Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops
Come early to OD Network Conference 2006—or stay late—for a full immersion in important OD constructs that will have a lasting impact on your body of knowledge and your practice! Please note that separate registration and additional tuition fees are required to attend these in-depth sessions.
Pre-Conference
Two-Day Pre-Conference Workshops
Friday, October 20–Sunday, October 22
Becoming a Better Intervener: A Gestalt Organization and Systems
Development Workshop
Decoding Culture with Social Networks: Measure What You Manage
in Your Organization
One-Day Pre-Conference Workshops
Saturday, October 21
Project Management as a Strategic Organizational Development
Tool
Advancing the Practice of Appreciative Inquiry: Body, Mind
and Spirit
The Pragmatics of the Magic in Gestalt Coaching
The Organization Workshop: Creating Partnerships Across Boundaries
The Heart of Consulting: Renewing Organizations, Your Work,
and Yourself
Options for Action: An Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics
Group Development Video Lab: Where Bion & Schutz
Meet Bennis, Drexler, Sibbett and You!
Systems Change for the Health of It!
Post-Conference
Half-Day Post-Conference Workshops
Wednesday, October 25,
The Writing on the Wall—Intro to Graphic Facilitation
Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
Full-Day Post-Conference Workshops
Wednesday, October 25, and Thursday, October 26
Coaching Teams: A Hands-on Experience of Powerful New Tools
and Techniques with Shirzad Chamine
The Four Houses: A Model for Understanding Individual, Group, and Organization Performance
Two-Day Pre-Conference Workshops
P1 - Becoming a Better Intervener: A Gestalt Organization and Systems Development Workshop
Friday, October 20–Sunday, October 22
John Carter, Ph.D., CEO/President, Gestalt OSD Center
Marcella Benson-Quaziena, Ph.D., Principal,
The Benson-Quaziena
Group
Other GIC faculty
Based on the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s (GIC) yearlong training program, this two-day intensive provides you with a combination of theory and conceptual presentations as well as practicum in which you’ll hone your intervention skills and receive feedback from other participants and intensive leaders. This workshop enables you to develop yourself as an effective instrument of change, focus energy on solving challenges at hand rather than working solely within a culturally preferred model and create appropriate designs for interventions that consider consequences. The workshop is designed for those with experience in and commitment to developing organizations as well as those with an interest in the Gestalt framework.
Due to the intensive nature of this workshop, the group will be meeting additional hours:
Friday: 1–5 pm & 7–9 pm
Saturday: 8 am–5 pm & 7–9 pm
Sunday: 8am–noon
This workshop is limited to 20 participants.
Back to TopP2 - Decoding Culture with Social Networks: Measure What You Manage in Your Organization
Friday, October 20Sunday, October 22
Karen Stephenson, PhD, NetForm, Inc.
What we “see” inside our organizations is what we know—an explicit structure, the organization chart, processes, procedures, etc—in the same way we “see” the physical architecture of a building. What we don’t see when we walk into a building is the shape of space that fills it, in the same way we don’t “see” the shape of culture that fills our organizations. Social networks are the culture, but they are invisible. So mapping, measuring and managing social networks is key to decoding culture. When we understand the cultural genome, we can design and implement the right treatments.
This intensive workshop presents a unique method that enables us to map social networks: the NetForm analysis. Participants will learn how to conduct a NetForm analysis, articulate its value proposition to the client; and prepare clients for data collection. Plus, you’ll also learn how to position the results to the client and manage their expectations going forward.
This workshop is limited to 25 participants.
This workshop is the first module in the OD Network NetForm
Certification Program. If you work with an organization
that would benefit from more effective corporate communications,
strategic alignment, and market performance, you need NetForm
certification. NetForm analysis is a quick and easy tool to assess
organizational health using diagnostic reports that are based
on 30 years of research and a database of over 400 organizations.
Certification requires this pre-conference workshop, four two-hour
webcasts, and one in-person weekend program. Learn more about the NetForm Certification Program.
One-Day Pre-Conference Workshops
P3 - Project Management as a Strategic Organizational Development Tool
Saturday, October 21
Kathryn Potruff, Global Projectives, Inc.
“Morph,” or the state of continual change, has become the norm as organizations confront issues related to globalization, innovation, and reinvention. Changes in business processes and business performance seldom occur without structural or cultural changes that reverberate through every level of the organization.
Managers must become adept at identifying and implementing transformational changes. They must know where resistance is likely to be encountered and how to overcome it. Finally, they must ensure sustainability. This one-day workshop uses tools and techniques from the project management realm to strengthen and sustain cultures in businesses that are undergoing fundamental changes.
This workshop is limited to 40 participants.
Back to TopP4 - Advancing the Practice of Appreciative Inquiry: Body, Mind and Spirit
Saturday, October 21
Stephen Fitzgerald, Touro University International
Joan Colleran Hoxsey, Relationship Resources, LLC
Roberta Peirick, Dialogs for Business/Appreciative Inquiry
Consulting, LLC
Roselyn Kay, New Heights Group, LLC
This workshop will provide a powerful experience for Appreciative Inquiry and OD practitioners. Integrating work from multiple disciplines, this session will challenge participants to embrace their body, shadow and spirit, as well as to consider what’s needed to “hold the space” for “holistic” strength-based strategies such as Appreciative Inquiry.
