Course Learning Fables Fall 2024

5 Fables as a Metaphor for Peter Senge's 5 Learning Principles

We are already entering the third year of the Learning Fables Course. Every year, about ten professionals participate in this course to explore the principles of the learning organization in a playful way.

It success of this course it is the combination of:

short and readable books about our patterns and beliefs when it comes to learning to learn;
all the knowledge and experience that teacher and systems thinker Guus Geisen shares with the participants;
answer the question: "how?" by working with your own case.

We start with a first day on location (central in the Netherlands) where we get to know each other and each other's cases and go through the most important theoretical frameworks with you using a first learning fable. Then we pay attention to the other 4 learning fables in four online sessions.

Startup day (on location) + 4 online workshops

Startup day 1 (learning fable 1: Outsmarting the wolves)

Introduction and introduction

Monday, September 23, 2024, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Introduction and introduction

Learning fables program
What you will learn
How are you going to learn
Getting to know participants
Introduction to tools
Contribution of cases from the participants
Learning Culture based on the first fable "Outsmarting the wolves".

Learning Fable 2: The Tip of the Iceberg

Monday, October 28, 2024
(3pm - 5pm)

Understanding the system:

See what is invisible
Enterprising penguins love mussels
Working together with walruses
Success becomes frustration

Fable 3: The Lemmings' Dilemma

Monday, November 25, 2024
(3pm - 5pm)

Personal Mastery and Moral Goals:

Relationship between moral goals and shared vision
Lemmings jump off rocks
But why actually?
Discover personal goal
From reacting to creatinghonor

Fable 4: In the shadow of the Neanderthal Valley

January 27, 2025

(3pm - 5pm)

Mental models:

Learn to expose hidden beliefs that block insight sharing
Boogie the caveman is looking for understanding
why are people sittingn so firm in their beliefs?

Learning Fable 5: Listening to the Volcano
Monday March 3, 2025
(15 - 17 hours)

Meaningful dialogue:

Magic of collective thinking
A sleeping volcano awakens
Crisis in “Pine-ash”
Villagers get into a fight
Discover a new way of talking and listening

Return day

Date to be determined in 2025 | accessible to all (previous) participants | separate registration/payment

Looking back and learning from each other:

What happened to your own case (what went well / what could have been improved)?
How is what has been learned applied in practice?
Intervision with and reflection from other participants.

Experiences

In 2021 we started the Learning Fables course. Every year we expand the course,

using the responses our participants give back.

Below you will find a selection of the responses:

"The booklets and Guus's enormous wealth of knowledge and experience are extremely valuable"

"You can get so much out of the fables. I liked that everyone got their own thing out of it. It's also striking how it resonates differently depending on what you're doing. It's nice to keep an open mind and stay curious."

"Nice to work on the ideas with the group/each other"

"I find the most valuable is the exchange based on the fable and making it concrete together"

The total cycle of 1 live startup day + 4 online workshops costs € 645,- (excl. VAT, including 5 booklets, including shipping costs). SOL members receive 15% discount (see link).

The five learning fables as a set of booklets without participation in the workshops cost €85 (including shipping costs).

Order booklets? Send an email to info@autopoiesis.nu