Programme
FBN ASIA FAMILY RETREAT
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The sessions will be entirely interactive with no PowerPoint presentations or lectures but there will be fun and laughter as well as cathartic tears and moments of deep insight. The quality of the experience will be determined by our willingness to be open, to be vulnerable with each other. Our expectation for the retreat is not for more knowledge which we can file for later use but for an inner transformation that will forever change us, our families and the world we live in.
Whilst we will cater for FBN members that come on their own, we would encourage you to come as families to participate in the transformational experience together. This is particularly so if there are intractable issues that seem unresolvable in your family system. This retreat might just untangle the knots in family relationships over the course of three days, inspiring hope for a brighter future.
Morning - Afternoon | Individual arrivals in Chiang Mai, Thailand |
9.00am - 12.00pm | Family Business Visit |
Afternoon 1.00pm | Registration |
2.00pm | Family Business 101 |
3.00 - 4.15pm | Welcome & Opening Plenary Session My Story |
4.15 - 5.45pm | Session 1 Boid’s Law, Balcony and Dance, IQ/PQ/EQ/MQ Families can learn much from nature. In 1986, Craig Reynolds developed Boid’s law for robotics whilst observing geese flying. Three simple rules that enable birds to fly in formation have profound application for family systems. This retreat is about awareness and raising consciousness in order to discern the threads of stories weaving through the family. Balcony and Dance is a visualisation tool that enables new perspectives on life’s challenges that can be used long after the retreat. IQ/PQ/EQ/MQ describes the four major ways we use our brains. Unveiling our preferences in a family context will help build cohesion and alignment in our stories as well as promote understanding of why we are different from each other. My Story |
7.00pm | Welcome Reception |
9.00 – 10.30am | Session 2 My Life Purpose, David Kantor’s Structural Dynamics During this interactive session each member will discover in two words the purpose of their lives. Words such as “Transforming Lives, Unleashing Heaven, Championing Growth, Savouring Life, Beholding Beauty and Deepening Connections”. For many, the discovery of their life purpose brings about lasting change and transformation. To round off exploration of ‘my story’, we will delve into the world of structural dynamics to understand the meta-structures that undergird stories and all verbal communications. My Story |
10.30 – 11.00am | Tea Break |
11.00am – 12.30pm | Plenary Session Our Story |
12.30 – 2.00pm | Lunch |
2.00 – 3.30pm | Session 3 Visualisation and My Lifeline Families need to know not just where they have come from but where they are going. Using inspirational photos and paintings, each family group will discuss and draw a picture of their desired future and start the journey of moving towards it. Some of you may have done a Lifeline exercise before; this exercise however will be different. Each member will be asked to explore three different stories from their life and to share with the rest of the family group. The three stories are our ‘love story’, our ‘hero story’ and our ‘moral choice story’. These are the underlying stories that shape our behaviour and the way we interact in our families and comprise the deepest level of Kantor’s structural dynamics. The idea is to continue the session into dinner where family members can share one or more of their deepest stories with each other. Our Story |
3.30 – 4.00pm | Tea Break |
4.00 – 5.00pm | Plenary Session |
7.30pm | Gala Dinner |
9.00 - 10.30am | Session 4 Decisions that Define Us, The Big FBN Story In this final session, each family will translate what they have learned during the previous sessions into commitments that will redefine or reinforce the values they wish to stand for. We will close in plenary with a dialogue on the Big FBN story where all of us will discern as a group the higher narrative that binds us together and our collective impact on our planet. The Big Story |
10.30 – 11.00am | Tea Break |
11.00am - 12.00pm | Plenary Session The Rising Generation The Big Story |
12.00 – 1.30pm | Appreciative Close |
1.30pm | Lunch |
2.30pm | End of Retreat Individual Departures / Free & Easy |
*Programme subject to adjustments based on participants' requirements on the day itself.