End of Year

A wish of love and remembrance to you and yours.

May peace be more than a season. May it be a way of life!

Marquis

The Path of the Wheel

As a Traditional teacher, I recognize that I am my own healing/learning journey. As I tell my own stories and follow the path of the Wheel in each teaching section, I pay attention to my own process so that I relearn and re-experience the Model each time it is produced. I do not approach teaching as an exercise in pedagogical transmission; rather, I embody and transmit my experience as a guide - as one familiar with the process, having previously undertaken it. As a teacher, I do not stand apart from but am an integral part of the process.

Source : Fyre Jean Graveline, Circle Works
Graphic : Medecine Wheel Tool, Genuine Contact Program

Three Day Co-Facilitation

Donna Clark and I are in St. Andrews, New-Brunswick co-faciliting a three day meeting with 60 people on behalf of Environment Canada. Whole Person Process Facilitation will be used as the container. It will include Storytelling, Open Space Technology, and the Medicine Wheel Tool. Another example of a blended design and delivery as practiced in the Genuine Contact Program.

Another lighthouse being light.
Marquis

Honouring the Circle : Tribal People of the Earth

The Sacred Circle
Honoured by most Tribal people of the Earth
On the Plains named the Medicine Wheel.
Symbolic of Wholeness and Completion
Mother Earth in her Roundness...Fullness...Abundance.
Four is the Sacred number
Four seasons in the cycle...Four elemental powers
Four races of humanity...Four laws of living in community
Four Directions of the Medicine Wheel.
Weaves the Web of Interconnectedness with all of Creation
Between those who have gone before...those who will come after.
Circle is a container for energy...we Share together
Strengthening...Healing each of us...Together
Helps us continue with our struggles
As we "walk our talk" each day
Honouring our selves...All others
The Ancestors...Mother Earth

Source: Circle Works, Fyre Jean Graveline
Photo:Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Animation holistique (Whole Person Process Facilitation)

Module 2 du programme « Genuine ContactMC » offert en collaboration avec CAP Santé Outaouais les samedis 31 janvier et 7 février et le mercredi 11 février 2009 en soirée (2,5 jours) - L'atelier est offert en français.

Les organisations investissent tellement de ressources dans leurs réunions qu’il est important que celles-ci soient efficaces. Que faire alors pour mettre la créativité et l’intelligence collectives du groupe à profit pour récolter les résultats extraordinaires auxquels on aspire?

Nous vous invitons à venir découvrir la façon d’animer des réunions à l’enseigne d’une forte participation et d’une grande efficacité grâce à l'animation holistique (AH). En regard d’objectifs précis à atteindre, l'AH vous permet de tenir des réunions :

* fructueuses, efficaces et très productives
* permettant à des équipes d’émerger et au leadership de se manifester
* propices à la communication et à l’apprentissage
* bonnes pour le moral

Dans le cadre d’une pratique de leadership intentionnel, l'AH peut vous aider à bâtir des organisations saines et à transformer votre façon de faire les choses.

Le module d'animation holistique est un atelier expérientiel de trois jours qui vous apprend à animer des réunions où se mêlent harmonieusement les principes de l’apprentissage des adultes, l’apprentissage global, les dimensions multiples de l’individu (le corps, l’intellect, les émotions et l’esprit), le milieu d’apprentissage et l’animateur.

Que vais-je apprendre de cet atelier?

Vous quitterez cet atelier expérientiel et interactif riche de processus et d’outils pratiques et holistiques qui vous permettront :

* de cultiver globalement le potentiel des individus et de l’organisation;

* de préparer et d’animer des réunions de deux heures à plusieurs jours au gré d’un ordre du jour établi cependant très ouvert à l’émergence de solutions créatives;

* de mobiliser les intelligences et les styles d’apprentissage multiples des participants;

* d’assurer la santé à long terme de l’organisation;

* d’accroître la faculté des organisations de composer et de prospérer avec le changement;

*de faire œuvre utile avec l’information, le savoir et la sagesse émanant d’au-delà des cinq sens.

Soutien et mentorat sont offerts à tous les participants après la formation par l’entremise d’un réseau international de consultants.

