Friday 30 October 2009
Monday 26 October 2009
Holistic Philosophy
The word holistic is derived from the Greek holos, which translates into whole or complete. Holistic healing recognizes and honors the essential unity of body, mind, and spirit, as well as the interrelationship between an individual's state of health and his or her environment.Source: Simone Gabbay, Nourishing the Body Temple
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Friday 16 October 2009
Workshops in November 2009: Genuine Contact Organization
Courage Group International
Genuine Contact Organization – Session 4 of the Genuine Contact™ Program
Date: Residential Workshop November 24-27, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Online Mentoring Workshop – Monday January 11, 2009 12:00-3:00 p.m.
Location: Auberge Prema Shanti – Val David, Quebec
Tuition: $800 prior to Oct. 26th, $1000 thereafter. Contact us for group rates.
REGISTRATION
Imagine having an operating system in your organization that allows you to navigate the turbulent waters of change with creativity and excitement. You love to come to work because the spirit, passion and energy of people are fully engaged. You work in a liberating structure with the skills, resources, freedom and responsibility face complex challenges and thrive. We call this a Genuine Contact Organization.
Participants in the workshop will learn:
•To apply the Genuine Contact Way as a leadership practice that supports genuine contact with self, one other, the collective and the community in order to lead with courage, compassion, authenticity and openness
•To support, inspire, sustain, and regenerate growth and exceptional performance and to build capacity to successfully navigate change
•To attend to their interior condition as leaders, to make meaningful connection with the collective and practical and simple “how to” skills, tools and knowledge to work with the whole system.
This workshop is about pushing beyond the immediate benefit of great meetings, toward exploring and creating the conditions we need for effective self-organization, natural learning, health and to enable high performance in organizations and communities
This workshop will interest you are a leader, manager, consultant, facilitator, community developer or policy maker in any sector: workshops draw participants from all sectors – from corporate to health care and nonprofit to education and the arts – and this mix adds to the richness of your learning experience.
Benefits
You will leave this experiential, interactive workshop equipped with:
•The knowledge, skills and tools to build and work with a liberating structure and a participatory architecture that inspires excellence and enables leaders to emerge
•Strategies and approaches for developing an organization as a Genuine Contact Organization
•Your own design to start the development of a Genuine Contact Organization using a single Open Space Technology meeting as a catalyst for system-wide change
•Knowledge of working with the key ingredients of a Genuine Contact Organization to support a solution focused and life nurturing climate
•Key ingredients to support leadership to successfully meet the challenges of change and to to work with change to the advantage of your organization
•A practical means for working with the information, knowledge and wisdom that already exists in your organization and within your broad stakeholder involvement
•Key ingredients for daily and strategic planning and implementation to be simultaneous within an agreed upon purpose and vision for the organization
•Understanding the role of ‘collective intelligence’ about the organization and its development
•A peer to peer mentoring circle for ongoing learning
•An in depth understanding of the dimensions of working with the key ingredients of meeting method Open Space Technology including the dynamics of repeated use of Open Space Technology in an organization.
•An understanding of how to use both Whole Person Process Facilitation and the Medicine Wheel Tool in the development of and sustainability of the Genuine Contact Organization.
Our Approach
Our teaching model is rooted in experience. The foundational facilitation process for the workshop is Whole Person Process Facilitation, which pays attention the multidimensional human being including learning styles, different intelligences and levels of consciousness. This facilitation methodology creates conditions that maximize the learning of individual participants and also creates the opportunity for the emergence of collective learning. The process invites participants to make genuine contact with themselves, others, the collective and the community – building relationships and new ways of working together during the workshop. This allows participants to mentor each other as they apply the learning.
The learning experience includes applications of the approaches and principles that are key ingredients to becoming a Genuine Contact Organization. The workshop includes a four day learning journey with a follow-up 3 hour online mentoring workshop. Optional pre-reading is provided. Participants are encouraged to leave evenings free for reflection and review.
Working with Open Space Technology or equivalent in OST experience is a pre-requisite.
Residential Workshop
Key activities include:
•Exploring the issues and opportunities for the development of organizations of excellence focusing on the experience gained during Open Space Technology meetings within a Whole Person Process Facilitation container.
