IFSI - FIIS INTERACTIONS

Cher membre du FIIS,

En écrivant ces lignes, je pense à vous et les images viennent en foule à mon esprit et à mon cœur car j’ai très probablement travaillé avec vous dans une ou plusieurs activités du Forum.

Bien sûr, je garde de nos rencontres des souvenirs inégaux. Avec certains, il ne me reste qu’un nom, un visage, une situation, une interrogation sur l’apprentissage réalisé… Avec d’autres l’expérience a été intense et je garde au cœur la trace brûlante de l’émotion ressentie et de l’apprentissage effectué avec la conviction que l’un et l’autre ont été partagés.

Et puis après rien d’autre ?

Pourtant, vous restez membre du FIIS. Comment faire vivre la relation entre nous, ou plutôt, entre vous et le FIIS au delà des séminaires ? Comment vous informer des prochaines activités de façon plus personnalisée que le grand public ? Comment vous inciter à donner de vos nouvelles, à proposer et partager vos réflexions et vos projets ? Comment vous inviter avec succès à participer au management et au développement du FIIS ?

Cette « Lettre du FIIS » veut répondre, au moins en partie, à ces questions.

Ce n’est pas la lettre du CA du FIIS, c’est la lettre du FIIS, la nôtre et donc la vôtre. Alors, faisons en un espace de partage de nos réflexions, nos émotions et sentiments, nos associations et nos interprétations de l’actualité dans le monde, nos projets et nos réalisations… dans une perspective de transformation institutionnelle, celle des institutions auxquelles nous participons et celle du FIIS.

Jean-François Millat

Président du FIIS

Dear IFSI member,

As I’m typing these words, I think about you and a lot of pictures are crowding up to my mind and to my heart because I have most likely worked with you in one or several activities of IFSI.

Of course, I have unequal memories of our meetings. From some of you I keep in mind just a name, a face, an event, a questioning about the achieved learning… With others the experience has been intense and I keep in my heart the impassioned mark of the emotion I have felt and learning I have made, with the firm belief that both have been shared with you.

And then what? Nothing else?

However, you are still member of IFSI. How shall we give vitality to our relationship, or rather to your relationship with IFSI, beyond conferences? How let you know the next activities in a more personalized way than the general public? How could we encourage you to send news from you, to offer and share your reflections and your projects? How could we invite you successfully to participate in IFSI management and development?

This “IFSI letter” aims to answer, at least partly, to these questions.

It’s not the letter of the Board, it is the letter of IFSI, our letter, and therefore your letter. Then, let us make it a space for sharing our thoughts, emotions and feelings, our associations and interpretations of what is happening in the world, our projects and our achievements … in a perspective of institutional transformation, the one of institutions we are participating in and the one of IFSI.

Jean-François Millat

President of IFSI

EXPLORE YOUR CREATIVE POTENTIAL: YOU CAN BE AN ACTIVE LEADER IN IFSI INNOVATION

Qui sera le(la) prochain(e) président(e)… du FIIS ?

Comme je l’avais annoncé à l’assemblée générale de 2005, mon mandat d’administrateur du FIIS, et donc de président, se termine en juin prochain et je n’en demanderai pas le renouvellement .

Le CA a commencé à travailler au processus de succession mais nous souhaitons que tous les membres du FIIS y participent.

Quel doit être le profil du(de la) prochain(e) président(e) ?

Qui serait votre candidat(e) favori(e) FIIS ?

Etes vous candidat(e) ?

Nous sommes impatient de lire vos propositions à IFSI.FIIS@wanadoo.fr

Jean-François Millat

Président du FIIS

Who will be the next President…of IFSI ?

As I announced it to the General Assembly of 2005, my mandate of Board member of IFSI, and therefore of President, ends in next June and I’ll not stand for re-election.

The Board has begun to work on the process of succession but we wish every IFSI member participate in it.

What should be the profile of the next president ?

Who would be your favourite candidate ?

Are you candidate ?

