Invitation Learning Journey to Finland September 2013

Learning Journey to Finland: Intrapreneurship & Innovation

Invitation10th - 14th of September 2013

“Not all those who wander are lost.” With these words of J. R. R. Tolkien we want to cordially invite you to a journey to

Finland, the land of thousands of lakes, Angry Birds and Sibelius, as well as top notch innovation, intrapreneurship and leadership.

We will also visit Finnish country side.

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Monkey Business Idea Slides

The journey is designed and organized around following

questions.


How might we encourage more intrapreneurial activity within ourselves and thus our organizations?



What is it that I want to change in my work and my organization as the new working year starts after the summer holidays? Why? And how will I do that?



What is it that I want to change in my work and my organization as the new working year starts after the summer holidays? Why? And how will I do that?

What is it that we don’t know but want to find about on Intrapreneurship & Innovation?

Restaurant Siltanen, Helsinki. Potential place for a lunch and drinks.


Our Philosophy


Our PhilosophyJourney is the reward. The one who is ready to slow down and stop will get most out of the journey. Learning is a journey. If we enjoy the journey we are not in a hurry.



The in-between is what matters. Like Liher has said “I feel that every time I go to a new place I discover something new. But something that you cannot find in a book, in internet, not even someone can tell you. You have to experience it, and feel it.”




It’s good to have a goal but we also need an open mind for emerging things, which may end up being more meaningful than the original goal.





As Peter Senge says, the goal of a learning journey is not to see something, but to see each other.






What we don’t know matters more than what we know. We need action and dialogue in a proper balance.






What we don’t know matters more than what we know. We need action and dialogue in a proper balance.

Be ready for an adventure and expect the unexpected. Trust your intuition and the team you travel with. Listen and look around. Smile and wonder.

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

http://www.rolfpotts.com/writers/cahill.php

http://www.rolfpotts.com/writers/cahill.php


Program BlueprintTue 10th of Sept

ArrivalWed 11th of Sept

ActionThu 12th of Sept Transformation

Fri 13th of Sept Crystallizing

Sat 14th of Sept De-Brief

Morning

Check-In for the dynamic day!

Workshop on Designing the Futures

of Leadership

Visit to Tiimiakatemia, the future of

management & entrepreneurship

education.

Check-in for the day. Workshop on

Intrapreneurship w. Tools and Methods examples hosted by

Thomas

Reflection about the process.

Travel back to Helsinki.

Afternoon Arrival to Helsinki

Visit to a Finnish Innovative Company.

Train to Jyväskylä.Reflection time.

Interactive workshop with emerging leaders

on teams and innovation.

Mini Vision Quest. Time for personal &

shared crystallizing of the ideas born at the

journey.

Free-time in Helsinki

Evening

Check-In for the Journey

Dinner TogetherPower Sleep in

Helsinki

Dinner.Night in Jyväskylä

Transport to Countryside.

Dinner & possibility for sauna & swim.Sleep in Cottages.

Birth-giving. Smoke Sauna &

Informal celebration.Sleep in Cottages.

Travel back Home

Bon Voyage!

All Rights Reserved. The organizers reserve the right to change the world, as well as the program in case needed.

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller


In a nutshell:


In a nutshell:4 Days packed with action but also time for reflection


In a nutshell:4 Days packed with action but also time for reflectionTime: Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th of September 2013


In a nutshell:4 Days packed with action but also time for reflectionTime: Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th of September 2013Theme: Intrapreneurship & Leadership for Innovation


In a nutshell:4 Days packed with action but also time for reflectionTime: Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th of September 2013Theme: Intrapreneurship & Leadership for InnovationLanguage of the country is Finnish but the program is in English

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

Usbenski’s Cathedral in Helsinki

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http://www.samueljohnson.com/


Outcomes


OutcomesSelf-reflection and transformation that leads to new ideas to be implemented back home at your work and life


OutcomesSelf-reflection and transformation that leads to new ideas to be implemented back home at your work and lifeDiscover new model of intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship and improve your work to be more fun and better performing generally


OutcomesSelf-reflection and transformation that leads to new ideas to be implemented back home at your work and lifeDiscover new model of intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship and improve your work to be more fun and better performing generallyGet loads of energy to kick start the year after holidays



Many memories after fun time with nice people



Many memories after fun time with nice peopleAnd much more, for sure!

