The document summarizes a 4-day learning journey to Finland focused on intrapreneurship and innovation. The journey will take place from September 10-14, 2013 and involve workshops, company visits, reflection time, and outdoor activities while traveling between Helsinki and Jyväskylä. The goal is to gain new ideas to implement at work, get energized after the summer holidays, and have fun learning with others. Registration costs between 2290-1790 euros depending on the number of participants and includes meals and travel within Finland.

2. Learning Journey to Finland:
Intrapreneurship & Innovation
10th - 14th of September 2013

3. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
With these wise words of J. R. R. Tolkien we want to cordially invite you to a journey to
Finland, the land of thousands of lakes, Angry Birds and Sibelius,
as well as top notch innovation, intrapreneurship and leadership.

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What is it that we don’t know but want to
find about on Intrapreneurship &
Innovation?
How might we encourage more
intrapreneurial activity within ourselves
and thus our organizations?
What is it that I want to change in my work
and my organization as the new working
year starts after the summer holidays?
Why? How will I do that?

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Our Philosophy
Journey is the reward. The one who is ready to slow down and stop will get most out
of the journey. Learning is a journey. If we enjoy the journey we are not in a hurry.
The in-between is what matters. Like Liher has said “I feel that every time I go to a
new place I discover something new. But something that you cannot find in a book, in
internet, not even someone can tell you. You have to experience it, and feel it.”
It’s good to have a goal but we also need an open mind for emerging things, which
may end up being more meaningful than the original goal.
As Peter Senge says, the goal of a learning journey is not to see something, but to see
each other.
What we don’t know matters more than what we know. We need action and dialogue
in a proper balance.
Be ready for an adventure and expect the unexpected. Trust your intuition and the
team you travel with. Listen and look around. Smile and wonder.

6. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

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Program Blueprint
Tue 10th of Sept
Arrival
Wed 11th of Sept
Action
Thu 12th of Sept
Transformation
Fri 13th of Sept
Crystallizing
Sat 14th of Sept
De-Brief
Morning
Check-In for the
dynamic day!
Workshop on
Designing the Futures
of Leadership
Visit to
Tiimiakatemia,
the future of
management &
entrepreneurship
education.
Check-in for the day.
Workshop on
Intrapreneurship w.
Tools and Methods
examples hosted by
Thomas
Reflection about the
process.
Travel back to
Helsinki.
Afternoon Arrival to Helsinki
Visit to a Finnish
Innovative Company.
Train to Jyväskylä.
Reflection time.
Interactive workshop
with emerging leaders
on teams and
innovation.
Mini Vision Quest.
Time for personal &
shared crystallizing of
the ideas born at the
journey.
Free-time
in Helsinki
Evening
Check-In for the
Journey
Dinner Together
Power Sleep in
Helsinki
Dinner.
Night in Jyväskylä
Transport to
Countryside.
Dinner & possibility
for sauna & swim.
Sleep in Cottages.
Birth-giving.
Smoke Sauna &
Informal celebration.
Sleep in Cottages.
Travel back Home
Bon Voyage!
All Rights Reserved. The organizers reserve the right to change the world, as well as the program in case needed.

8. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

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In a nutshell:
4 Days packed with action but also time for
reflection
Time: Tuesday 3rd to Saturday 7th of
September 2013
Theme: Intrapreneurship & Leadership for
Innovation
Language of the program is English

10. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking
how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

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Outcomes
New ideas to be implemented back
home at your work and life
Loads of energy to kick start the year
after holidays
Fun time with good people
Self-reflection and transformation

12. “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into
the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”
– Lillian Smith

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Price & Registrations
Price of the journey is dependent
on the number of participants. The
journey will be organized if we get
at least 12 people to sign up.
Price includes program, meals,
travel expenses within Finland but
not flights to Helsinki.
If you a willing to share a room
with another participant, you will
get a discount of 150€ + VAT.
Number of
Participants
Price
12 or more 2290 + VAT
15 or more 1990 + VAT
18 or more 1790 + VAT

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How to Register?
Register to Mr. Thomas Gresset
+33 6 98 02 15 72 or via email at
t.gresset@red-kiwi.fr
Thomas will sent you a confirmation
email with instructions how to complete
the payment
We are good to go - Welcome a board!

15. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than
by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

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About the Organizers
Monkey Business is a lifestyle co-operative with a mission to
make the world more fun and yellow. We work together with
our clients for a better future in the field of change facilitation
and learning design.
Thomas Gresset is an independent consultant from Alsace,
France. Together Thomas and Monkeys have designed this
learning journey for you.
More info about Monkey Business at www.banana.fi
& Thomas Gresset at www.red-kiwi.fr

17. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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Vocabulary
Dialogue In Dialogue, one speaks and others listen. Dialogue is a reflective group activity which starts when we speak from our
hearts, meaning we honestly share how we think and feel right then. For more ideas about dialogue see this blog post.
Check-in Check-In is a metaphor that we use for a dialogue that happens in the beginning of a meeting or a process. It's kind of
like tuning mentally into the present moment and situation. Check-In, according to Peter Senge, is simply answering
question "What's up?" but sometimes it may have a more specific question, too. It's kind of the same thing as in a jazz
band when in the beginning the musicians tune their instruments to be in the same tone.
Workshop By workshop we mean an interactive working session. It is not a lecture, but it can also include a little bit of lecturing, or
sharing stories.
Company visit Company visit is a visit to an organization with the idea to learn from their ways of working and potentially together
create best next practices together.
Birth-giving Birth giving is a session where the participants give birth to new knowledge. Sometimes it includes loads of frustration.
Team Academy Team Academy or Tiimiakatemia is a special unit of team entrepreneurship in Jyväskylä University of applied science. It's
special model that combines running a cooperative company, having 8hrs a dialogue a week, and reading latest
business books has been adapted internationally by many unversitities. It's a business, or life, school without teachers or
exams, but a real customer projects and team learning.
Sauna Sauna, a room with hot temperature is a traditional Finnish place for relaxing and refreshing your body and soul.
Solo Experience
Vision Quest
From Wikipedia: A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures. The ceremony of the Vision Quest
is one of the most universal and ancient means to find spiritual guidance and purpose. A Vision Quest can provide deep
understanding of one's life purpose. The idea is to spend some time alone in nature - in our case it is going to be few
hours. During the time you can reflect about your life and work in peace. This insight, typically in the form of a dream of
Vision, relates directly to their purpose and destiny in life.
Motorola
-reflection
Back in the 80s at the ICT-company Motorola they had struggled with the long project reports that were hard to create
and boring to read. They decided to make an easy but effective way to report projects. It's made of four questions: 1.
What went well? 2. What went poorly? 3. What did I learn? 4. What will I do differently next time? This is a good way to
reflect in the end of a project or a learning process.

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More information
Ville Keränen
+358 40 731 2084
ville@banana.fi
Thomas Gresset
+33 6 98 02 15 72
t.gresset@red-kiwi.fr