Lieu de l’atelier

CAP Santé Outaouais
92, boul. St-Raymond, bureau 304
Gatineau, Québec (secteur Hull)
J8Y 1S7

Pour obtenir le formulaire d'inscription ou pour tout autre renseignement, communiquez avec moi à info@mbureau.com

Next Workshop in Val-David, QC, Canada - March 5-6, 2009

Session 3 of the Genuine Contact Program:
Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution

The one constant in life is change. Today, all organizations and the people within them are experiencing more rapid change than ever before. And hand in hand with change is the certainty of conflict. Conflict uses up individual and organizational energy, taking this energy away from constructive and productive work.

We invite you to a workshop to learn simple and highly effective methods for working with people in situations of conflict. The workshop focuses on the readiness of the facilitator to work with situations of conflict with groups. The personal preparation of the facilitator is essential. The workshop provides guidance in personal preparation as well as providing the facilitator with skills and a framework for conflict resolution. This framework for conflict resolution in groups is based on universal cross cultural practices for conflict resolution.

People engaged in conflict are usually fixed in one perspective. They rarely ask each other genuine questions. They also tend to lose contact with whole selves, rendering voiceless a part of themselves and they are unable to participate fully and effectively in efforts to resolve the conflict.

This workshop is based on the work of anthropologist Angeles Arrien, author Harrison Owen, and knowledge of the I CHING (the Chinese book of change). The program covers the three energies (dynamic, magnetic, integrated), the four principles of Open Space Technology, the art of detachment, and the six stages of problem solving.

You will leave this experiential, interactive workshop equipped with:
• A practical, holistic process through which you will lead meetings for conflict resolution
• A practical, holistic way of preparing the individuals to be involved with the conflict resolution meeting
• A practical, holistic way of preparing yourself to facilitate successful meetings
• The skills and knowledge to recognize when conflict resolution won't work and other means need to be employed

If your particular concern is conflict resolution, we recommend learning to use Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, and the Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution meeting methodology and skills. All three are exceptionally successful in resolving conflict and finding solutions including agreement to implement the solutions. These three skill sets will provide you with a “toolbox” for working with any situations of conflict.

Length: 2 days
Pre-requisites: None
(Note: While there are no pre-requisites, we find that combining this workshop with the Open Space Technology & Whole Person Process Facilitation trainings provides you with a exceptionally effective “toolbox” for working with any situations of conflict).

For more information or if you wish to register, please contact Marquis Bureau: info@mbureau.com

Living from your Heart

The current time is the best time ever to improve ourselves and to raise the vibration of global awareness. Our planet is a planet of emotions and is destined to become the most demonstrative example of love-based living for the rest of the universe. This means that the people on Earth must learn to live from their heart. Love is and will be the most effective way of achieving anything, from physical health to abundance and spiritual wisdom. This also means that the days of fear-dominated methods of success are numbered.

Source: Andreas Moritz
Photo: Marquis Bureau, Manila, Philippines, 2002.

Greetings from members of the Genuine Contact Community

Bonjour from Ivory Coast, Germany, Canada,United States of America,Venezuela, Sweden, and Switzerland

-Je vois que vous formez un duo terrible de facilitateurs francophones. Je pense à la joie qui serait la mienne de vous avoir ici dans une opportunité de collaboration.

-Michelle and Marquis this sounds like a good journey. And thank you as well for the appreciation of having 2nd or 3rd languages in the room still understanding each other, striving to learn more about ourselves and our working with others.

-How absolutely wonderful!  I have heard about your planning and anticipating and the excitement of all your work together... and now it is happening.  You sound glowing with energy. Will look forward to hearing more.

-I wish you and the group great joy with the workshop, and that it reap many benefits for all for a long time to come.

-What a great experience… and the snow!!!  Here in Caracas, it’s an average of 26°C.

-Great to hear from you – I can see the picture with snow, fire and warmth energy in the room – hmm – great! Thanks for letting us be with you on the journey!

- Oaoo, thanks for sharing the energy you are creating over there! Way to go! I wish you and your wonderful participants a lovely discovery journey!

-Thanks for this reporting. I’d love to be with you out there..


Thank you to all of you!
Marquis



. . that we see manifested in the material plane is but a shadow of that in the spiritual plane.

Edgar Cayce Reading 5749-3

Photo: Marquis Bureau, Val-David, Canada.

Whole Person Process Facilitation: Val-David, Day 2 and 3

Surprise!



Photo: Marquis Bureau, Val-David, Canada.

