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In this episode I invite back Tomomi from Emotions at Work together with her colleague Oriana LaVilla. We dive deeper and, in some occasions, more practically on what it means to wear the emotional lens at work. What questions can we ask ourselves? What practices can we engage with that will support us in practicing more emotional intelligence?We also get some of the latest learnings on Oriana's and Tomomi's latest cohort of their programme Emotions at Work.Talking to them feels more distanced to my usual constructivist approach, so for me it's challenging, provoking and very interesting. An invitation and a reminder that there is so much more beyond our worldview and ideals that can be extremely helpful.The research for this podcast has received support from project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology.

In this episode of Affectively Alicía interviews Emmanouela Mandalaki from a research perspective and JD Nasaw from a practice angle. Together we discuss the topic of embodiment, it contains the word “body” and, at the same time, it keeps being so abstract for me…Emmanouela and JD help me get into new dimensions of this concept and I make the classic mistake of wanting to get to very much the specifics and next steps…not always the best idea :) The research for this podcast has received support from project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology.

In this episode of Affectively Alicía interviews Ria Baeck, a long-term self-organising, collective presencing, and trauma-informed practitioner, as well as a coach and therapist. We go back to the basics of hosting and self-organising by diving into “Circle Practice”. Ria walks us through the basics, common-pitfalls, dos and don'ts and we explore together the role of emotions in this key collective practice.  It was a treat for me to go through this sort of gentle and deep masterclass. It's always good to review some “basics” and, especially, when such a simple format can hold and offer so much depth and complexity. It's always a learning process. The research for this podcast has received support from project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology.

In this episode of Affectively, Alicia interviews our very admired fellow member Tomomi Sasaki. Tomomi runs together with other colleagues a programme called Emotions at Work. As simple as that…and so challenging that we even forget that emotions are with us continuously and that they can play in our favour if we learn to be aware of them and move through them. Tomomi talks about the coaching framework she and her colleagues base her work on and she gives me a present in the form of one of the most insightful questions I have heard in a long time: when you are working on a project, how do you want to feel? Unconsciously, I think this has been one of the strongest compasses for me in the past couple of years when doing my work, but now that I'm aware of it, I feel that I have much more agency and have gotten to the heart of one of the things I care the most about. One more reminder that it's not only what we do, but also how we do it and how we can bring this into consciousness. Thanks Tomomi!The research for this podcast has received support from project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology.

In this episode Alicía talks with Dorian Cavé and Wendy Freeman from the Deep Adaptation Forum (DAF) about the Decolonising Circle they co-organised within DAF. Alicía connected with them to discuss the Wenger Trayner social learning model, but the chat about their learnings on the circle was so interesting that we didn't get there… maybe for a future episode!The research for this podcast has received support from project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology.

In this episode of the Affectively mini-series on The HOW, Alícia has a conversation with researcher Bernhard Resch, exploring two of the main contributions of his research: affective oscillations and collaborative fantasies for affective control. Bernhard researched the network Enspiral and many other collaborative settings and has valuable take-aways from his efforts of bringing emotion and cognition together.

In this episode of the Affectively mini-series on The HOW, Alícia has a conversation with Elena Denaro to reflect on the main insights and learnings from writing a first version of her academic paper.Alícia and Elena also engage in reviewing some of the main concepts present in the paper that can help you reflect on your own collective, network, community or self-organised endeavour.The current version of the paper looks very different (although all old learnings still hold) from how it looked back in July when the podcast was recorded…more on the current version in another episode!The research for this podcast is financed through a PhD conducted in the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia through a European grant managed and fostered by the P2P Lab in Greece.

In this introductory episode, Alícia talks about what the mini-series 'Affectively' is and what motivated her to do her research and she introduces the concept of Affect. The research for this podcast is financed through a PhD conducted in the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia through a European grant managed and fostered by the P2P Lab in Greece.

People come and people go - the movement of people coming inside and going outside of your company, non-profit, community group, network, etc. is a vital thing. How do we onboard well? What does it mean to leave well?

What goes in a handbook? What doesn't? How can we co-create our organization's handbook? Writing a handbook for your organization that strikes a balance between enough detail to be easily understood and used on the one hand, and enough room for interpretation and creative adaptation is an art and a practice in it's own right... and one that never really ends!

When it comes to groups of humans collaborating and actively distributing their power and authority, size matters! In this episode of The HOW, Lyssa Adkins, Susan Basterfield and Francesca Pick explore different group sizes, and the what, the why and The HOW of facilitating each. At Greaterthan, we believe that the future of leadership is facilitative leadership - put another way, leading by facilitating is a better tuning to the collective and emotional intelligence of everyone in the team or organization.

Venturing beyond the conventional model of leadership - where the boss, the hero, and the visionary take center stage - we delve into a transformative paradigm shift towards a shared, democratized model of leadership. A model that empowers each individual, fostering a sense of collaborative culture, and promoting leadership development at every level. In this episode of The HOW, Susan Basterfield, Lyssa Adkins, and Francesca Pick take us on an enlightening journey exploring new practices and mindsets for leadership, exploring the power of distributed leadership, amplifying transparent communication and power sharing, ultimately transforming the way we perceive and enact leadership.

Whether we're establishing agreements and building our org's handbook, or simply trying to understand reality before jumping to conclusions - we have to practise new leadership skills and continually articulate our organisational culture (without overdoing it!). We cover communication protocols, team agreements, systems thinking about the org as a whole, and more. Tune in to episode 2 of The HOW: all about the importance of making the implicit, explicit.

Introducing The HOW, Greaterthan's new show and podcast on organisational change - the future of work is already here... it's just unevenly distributed. Join us and learn how to practise a new kind of leadership, where we interrogate hierarchy, wrangle with power and centralised decision making, and subtract ‘management' from change management. In episode 1 we kick-off season 1 of The HOW and explore how we got here.

...it's already broadcasting, here and now on The HOW