en
de
Dear all,
we are happy to invite you to our next IFIS Online Colloquium:
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 20h-22h CEST
Topic: Making Meetings More Meaningful through Airtime Behavior Awareness and Sociocracy
Presenter: Dr. Renee Owen, Associate Professor at Southern Oregon University, USA
Please register here for this Colloquium.
Details:
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.
Presenter:
Dr. Renee Owen is an Associate Professor in Adult Learning and Educational Leadership at Southern Oregon University, USA. Renee was an early adopter of sociocracy when she was Executive Director at Rainbow Community School, a holistic school in Asheville, NC, USA. She went on to study organizational development at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she earned her doctorate with a focus on transformative learning. Renee is also a Senior Editor of the Holistic Educational Review, and consults on sociocracy and team development with organizations to become more inclusive and to develop thriving cultures. Her recent book is Becoming a Transformative Leader from the Inside Out.
Please register here for this Colloquium.
This Colloquium is offered on a donations base. If you are not a member of IFIS, we kindly ask you to make a donation (10-30 €) to help us cover the costs.
*****************************************************
Please find more upcoming events below.
******************************************************
Online-Seminar: Embodied Practices for how to stay grounded and makes choices
Info session and Q&A for our Body-Mindedness Practice Seminar
Tuesday June 16, 20h-21h CEST
Hosts: Michael Keller and Bettina Geiken
Register here for the Info session
More info about the seminar:
Our body i
s a very 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
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.
The zoomlink will be sent to registered participants shortly before the meeting.
******************************************************
Clarity & Creation Camp 2026: Summer Retreat of the Women Lead Community (WLC)
The Women Lead Community is a global association of and for women, which IFIS helped kick-start as part of the ACE Leadership Excellerator Project in collaboration with Leadership Associates. The WLC now offers its first women retreat this summer!
It invites women who are sitting with ideas or half-developed projects or concepts in their mind or drawer to find more clarity in a shared space together with other inspiring women who are in the same process.
*****************************************************
ACE Leadership Development Program for Women Leaders in the Not-for-Profit World
We're excited to announce our next iteration of the ACE Leadership Development Program:
📌 On-site 10.-14.10.2026 (Sat-Wed)
📌Online 29.9., 27.10.2026 and 10.11.2026 17-19h CET
📌 3 individual coaching sessions between September and December
*****************************************************
For all other upcoming events (partky in German) see here
*****************************************************
GDPR: Your data with IFIS
You receive this email because you are either a member or active supporter of IFIS, have previously participated in one of our Online Colloquia, have expressed an interest in receiving news from IFIS or have cooperated with IFIS in some area.
We never buy from, or sell personal data to, any third parties. You can find out about the data we keep and how we process your personal data by reading our Privacy Policy, (in German) or you can contact us at info@ifis-freiburg.de if you have any questions.
You can change your subscription or unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time via the following link: http://eepurl.com/dvND7H or by contacting at info@ifis-freiburg.de.
*******************************************************
Best wishes
IFIS