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

Tim Jaasko-Fisher, OSR 16 student receives Lee Ann Miller award

Tim Jaasko-Fisher, student in the Master of Arts in Organization Systems Renewal and director of the, Court Improvement Training Academy, received the Lee Ann Miller award from the  Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. The award is presented annually to an individual who has “made the greatest impact and/or contribution in furthering the goals of the Children’s Justice Act.”

Jaasko-Fisher has been the director of the Court Improvement Training Academy since 2009. The program provides interdisciplinary training for judges, lawyers and other stakeholders in the child welfare system on topics including infant mental health, substance abuse, parent-child visitation, racial disproportionality in foster care, and adolescent brain development. The training academy utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to the problems faced in child welfare law.

The Master of Arts in Organization Systems Renewal (OSR) takes a systemic, interdisciplinary approach to organizational growth, development, and change. OSR is a two-year, cohort-based program designed for leaders, executives and change agents.  Accepting applications for the 2010 cohort.

Power and Love: How to Create New Social Realities - OSR Annual Conference

Adam Kahane and Jeff Barnum, author and illustrator of Power and Love will be featured as Plenary Leaders at the OSR Annual Conference, Saturday, June 19.

Why do some groups of people manage to solve complex problems, while others stumble or fall?

The two methods most frequently employed to solve our toughest social problems—either relying on violence and aggression, or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise—are fundamentally flawed. This is because the seemingly contradictory drives behind these approaches—power, the capacity to achieve one's purpose, and love, the will to unite with others—are actually complementary.  As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. put it, “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” Is there another way?

For the last twenty years Adam Kahane, Jeff Barnum, and their colleagues at Reos Partners have pioneered a form of “social creativity” around the world that has enabled businesses, organizations, and governments to make progress on tough and vital challenges: food security, health care, economic development, judicial reform, peace making, child protection, climate change.  In this extraordinary event they will draw on their experience to describe their approach, their learning, and the results they’ve achieved.

Join us for an amazing day of learning featuring Adam and Jeff and over 20 workshop presenters featuring theater, music, poetry, visual art and more.

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Experience Adam Kahane and Jeff Barnum, plenary leaders at the annual conference

The Arts and Change: Creative Frames for Organizations

Organization Annual Conference

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Seattle University, Student Center

Using the writing and illustrations from the new book, Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change, Adam Kahane, author, and Jeff Barnum, illustrator, will illuminate how we can structure and shape our organizations through the arts. Adam and Jeff are members of Reos Partners, an international organization dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social systems.

Read about Reos Partners Projects

Register today!

Reserve your place today for the annual conference!

Tickets are now on sale! 

The Arts and Change: Creative Frames for Organizations

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Seattle University

Plan to attend the 5th annual OSR conference featuring the theme of the arts and organizational change. Over 20 workshop presenters will represent theater, music, poetry, visual arts and more to explore the emerging field of the arts in the design and leadership of change.

Registration price of $99 includes a fabulous days of learning and a copy of Jeff Kahane's new book, Power and Love and continental breakfast and lunch.

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Attend the next OSR open house - March 23

Tuesday, March 23, 6–8 pm

Seattle University, Chardin, room 142

Are you or someone you know considering the OSR Master's program that begins this September? Attend this introductory event to find out how OSR can make a difference in your life and the organizations and communities in which you work. You'll meet faculty, students, alumni and other prospective students and sample the exciting learning environment created within OSR. Learn how others have applied their OSR experience in designing and leading change in organizations. The 17th cohort is forming; classes start in September 2010. Register today.

Read Tom Carpenter's profile, OSR 13 graduate

Tom Carpenter, OSR 13 graduate, is the founder of Handford Challenge, a public interest non-profit with a 
fundamentally different approach gained through his study of Organization Systems Renewal.

In 2007, Tom started Hanford Challenge, which aims for less confrontation and more listening to workers, managers, officials and other stakeholders.

“If you can go straight to the people who have the power to change something,” he says, “you’re shortcutting an expensive and usually painful process for people.”

Read Tom's full story and learn how he is using his OSR skills to bring about change.