Whole Person Process Facilitation: Val-David

Bonjour tout le monde from Val David Quebec. Marquis Bureau and I are in the second day of our WPPF workshop, the first time we have offered it in French. We have a group of 10 participants in a beautiful setting here at Prema Shanti.
Our first day was very rich. Marquis and I had a detailed facilitation plan that we co created with Donna Clark and Rachel Assuncao...and of course as usual, the plan has not evolved at all as we thought it might....and yet the group has gone very deep with their learning already. In reflection, nearly all the content we wanted to cover was covered and discovered by the group through their questions, reflections, and contributions. We got to the Agenda part of the workshop after lunch, which gives you an indication of the rich discussion that happened about the Transfer in and Hopes and Fears.....
We talked about the four levels of consciousness and the whole person and right brain left brain in debreifing.
Our participants are great fun and full of energy. Many of them are consultants...and I am most proud to have our (to be clear..our being my husband Mike and I - Not Marquis and I) eldest daughter Jodie as a participant. Jodie has just taken a leadership role in her work in an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team and she will be taking this back to apply in her work. Like Birgitt in Virginia Beach, I am a proud mother. Some of them are artists and the rest artists at heart....so the small group offerings are very creative.

We had about 10cm of snow last night, so the vista outside the meeting room is beautiful - trees heavy with snow and everything is white. A contrast to the fire, warmth and ambiance of the facility and the group.

There are many learnings for Marquis and I - our first time working together and for me I am working in French, which is my second language...and I function at an intermediate level....so yesterday I was reflecting on my deeper appreciation of those who come to our mentoring circles from other countries and who have English as a second or third language. I am exhausted each day with listening and appreciative of the group who encourage me to continue in French. Je parle mieux maintenant.

Well it is time for the small groups to gather.
Will write more later.
Michelle


Photo: Marquis Bureau, Val-David, Canada.

Destination: Val-David, Quebec

We're very pleased to be offering in French, for the first time in Canada, Module 2 of the Genuine Contact Program: Whole Person Process Facilitation - Animation holistique in Val-David from October 29 to 30. Ten participants have accepted our invitation!

Photo: www.valdavid.com

Synergy and Diversity

Synergy and diversity are everywhere in nature. When autumn approaches, all of life that continues to survive begins to adapt to the season. It's magical watching the pelt of an animal thicken in anticipation of winter, as well as watching the bark of a tree thicken to protect itself from the cold. Insects burrow deep inside the trees to hibernate...

Source: Suzie Williams, Recipes for Synergy
Photo: Marquis Bureau, Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Canada

What's a Learning Community

A learning community is a group of people who meet together to learn how to function as a community and to create a community in which particular kinds of learning can occur. The task is to create a community and then use the collective intelligence of the group to learn new ways of thinking and behaving (my addition, new ways of being). As the members struggle to include all their perspectives, they begin to discover what impedes and what further their sense on connection. They also reflect upon their interactions and begin to discover more skillful ways of responding to each other.

As the members begin to interact. they soon discover that they way they relate to their differences presents an obstacle to their ability to learn together and to collaborate. A learning community does not create a way around the tensions that are inherent in the social koan of diversity but rather offers methods so that participants can develop themselves through these tensions. By steeping themselves in these tensions rather than rushing to eliminate or resolve them, the members of the learning community engage in a process of psychological and social transformation.

Source: David Goff

Practices for Transformational Learning

Studying patterns of psycho-spiritual practice across many different cultures, Angeles Arrien identified four universal components:




-showing up and choosing to be present

-paying attention

-telling the truth

-surrendering attachment to an outcome

Source: David Golf, The Social Koan

International Health and Balance Day

Best wishes to all!


With appreciation and gratitude.

Mandala: www.mandalamania.over-blog.com/

International Health and Balance Day

Monday October 20th is International Health and Balance Day. This is a global initiative to encourage individuals and organizations to pause and raise awareness of the importance of health and balance in everyday life and in business.
 
Our world is increasingly calling on each of us to be of service—to explore our interconnectedness and interrelatedness. To be able to show up and be present to this call, we need to deepen our genuine contact with ourselves, with each other, and with the groups and organizations we are part of. True health and full integrity spring from within. They are the personal resources we need to be effective and successful in all areas of life and in all our endeavours.
 
International Health & Balance Day was founded by a group of people working to develop the health and balance in organizations. This day, we pause, think, and act to take care of ourselves, so we are able to be of help and support to others. We invite you to do the same!

