Read a portion of Marv Weisbord's new book

OSR had the pleasure of hosting Marv Weisbord on Wednesday, January 25 and we're happy to be able to share a synopsis, in the form of a handout, of one chapter from his new book, Productive Workplaces, 25th anniversary edition.

Workshop handout and short version of one chapter from Productive Workplaces by Marv Weisbord

A big thank you to Colleen Ponto for orchestrating the opportunity to share a morning with Marv!

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Join our free intro session to visual facilitation

Regina Rowland, OSR faculty member and Julie Gieseke will host a free introductory session on Visual Facilitation Friday evening, February 17, 2012 from 6:30 - 9 pm. Seattle University, Teilhard de Chardin Hall.

This free introductory session will be lecture-style w/mini activities to demo what’s to come in the two-day workshop where participants will learn to to integrate the skills of visual thinking and visual mapping across various professional practices.

Participants for this intro session do not need to be participants in the 2 day workshop however there are still spaces available in the 2 day session if you are interested.

Register for the free intro

Register and learn more about the 2 day Visual Facilitation opportunity

Take advantage of workshops and speaker events in 2012

OSR is hosting several exciting opportunities over the next couple of months. Sign up today and take advantage of the learning!

 

  • Colleen Ponto, OSR faculty member, along with Steve Byers and Nalani Linder, OSR graduates, are offering their very popular Systems Thinking Series.  This time they will be teaching a slightly more advanced trio of courses which will provide you the next exploration into Systems Thinking.  The first of the 3 workshops takes place on Monday, January 23, 6 - 9 pm.  Register today.  Download a flyer.
  • Marv Weisbord is coming to town on Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 am - Noon! Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of our master's! Marv's new book, the 25th anniversary edition of Productive Workplaces is coming out this January and can be obtained at a significant discount with your registration. Spend a morning with Marv and colleagues and hear about the 10 myths of organizational change he no longer believes. Register today. Download a flyer and the preface to his new book.
  • Back by popular demand! Join us for an evening talk with Hugh O'Doherty, OSR visiting faculty member.  This will take place on Friday, February 3, 6 - 7:30 pm.  Register today.
  • Take advantage of a unique opportunity on February 18 & 19 to really develop your visual facilitation skills with Regina Rowland, OSR faculty member. Learn how enhancing your visual thinking skills will refine your craft as a designer and facilitator of systemic change. Read more about this. Contact Regina for more info. A free intro is also offered on February 17, 6:30 pm.
  • We are pleased to be a co-sponsor of Bill Grace's new workshop titled, Spirit Inspired Leadership. Spirit focused and experiential, this gathering will offer tools and perspectives to celebrate your journey, energize your purpose and inspire your actions. Bill Grace is a frequent visiting faculty member to the OSR Master's Program. To register contact Bill Grace or Judith Nilan. Download a flyer.

Regina Rowland, newest OSR faculty, offers 3 upcoming workshops

We are  excited to announce 3 new offerings that Regina Rowland, OSR faculty, will be offering in 2012. We are delighted that Regina has joined the OSR faculty team and, among many of her talents, she brings a particular skill in visual facilitation which she shares in 2 of these offerings.

The 3 workshops are titled:

  • Visual Facilitation for Organizational Transformation
  • Integral Sustainovation® for Sustainable Futures
  • Transformative Arts for Turbulent Times

Each workshop offers a Friday evening introduction: 6:30–9:00 ( these will be free introductory sessions, lecture-style w/mini activities to demo what’s to come).

Each workshop will meet Saturdays & Sundays: 10:00–6:00 with a one-hour lunch in between (brown bag lunch)

The cost for each workshops (Saturday and Sunday) is $500 plus a materials fee.

Minimum participants needed: 10
Maximum participant number: 25

Read on for a longer description for each of these three offerings. To register, visit the OSR event site.

Visual Facilitation for Organizational Transformation
Workshop Dates: February 17-19, 2012
Regina Rowland, PhD, NLP Master & Julie Gieseke, MA, NLP Master, CPCC

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How can enhancing your visual thinking skills help you to refine your craft as a designer and facilitator of systemic change? How can you apply creative methods and tools to individual change work and/or group processes? How can helping individuals and groups to see their ideas, thoughts and dialogue in pictures greatly influence the dynamics at play?

Visual practitioners come from various fields, such as, organizational development, consulting, coaching, education. They use words, imagery, symbols, color, and structure to create, in real time, visual maps that
●    consolidate and map complex issues systemically and relationally,
●    reflect and support the group’s or individuals’ thinking and process,
●    deepen collaborations,
●    evoke multiple ways of knowing, and
●    engage transformative practices.

In fact, there is a whole world of visual practitioners out there who make a good living with this magic: http://www.ifvp.org/

Come join us to integrate the skills of visual thinking and visual mapping across various professional practices, and develop your individual style. Want to know what you might experience? See for yourself:

VF Workshop held in Sweden: http://www.flickr.com/photos/reginarowland/sets/72157624132650341/?page=4
Visual Facilitator on the Fly:  http://www.youtube.com/user/reginarowland

No prior experience necessary! Art skills are useful, but not necessary. You will need to bring a willingness to listen deeply and a desire to think systemically; at the core of it all lies a hunger for play and creative engagement.