•Converging the issues and opportunities uncovered in an Open Space Technology meeting to move them to action.
•Working with the Medicine Wheel Tool© as a framework for holistic organizational transformation
•Discerning how organizations say they work and how they really do work. Organizational style, lifecycle, structure, process.
•Identifying the critical ingredients that we must pay attention to in the Genuine Contact Organization
•De-mything the organization by identifying the "givens" and identifying the space where there is freedom for creativity, innovation, and the full potential of the workforce released for great success.
•Developing a deeper understanding of yourself as a leader and what you need to support you to implement a Genuine Contact Organization.
•Developing a custom design for creating a Genuine Contact Organization that fits your organization.
Mentoring Workshop
A three- hour online mentoring workshop on January 11th will provide the opportunity to address questions, share learning and next steps.
The workshop includes a workbook to support ongoing learning. Audio and video CDs are available for purchase as an additional learning tool. All participants have access to support and mentorship following the training through an international network of Genuine Contact™ professionals. For more information go to www.genuinecontact.net .
Facilitator Team
The English workshop will be co-facilitated by Donna Clark (Nova Scotia). The French workshop will be co-facilitated by Marquis Bureau (Quebec). Michelle Cooper (Ontario) will co-facilitate both workshops. They are authorized Genuine Contact™ Trainers and Co-Owners who have been working with the Program for a number of years.
Completing Genuine Contact Organizations fulfills one of four course requirements for participating in the Genuine Contact™ Program Train the Trainer workshop. (Working with Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution and Conscious Open Space Organization)
Genuine Contact Organization – Session 4 of the Genuine Contact™ Program
Date: Residential Workshop November 24-27, 2009 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Online Mentoring Workshop – Monday January 11, 2009 12:00-3:00 p.m.
Location: Auberge Prema Shanti – Val David, Quebec
Tuition: $800 prior to Oct. 26th, $1000 thereafter. Contact us for group rates.
REGISTRATION
Imagine having an operating system in your organization that allows you to navigate the turbulent waters of change with creativity and excitement. You love to come to work because the spirit, passion and energy of people are fully engaged. You work in a liberating structure with the skills, resources, freedom and responsibility face complex challenges and thrive. We call this a Genuine Contact Organization.Participants in the workshop will learn:
•To apply the Genuine Contact Way as a leadership practice that supports genuine contact with self, one other, the collective and the community in order to lead with courage, compassion, authenticity and openness
•To support, inspire, sustain, and regenerate growth and exceptional performance and to build capacity to successfully navigate change
•To attend to their interior condition as leaders, to make meaningful connection with the collective and practical and simple “how to” skills, tools and knowledge to work with the whole system.
This workshop is about pushing beyond the immediate benefit of great meetings, toward exploring and creating the conditions we need for effective self-organization, natural learning, health and to enable high performance in organizations and communities
This workshop will interest you are a leader, manager, consultant, facilitator, community developer or policy maker in any sector: workshops draw participants from all sectors – from corporate to health care and nonprofit to education and the arts – and this mix adds to the richness of your learning experience.
Benefits
You will leave this experiential, interactive workshop equipped with:
•The knowledge, skills and tools to build and work with a liberating structure and a participatory architecture that inspires excellence and enables leaders to emerge
•Strategies and approaches for developing an organization as a Genuine Contact Organization
•Your own design to start the development of a Genuine Contact Organization using a single Open Space Technology meeting as a catalyst for system-wide change
•Knowledge of working with the key ingredients of a Genuine Contact Organization to support a solution focused and life nurturing climate
•Key ingredients to support leadership to successfully meet the challenges of change and to to work with change to the advantage of your organization
•A practical means for working with the information, knowledge and wisdom that already exists in your organization and within your broad stakeholder involvement
•Key ingredients for daily and strategic planning and implementation to be simultaneous within an agreed upon purpose and vision for the organization
•Understanding the role of ‘collective intelligence’ about the organization and its development
•A peer to peer mentoring circle for ongoing learning
•An in depth understanding of the dimensions of working with the key ingredients of meeting method Open Space Technology including the dynamics of repeated use of Open Space Technology in an organization.
