ODNE 2024 Speaker & Session Profile: Shirine Moerkerken
Over the coming weeks we'll be sending out regular updates on the ODNE 2024 Congress in Glasgow, Scotland, bringing you news of conference contributors and the sessions they'll be hosting. Today, Shirine Moerkerken...
Shirine has been an interventionist for 25 years now and is the owner of Strange | Strategy and Change. She helps administrators, directors, managers and employees in organisations to change the way they respond to social issues. Author of, among others, the books 'Hoe ik verander' ('How I Change') and 'Conflict eren' ('To Conflict'), Shirine will bring you no answers but unorthodox methods to search for answers when you face wicked problems and need to change. Shirine will be holding two sessions for us:
Keynote: Using conflict to cause change
Dysfunctional conflicts can seriously disrupt collaboration between or within organizations. How do you bring them to light and how can you turn them into functional conflicts?
In this presentation Shirine works from the principle that it is not about 'solving' or eliminating conflicts, but about making them productive. She will teach you to use conflict in a functional way to cause change. You learn to look at what you had pinned as 'true' in a new way when it comes to conflict.
And you expand your repertoire in not 'solving', but in handling and using conflict. Covered:
- How to deconstruct your own held truths about conflict and those of others;
- How to analyze a conflict in an organization or between organizations;
- How to break the production of dysfunctional conflict and encourage functional conflict;
- How to use functional conflict to cause change;
- How to deal with the tension that arises from functional conflict.
Workshop: Conflict in practice
The word 'conflict' comes from Latin and means 'mutual differences'. When most people hear the word 'conflict', they think of dysfunctional conflicts, i.e. situations in which mutual differences cannot be made productive.
For example, children fighting over the inheritance. While there are also functional conflicts, namely those conflicts in which mutual differences are made productive and lead to insights and solutions that individuals could not previously think of themselves. For example, working with someone who is very different from you and achieving better results together, because you complement each other in your ideas and qualities.
During this workshop, Shirine takes you through her practical theory about conflict. We immediately apply this theory to your own practice.
- We investigate which truths you have already established when it comes to conflict;
- We investigate what is common in your organization and what is anchored;
- We do small exercises on how to get out of step with these customs and established truths.
- We discover the silent conflicts in your organization or in the collaboration between your organization and other organizations;
- We design strategies to use functional conflict in your organization or in the collaboration between your organization and other organizations;
- We investigate what you need to endure the tension that the use of functional conflict entails.