Agile May Not Be Dead, But Is It ALIVE?
Embodying Agility: Learn to trust your ability to navigate the unknown so others naturally notice, trust & follow you.
For some time now, the Agile community has been grappling with the complexities of our reality.
We’ve witnessed a seismic shift, one that challenges core beliefs and practices. You may be experiencing the âglitchââ that unsettling feeling of being caught between the old and the new.
In a time when agility is more crucial than ever, traditional Agile frameworks are under scrutiny, leading to questions about their relevance and effectiveness.
As some organisations abandon Agile or adopt hybrid models, one thing is clear:Â
No one knows what’s coming next.
While this uncertainty can feel daunting, it’s also a time ripe with potential and possibility.
These times are forcing us to rethink and redefine what true agility is.
Agility is not just about frameworks; it’s about embodying a stance – a way of being –Â that embraces change and uncertainty while maintaining forward momentum.
This is where the Embodied WaysFinding Cohort comes into play, offering vital skills and a framework that aligns with the Agile ethos, supporting not only a new way of being but also a path of becoming.
In a landscape where many have developed strong mental models, Embodied WaysFinding invites you to transform that knowledge into an embodied knowingâa comfort with uncertainty that naturally attracts people to NOTICE, TRUST, and FOLLOW you.
Embodied WaysFinding Cohort
You’ll be invited to:
- Enhance Adaptive Skills: Cultivate your ability to respond dynamically to ongoing change and complexity.
- Create Momentum: Transition from a reactive posture to a proactive stance, opening new pathways for innovation and acceleration.
- Turn Resistance into Opportunity: Shift challenges into actionable insights, facilitating a smoother flow through uncertainty.
- Explore New Directions: Safely assess and pursue areas of high potential and future growth, aligning with the needs of modern organisations.
- Push Your Boundaries: Step beyond the familiar to confidently navigate uncharted territory and explore new possibilities.
- Identify and Navigate Expansion Cycles: Recognise and manage the natural cycles of growth and transition within teams and projects.
Training Dates: November 7Â – December 12, 2024
Training Length: 6 weeks
Price: âŹ599.
Need a bursary? Complete this form here.
This isnât just another training program. Hereâs why:
It breaks away from traditional systems and models and offers an embodied experience of complexity instead.
While the mind often seeks control, the body intuitively senses and adapts, enabling us to navigate complexity and change with greater efficiency and agility.
This course invites you into the felt sense of navigating complexityâthe part that often goes beyond what we can intellectually grasp.
It’s the difference that will get more people to NOTICE, TRUST and FOLLOW you whether you’re a leader, coach, facilitator or ex-corporate professional.
By embracing a collective approach, we enable participants to move beyond traditional problem-solving frameworks and cultivate the capacity to create new ways forward in complex environments.
While, we cannot guarantee:
- An outcome, weâll give you the tools and skills to navigate this complex landscape and make informed decisions amid uncertainty.
- Expert advice, we’ll be right there in the trenches with you, leveraging our experience and insights gained from navigating these challenges longer than most.
- Absolute security or protection from future challenges, we’ll guide you in developing the awareness and skills to navigate what’s ahead with resilience, agility, and confidence in your own capabilities.
- A final destination or a perfect map, we offer a journeyâa shared exploration into the unfamiliar, where breakthroughs come from embracing uncertainty and curiosity.
As facilitators, we have an additional RESPONSIBILITY.
Keeping a watchful eye to ensure challenges donât escalate.
If things go off track, we’ll step in.
We’ve honed these skills, and they are invaluable.
As facilitators, we have an additional RESPONSIBILITY.
Keeping a watchful eye to ensure challenges donât escalate.
If things go off track, we’ll step in.
We’ve honed these skills, and they are invaluable.
On this 6-week Embodied WaysFinding journey you will learn how to:
- Scaffold your journey with the WaysFinder framework.
- Reframe your approach to transitions and uncertainty, turning them into opportunities for growth.
- Shift from resistance into flow.
- Access Sphere Intelligence -âbeyond rational thinkingâby tapping into embodied, intuitive insights.
- Reconnect with desire and possibility.
- Reclaim your agency and explore a wider range of options.
- Push the boundaries of your comfort zone to unlock new potential and drive progress.
- Cultivate momentum through safe-to-fail experiments and WaysFinding practices.
- Navigate cycles of growth and change and celebrate who you are becoming (not only arrival at an end state).
Hear what daring explorers whoâve taken the leap have to say.
âA practical and empowering framework to pause and take stock of your journey in any context. Extremely relevant in our messy world.â
â Marlene de Lange, Director of Grow Consulting.
“I highly recommend the Waysfinding framework for deeper self-understanding and growth. This 6-week journey expanded my awareness, helped me embrace uncertainty, and tuned me into my bodyâs wisdom. Mirjam and Sonja created a safe space for authentic, vulnerable exploration. The experience shifted me from a purely rational approach to a more intuitive and holistic path.”