•An understanding of how to use both Whole Person Process Facilitation and the Medicine Wheel Tool in the development of and sustainability of the Genuine Contact Organization.
Our Approach
Our teaching model is rooted in experience. The foundational facilitation process for the workshop is Whole Person Process Facilitation, which pays attention the multidimensional human being including learning styles, different intelligences and levels of consciousness. This facilitation methodology creates conditions that maximize the learning of individual participants and also creates the opportunity for the emergence of collective learning. The process invites participants to make genuine contact with themselves, others, the collective and the community – building relationships and new ways of working together during the workshop. This allows participants to mentor each other as they apply the learning.
The learning experience includes applications of the approaches and principles that are key ingredients to becoming a Genuine Contact Organization. The workshop includes a four day learning journey with a follow-up 3 hour online mentoring workshop. Optional pre-reading is provided. Participants are encouraged to leave evenings free for reflection and review.
Working with Open Space Technology or equivalent in OST experience is a pre-requisite.
Residential Workshop
Key activities include:
•Exploring the issues and opportunities for the development of organizations of excellence focusing on the experience gained during Open Space Technology meetings within a Whole Person Process Facilitation container.
•Converging the issues and opportunities uncovered in an Open Space Technology meeting to move them to action.
•Working with the Medicine Wheel Tool© as a framework for holistic organizational transformation
•Discerning how organizations say they work and how they really do work. Organizational style, lifecycle, structure, process.
•Identifying the critical ingredients that we must pay attention to in the Genuine Contact Organization
•De-mything the organization by identifying the "givens" and identifying the space where there is freedom for creativity, innovation, and the full potential of the workforce released for great success.
•Developing a deeper understanding of yourself as a leader and what you need to support you to implement a Genuine Contact Organization.
•Developing a custom design for creating a Genuine Contact Organization that fits your organization.
Mentoring Workshop
A three- hour online mentoring workshop on January 11th will provide the opportunity to address questions, share learning and next steps.
The workshop includes a workbook to support ongoing learning. Audio and video CDs are available for purchase as an additional learning tool. All participants have access to support and mentorship following the training through an international network of Genuine Contact™ professionals. For more information go to www.genuinecontact.net .
Facilitator Team
The English workshop will be co-facilitated by Donna Clark (Nova Scotia). The French workshop will be co-facilitated by Marquis Bureau (Quebec). Michelle Cooper (Ontario) will co-facilitate both workshops. They are authorized Genuine Contact™ Trainers and Co-Owners who have been working with the Program for a number of years.
Completing Genuine Contact Organizations fulfills one of four course requirements for participating in the Genuine Contact™ Program Train the Trainer workshop. (Working with Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution and Conscious Open Space Organization)
Workshops in November 2009: Working With Open Space Technology
Courage Group International
Working With Open Space Technology – Session 1 of the Genuine Contact™ Program
Dates: Residential workshop – November 20-24th, 2009,
Online mentoring workshop Monday January 11, 2010 12:00 p.m. –2:00 p.m. EST
Location: Auberge Prema Shanti, Val David, Quebec.
Cost: $800 Early Bird Before October 23rd. $1000 after that date. Ask us about special group prices.
REGISTRATION
What if there was a pool of experts available to you as a leader to help you to meet complex challenges in a way that current expertise and thinking cannot do? This potential surrounds you in your organization or community, waiting to be accessed. Complex times demand leadership that engages and mobilizes those facing tough challenges to thrive in a changing world. Open Space Technology is one way to do that.
Join us for this 4 day highly experiential workshop to learn how to:
•Facilitate meetings using Open Space Technology to when there is an important issue to be addressed, a diversity of people involved, complexity and when decisions need to be made quickly.
•Apply a holistic approach to work with the sponsor to achieve maximum benefit from the meetings.
•Prepare yourself as a facilitator to be in genuine contact with yourself, to hold space for courageous and meaningful conversations to happen and to use practical and simple “how to” skills, tools and knowledge to work with the whole system.
This workshop will interest you are a formal or informal leader, consultant, facilitator, community developer or policy maker in any sector: workshops draw participants from all sectors – from corporate to health care and nonprofit to education and the arts – and this mix adds to the richness of your learning experience.
