Workplaces

Experience the Dissonance Hub

Every workplace has a unique blend of personalities, perspectives, and needs. While these differences can foster creativity and productivity, they can also hinder progress if they lead to tension or conflict. Developing the skills to manage the dissonance and friction that arise from these differences is increasingly important in workplaces.

Mellem Education offers a ‘Dissonance Hub’, where teams can encounter and navigate these dynamics by addressing issues like power, hierarchy, and personality clashes. Through a series of tasks and reflective exercises, participants explore how their group functions and become more aware of their own behaviors. This reflection allows them to identify and express their needs, transforming habitual practices and fostering a more collaborative approach to working together.

The Dissonance Hub is a safe space of experimentation, where real ‘here and now’ group dynamics are able to be explored and reflected upon. This type of intervention equips employees with the tools to harness the benefits of diverse perspectives. By viewing tension and discomfort as opportunities for growth, teams can create a more enjoyable and productive work environment, where differences become a source of learning and improvement rather than obstacles.

The Dissonance Hub for Effective Leaders and Teams

What is missing in many leadership trainings today is the experience of dissonance as a source of learning. Today’s trainings offer strategies where participants can brainstorm what is to be done in difficult situations, but without experiencing this situation, the learning falls short. This is because the learning stays cognitive, not experiential, and is therefore not internalized into a behavior pattern. Experiencing dissonance in a group setting gives the space to reflect on and question one’s own habits and behaviors. Through this reflection, people become aware of the effect their behavior has on the group.

Mellem’s leadership training involves the team to create a comprehensive experience that leverages the natural diversity within any working group. This is what we see as true leadership, giving space for each unique personality to be expressed, while at the same time ensuring the functionality of a group. This approach encourages participants to reflect on their own team dynamics in a way that is both enjoyable and meaningful. By combining playfulness with serious self-reflection, teams are given the rare opportunity to break out of routine, examine their habits, and transform how they collaborate. This unique training experience fosters deeper connections, enhances team performance, and supports a healthier, more productive workplace.

Structure

Mellem Education’s staff offers this training as a consecutive two-day seminar, with a follow-up meeting two months after the training. Another option is the one-day seminar, followed by another one-day seminar two months later. The structure can be adapted according to the needs of the company. Mellem also offers half day workshops.

Testimonials

“Our management team had an exciting and educational day together with Tali. With her quiet and listening presence, she created a focused space where all the participants felt seen and heard. She showed a very special ability to draw reactions, arguments, questions and conclusions from the participants by setting up a very special framework. It embodied in some exercises and processes that we all were able to reflect on and learn from afterwards. In certain situations, we experienced ourselves far away from our daily comfort zone – and in the pattern that emerged we could recognize ourselves, mirror ourselves, wonder and reflect on how it could be translated into our common culture, habits and daily cooperation in the organization. I highly recommend Tali’s workshop to all organizations that cultivate cooperation across multiple departments and operate with large cross-disciplinary development projects.” – Michael Demsitz, CEO, Boligkontoret Danmark

“The workshop prompted us to look at ourselves in a new way. It was educational. You can get tired of smart consultants with PowerPoint presentations to train executives. Tali’s approach is present and involves everyone in a new and inspiring way with focus on the participants.” – Katja Adelhøj Lindblad, Boligkontoret Danmark

“I have attended hundreds of presentations and conferences during my 36 years as a healthcare provider, but I’ve never sat through such an innovative approach towards resolving or just discussing both individual and collective conflicts, often the underlying reason our emotional and physical health declines… I can see where your program can be used within the business community to assist with specific administrative conflict resolution, as well as enhance employee/managerial productivity.” – Joel E. Margolies, DC

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