Stepping Into Your Transformational Agency (SITA)

Workshop Overview

Gisela Wendling is excited to return to Germany to share her evolving work in individual and organizational transformation and renewal.

You will have the opportunity to apply her groundbreaking Liminal Pathways Change Framework™ to a current change challenge and explore the transformational capabilities you already possess and those you wish to develop using The Change Maker’s Spindle—her new competency model and assessment tool. Gisela has created these tools to empower change leaders and guides to fully activate their transformational agency.

In this in-person workshop, you will:

Cultivate Transformational Capacity

• Assess and develop your transformational competencies
• Discover new ways to access your and others’ creativity
• Actively engage resistance and envision new possibilities
• Balance planning with being responsive to the emergent nature of change 

Deepen Your Understanding of Change

• Consider important distinctions between drivers and types of change
• Explore how core patterns of change unfold across levels of systems
• Practice embracing the unknown
• Proactively work with the inevitable destabilization that is part of any real change

Advance Your Change Challenge

• Make progress with the change challenge you are currently working on
• Design a pathway for your change challenge to a more promising future
• Learn practices to support you in moving through the key phases and turning points of the change process

Each participant is invited to bring a change challenge to ground the learning in real-time situations. Coming together with a select group of change leaders and practitioners allows everyone to experience deep learning through well-facilitated explorations of ideas, cases, practices and each other’s change challenges.

You will receive a printed copy of The Liminal Pathways Study and a comprehensive workbook to support your learning in the workshop.

Dr. Gisela Wendling is CEO at The Grove Consultants International. With more than 30 years of experience, she supports leaders, their teams and their organizations to realize visionary futures. She helps her clients to embrace challenges as transformational opportunities and frequently engages people from across stakeholder groups to tap into their intelligence, vision and capabilities to initiate and realize their desired future.

As a coach, Gisela works with leaders to develop their ability to lead strategic change, empower those they work with, grow their self-awareness and relational skills and increase their capacity to stay centered through turbulent times. Born and raised in Germany, she has lived in Australia and Canada and has spent most of her adult life on the West Coast of the United States.

You can read her full bio here.

This Course Is for You If:

• You are an executive or leader guiding an organization through change.

• You are a manager leading a team or responsible for implementing change.

• You are a facilitator or organizational consultant supporting clients through change.

• You are a coach, companioning individuals through their change challenges.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply the Liminal Pathways Change Framework (LPF) to a variety of contexts and understand why change agents find this framework so helpful.

• Pinpoint and tap into the momentum of change, no matter where you are along the change curve.

• Understand why it is so important to design and lead a change process that supports individuals and groups along their inner process of change.

• Design and experience rite-like activities to help you move beyond the old stories, habits and mental models. Discover those that are supportive of the new future you are creating.

• Learn about The Change Maker’s Spindle—a holistic competency model—and identify the transformational competencies you already have and those you wish to cultivate.

• Grow your ability to affect change positively through increased conceptual know-how, emotional fluidity, accessing inner and outer guidance, and somatic awareness.

• Join a wonderful cohort of colleagues and feel supported by the insights and community that emerge.

About Liminal Pathways

With more than 30 years of professional practice, Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., has developed a successful methodology and framework for working with transformational change that is now central to The Grove’s approach. Practitioners across continents have been using the Wendling Liminal Pathways Change Framework™ for nearly two decades, and it is reaching an increasingly wider audience.

In 2018, she co-authored Visual Consulting: Designing and Leading Change with David Sibbet. This book outlines The Grove’s practical approach to organizational-change work, integrating her Liminal Pathways Change Framework™ with the Theory of Process that underpins all of The Grove’s methods into the Seven Challenges of Change™ model.

In 2023, Gisela Wendling published The Liminal Pathways Study, which highlights the efficacy and benefits of the framework and examines how change agents have applied it across a wide range of personal, professional, and organizational contexts. The ideas and insights presented provide a much-needed understanding of what truly occurs during change.

Her deep appreciation of the true challenge of engaging with the unknown—the liminal phase between what has been and what will be—has led her to develop The Change Maker’s Spindle, a competency model and assessment tool for change leaders and practitioners.