Routes to Resilience
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Action Learning
Holding a leadership position in a community enterprise or charity can be tough,with pressures from clients, community, staff, board, funders…and little space to reflect with peers.
I facilitate Action Learning on the model originally developed by Reg Revans. I see it has an accelerated, structured form of learning with peers that offers profound professional generosity and sharing between those who really understand each other. The confidential setting allows us to share our difficulties as well as successes and arrive at new, practical solutions to problems, or to develop innovative ideas for action.
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In Action Learning we bring our whole selves and acknowledge that our professional and personal lives are interdependent. Alongside strategy and funding bids, it is often the relational issues that keep us awake at night, along with working out how we fit our jobs and the rest of our lives together. The aim of my Action Learning sets is to create an atmosphere where we can develop and grow our authentic leadership voices.
We sometimes include other things: new leadership tools and frameworks, mindfulness, nature connection and triad coaching. Content is flexed to meet the needs and wishes of the group, while keeping action learning is at the heart of each session.
Each set is contracted for between 4 and 6 half-day sessions - usually meeting once a month.
“Annie's Action Learning set was without doubt the most effective professional support and development opportunity of my CEO years. With deep wisdom and sensitivity, Annie creates safe spaces for vibrant conversations and learning. No matter how complex or draining the issues I brought to the group, I emerged from each session feeling nurtured, calm and hopeful. The coaching and facilitation tools Annie shared along the way were a bonus that enriched my supervision and support of my teams.”
Tamsin, former Chief Executive of Elmore Community Services and Chair of the Oxfordshire Anti-Slavery Network.