Take some time for yourself today and reflect on where your life is going. What do you want to do with your life? Do you have a good balance between things that give you energy, joy and fulfillment and things you ‘have to’ do? How many of your “must do’s” can you take away without creating the end of the world? How long has it been since you spoke a word for your ideals or took even a small step towards a dream?

When we find ourselves constantly using our energy on things we actually don’t want to do, don’t like, or don’t find meaning in--that can literally make us sick. Similar things happen in organizations. The most important thing in an organization is what can’t be seen--the climate or the spirit. It impacts the people within it more than you realize. Are you spending more time in life-depleting or life-affirming environments? (And that includes your mental environment!)
 
We invite you to take even a few minutes on October 20th to reflect on the health and balance in your life. What one small thing could you do on International Health and Balance Day to be good to yourself?
 
Yours truly,
Wendy Farmer-O’Neil
Prospera Consulting: A Genuine ContactTM Company
www.genuinecontact.net

4th Genuine Contact International Health and Balance Day

This year, the Genuine Contact community is celebrating its 4th International Health and Balance Day on October 20th. Our intention is to create space for Health and Balance in the world. The purpose of this day is:

·         To be in the present
·         Having good conversations – conversations that matters
·         Be true to our needs
·         Follow ones intuition

You're invited to share your ideas with us.

How do you plan to celebrate the day with your spouse, partner, family, friends and / or clients?

Graphic: Genuine Contact Logo

Perseverance

Perseverance is a great element of success.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate,

you are sure to wake up something or somebody.

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Learning: doing what you've never done before

Learning doesn't take place in the absence of mistakes. Leaders are simply great learners. They have, to begin with, a great sense of humility about their own sense of skills and abilities, and many leaders, despite what may objectively be "extraordinary" achievements are loath to attribute them to some extraordinary competency on their part. Think about which people in your organization are the most likely to voluntarily sign up and participate in leadership development programs.

The only way people can learn is by doing what they've never done before. Those who do only what they already know how to do never learn anything new. Promoting learning requires building in a tolerance for error and a framework for forgiveness.

Source: James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
Photo: Marquis Bureau, Virginia Beach

Genuine Contact Community Gathering in Virginia Beach U.S.A.

Rachel, Michelle, Donna, and I are participating in the Genuine Contact Trainers' Mentoring Circle, the 2009 International Mentoring Circle, and the annual Leadership and Management Team meeting in Virginia Beach. It is always a great privilege to meet new trainers, to greet new co-owners and to be with members of our global community. As always, Birgitt Williams and Ward Williams, co-founders of the Genuine Contact program, are welcoming all of us with open hearts.

Our Facilitation and Program Team: Marquis Bureau Bio

An internationally featured consultant, facilitator, speaker, and trainer, Marquis has a passion for improving the quality of life for those he works with. He is a Genuine Contact™ Co-Owner with extensive experience in making use of Open Space Technology ingredients for organizational transformation and a call to action.

Marquis is the founding president of Collège des Grands Lacs and a former president of the Canadian Association for Distance Education, now renamed the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education. Since the early 90's, he has overseen several international development projects. He has been involved with the World Bank as: Chief Technical Advisor for the Education Development project in Lebanon, Evaluator for the Vocational Training Reform project in Tunisia, and Advisor to the African Virtual University. As a team member on an Asian Development Bank project in the Maldives, he was responsible for providing distance education expertise to the country’s Human Capital Development Framework. He provided guidance to UNESCO’s Institute for Information Technologies in Education in Russia. He facilitated Institutes on open and distance learning and development for the Commonwealth of Learning.

Our Facilitation and Program Team: Michelle Cooper Bio

Michelle Cooper, RN, MScN is an international consultant dedicated to helping individuals and organizations to achieve health and harmony through facilitation, consultation, coaching, mentoring. Michelle’s holistic and participatory approach enables individuals, groups and organizations as a whole to connect in a meaningful way, to work with their deep essence and tap into their collective intelligence to achieve inspired results.

Our Facilitation and Program Team: Rachel de Assuncao Bio

Rachel de Assuncao completed her Diploma in Cinema, Television, Stage & Radio at SAIT, majoring in Writing, Producing and Directing for Television. The skills she developed during this educational venture, in addition to her workplace experience, have provided her with a deep understanding of the production process. This understanding, coupled with her ability to manage multiple tasks and timelines make her the ideal candidate to act as Production Director and Virtual Assistant.

