Navigating Complex Challenges Together

• Delivered face to face over two days
• Next available: 22–23rd October 2026, Windsor, Berkshire, UK

• Investment: £1000 per person – includes 1:1 call, 2h Preparing to Facilitate webinar, and 2 days face to face training

NOTE: this programme runs immediately after The Art of Facilitating Collaboration (19–20th October). Attending both in a single visit to Windsor is possible — get in touch to discuss.

Some challenges cannot be solved by bringing in the experts, breaking the problem into parts, or applying a proven framework. They are too large, too interconnected, too dynamic and the people needed to address them are too diverse, too dispersed, and often too divided.

These are complex, whole system challenges. A complex situation can be defined as: ‘A dynamic network composed of numerous interconnected elements that interact with each other in non-linear ways.’ George Monbiot

To work with complexity and uncertainty we need to convene the right people, across boundaries (sectors, disciplines, cultures, hierarchies), to work together. This is one of the most demanding and consequential things a leader can do.

This programme is for anyone working at the edges of change — in organisations, communities, movements or systems. For the facilitator ready to work at greater scale and complexity. For the change agent navigating competing interests and entrenched patterns of power. For the activist or social entrepreneur who knows that bringing the right people together is the only way through. For the OD consultant, the community organiser, the NGO leader, the social innovator — anyone whose work requires them to convene across difference in service of something that matters.

If you have experience working with groups and are ready to go deeper into the complexity of that work, this is for you.

Since our foundation, Meeting Magic has worked with clients at threshold moments — when the stakes are high, the path is unclear, and conventional approaches have run out of road. Our approach draws on complexity theory, systems theory and behavioural science, weaving these into a way of working that is theoretically grounded, practically rigorous, and deeply relational.

Over two days, you will work in a challenging and supportive environment — practising the skills, testing the thinking, and developing the confidence to hold complexity without being overwhelmed by it.

You will leave with:

• A working understanding of complexity theory and whole systems thinking — and what they mean in practice
• Tools and approaches for convening diverse groups across boundaries
• Greater capacity to hold uncertainty, work with emergence, and facilitate across difference
• New frameworks for reading and working with systemic patterns
• A cohort of experienced peers to think alongside