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Dear all,
we are happy to invite you to the next IFIS events that will take place in April and May 2026.
April 2026 :
Info session and Q&A - Body-Mindedness Practice Seminar
Tuesday 28 April at 20h-21h CEST. If you like to register for the Info session, please go here.
May 2026 :
Online Colloquium N° 88: Making Meetings More Meaningful through Airtime Behavior Awareness and Sociocracy
Wednesday 13 May at 20h-22h CEST. If you like to register for the colloquium, please go here.
Please find more details about these events below
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Info session and Q&A - Body-Mindedness Practice Seminar
Tuesday 28-4-26, 20-21h CEST with Michael Keller and Bettina Geiken
Our body is a v
ery fine antenna for the most subtle signals and reveals an array of non-verbal signals that are interpreted immediately as congruent (or not) with our verbal message
Join us on April 28 at 20h CEST for an info-session and Q&A for the Body-Mindedness Practice Seminar.he most subtle signals and reveals an array of non-verbal signals that are interpreted immediately as congruent (or not) with our verbal messages.
As has also been shown in much research, our bodies have ways of knowing that are not directly connected to our conscious mind in ways that can support new perspectives and inform our possibilities for making meaning and different choices (a sense-making process). Becoming more aware and practiced in noticing our body sensations, habits, and patterns – and the meaning we make – can assist in opening new insights, intuition and choice-making versatility.
The seminar offers in depth grounding exercises as a basis for holding tension and take embodied decisions including working/coaching with each other and in depth reflection on the learning
It is an applied learning and direct experience format, a three-part series that is designed to build foundation progressively for the interdependent integration of each subsequent session.The actual learning and practice building is designed to happen in between the 2h online sessions. These are the moments to practice regularly and apply it in real-life. You will be supported by handouts, worksheets and recordings. The price for the whole seminar (3 sessions) will be 100 Euro
Join us on April 28 at 20h CEST for an info-session and Q&A moment. Please register here for the upcoming Info and Q&A Call
In the context of IFIS' Cohere+ Project, we ran a first Body-Mindedness Practice seminar series and we are now ready for the next edition.
Please enjoy reading two blog posts based on the first Body-Mindedness practice seminar in 2025:
- https://www.ifis-freiburg.de/en/2025-08/why-body-mindedness-matters-learning-essay (with quotes of participants' experience)
- https://www.ifis-freiburg.de/en/2025-08/body-mindedness-online-live-learning-journey-personal-coherence (structure and possible results)
and/or listen to the conversational video between Michael Keller and Bettina Geiken, the co-authors of this course (click on "Preview" on the upper right of the Canva Screen for full screen view)
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Online Colloquium N° 88: Making Meetings More Meaningful through Airtime Behavior Awareness and Sociocracy
Wednesday 13 May at 20h-22h CEST with Renee Owen, Associate Professor at Southern Oregon University, USA
Dr. Renee Owen presents recent research on how non-profit leadership teams changed their communication and increased learning after adopting sociocracy, a self-organizing governance system. We will look at findings from the study and experiment with a communication measurement tool called AirtimeBA, while we hold our own conversation.
Findings from the study indicate that when teams learn to structure meetings using sociocracy processes, the underlying structure of a sociocratic meeting provides cues to communicating with increased openness and inquiry, leading to an improvement in team learning behaviors. Teams in the study reported more inclusiveness, psychological safety, and more effective meetings.
Communication behaviors for the study were measured with Airtime Behavior Awareness (AirtimeBA), an application that codes speech acts. During the colloquium, participants will engage in a discussion while Renee demonstrates the use of this exciting tool for measuring verbal communication. We will examine quantitative data from AirtimeBA, revealing the quality of our conversation, while learning how we can coach teams to make meetings more effective.
If you like to register for the colloquium, please go here.