In addition to her education and experience in video production, Rachel is a certified Genuine Contact Professional. The skills she developed during this training allow Rachel to work with organizational consultants using the Program on a deeper level than most assistants are able to provide, as she shares an understanding of the work they are bringing out into the world and the energy and languaging associated with that work. Her deep understanding of the Genuine Contact Program gives her the understanding to work with her clients in accordance with the underpinning values, beliefs, and strategies of the Program. Rachel draws upon these skills when working with all of her clients, operating from a healthy and balanced business foundation and assisting her clients in moving to new levels of success.

Rachel’s career began as the Executive Assistant to the management team at writeMedia Marketing & Communications. During this time, she assisted in the development of several marketing campaigns, and her devotion to Production Management was born. Upon completing her education, and full of desire to combine her inherent management skills with the new-found love of television production, Rachel joined the Regan Productions team. During her employment, she was the production manager for their television program ‘Tune Into’ and production manager and producer for a variety of corporate video and CD ROM productions.

In February 2005, Rachel launched Musango, a virtual assistant company offering production management, event planning, business writing, and basic graphic design services to small businesses. She relocated her business to Brantford, Ontario in September 2005 to better meet the needs of her client base, which developed quite quickly throughout the Eastern part of North America.

Rachel Assuncao continues to grow her business, working with organizations in a variety of industries including organizational development consulting, music production, video production, and sports.

Our Facilitation and Program Team: Donna Clark Bio

Donna Clark is a workplace innovator with 28 years of experience in the public and private sectors in advisory and senior management positions. She has worked in the areas of economic development, federal/provincial relations, and environmental conservation. In 1995, Donna entered into the partnership of Carmody, Clark & Associates, in Halifax , Nova Scotia . She continued with the organization for the next 10 years, focusing her work and honing her skills in the areas of organizational, leadership, and personal development. In 2005, Donna Clark embarked on her own business, Emergent Futures Consulting, where she continues to work with individuals and organizations seeking growth and development. She is committed to developing the capacity of individuals to connect to each other with courage and compassion to collectively create life nurturing organizations and communities. Much of Donna's work has been with public sector organizations working in the areas of science and technology, project management and procurement, accounting, public policy, economic development and health care. As Emergent Futures grows, she looks forward to continuing work in these fields in Atlantic Canada and is particularly interested in collaborative projects including innovative employer/union collaboration, client/service provider projects and whole system initiatives.

She serves as facilitator, mediator, coach and organizational advisor and has supported public and private sector clients in the areas of leadership development, conflict management, team/community building, communication and interpersonal processes, and organizational transformation. Her volunteer work has included mediating restorative justice forums for victims and youth offenders. She has degrees in science, business and education, and is a Registered Practitioner in Alternative Dispute Resolution with the Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation, a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute, a Certified Management Consultant, a Master Practitioner of NLP, and a WEL-Systems® facilitator. Since 1999 Donna has been facilitating Open Space Technology meetings and working regularly with Whole Person Process Facilitation. She is an Authorized Trainer and Co-Owner in the Genuine Contact™ program. Donna also serves as a facilitator and coach at the Dalhousie University Negotiation and Conflict Management Programme and facilitates several executive leadership development programs for the Canadian government's Canada School of Public Service.

Donna is married and a mother of three children. Her life is enriched by singing, and spending time in nature.

Announcement : Bursaries and more

Donna, Michelle, Rachel and I are pleased to announce that we will offer 2 bursaries for students and 2 bursaries for not-for-profit organizations for each workshop we host in Val-David.



There is special pricing for 3 or more people attending our workshops from the same organization ($100/registrant).

Please remember to take advantage of our Early Bird Registration (before October 1 2008): $1,200.

Accommodation packages for the complete workshop period are priced based on occupancy:
• Single Occupancy: $475
• Double Occupancy: $370
• Dormitory: $300
Prices are subject to taxes and gratuity. Please contact Prema Shanti: www.premashanti.ca for further details and to make your reservation. Book early for the best room selection.

Workshop: Whole Person Process Facilitation

Session 2 of the Genuine Contact™ Program

Dates: October 28-30, 2008

Location: Auberge Prema Shanti, Val David, QC (see www.premashanti.ca for further details)

Early Bird Registration (before October 1 2008): $1,200

Regular Registration: $1,500

Facilitators: Marquis Bureau (MBureau International Inc.), Michelle Cooper (Integral Visions Consulting Inc.), and Donna Clark (Emergent Futures Consulting Inc.)