We look forward to reading your proposals on IFSI.FIIS@wanadoo.fr

Jean-François Millat

Président du FIIS

Principaux rendez-vous du FIIS au 1er semestre 2006

Main appointments of IFSI during the 1st half of 2006

• 12-17 janvier : Pays Bas - Participation in the staff of the 13^th international working conference « Leadership, Engagement and Accountability » ( Group Relations Netherland )
• 16 – 20 janvier : Leading Consultation#3 1^er atelier :« Anxiété et Désir »
• 26 – 27 janvier : Paris - Conseil d’Administration / Board meeting
• 23 février: Paris - Conseil d’Administration / Board meeting
• 13 – 17 mars : Paris - Leading Consultation n°3, 2^e atelier :« Transformation, Transformation Institutionnelle »
• 23 mars : Paris - Conseil d’Administration / Board meeting
• 28 mars – 4 avril : Marne La vallée - 29^e Séminaire International: « TransformAction »
• 17-19 avril : Cuba - Participation à un atelier sur la créativité / Participation in a workshop on creativity (Université de La Havane, Faculté de Psychologie).
• 27 avril : Conseil d’Administration / Board meeting
• 15 – 19 mai : Leading Consultation n°3, 3^eatelier : « Institutions et Inconscient »
• 24 mai : Conseil d’Administration / Board meeting
• 05 juin -10 juin: Participation in the staff of Innova Conference: "Liderazgo, Innovación y Management" –BCN España
• 12-17 juin : Italie - Participation au staff du 6^e Séminaire international italien (ISMO)
• 27 et 28 juin : Comité d’Orientation / Orientation Committee
• 27 juin après midi : Assemblée Générale/ General Assembly
• 29 juin : Conseil d’Administration / Board meeting

TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY : WE ARE OPEN TO TRANSACTIONS: YOU WILL CREATE THE NAME AND LOGO OF THIS NEW IFSI JOURNAL

Our last Orientation Committee (OC), at the beginning of December 2005, helped us to work on the themes of ‘re-membering’, ‘re-sourcing’ and ‘renewal’ within IFSI. Central to this work was the invitation to think about the world within which IFSI evolves – its context; how we would like to see this world transformed; and from that, what actions we want IFSI to engage in to contribute to this transformation of the context. In other words, for the first time in my work with IFSI, I am beginning to understand how one can think about the purpose of our institution: what actions do we want, institutionally, to engage in, in order to contribute to the transformation of the world that we desire?

It seems to me that the work is only beginning, and I count on many of your ideas, comments, associations, etc to enrich this collective process of renewal and engagement…

Matthieu Daum

Treasurer

Reflecting on IFSI purpose

It has been some months since the OC workshop which Bruce Irvine and I led. Since
the meeting I have continued reflecting on the process we went through together, and on the purpose of IFSI and of the OC.
When I was asked to become part of the committee, I was ambivalent primarily because I thought that the purpose of IFSI was not clearly defined in a way that serves systemic well being. While I support the conference work and know of its many benefits, I was not
convinced that IFSI was committed to systemic well being in ways that I believed I could wholeheartedly contribute to. I was asked together with Bruce to lead an Orientation Committee process to revisit the purpose, and saw that as an opportunity to explore the possibilities of renewing the purpose in a more holistic direction.
The Orientation Committee in December seemed to contribute to the surfacing of some difficult processes, created new understandings and opened directions for transformation. It also reaffirmed the passion and energy of many members and their willingness to engage in a soul searching and
introspective journey that is key to the work of IFSI.
Unfortunately, I felt that given the many issues that arose, we did not sufficiently address the purpose of IFSI and renew it in a way that serves the current societal context.
In the statutes it is written:
The principal objective of the association is to promote social innovation and institutional transformation viewed on purpose in an international perspective.
To this end:
1- it favours encounters and studies whose aim is to enrich the research, theory and practice of innovation and institutional transformation.
2- it seeks to create modes of interaction which permit social innovators to get closer together
3- it participates in the creation and possibly in the implementation of projects concerning social innovation and institutional transformation. It contributes to the promotion of related ideas and projects by any
appropriate mean including publications
4- it proposes actions in the field of research, training, consultation and counselling.
Nowhere does it say directly that the social innovation/transformation must serve the well being of the systems it affects.
One of my central questions is - is innovation or transformation enough?