We’ll discuss the traditional 4-D Model of Appreciative Inquiry, and review concepts of self-awareness and authenticity in relation to your practice of AI. You’ll learn about the body’s “rhythm of excitement” and how it supports your personal facilitation style and/or client needs. Participants will develop an understanding of a conceptual model of AI Shadow Reflection relationships, increase self/awareness/authenticity and gain effectiveness as they discover the “rhythm” of the body and explore the nature and meaning of the individual and collective shadow. You’ll leave the session having created strategies for freeing the spirit and releasing authenticity.
This workshop is limited to 30 participants.
Back to TopP5 - The Pragmatics of the Magic in Gestalt Coaching
Saturday, October 21
Dorothy E. Siminovitch, Ph.D., MCC and Ann Van Eron, Ph.D.,
MCC,Gestalt Institute of Cleveland OSD Integrative Study Center,
International Gestalt Coaching Program
Coaching is a distinctive competency, a professional calling, and an evolving industry. This experiential workshop by two highly rated presenters will present participants with the model of Gestalt coaching mastery. The program design will enable participants to practice those skills that constitute effective coaching from a Gestalt perspective. We will explore the Gestalt concepts and techniques of assessment, shaping developmental units of work and intentional use of self in the role of coach to enhance your coaching effectiveness. Business and human service professionals who currently coach (or have been coached) will find this intensive workshop particularly useful. Participants will leave this workshop with a practical understanding of the power of Gestalt coaching.
Back to TopP7 - The Organization Workshop: Creating Partnerships across Boundaries
Saturday, October 21
Barry Oshry, Power & Systems, Inc.
For over 30 years, Barry Oshry has been exploring the human system dynamics surrounding Tops, Middles, Bottoms, and Customers. Despite good intentions all around, state-of-the-art technology, and a tendency toward flatter organizations, why do we still fall into the same old disempowering scenarios? The Organization Workshop, now a classic in the leadership world, brings a human systems approach to that inquiry—system sight—along with strategies for turning it around.
The centerpiece of The Organization Workshop is an organization exercise. This fast-paced, action-oriented activity acts as a living case we’ll all share in and debrief. Throughout the program, strategic frameworks will be introduced, enabling us to diagnose the dynamics of this exercise as well as to apply them to our own lives and our client organizations. Participants will come away with a solid understanding of what powerful systems look like, what regularly gets in the way of developing such systems, and a human framework from which to diagnose issues and intervene accordingly.
This workshop is limited to 50 participants.
Back to TopP8 - The Heart of Consulting: Renewing Organizations, Your Work, and Yourself
Saturday, October 21
Geoff Bellman, GMB Associates, Ltd.
This workshop with the ever-popular and top-rated Geoff Bellman explores the deeper questions and implications of your consulting work and how it fits within your life. Expect to step back from your work, to reflect on your practice, and to discuss intriguing ideas with other thoughtful, practical people within a framework designed by an OD consultant/author with over thirty years in the field. This workshop starts with what you have learned so far in your life and work. Then, through examples, exercises, and engagement, it deepens what you have known. To your models, methods, and beliefs, you’ll add those of other participants and the session leader. We’ll talk about how to build effective relationships with clients and get beyond the “rules of OD” in the consulting process. You’ll leave with increased confidence and a sense of your power as a consultant—plus, you’ll get valuable models and methods to use in your practice.
Back to TopP9 - Options for Action: An Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics
Saturday, October 21
Glenda Eoyang, Human Systems Dynamics Institute
These are turbulent times; our clients face challenges of complexity, speed and global demands. As professionals we are constantly challenged to improve outcomes, especially when clients’ situations are out of control and unpredictable. This session introduces Human Systems Dynamics (HSD), a complexity-based approach to organization change and development. HSD increases flexibility and opens new paths of creativity. During this session, clear explanations, useful tools, and engaging stories improve options for adaptive action for yourself and your clients.
This workshop helps participants see and influence patterns in human systems. You will learn to distinguish among organized, unorganized and self-organizing dynamics; to identify roles and competencies of OD practitioners in each of these landscapes; and to assess your own OD tools and practices to test their effectiveness. We’ll use HSD tools derived from chaos and complexity to recognize patterns in human systems (What?), generate options for action (So What?), and intervene to help shape emerging dynamics (Now What?).
This workshop is limited to 50 participants.
Back to TopP10 - Group Development Video Lab: Where Bion & Schutz Meet Bennis, Drexler, Sibbett and You!
Saturday, October 21
Melanie Gray, Compensation Analyst, Johns Hopkins University
Susan Bach, Graduate Student
Matt Minahan, MM & Associates
This highly experiential session is intended to be a fun and educational way to experience four group and team development theories, as well as to gain some guidelines for discerning when each is applicable and how to apply them. In both the morning and afternoon, we will enact a simulation which is videotaped, see a short overview of a specific group or team development theory, view the tape and then debrief the experience through that theory lens. We will conclude with some ideas about how and when to best use each theory. We will be using the FIRO-B Instrument.