Workshop Fee of $500 applies (Friday evening is free of charge)
Materials Fee: $75

Integral Sustainovation® for Sustainable Futures
Workshop Dates: March 16-18, 2012
Regina Rowland, PhD, NLP Master

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We are at a threshold in human history where we need to evolve and innovate ourselves and our organizations into sustainable futures. How might we address complex issues in an integral way? How might we engage in collaborative design practices for the purpose of curating this emergence?

Integral Sustainovation® is a systemic approach for addressing sustainability — evoking various aspects of thrivability from the personal to the socio-cultural and collective levels, and from nature to man-made structures and systems.

In this workshop, we:
●    build capacity for Syntony (living in harmony with the dynamic context)
●    develop strategies for environmental sustainability via The Natural Step framework,
●    practice collective presencing (Theory U) and generative dialoguing, and
●    use Biomimicry concepts and design thinking for innovation.

Creativity is a key ingredient when working in complex systems, and provides a pathway for innovating ourselves into sustainable futures. Join us in this collective visioning process so you can prepare yourself and help your organizations to take the necessary leap through the current chaos point.

What to expect:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reginarowland/sets/72157623320418089/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reginarowland/sets/72157626529396965/

Workshop Fee of $500 applies (Friday evening is free of charge)
Materials Fee: $35

Transformative Arts for Turbulent Times
Workshop Dates: May 25–27, 2012
Amy Conger, MA, NLP Master & Regina Rowland, PhD, NLP Master

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In today's climate of change and expansion, we need to apply all of our capacities to the pressing task of human and planetary evolution. What parts of yourself are you not including in your change practice? How can you apply creative, experiential practices to a systems approach for personal and organizational change? How can you tap into the collective unconscious, the field of non-local information, in service to the evolution of yourself and your communities?

Transformative Arts are creative practices that are done specifically to transform the self, the other or the group by using creativity to give access to information or states of being that are normally outside of conscious awareness. A Transformative Arts approach can provide you with a range of tools to discover and transform relationships, beliefs and dynamics within the self and within groups.

Come experience the power of Transformative Arts and learn to use them in your own practice. We'll do several activities in multiple modalities and media with the intention of uncovering and assessing hidden connections. No art experience is needed — it's not about the art, it's about showing up and allowing the process to happen.

Photos from previous workshops:
http://www.meetup.com/Transformative-Arts-Bay-Area/photos/701363/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/abecedarienne/sets/72157628212377445/

Workshop Fee of $500 applies (Friday evening is free of charge)
Materials Fee: $35

 

Join our students and faculty for a webinar on December 6

From Evolutionary System Design to a Global Eco-Civilization — The Courage to Lean into a New World!

We are pleased to invite you to participate in this OSR webinar featuring Alexander Laszlo. This webinar is part of an OSR course titled,  "Systems - An overview of theory and perspective" and we welcome our alumni and community of friends to participate as well. 

This offering takes place on Tuesday, December 6 from 7 - 8:30 pm.  Cost is $25.  Register today.


As the beautiful saying by Arundhati Roy goes, that a new world is not only possible, it is already here. On some days you might hear her breathing. It is through the visionary pragmatism of spirit and profound love of life that she awakens — in each of us. She lives in our interactions, so let us curate the emergence of a global eco-civilization. Together, we will. The themes that bring forward Alexader Lazslo's current inquiry are holistic being, curated emergence, and transcendent consciousness.
 
At the intersection of these frames exists the possible. To simultaneously mid-wife the emergence of a global learning society built on an economy of abundance (and the knowledge of how to value and cultivate it) and thrivability (beyond mere sustainability), to give birth to it and to be that society being born is the challenge of the evolutionary change agent of our times. We must become the threads of emergence even as we weave them. This is the business of establishing a new mythodology — a new social narrative. It lives here among us. Join us for this very informative and inspiring conversation!

Visit: SyntonyQuest, a non-profit that Alexander Laszlo created.

Students are reading, Chaos 2012 by Ervin Laszlo

Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D., is co-founder and President of Syntony Quest. As Professor of Systems Science and Evolutionary Development he currently teaches at a variety of MBA and Doctoral programs internationally, and is President Elect for 2013 of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS).

Sign up today for a design thinking workshop with Peter Coughlan, IDEO

The OSR Master's Program is excited to have IDEO's Peter Coughlan present a workshop for our community.

Design Thinker is an energizing workshop that challenges teams to flex their creativity to solve a realistic and complex design challenge. In so doing, they engage with the terms, techniques, and thought patterns of successful innovators.

Learn more about this one day workshop

Saturday, January 7, 2012
9 - 4 pm
Seattle University
Sponsored by OSR
Cost: $150


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