About the Workshop

You have the option to register for the workshop in English or French.

Organizations invest a lot of resources in meetings, so it is important that they are effective. How do you tap into the collective creativity and intelligence of the group to achieve the extraordinary results you are after?

We invite you to learn how to facilitate highly participative, highly effective meetings using Whole Person Process Facilitation (WPPF). Applied when you have specific outcomes that you need to achieve, these meetings:

• Are efficient, effective and highly productive
• Enable teams and leadership to emerge
• Facilitate communication and learning
• Improve morale

When used as part of an intentional leadership practice, WPPF can help you to build healthy organizations and transform the way you do business.

Whole Person Process Facilitation is a 3-day experiential workshop in which you learn how to facilitate meetings that attend to adult learning principles, whole brain learning, multiple dimensions of the individual (body, mind, emotions, and spirit), the learning environment and the facilitator.

What will I Learn at this Workshop?

You will leave this experiential, interactive workshop equipped with practical and holistic processes and tools that will enable you to:

· Tap into the potential of individuals and the organization as a whole;

· Design and lead meetings from two hours to several days in length, where there is a known agenda but there is lots of room for creative solutions to be identified;

· Engage the multiple intelligences and learning styles of participants;

· Achieve and maintain long-term organizational health;

· Increase the capacity of organizations to work with and thrive with change;

· Work with information, knowledge, and wisdom that comes from beyond the five senses.

All participants have access to support and mentorship following the training through an international network of consultants. For more information and registration details visit: http://www.integralvisions.com/sessions.htm.

2008-2009 Workshop Schedule, Site, and Facilitation Team

2008-2009 Workshop Schedule in Canada

Whole Person Process Facilitation (3 days): October 28, 29, and 30 2008

Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution (2 days): March 5 and 6 2009

Path to Organizational Health and Balance & Achieving Organizational Health and Balance (3 days): May 5, 6, and 7 2009

Facilitation Team

I'm pleased to partner with Michelle Cooper of Integral Visions (Ancaster,ON), http://www.integralvision.com/ and Donna Clark of Emergent Futures Consulting Inc (Halifax, NS), http://www.emergentfutures.ca/ to offer these workshops. Donna and Michelle are close colleagues and are both authorized Genuine Contact™ Trainers who have been working with the Program for a number of years. This partnership offers participants the opportunity to learn from Genuine Contact Professionals working across Canada and in a variety of different industries. It also allows us to offer the Genuine Contact workshops concurrently in English and French, providing participants with a unique and customized learning experience.

Workshop Site

Nestled in the Laurentian Mountains 80 km north of Montreal is the beautiful town of Val David and Prema Shanti, a tranquil inn on the shores of Lac Doré. Prema Shanti is home to our workshops and provides an ideal retreat setting for a complete residential learning experience. The inn offers beautifully appointed rooms, fine dining, and easy access to hiking trails, swimming and canoeing. Accommodation packages are available for our workshops.

Please contact me at info@mbureau.com for workshop information, registration or customised training.

Photo: Prema Shanti, Val-David, Quebec, Canada

Genuine Contact™ Program and Workshop Series Overview

The purpose of the Genuine Contact™ program is to assist leaders and organizations to achieve successful healthy and balanced organizations creating what we refer to as the Conscious Open Space Organization. Individual workshops in the Genuine Contact™ program also have great benefit taken on their own without commitment to the whole program.

Workshop Series Overview
Foundations 1:
Path to Organizational Health & Balance
Foundations 2:
Achieving Organizational Health & Balance
Foundations 3:
Individual Health & Balance
Module 1:
Working with Open Space Technology
Module 2:
Whole Person Process Facilitation
Module 3:
Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution
Module 4:
Conscious Open Space Organization
Module 5:
Certification: Train the Trainer

For additional information on the program or the workshops:http://www.genuinecontact.net/genuine_contact_program.html

Photo: Dominique Normand

Genuine Contact Way

The Genuine Contact Way is a lovely and inspiring approach to elegant, holistic living in today's world.  Once you embrace its essence and its ingredients, you become part of the whole and can claim your special place in the circle of life.

Photo: Dominique Normand, 2008-08-16, Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Quebec, Canada

The moon helps to govern human emotions.