Benefits
You will leave this experiential, interactive workshop equipped with practical and holistic processes and tools that will enable you to:
•Work with both the essence and the form of Open Space Technology (OST) to design large system meetings (5-1000) that build trust, enhance communication and relationships, inspire creativity and allow participants to discover their passion and take ownership of what matters most to them;
•Facilitate OST meetings that are 4 hours to several days in length;
•Discern when to use Open Space Technology;
•Apply simple and practical tools to work with a sponsor to plan highly successful Open Space Technology meetings by ensuring the meeting has the right theme, with the right constraints ('givens'), for the right length of time;
•Assist the sponsor to reap maximum benefits from the results following the OST meeting;
•Tap into the potential and collective genius of individuals and organizations as a whole;
•Build teams and collaboration while working on important business issues;
•Be conscious of the implications of actions and behaviours of the facilitator for opening or closing space;
•Prepare yourself to facilitate and pay attention to your personal health and balance.
•Explore the OST as a leadership approach and operating system that supports ongoing health and balance;
•Effectively lead transformation and change processes.
Our Approach
Our teaching model is rooted in experience. The facilitation process for the workshop is Whole Person Process Facilitation, which pays attention the multidimensional human being including learning styles, different intelligences and levels of consciousness. This facilitation methodology creates conditions that maximize the learning of individual participants and also creates the opportunity for the emergence of collective learning.
The methodology incorporates individual reflection, paired and small group in addition to large group plenary work. The process invites participants to make genuine contact with themselves, others, the collective and the community – building relationships and new ways of working together during the workshop. This allows participants to mentor each other as they apply the learning.
We recommend that participants leave evenings free for reflection and review.
The workshop includes a workbook to support ongoing learning. Audio and video CDs are available for purchase as an additional learning tool. All participants have access to support and mentorship following the training through an international network of Genuine Contact™ professionals. For more information go to www.genuinecontact.net.
Part 1
Four days that include experiencing an OST meeting, unpacking the essence and form, making genuine contact with self as a facilitator and working with the sponsor before and after the OST meeting to maximize results. There is space within the workshop for active experimentation and deeper discussion based on learning needs. Participants can initiate planning of an OST meeting for the practicum within workshop
Facilitator Practicum
Participants will be encouraged to facilitate an OST meeting following Part 1 and will have access to mentoring from the workshop facilitators and other participants to plan the event.
Part 2
A 3-hour online follow-up session on January 11th, 2010 following the facilitator practicum to provide an opportunity to share learning, explore questions that arise and discuss future possibilities for application of Open Space Technology.
Facilitator Team
The workshop in English will be co-facilitated by Donna Clark (Nova Scotia) and Michelle Cooper (Ontario). The French Workshop will be co-facilitated by Marquis Bureau (Quebec) and Esther Matte (New York). They are authorized Genuine Contact™ Trainers who together have been working with the program for a number of years.
Completing Working With Open Space Technology fulfills one of four course requirements for participating in the Genuine Contact™ Program Train the Trainer workshop. (Working with Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution and Genuine Organization)
Working With Open Space Technology – Session 1 of the Genuine Contact™ Program
Dates: Residential workshop – November 20-24th, 2009,
Online mentoring workshop Monday January 11, 2010 12:00 p.m. –2:00 p.m. EST
Location: Auberge Prema Shanti, Val David, Quebec.
Cost: $800 Early Bird Before October 23rd. $1000 after that date. Ask us about special group prices.
REGISTRATION
What if there was a pool of experts available to you as a leader to help you to meet complex challenges in a way that current expertise and thinking cannot do? This potential surrounds you in your organization or community, waiting to be accessed. Complex times demand leadership that engages and mobilizes those facing tough challenges to thrive in a changing world. Open Space Technology is one way to do that.Join us for this 4 day highly experiential workshop to learn how to:
•Facilitate meetings using Open Space Technology to when there is an important issue to be addressed, a diversity of people involved, complexity and when decisions need to be made quickly.
•Apply a holistic approach to work with the sponsor to achieve maximum benefit from the meetings.