One can innovate and transform in destructive ways as well as constructive ways. Innovation for the sake of innovation, or transformation for the sake of transformation seem hollow ambitions. I therefore think it is essential for IFSI to have a raison d'etre that explicitly serves the human and non human systems it affects in ways that contribute to their holistic well being .
In the recent request for membership fees, again, the focus was on success but there was no indication of what the nature, outcome or byproducts of the success would be.
To quote the treasurer:
"Not to be satisfied with just success; but to always choose to be more innovative in order to build the forthcoming successes.
The IFSI Board is joining me to invite you to make this sentence our running thread for 2006 and to build together the forthcoming IFSI successes."
What does the board mean by success? What are the consequences of the success it aspires to?
Does it mean making more money, more conferences, more recognition?
Or does it mean all of these in ways that serve the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well being of all who are touched by the work?
I believe that unless we clearly undertake to serve holistic and systemic well being
through our actions, whether in the conference systems, the internal management of IFSI or new initiatives we may consciously and unconsciously create much harm together with the good. Success needs to be measured in
terms of well being, and not only in terms of money or power or knowledge.
The purpose I would like to offer as an initial suggestion for IFSI based on its past and present and looking towards the future is:
To promote social innovation and institutional transformation in order to contribute to the holistic well being of individuals, institutions and societies in their global context
This purpose necessitates a different type of mobilization around the task, a different kind of accountability and perhaps additional theoretical and experiential frameworks. It means that we need to constantly examine what are the secondary effects of the work we are doing, and the values that we are consciously and unconsciously applying in our work. I hope that we can continue to take the issue of the purpose of IFSI , and its derived goals and actions further, and that this letter
serves as a catalyst for useful dialogue.
With best wishes
Shelley Ostroff

Member of the Orientation Comitee

Le séminaire « Transformaction », sur le thème de l'autorité, du leadership et de la transformaction est une expérience très riche vis-à-vis de notre responsabilité
individuelle et collective.
A travers les différentes expérimentations proposées, mais aussi notre propre vécu, les rôles conscients ou intuitifs que nous jouons, et les retours d'expérience qui rythment
ce séminaire, nous arrivons à prendre conscience des évolutions que nous pouvons mettre en oeuvre dans le cadre de nos activités professionnelles.
« La transformation institutionnelle passe d'abord par celle du rôle de chaque responsable » nous est-il précisé. Et de fait, mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de notre
environnement et mieux se comprendre soi-même, nous permet, de retour dans notre contexte professionnel, de donner une dimension nouvelle à nos responsabilités et à notre role de manager .

Daniel Carbonnier

EDF Optimization & Trading, Head of Statistics Dpt
Participant T04

FLAM ou l'expérience humaine la plus "folle" jamais vécue à ce jour
FLAM ou comment faire tomber toutes ses carapaces
FLAM ou comment découvrir en soi une infime partie capable de déplacer des montagnes
FLAM, c'est apprendre à OSER, mais c'est surtout ne pas oser SUFFISAMMENT !

Philippe Ormancey

Arcelor Distribution
Participant Flam3

Nouvelles activités du F.I.I.S. / IFSI new activities :

Quel type de dirigeant et/ou intendant êtes-vous ? Considérez-vous votre rôle comme noble ou domestique ? Quel type de dirigeant êtes-vous - seriez-vous - avec vos domestiques? Etes-vous sûr de ne pas être domesticable ? Je réfléchis actuellement à un nouveau type de conférences dont ce questionnement sera le coeur, et la matière première à expérience. Mon hypothèse de travail : dans toute institution, réfléchir et se confronter aux préjugés que nous avons de notre condition à travers l'expérience de la domesticité interroge notre représentation de la démocratie et peut permettre de toucher sa nature profonde. Je vous invite à me contacter pour participer à l'élaboration de ce nouveau type de séminaire.

Régis Maurier– Secrétaire Général du F.I.I.S.