As we near the final stretch of 2020, a year which will go down in global history for a host of different reasons, it behooves us to pause and reflect. Everybody, from the individual to the family experience to the business upheaval to nature and more, has been forced to deal with, and manage unexpected emergence and the systemic emergencies that came from it.
While humanity has this in common, the unique systemic brilliance that appeared through creating from this, often gets lost in the constant pressure of even more change needed even faster!
Together we can shift from the speed of change, to the speed of evolution.
In this year-end-overview, with global contribution from the land of CRR Global, we want to pause and shift our focus from the speed of change to the speed of evolution. We can honor ways in which we were reacted and often failed. Let us not remain there … Let us also lift the gaze to the places where everybody in our system and beyond, also created from!
We have much to celebrate in how our global community created from this emergence, influencing and evolving the field of Relationship Systems Coaching.
Virtualizing our curriculum
With the onset of the pandemic in February, we virtualized our entire in-person curriculum, from ORSC Fundamentals to ORSC through to Certification. At the same, we brought new Front of Room Leaders in from United Arab Emirates, Spain, France, UK and Singapore, while still in the process of training new leaders for North America.
Our senior faculty immediately needed to master the virtual offerings while training new leaders who never led a course before. To date, we have been able to deliver virtual courses in more than 16 countries!
CRR Global launched a new management structure, shifting from a founder-led Organization, to a systems-inspired application of a distributed leadership model. This team now consist of members residing in London, Dubai, the Netherlands, and in the U.S. Navigating the company needs from this new dimension starting with a global pandemic certainly redefined the process of forming, storming, norming and performing to a different level! Thank you Nairy McMahon (Global Business Development), Linda Berlot (Leader Development), Judy van Zon (ORSC Certification), Sandra Cain & Marita Fridjhon (Curriculum Content and Redesign), GraceAnn Anderson (Global Finance), and Marita Fridjhon (CEO).
To reflect this shift, we challenged ourselves to think out-of-the-box to create a new website with a fresh look and feel. Our high dream for this website is to become a place for you, our practitioners, alumni, future students, and our many friends and supporters to tap into the broader thought leadership of CRR Global and our co-founders Faith Fuller and Marita Fridjhon. We wish for this site to be your portal to all things CRR Global around the world – a source to get nourished and inspired as world workers no matter where you are located.
News from our global partners
CRR APAC
CRR Singapore is now CRR APAC! As more and more people are turning to ORSC in the APAC region, CRR APAC celebrates a growing and generative eco-system of practitioners. It now covers five markets: Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
CRR UK
CRR UK and the local UK Community of ORSC practitioners and Alumni hosted a virtual community event about the newly-launched five principles of Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI™) at the end of September. The event aimed to explore the five principles that now form a through-line of all ORSC courses. The high dream was for an experiential session that allowed the community to explore the principles.
A big thank you to CRR UK (ORSC UK Community Steering Group) and the Front of Room leaders who helped make this possible!
CRR Afrika
Welcome to our new Partner, CRR Afrika! CRR Afrika is a collective of leaders and administrators from Cape Town to Cairo, including the skilled ORSC practitioners Ron Ndlovu, Mohamed Amr, Klaus Lombardozzi, Refiloe Mokonyane and Cecil Murray.
We also would like to thank Mish Middelmann for his pioneering work in establishing an ORSC presence in South Africa. We’re delighted that Mish will continue to serve our global community as a valuable member of our Faculty.
Community
Global calls
CRR Global quickly offered a response to the voices of ORSC practitioners worldwide to address the impact of separation and isolation on communities. To meet our practitioners and alumni innovatively, and to explore as a global community how to stay in relationship while physical isolation was growing, a series of international community meetings was kicked off in March. This built on the 2019 experience of the Unboxing Summit. From March until the end of June, the team organized 20 community gatherings, supported by members of our faculty and attended by hundreds of practitioners worldwide. Topics ranged from using ORSC tools virtually, secret selves to response styles to change.
Grapples
As systems are in a constant state of emergence and the context around us shifted, the Relationship Matters calls evolved into the Community Grapples with a new team taking the helm to create a space to reflect on challenging issues. The purpose of the current Global Community Grapples is “to hold a nourishing community space to grapple and grow with the most tender and difficult topics of our time, and to engage with our edges intentionally.”
Engagement Sessions (APAC)
In recent months, CRR APAC held several ORSCurious and ORSConnect sessions. ORSCurious is a session designed to introduce the concept of relationship systems and systems-inspired leadership to those curious about ORSC. Led by CRR Global faculty members, these live virtual sessions are for anyone who wants to explore novel ways of approaching leadership and navigating team dynamics.
ORSConnect is a platform by ORSC-lings for ORSC-lings (as we call ORSC coaches in APAC). It is available to ORSC community members in the APAC region to share, learn and co-create new possibilities with ORSC. Held monthly, the sessions give alumni and practitioners exclusive access to a vibrant community of practice, wherever they might be in their relationship systems journey.
ORSC Community of Practice Calls (Middle East)
This year, leaders and clients in the Middle East were faced with challenging decisions that would impact their clients’ systems as well as their own. Providing support and solutions to clients differently from how things might have worked before was the challenge. As ORSC practitioners, they stepped up to the challenge providing the tools, skills and know-how to enter into relationship and provide support to clients and communities.
The team in the Middle East introduced a bi-monthly ORSC Community of Practice Call for ORSC Coaches, which served as an opportunity for coaches to come together and be creative while exploring how to adapt to the changing environment and serve their clients. These calls have been a success in the region with attendees from all over the world!
Introduction of the Relationship Matters Podcast
As part of her ORSC certification journey, host Katie Churchman developed the Relationship Matters Podcast together with CRR Global. The podcast kicked off in May of this year, with the aim to create a greater sense of connection and further learning opportunities for ORSC alumni and practitioners during an uncertain and disconnected time. The first season of the podcast focused on spreading the work of ORSC through interviews with CRR Global’s co-founders Marita Fridjhon and Faith Fuller. Topics always relate back to the central belief that relationship matters.
Our thanks and gratitude to all faculty, global partners, team members, global communities and every alumni and ORSC Community member. Without you, none of this would have been possible.
