Look what's on tap at the annual conference

Eight workshops examining emerging practices, sampling self-awareness tools and probing fascinating case studies are on the docket for this year's annual conference, Saturday, June 28. You'll have the chance to attend two of the eight offered — a workshop in the morning and the afternoon.

Here is a taste of what's coming:

• Finding the magic: When groups achieve extraordinary results with Kathy Ryan,
• The way we travel will change the world with Glenda Chaffin, Will Hewett, Elaine Jessen and Bob Woodruff,
• Radical change at the "speed of trust" with Mary Allison, Dan Oestreich and Sandra Sault Poulson,
• The end of leadership and consultancy as we know it with Joelle Lyons Everett and Keith McCandless.

Plus our keynote speaker and host, Peggy Holman, co-author of The Change Handbook. Check the OSR Web site for schedule and workshop details.

Admission for the day-long event is $95. Look for a special offer for alumni and friends in the mail. Or reserve your place today.

Find reunion and renewal with kindred spirits at the annual conference. Presented by the OSR Alumni Association.

Bali highs are calling you

Elaine Jessen leads her popular trip to Bali, Sat Aug 30 through Sat Sep 20. Places are still available for this once-in-a-lifetime cultural experience. Join the Bali conversation at our new online networking space.

Three OSR grads are newly minted PhDs

Congratulations, Dr. Mary Kenney (OSR-9) for your doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute and your deep study of personal transformation.

Congratulations, Dr. Karyn Lazarus (OSR-7) for your doctorate in Transformative Learning and Change at California Institute of Integral Studies and your creative exploration of group transformation.

Congratulations, Dr. Kathy Kelly (OSR-6) for your doctorate in Transformative Learning and Change at California Institute of Integral Studies and your innovative research in Ireland on personal transformation.

links for 2008-04-26

• Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
  an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words
  (tags: writing reference visualization design mindmapping)
• STTP (So Totally the Planet) Foundation
  an organization whose goal is to help the children of Burkina Faso meet their educational and life goals
  (tags: osr-12 community-service)
• visualcomplexity.com
  a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Netw
  (tags: complexity design visualization mindmapping)
• Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You
  View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahass
  (tags: cosmology photography visualization astronomy)
• Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
  producer of accessible educational materials for students with disabilities such as visual impairment or dyslexia that make reading standard print difficult or impossible.
  (tags: reading dyslexia visual-impairment)
• Indivisible: Stories of American Community
  an exploration of community life in America by some of this country's most accomplished photographers, radio producers, and folklorists
  (tags: storytelling community-building photography)
• American Humanist Association
  educates the public about Humanism, brings Humanists together for mutual support and action, defends the civil liberties and constitutional freedoms of Humanists-indeed of all peoples-and leads both local and national Humanist organizations toward progres
  (tags: humanist)
• Center for Ethical Leadership
  is organized around a question: What kind of leadership does the common good need at this time in this place?
  (tags: leadership ethics seattle gracious-space)

links for 2008-04-25

• Seattle University: Graduate Bulletin of Information
  (tags: seattle-university)
• Seattle University: Web mail
  (tags: seattle-university)
• Seattle University: SUOnline
  (tags: seattle-university)
• Seattle University: Lemieux Library
  (tags: seattle-university research)
• Seattle University: Academic Policies
  (tags: seattle-university)
• Seattle University: Campus Calendar
  (tags: seattle-university)
• Seattle University: Student Financial Services - Graduates
  (tags: seattle-university)
• Seattle University: Graduate admission
  (tags: seattle-university)
• Seattle University: Lemieux Library - Ask a librarian
  (tags: seattle-university research)
• del.icio.us: A guide to sharing bookmarks
  (tags: del.icio.us reference)
• del.icio.us: OSR bookmarks are now at del.icio.us
  This social bookmarking website stores your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer, plus add and share bookmarks from anywhere, too.
  (tags: del.icio.us research web-tools)
• del.icio.us: How to get started
  (tags: del.icio.us research web-tools)
• OSR links now at del.icio.us
  Share your links with OSR through del.icio.us — a social bookmarking website. Go to http://del.icio.us/osr_nw and add OSR to your network.
  (tags: research)

OSR links now at del.icio.us

Share your links with OSR through del.icio.us — a social bookmarking website. Del.icio.us stores your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved — which is made easy with tags. And del.icio.us is free.

Here's how to get started.

After you set up your del.icio.us account, add del.icio.us/osr_nw/ to your network.

To recommend a specific link for OSR, include the tag for:osr_nw. For more information, see a guide for sharing bookmarks.

OSR alumni planning public events

OSR alumni are busy planning public events this spring — including members of OSR Alumni Association designing our third Annual Conference for Saturday, June 28. Online reservations begin Monday, May 5.

Lucy Garrick (OSR-12) hosted A Million Ideas for Peace at Seattle Art Museum on Saturday, April 12.

Systems Thinking 101 workshops are offered in May in Olympia and Seattle, designed by Steve Byers (OSR-13), Nalani Linder (OSR-12) and Colleen Ponto (OSR-7, current OSR faculty). Registration deadline is Monday, April 28th.

Creating Gracious Space is a 3-day course hosted by Pat Hughes (OSR-8) and Dale Nienow, Executive Director of the Center for Ethical Leadership. Thu, May 29–Sat, May 31.

Systems thinking 101 workshop

Needing a refresher in systems thinking basics?
Want to get some practice identifying causal loop variables?
Feel rusty with the system archetypes and leverage points?

With this nine-hour course, you'll gain the competence and confidence to start using systems thinking in your organization. You'll reinforce your systems thinking skills so that you can better understand systemic problems, make effective decisions, lead meaningful change and design your preferred future.

Workshop content includes:

• How to identify when complex issues can be better understood through systems thinking
• Developing and using a systems thinking perspective / worldview
• The ways of a systems thinker
• How to use and construct causal loop diagrams
• How to use and identify system archetypes

Dates:
In Olympia: Mondays, 6-9 pm, May 5, 12 & 19
In Seattle: Tuesdays, 6-9 pm, May 6, 13 & 20

Special Introductory Price: $375 Includes three, 3-hour sessions and all materials

To register or for more information, contact one of the facilitators: Steve Byers (OSR-13), Nalani Linder (OSR-12) and Colleen Ponto (OSR-7, current OSR faculty). Registration deadline is Monday, April 28th.

Creating Gracious Space

A residential course, Thursday, May 29 through Saturday, May 31

Facilitated by
Dr. Dale Nienow, Executive Director of the Center for Ethical Leadership
Pat Hughes (OSR-8), primary author of Gracious Space: A Practical Guide for Working Better Together, now in its second edition.

Dale and Pat will share how Gracious Space helps leaders work with difficult issues, cross boundaries and transform the way people work together. Participants will come away able to design and lead processes to create and hold Gracious Space in their own communities and organizations.

IslandWood, one of the nation’s most innovative educational facilities, is an outdoor learning center, set in 225 beautiful acres, and just a 35-minute ferry ride from the downtown Seattle ferry dock.

Creating Gracious Space is limited to 30 participants. Fees include the cost of tuition, materials, two nights of double-occupancy lodging, and all meals and snacks. A limited number of single rooms are available.

Contact the Center for Ethical Leadership at +1-206-328-3020 for more information or register at www.ethicalleadership.org.

15th OSR Masters cohort quickly filling up

One-third of the next OSR Masters cohort members have been confirmed. Three remaining information sessions are scheduled for Friday, April 25, Friday, May 30, and Friday, June 27. Applications are due no later than Tuesday, July 1 and the new cohort classes begin in September 2008.