Entanglement Workshop

Introduction

This workshop is to help participants raise their awareness of the sociomaterial entanglements that they work within, which can present as frustrations and behaviours that are not conducive to a safe and high performing working culture.

Learning Objectives

• Enable attendees to understand their own frustrations, emotional state and resultant behaviours in the moment
• Enable attendees to understand how their behaviours can impact others
• Enable attendees to understand the entangled intra-connected network that we work within

Timings

• The workshop is intended to take 1-1.5 hours

Materials

Online Workshop

• Miro board or similar to provide a creative space for attendees
• Template cards created for the workshop that have the following fields that can be completed by each participant:
  • Name
  • Best Attributes
  • Need Improving
  • Emotions
  • Frustrations
  • Resultant Behaviour

Face to Face Workshop

• Large space to draw such as a whiteboard or several flip chart paper sheets on the wall
• printed cards with the following fields for each participant:
  • Name
  • Best Attributes
  • Need Improving
  • Emotions
  • Frustrations
  • Resultant Behaviour
• Pens to write with
• Large markers

Workshop Flow

Connections

1. Ask the attendees to claim one of the cards or templates and complete their name details
2. Ask the attendees to complete the rest of the card individually

Concepts

1. Illustrate to the participants what an entanglement network diagram can look like and how this might help us to understand our impacts on others

Concrete Practice

1. Ask the attendees to place the cards in a space on the working area or whiteboard
2. Ask the attendees to silently look at the cards for 5 minutes or so
3. Initiate a brief discussion about what the attendees noticed
4. Ask the attendees to draw lines from their Resultant Behaviour and Emotions to the frustrations of other cards, and designing a network. (Ask all of the participants to do this at once and parallelise the activity rather than one at a time.)

Closing

1. Close with a discussion on what the attendees observed and what they noticed and how their entangled relationships seem to have been presented
2. Ask attendees for what they want to do next in terms of changes, improvements or actions
3. Follow up a few weeks later with the attendees to see if their observations have evolved