WORKING EMERGENTLY
WITH TEAMS
FOR THE PRACTICE AND ART OF
WORKING WITH WHAT REALLY MATTERS
Deepen your capacity to work with what is actually happening, in the room, in the system, and in yourself, moment by moment.
In a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and pressure for results, many experienced team practitioners find themselves questioning whether familiar models, tools, and prescribed approaches are still sufficient.
Working Emergently is an advanced practice course for practitioners who sense that what truly makes a difference in teams and systems cannot be fully planned in advance, diagnosed upfront, or delivered through linear change programmes.
This course invites you to deepen your capacity to work with what is actually happening, in the room, in the system, and in yourself, moment by moment.
IN A NUTSHELL
Corporate rate: £2,495+VAT
Self Funded: £1,795+VAT
When: Next dates TBC. Contact us to register your interest.
Participants: 8 - 16
Format: 6 × 4 hour online sessions delivered live online via zoom
WHY THIS PROGRAMME, WHY NOW
Many team coaches, consultants, and change practitioners have reached a point where they can competently draw on theory, frameworks, and models, yet still feel a gap between what they know and the impact they want to have.
For many practitioners, the challenge lies in working effectively in conditions of ambiguity, relational complexity, power dynamics, and competing demands, and in bringing the work impactfully into the here and now experience of the team.
Working Emergently responds to this moment. It supports team practitioners who are ready to move beyond prescribed approaches and to work with complexity as it is, rather than as we wish it to be.
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY WORKING EMERGENTLY
Working emergently is not a technique or a set of tools. It is a lens, a way of meaning making, a philosophical stance, and a practice.
An emergent approach privileges awareness over diagnosis, contact over control, and responsiveness over prescription. It involves working with what is alive, figural, and unfolding in the system, rather than imposing predefined agendas or outcomes.
In emergent practice, the practitioner becomes a central instrument of the work.This programme focuses on developing that capacity in practice, not as an abstract idea, but as a lived way of working with teams and systems.
WHO THIS PROGRAMME IS FOR (AND WHO IT IS NOT)
Working Emergently is relevant for:
Experienced practitioners and team coaches
Graduates of diploma level team coaching programmes, including Team Coaching Studio and other providers
Coaches, consultants, OD, HR, and change practitioners working in complex organisational contexts
People seeking depth, integration, and practice rather than accreditation
This course is not for those seeking a diagnostic or prescribed approach that prioritises theory, content, models, tools, or exercises designed primarily to satisfy the needs of the intervenor.
WHAT YOU WILL DEVELOP
Through the programme, you will strengthen your capacity to:
Work without over structuring or prematurely narrowing the field
Use yourself more consciously as an instrument of the work
Discern when to intervene and when to stay with what is emerging
Track patterns, dynamics, and energy in real time
Work with greater confidence and steadiness in conditions of uncertainty
HOW THE PROGRAMME WORKS
The course is highly experiential and practice based. Learning takes place through live demonstration, shared inquiry, and working with real material brought by participants.
Sessions include opportunities to observe emergent practice in action, to experiment with your own interventions, and to reflect on what you notice in yourself, others, and the wider system.
The course is designed emergently within a clear and intentional container. There is enough structure to create safety and continuity, while allowing the learning to respond to what is alive and relevant in the group.
THE PROGRAMME ARC
Across six sessions, the course gradually shifts attention from familiar ways of structuring the work towards greater trust in emergence, awareness, and responsiveness.
Participants can expect to explore themes such as:
Moving from predefined structure towards emergent pathways
Shifting from doing and fixing towards sensing and staying in contact
Working less from models and more from what is present in the here and now
Developing confidence in moment to moment choice making
The emphasis throughout is on learning through experience and reflection, rather than following a predetermined curriculum.
FACULTY
The course is led by Georgina Woudstra, founder of Team Coaching Studio, with support from Senior Faculty.
The work is held by practitioners with deep experience of working emergently with leadership teams and complex systems, and a strong commitment to reflective and developmental practice.
UPCOMING PROGRAMME DATES
Host: Georgina Woudstra and Senior Faculty
Delivery: Live online via zoom
Investment: £2,495+VAT (corporate) £1,795+VAT (Self funded)
Times and timezone: Next cohort coming soon
Notes: *Times shown are UK times – your local time may shift with daylight savings changes.
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Next cohort coming soon
Participants are expected to attend all sessions and to engage actively in practice, reflection, and dialogue. Some light reflection between sessions may be suggested.
AN INVITATION
Working emergently is not a skill to be mastered once and for all, but an ongoing practice that develops over time.
This course offers an invitation to slow down, deepen awareness, and strengthen your capacity to work with what really matters in teams and systems.
If you sense that this way of working resonates with where you are in your development as a practitioner, you are warmly invited to join us.