Project Einstein
Kristin Birkeland had the privilege of working with Polycom Denmark for 3 months, spring 2010. The assignment was to create new business opportunities for the company. She used Theory-U and her paintings as a frame for the process. A diverse team of 12 people worked with her one day every week, going from one painting and its message in the U-theory to the next, involving the whole organization to participate on an internet community site, and physically in 3 gatherings. Besides helping the team on the future of Polycom Denmark, Kristin challenged the participants on a personal level with among other things, meditation, arts, physical training, and new techniques of thinking differently. Kristin´s facilitation has been rooted in the knowledge that innovation is a long process that is strongly connected to business drivers.
Procesleaders at the KaosPilots
Kristin Birkeland had an assignment at the KaosPilot University as Team-Coach for Team 15 plus, from July 08- February 2010.
13 students from the former KP school in Stockholm and former KP school in Rotterdam came to Århus to continue their studies with focus on the semester; Process-leadership. The assignment was to be responsible for the students semester,- and to coach them as a team and individually. A very unique learning environment has been established within Team 15 plus. Besides coaching, planning and involving external lectures, Kristin has thought this subjects: The discipline of Process-leadership, life-affirming communication and artbased-coaching. The students did all pass their exams with great results, and with experiences of working together as a team in Ireland and individually with external customers.
With the art at heart and theory U
Kristin Birkeland is an artist and knows how to release individuals and teams creativity. During the last year she has given a number of lectures together with phd student, Tina Broberg, at Folkeuniversitet in Århus regarding how to release the individuals creativity, seen from her own experience as an artist and team-coach and combined with Otto Sharmer`s theory U.
Designing Dublin
Together with Paul Natorp, Kristin Birkeland began a co-operation with Design 21 Century, a multidisciplinary development and educational project in Dublin. In July they helped Design 21 C to select the team with different backgrounds, designers, artists and engineers that were going to work together as a team with people from Dublin council on a 3 month pilot project. In September Kristin brought Team 15 plus from the KaosPilot University a long with Paul Natorp, to Dublin, to learn and co-create together with the team in Dublin for the future of a specific area in Dublin, named Clongriffin. It was a real life experience for both teams and the people living in the area.To learn more about Design 21 Century.
With art that creates happiness and awareness at your workplace
Her three last exhibitions: "The fine line between us", "Buddha in New York" and "Freeborn" has all created good dialogues with the audience and between people. Though paintings, stories and installations, Kristin Birkeland transforms workplaces to colorful happy environments that invites you to dialogue and reflection. With a co-creation with your workplace, its possible to create an exhibition that has it life of itself, and a add to that a workshop with Kristin Birkeland as a process-leader and her paintings and addressing what your colleagues needs are to create a meaningful future together. To see her art:
How to learn and create as a collective
The 26th of November, Paul Natorp and Kristin Birkeland gave a lecture at Folke Universitet in Århus regarding how to work multidisciplinary to enhance innovation. The lecture was about how to learn, create and act for the future, involving different professions, genders, nationality and age. This lecture will be given again in Spring 2010.
Kristin Birkeland is a Teamcoach and Artist, see more under services on what she can offer you.
Himawari was established by Kristin Birkeland. And she works together with people from her network such as Paul Natorp, The KaosPilots, Anna Margrethe Andersen at Frontløberne, Changepilot
The name, Himawari, was found in 2008 while visiting the international known artist Mariko Moris exhibition Oneness, which is a great inspiration of how we are all connected. The word Himawari is japanese for Sunflower. The sunflower is the metaphor for the service of Himawari. What we focus on grows. And as the process unfolds, we choose to turn, just like the sunflower, towards the sun.