â Robert Merlo, Sales & Business Development Executive.
âThis 6-week program offered itself as an unexpected oasisâboth refreshing and transformative. Delivered with expertise, grace, and respect, Mirjam and Sonja struck the perfect balance between information, exploration, and structure.â
– Gail Cox, Leadership Coach.
What is the WaysFinder framework?
The WaysFinder framework is a practical compass that helps you befriend the Unknown and make informed decisions amid uncertainty.
Rooted in complexity theory, anthropology, and mindfulness, it may seem simple, but its impact lies in that simplicity.
We liken it to switching on a powerful radar or searchlight that can help you to:
- Orient yourself, i.e. get a better sense of where you are.
- Set boundaries by acknowledging where you can’t or don’t want to go.
- Set a direction that feels alive and generative.
- Identify edge possibilities you want to explore.
When facing uncertainty, it’s easy to get stuck in overthinking or indecision. The WaysFinder breaks through this stuckness, encouraging small steps and constant momentum.
Faced with constant change and disruption, these skillsârooted in wayfinding traditions like those of the Polynesians and Inuitâare invaluable. They allow individuals, teams and organisations to continuously navigate uncertainty, unlock potential, and expand strategic horizons.
This is for Agile Innovators
In todayâs rapidly evolving landscape, Agile practices are no longer the final destinationâthey are a launchpad for new ways of working.
You are navigating uncertainty and searching for ways to go beyond Agile, leveraging your expertise to innovate and drive change.
This is for agile coaches and practitioners who are looking for new approaches to help create adaptive and aligned organisations, empowering teams to thrive in uncertainty, foster collaboration, and elevate performance.Â
Your WaysFinding guides
Sonja Blignaut
Sonja Blignaut helps individuals and organizations thrive in uncertainty, making complexity thinking accessible. Her WaysFinder framework is designed to help individuals and teams navigate life’s transitions and uncertainties.
Sonja is the founder of More Beyond and a globally sought-after teacher and speaker who has worked with many well-known corporate brands around the world.
For a deeper understanding of Sonja’s work and its impact, we invite you to explore more about her here.
Mirjam van VlietÂ
Mirjam van Vliet is an experienced marketer & entrepreneur who helps positive impact organisations, coaches and facilitators create meaningful impact to thrive in uncertainty. She started her career at Microsoft as an external consultant and moved to South Africa in 2008.Â
With 15+ years of experience she combines traditional marketing methods with improv, embodiment & mindfulness practices. She has the ability to flow ideas into execution almost seamlessly.Â
Mirjam combines her extensive marketing knowledge with a real passion for all things human. You can read more about her work here.
The Journey
Switching on the searchlight.
Illuminate your current edges and the new frontiers you are being invited to explore. Transitioning into the new requires letting go of the old. In this initial session, we will clarify the guiding question that will shape your entire journey.
Shaping your WaysFinding Frontier.
Discover the frame and scaffolding of the WaysFinder framework and how constraints enable us to keep moving as we explore beyond the known, even if we are unsure of our direction.
Reframing resistance to enable flow.
Humans are the only beings able to resist reality. Resisting what is and what is emerging keeps us stuck. In this session we learn to acknowledge and allow so that we can become part of the natural flow towards the emerging future.Â
Leverage Sphere Intelligence.
Acquire practical strategies to access different ways of knowing, going beyond (and supplement) the rational and cognitive. Cultivate ‘beginners’ eyes, imagination, intuition and bodily awareness.Â
Expanding your Frontier.
Learn how to work your edges and stretch into the Unknown.
Navigating Cycles of Expansion.
Shift your focus from “reaching forâ a specific outcome, to trusting the process of taking small steps collectively to create momentum and shifts of a different kind.
The nuts & bolts
Training Dates: November 7Â – December 5, 2024.
Training Length: 6 weeks.
Price: âŹ599.
Need a bursary? Complete this form here.
You’ll also gain access to:
- Exclusive written, audio & video learning content shared weekly (6 total)
- Weekly live 90-min sessions on Zoom with Sonja & Mirjam (all calls recorded + replays available)
- Kickoff & Live Call 1: Thursday 7 November 2 pm CET (3 pm SAST / 9 am EDT).
- Live Call 2: Thursday 14 November 2 pm CET (3 pm SAST / 9 am EDT).
- Live Call 3: Thursday 21 November 2 pm CET (3 pm SAST / 9 am EDT).
- Live Call 4: Thursday 28 November 2 pm CET (3 pm SAST / 9 am EDT).
- Live Call 5: Thursday 5 December 2 pm CET (3 pm SAST / 9 am EDT).
- Live Call 6: Thursday 12 December 2 pm CET (3 pm SAST / 9 am EDT).
- An exclusive membership-based alumni community.