often asked to be left at the door. Not only is this cognitive dissonance harmful to those working within these conditions, unable to be full, creative, autonomous human-beings, the opportunity for business to play a more generative role in driving societal change is also stunted.
We worked with organisations to give leadership teams and employees the space to explore these questions for themselves. The need for spaces for vulnerability, reflection, creativity, imagination, and autonomy emerged consistently — conditions that allow for collective sense-making, as well as for deeper meaning and new possibilities.
Lockdown Lessons
We continued these sessions during Covid-19, as a 3-part conversation series, delivered virtually, to reconnect people with purpose, providing the tools and frameworks to remain active, innovative, and hopeful in the middle of an unsettling time. With racism and climate change also at the forefront of people’s minds, emotions were understandably high. It was—and is—important to provide an opportunity for people to be with and channel their emotions constructively; to understand the interconnected nature of our challenges and show them how to drive positive change within their own roles.