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”

– Lillian Smith

Finnish lakeside at Summertime

http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/smith.html

http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/smith.html


Price & RegistrationsIn this journey we try an innovative pricing method. The price is dependent on the number of participants. Price includes program, meals, travel expenses within Finland but not flights to Helsinki. The fixed costs per participant is 700€ + VAT. On top of that, the program and organizing of the journey costs 19 800€ + VAT. This is a total cost, and will be divided upon the number of participants. You can register for the journey and give your price which you are ready to pay for the journey. We expect there to be 10-20 people on this journey.Register here: http://lastminutelearning.azurewebsites.net If you a willing to share a room with another participant, you will get a discount of 150€ + VAT.

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How to Register?

Go to http://lastminutelearning.azurewebsites.net

Meanwhile you can also register to Mr. Thomas Gresset via phone +33 6 98 02 15 72 or via email at [email protected]

Thomas will sent you a confirmation email with instructions how to complete the payment

We are good to go - Welcome a board!



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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/

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About the OrganizersMonkey Business is a lifestyle co-operative with a mission to make the world more fun and yellow. We work together with our clients for a better future in the field of change facilitation and learning design.

Thomas Gresset is a consultant and partner in RED KIWI, based in Alsace, France. RED KIWI is innovator in pedagogic solutions.

Together Thomas and Monkeys have made several learning journeys to Finland since 2009. Now we offer a new learning journey for you. More info about Monkey Business at www.banana.fi & Thomas Gresset at www.red-kiwi.fr

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“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/lao.html

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/lao.html


VocabularyDialogue In Dialogue, one speaks and others listen. Dialogue is a reflective group activity which starts when we speak from our

hearts, meaning we honestly share how we think and feel right then. For more ideas about dialogue see this blog post.

Check-in Check-In is a metaphor that we use for a dialogue that happens in the beginning of a meeting or a process. It's kind of like tuning mentally into the present moment and situation. Check-In, according to Peter Senge, is simply answering question "What's up?" but sometimes it may have a more specific question, too. It's kind of the same thing as in a jazz band when in the beginning the musicians tune their instruments to be in the same tone.

Workshop By workshop we mean an interactive working session. It is not a lecture, but it can also include a little bit of lecturing, or sharing stories.

Company visit Company visit is a visit to an organization with the idea to learn from their ways of working and potentially together create best next practices together.

Birth-giving Birth giving is a session where the participants give birth to new knowledge. Sometimes it includes loads of frustration.

Team Academy Team Academy or Tiimiakatemia is a special unit of team entrepreneurship in Jyväskylä University of applied science. It's special model that combines running a cooperative company, having 8hrs a dialogue a week, and reading latest business books has been adapted internationally by many unversitities. It's a business, or life, school without teachers or exams, but a real customer projects and team learning.

Sauna Sauna, a room with hot temperature is a traditional Finnish place for relaxing and refreshing your body and soul.

Solo Experience Vision Quest

From Wikipedia: A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures. The ceremony of the Vision Quest is one of the most universal and ancient means to find spiritual guidance and purpose. A Vision Quest can provide deep understanding of one's life purpose. The idea is to spend some time alone in nature - in our case it is going to be few hours. During the time you can reflect about your life and work in peace. This insight, typically in the form of a dream of Vision, relates directly to their purpose and destiny in life.

Motorola-reflection

Back in the 80s at the ICT-company Motorola they had struggled with the long project reports that were hard to create and boring to read. They decided to make an easy but effective way to report projects. It's made of four questions: 1. What went well? 2. What went poorly? 3. What did I learn? 4. What will I do differently next time? This is a good way to reflect in the end of a project or a learning process.


More information

Ville Keränen+358 40 731 [email protected] @VilleMonkey

Thomas Gresset+33 6 98 02 15 72

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Henna Kääriäinen+358 44 524 [email protected]@HennaMonkey

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