Collaboration Services

 

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

 

Evolving collaboration to navigate complexity and co-create solutions

Mindful leadership and successful collaboration are key for high-performing teams and successful projects. The current crisis, comes with additional challenges demanding higher levels of trusted partnerships, emotional balance and organizational resilience.

Therefore, we put special emphasis on advancing the collaboration process within sustainable projects & businesses.

Challenges in evolving collaboration
In our experience, the human factor is often more demanding than technical solutions. This is especially true in interdisciplinary projects and in today’s diverse, fast-changing work environments. The way collaboration is structured can strongly influence project success. While traditional top-down approaches may still work in some contexts, they sometimes hinder motivation, innovation, and ownership.

Positive leadership in uncertain times
Leading high-performing teams requires calm authority, strong interpersonal skills, and compassionate integrity. In complex and interdisciplinary settings, strategic clarity and transdisciplinary understanding become essential. In times of disruption, emotional balance and organizational resilience are key to building trust — allowing teams to stay motivated, healthy, and focused on shared goals.

Our consulting and coaching services – online and in real life

Our role as facilitator within intelligent collaborative ecosystems: Edhen facilitates the collaboration and communication process in a neutral and structured way. Our main role is to facilitate the groups’ collaboration process. It’s not us but the collective intelligence of your team that brings out the most adapted solution, to reach its collective objectives. A bottom-up organizational design, can be a fundamental first step to start the co-development process. In order to advance the feeling of inclusiveness among all levels of your organization.

Our consulting and coaching services are available both in real life and through online meetings. Beside her services for teams, Edhen offers individual coaching for holistic leaders. 

Collaboration Services

We support high-performing teams to collaborate with clarity, trust, and purpose. Edhen offers tailored facilitation and coaching services, to co-create effective collaboration systems for growing agile and resilient organizations.

Our services typically include:

  • Strengthening mindful leadership to achieve your teams objectives
  • Unlocking collective intelligence to successfully navigate complexity and co-create solutions
  • Defining shared goals and roles to build clarity (see the bigger picture), trust, and mutual accountability 
  • Designing efficient, outcome-driven meetings and workshops that drive progress
  • Facilitating open communication to surface diverse views, objections, and insights
  • Building strategic collaboration with external partners
  • Embedding agile structures and feedback loops to increase adaptability and resolve tensions early

We guide your team from fragmentation to flow – building the foundations for effective, regenerative collaboration.

Our approach and tools

We work with practical, adaptive frameworks such as Sociocracy 3.0, a modular toolkit offering 70+ patterns to strengthen collaboration, decision-making, and self-organized team structures. These methods support effective meetings, role clarity, and agile coordination in both project delivery and research consortia. Inspired by natural systems, Sociocracy uses nested, semi-autonomous circles — allowing for both flexibility and accountability.

We apply these methods in the co-development of projects and proposals, the facilitation of effective meetings, and the coordination of interdisciplinary teams and work-packages.

In land-use and regenerative contexts, we integrate tools from the Holistic Management Framework to support strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and long-term resilience — helping teams make decisions that align people, ecosystems, and purpose.

Organization’s Winning Culture 

 

“When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do.” Masanobu Fukuoka

“Effective teams emerge out of shared purpose, urgency, mutuality and care. Focus on alignment, execution, and optimizing results that are harmonious with natural living systems and desired human behaviors.” Englund (2009)

Edhen’s sociocratic structure is designed to deal with complex living systems, by creating a space for people to collaborate respectfully and successfully.