•Prepare yourself as a facilitator to be in genuine contact with yourself, to hold space for courageous and meaningful conversations to happen and to use practical and simple “how to” skills, tools and knowledge to work with the whole system.
This workshop will interest you are a formal or informal leader, consultant, facilitator, community developer or policy maker in any sector: workshops draw participants from all sectors – from corporate to health care and nonprofit to education and the arts – and this mix adds to the richness of your learning experience.
Benefits
You will leave this experiential, interactive workshop equipped with practical and holistic processes and tools that will enable you to:
•Work with both the essence and the form of Open Space Technology (OST) to design large system meetings (5-1000) that build trust, enhance communication and relationships, inspire creativity and allow participants to discover their passion and take ownership of what matters most to them;
•Facilitate OST meetings that are 4 hours to several days in length;
•Discern when to use Open Space Technology;
•Apply simple and practical tools to work with a sponsor to plan highly successful Open Space Technology meetings by ensuring the meeting has the right theme, with the right constraints ('givens'), for the right length of time;
•Assist the sponsor to reap maximum benefits from the results following the OST meeting;
•Tap into the potential and collective genius of individuals and organizations as a whole;
•Build teams and collaboration while working on important business issues;
•Be conscious of the implications of actions and behaviours of the facilitator for opening or closing space;
•Prepare yourself to facilitate and pay attention to your personal health and balance.
•Explore the OST as a leadership approach and operating system that supports ongoing health and balance;
•Effectively lead transformation and change processes.
Our Approach
Our teaching model is rooted in experience. The facilitation process for the workshop is Whole Person Process Facilitation, which pays attention the multidimensional human being including learning styles, different intelligences and levels of consciousness. This facilitation methodology creates conditions that maximize the learning of individual participants and also creates the opportunity for the emergence of collective learning.
The methodology incorporates individual reflection, paired and small group in addition to large group plenary work. The process invites participants to make genuine contact with themselves, others, the collective and the community – building relationships and new ways of working together during the workshop. This allows participants to mentor each other as they apply the learning.
We recommend that participants leave evenings free for reflection and review.
The workshop includes a workbook to support ongoing learning. Audio and video CDs are available for purchase as an additional learning tool. All participants have access to support and mentorship following the training through an international network of Genuine Contact™ professionals. For more information go to www.genuinecontact.net.
Part 1
Four days that include experiencing an OST meeting, unpacking the essence and form, making genuine contact with self as a facilitator and working with the sponsor before and after the OST meeting to maximize results. There is space within the workshop for active experimentation and deeper discussion based on learning needs. Participants can initiate planning of an OST meeting for the practicum within workshop
Facilitator Practicum
Participants will be encouraged to facilitate an OST meeting following Part 1 and will have access to mentoring from the workshop facilitators and other participants to plan the event.
Part 2
A 3-hour online follow-up session on January 11th, 2010 following the facilitator practicum to provide an opportunity to share learning, explore questions that arise and discuss future possibilities for application of Open Space Technology.
Facilitator Team
The workshop in English will be co-facilitated by Donna Clark (Nova Scotia) and Michelle Cooper (Ontario). The French Workshop will be co-facilitated by Marquis Bureau (Quebec) and Esther Matte (New York). They are authorized Genuine Contact™ Trainers who together have been working with the program for a number of years.
Completing Working With Open Space Technology fulfills one of four course requirements for participating in the Genuine Contact™ Program Train the Trainer workshop. (Working with Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution and Genuine Organization)
Tuesday 13 October 2009
November 2009 Workshops
Upcoming Public Offering:
Working with Open Space Technology - Nov. 20-23, 2009
$1000 - Register before October 23 and save $200
Genuine Contact Organization - Nov. 24-27, 2009
$1000
Register before October 26 and save $200
Prerequisites: Working with Open Space Technology
Location: Prema Shanti Inn, Val-David, Quebec
Workshops are available in English or in French.
Registration
Working with Open Space Technology - Nov. 20-23, 2009
$1000 - Register before October 23 and save $200
Genuine Contact Organization - Nov. 24-27, 2009
$1000
Register before October 26 and save $200
Prerequisites: Working with Open Space Technology
Location: Prema Shanti Inn, Val-David, Quebec
Workshops are available in English or in French.
Registration
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