Exclusive Services

Aberrant’s AMPLIFY Women program conducted over six three-hour sessions supports women reaching their full potential, in their own way, with their own voice. It builds capacity for deep awareness and the ability to take an objective and strategic view of career and life experiences within the societal and organisational systems in play. 

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Immersed in vibrant learning experiences, the program inspires fresh insights and ideas and builds powerful new alliances. It's personally transformational; designed to increase wisdom.

It’s easy to underestimate how important even the small actions of leaders can impact the bottom line and influence the motivation and satisfaction of the people around them. 

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Our approach to accelerating wisdom through supportive, yet challenging facilitation and Cohort Coaching makes a significant difference to both individuals and organisational culture. Leaders learn how to hold and guide others, navigate complexities, manage polarities, and work amidst uncertainty and change as they:

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• deal with workplace frustrations

• tackle the murky systemic problems that have no easy answers

• get their hands dirty in the chaos of a connected world and the ordinariness of having to get the everyday things done

• shift focus from how to perform better within systems that prevent them from flourishing to shifting the systems guiding organisational outcomes.

• look at situations through the eyes of the people impacted by decisions

• surface assumptions to gain new awareness, perception, practices, relationships and directions

• test insights and get feedback

• see that which is hidden and values that have been overlooked

• build deep collaborative connections.

Based on the research of Dr Desley Lodwick (2016), Aberrant’s Contextualist Cohort Coach Development program, provides a comprehensive pathway for experienced coaches and leaders wishing to expand their impact to organisational culture.

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While one-on-one coaching is effective in supporting individuals, Cohort Coaching is key to improving organisational performance. Its impact can be seen in the bottom-line benefits as cohort members learn how to work collectively on complex issues by developing their mindsets for partnering — across companies, sectors, and communities.

Many scientists are promoted into leadership roles because they are intelligent, hardworking experts successful at solving technical problems. However, effective leadership requires much more.

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Practical and immediately useful, the Leadership for STEMM Professionals program supports new awareness, perception, and practices that increase constructive leadership behaviours and leaders' impact on others and organisational success.

Both musical improvisation and leadership are creative acts involving technical expertise and communication skills. Creator musicians can change what they play in the moment based upon what is occurring around them. Creator Leaders are much the same. They understand what is happening and have immediate ideas, find it easy to compose because they have many tools and resources in mind, can deal with unexpected situations, and can change their repertoire and approach in the last minute.

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As a catalyst for leadership development and working with some of Australia’s eminent musicians, the AMPLIFY Your Voice one-day program places participants in an immersive experience that re-creates the complex, emergent conditions that leaders face. In an unfamiliar environment participants face theirassumptions and forces that have been shaping their leadership. Gaining new insight, they develop greater capacity for leading, collaborating, and being present, clear and confident in how they communicate to others.

The complexity and change faced by educational leaders is unprecedented, and our systems — both organisational and biological — are not physiologically good at coping. The impact of COVID-19 has transformed and challenged perspectives, unsettled meaning-making, and added complexity to each day.

Educators are being called on to take up different roles, or even the same roles, but in different ways, or with a different level of commitment. Who they know themselves to be, and who they are accustomed to being seen as, has shifted.

The AMPLIFY Wisdom for Educators program provides developmental support for educational leaders to focus on themselves—their stage of life and career—how they make sense of themselves, others and the world.

It supports personal exploration of that part of themselves that senses there is something out there that they can almost touch but is just out of reach.

Research indicates unambiguously that most leadership programs fail. Too often, and despite good intentions, they are designed with content as the main feature rather than critical thinking. They lack the flexibility to meet emerging needs. 

Aberrant’s AMPLIFY Program Design program supports staff within organisations tasked with leadership development. Knowing how to design learning activities that increase sensemaking capacity within the shifting context of organisation life allows people to address real-work problems and opportunities more effectively and to bring wisdom and courage to life. 

Midlife can be a time when self-worth has matured, and a clearer sense of meaning and purpose and what really matters is emerging. Disparate pieces of the world can become connected in different ways, shadowy pieces of oneself more acceptable, and somehow integrated. 

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The AMPLIFY Midlife program supports these explorations; delving into what can almost be seen, but not quite touched. It is a time for transformation and contribution. 

Your best work is yet to come.

Facilitated by Caroline Quaife (https://coach.quaifeassociates.com) from Stafford in England, the Somatic Sandbox provides a space for coaches who know their stuff, are passionate about holding the space for challenging topics and yet also looking for more growth for themselves and their clients as well as growing their business. 

Involving practical approaches that help people do the deep work needed to face hard issues, it is a place to play where you can get out of your head and create more positive options for the future.

The Somatic Sandbox program is for coaches who:

• Have clients who are struggling with a huge sense of uncertainty, feeling negative, shut down and caught up in stress that has become normal

• Want more opportunities to build on what they already know, share their love of learning and create more impact as a coach

• Want to experience the vitality and depth of change which arise from integrating body and mind, for themselves and for their clients.

Going beyond conventional executive programs, Aberrant retreats support people transitioning towards having greater capacity for wisdom and courage.

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An Aberrant retreat designed specifically for your context and purpose of gathering will support growth in both individual and collective leadership through shifts in perspectives. It will facilitate improvements in decision making practices that support implementation of organisational strategy and innovation. 

Contact us to explore group options for focus together on self, team and organisational issues on the Mornington Peninsula.