This workshop is limited to 30 participants.
Back to TopP11 - Systems Change for the Health of It!
Saturday, October 21
Laurie Davis, Maine Medical Center
Ann-Marie Regan, National Naval Medical Center
Mary Eggers and Beverly Seiford, Dannemiller Tyson Associates
Cheryl Henke, ViaHealth/Rochester General
Hospital
Through highly engaging conversations and activities, this workshop will provide sound theory and practice for bringing about system change in organizations. A panel of external and internal OD practitioners will share their real-life experiences on how they used the Whole-Scale® change methodology to empower employees and bring about systemic change in an East Coast medical center, a Southern community hospital, a complex military healthcare organization in DC, and a small Midwestern community clinic.
You will identify requirements for bringing about system-wide change in organizations including leadership commitment, physician/key stakeholder engagement, and employee involvement and empowerment. You’ll apply OD principles and practices to the unique characteristics and cultural challenges inherent in healthcare organizations; and have numerous opportunities to apply the principles and practices of Whole-Scale® to the unique challenges in your own organizations. Finally, you will forge relationships with people who share a common bond around their commitment to ensuring quality healthcare.
Back to TopHalf-Day Post-Conference Workshops
PC1 - The Writing on the Wall—Intro to Graphic Facilitation
Wednesday, October 25, 1–4 p.m.
Karen James, Graphic Transformations
Light up your facilitation using images, color and words! Help participants to actually see what they are talking about. With hands-on practice, demonstration and discussion, you’ll learn about graphic facilitation and how it can enhance the experience of both participants and facilitators. You’ll also identify all of the skills and tools needed for graphic facilitation as well as the resources available to support its use.
The only requirement for this session is curiosity! Whether you love to draw or are afraid to write on a flip chart, you’ll uncover what skills you bring and determine how to leverage them to illuminate the process, content and fun of graphic facilitation.
Back to TopPC2 – Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
Wednesday, October 25, 1–4 p.m.
Sam Kaner, Executive Director, Community at Work
We know it is good to involve diverse stakeholders and make decisions with high levels of participation. However, these groups can be awfully tough to work with—and knowledge about dealing effectively with difficult group dynamics can be hard to come by. This engaging workshop, presented by a leading expert on collaboration and the author of one of the all-time bestselling books on group facilitation, will deepen your understanding of participatory decision making and strength your intervention skills. We’ll look at two real-life case studies of multi-stakeholder collaboration—both of which stalled and almost failed before being helped by effective OD interventions. These case studies will teach you to see underlying patterns in the group process of collaboration, and they will illuminate several points of intervention theory and technique. You will leave this workshop with a more sophisticated understanding of group dynamics, and you’ll carry away several effective tools for designing and facilitating a high-stakes collaborative process.
Back to TopFull-Day Post-Conference Workshops
PC3 - Coaching Teams: A Hands-on Experience of Powerful New Tools and Techniques with Shirzad Chamine
Wednesday, October 25, 1–4 p.m., and Thursday, October 26, 8:30–11 a.m.
Shirzad Chamine, The Coaches Training Institute
Coaching teams requires an entirely different set of tools from coaching individuals. Attend this session and access tools from the ground-breaking Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching workshops offered by the Coaches Training Institute. This body of work is the first of its kind to be accredited by the International Coaches Federation, and is highly recommended for people with intermediate to advanced expertise in team facilitation and group intervention.
In this highly experiential and popular hands-on session, you will learn and practice powerful new tools for coaching teams. You’ll understand the fundamental differences between individual coaching and team coaching, as well as the risks involved in confusing team coaching with coaching individuals within the team. You’ll learn how to both evoke and detect signals from the “relationship system” of the team to determine what needs to happen—and you will get specific tools for coaching them. You will leave this workshop with a heightened ability to facilitate effective team interventions.
Back to TopPC4 –The Four Houses: A Model for Understanding Individual, Group, and Organization Performance
Wednesday, October 25, 1–4 p.m., and Thursday, October 26, 8:30–11 a.m.
Michael Mitchell, XF Teams
Ann Feyerherm, Pepperdine University
This session presents a comprehensive descriptive and prescriptive model for organization behavior. This developmental model clarifies how organizations develop and function, as well as how to consult with them differentially for optimal success. Four archetypes are explored, relating to organizational behavior and leadership. Systems theory underlies the model; we’ll relate it to well-known organizations to illustrate how the model explains the fit among individuals, groups, organizations, and environments.
At the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to relate your own unconscious preferences for organizational types and processes to the model; diagnose individual, group, and organization behavior; and then prescribe effective interventions to aid clients in resolving problems and meeting objectives. The workshop will be interactive with presentations and small-group and community discussions. Participants will leave with a new diagnostic model and unique, practical consulting knowledge they can apply right away.
Back to Top