Apply today - accepting applications for the fall 2010 cohort

Become an instrument of innovation, renewal, health and wholeness for the world through the OSR Master's Program.

The OSR Master's Program delivers an innovative curriculum that prepares adult learners to design and lead systemic organizational change.

Apply today!  Accepting applications for the fall of 2010.

For more info contact:  Paula Brekke, brekkep@seattleu.edu

Ukrainian update from Linda Knudsen McAusland

Read Linda's latest installment from her Peace Corps posting in the Ukraine. The OSR-12 graduate is working on the first ever community-based planning process implemented in L’viv and in Ukraine.

What do you do when change is imminent and outcomes are not?

That's exactly the subject alumni Dee Endelman (OSR-7) and Lucy Garrick (OSR-12) will explore in a hands-on workshop for leaders, managers and professionals involved in organizational decision-making.

Leading Complex Change: A path-finding workshop for uncertain times
Thu–Fri, Feb 26-27
Columbia Tower Club, 701 Fifth Ave., 75th floor, Seattle
Cost: $350 includes meals and parking

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Making the most of alumni group on LinkedIn

Over 50 students, alumni and faculty have connected via the OSR Alumni Association group on Linked-In. LinkedIn is a social networking site frequented by business and professional computer users.

This OSR group offers some unique features to complement OSR's official website, specifically the ability to carry on threaded discussions on a single topic and ability to post recommendations about members of your LinkedIn network. OSR students, alumni, core faculty and staff are invited to join and post discussions and take advantage of the LinkedIn group features. 

To be an OSR group member you must first sign up for a free LinkedIn account. (Your email box won't be flooded; LinkedIn prohibits group email and spamming).

If you are already a LinkedIn member, join the OSR Alumni Association group. To be notified of new OSR group discussions and updates, adjust your settings under My Groups and the OSR Alumni Association.

Leading resilience course with Victoria Castle

Given the challenges we face and the future we want, clearly new paradigms and practices are called for. Instead of retreating or resisting or reinserting the old, we have the opportunity to accept the invitation presented – to build resilience, inventiveness, connection, and equanimity under pressure so that we can sponsor generative environments for change. That pretty much assures our usefulness on the planet!

Rising to the Occasion: Leading Resilience in Turbulent Times
Course schedule: Two 3-day conferences, Fri-Sun, Mar 27–29 and Jun 5–7, plus 4 teleconference calls and 2 individual coaching sessions.

Facilitators: Victoria Castle, MSC, Fortune 500 executive coach and author of The Trance of Scarcity (Berrett-Koehler, 2007) which addresses our cultural pre-disposition to "not enough-ness". As a somatic coach, embodiment is a signature of her work with clients. Victoria has helped thousands of people trade struggle for greater ease and fulfillment.

Tim Morley, LMP, former Civil Engineer, is an intuitive healer and owner of Mystical Restoration. He is deeply studied in multiple energetic modalities and works with clients to release trauma and limiting patterns. Victoria and Tim teach internationally at conferences, corporations and public courses.

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Leadership in a self-organizing world

The Berkana Institute will join with Harrison Owen – creator of Open Space Technology, Peggy Holman – co-author of The Change Handbook, Anne Stadler – co-founder of the Open Space Institute-US, Dale Nienow of the Center for Ethical Leadership, and many other pioneers to host a gathering for inquiry into the nature of leadership required in this age.  Join with a powerful mix of colleagues from business, nonprofit, community, education, government and more who are involved in pioneering experiments. Bring your own stories, wisdom, burning questions and dilemmas!

Thu-Sun, May 14-17
Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in Leavenworth, WA. 

Pricing:
Individuals who are "independent operators": $350
Individuals from Not for Profit Organizations: $800
Individuals from For-Profit Organizations: $1,250
Some scholarships are available for the retreat.

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Sound Connections Community Forum on Sat, Mar 7

Please join OSR graduates Iris Lemmer, Yolanda Christianson, Claire Ricci, and Emily Koft for the next Sound Connections Community Forum on Saturday, March 7. The Sound Connection's vision is to ignite positive change by linking people and their aspirations together to develop integrated solutions that create extraordinary outcomes. Sound Connections does this by building and nurturing a community of practice to support social entrepreneurs and social innovation. Sound Connections supports the meaningful work you want to do in the world.

All are invited -- leaders of non-profits and business, agents of social change, and all who want to work collaboratively with others to make the positive social and ecological changes they want to see in the world.

If you are you interested in….

• Joining a growing network of people who are dedicated to developing new ways of working together to create generative solutions to our most pressing social problems
• Supporting social innovation and change by connecting with others to
• Building relationships with others who share a common vision
• Advancing grassroots community development efforts
• Exploring what a group of people can do collectively
• Accelerating and nurturing innovation through partnerships between non-profit and for-profit entities
• Working collaboratively with others to reshape the marketplace and the way people work together to create goods and services

…then the Sound Connections Community Forum is for YOU!

Register