Upcoming conference at Seattle U: Using behavior change to improve health & reduce costs

The OSR Graduate Program is a sponsor for the upcoming conference:

Using Behavior Change to Improve Health & Reduce Costs: Consumer-Centric Health: Models for Change

To be held at Seattle University, October 12-13
 
The U.S. health care system is undergoing a dramatic transformation affecting everything from patient care and delivery to reimbursement models used throughout the industry. With 75% of healthcare costs spent on treating preventable chronic illness, one critical question is how to help consumers and patients shift away from unhealthy lifestyle choices and take a more active role in managing their behaviors and care for a healthier life.
 
Though a growing body of knowledge exists about the science of behavior change, along with practical insights and lessons learned from successful and failed efforts, the information has been fragmented and neither widely understood nor applied.
 
This intensive conference will be the first to pull together the findings on this key issue, drawing on wide-ranging research and perspectives from front-line behavior experts and leading-edge thought leaders to top practitioners, employers, technology, research and insurer organizations. Through the conference and optional workshops, attendees can expect to learn about the active ingredients and innovative directions of health-improving programs as well as to understand how to develop and implement healthcare and wellness programs in efficient and sustainable ways.
 
The conference, “Consumer-Centric Health: Models for Change,” will be held at Seattle University October 12-13.  It is being curated and convened by the Seattle-based nonprofit, Health Innoventions.

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Register today for the Pegasus systems thinking in action conference - save $500

There's still time to register for the Pegasus Conference to be held in Seattle this year!

Conference Theme and Objectives
Systems Thinking in Action®:
Because Sustainable Success Doesn't Just Happen

21st Annual Conference
October 31-November 2, 2011
Westin Seattle Hotel
Seattle, WA

Register now through September 30 for $995--that's $500 off the full registration rate.

We can wait for change to happen to us, or we can make it work for us. Which course will you and your organization choose? At this year's Systems Thinking in Action Conference, you'll learn proven ways to:

 

• Turn the tide of change in your favor
• Launch timely new initiatives or overhaul existing ones
• Avoid the kinds of outcomes that can sink any endeavor

Whether you're a beginner to the work of systems thinking and organizational learning or an experienced practitioner, join us to develop skills to help you navigate today's complex dynamics and set a course for sustainable success.

Register today

Learn more

Pacific Integral hosts Thomas Huebl at Seattle University on Oct 22 and 23

Weekend Workshop with Thomas Hübl

Sharing the Presence and a "New We"
Evolutionary Ways of Creating Community, Society, and Spirituality
 
Seattle, October 22nd and 23rd

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Thomas Hübl’s “Sharing the Presence” is a practice that cultivates awareness of a permanently unfolding evolutionary field of consciousness.  This field furthers, encourages, stimulates, and supports presence, awareness, and compassion in the world and cultivates an encompassing understanding of human consciousness and potential.

Thomas’ approach includes the development of all streams of life, including ourselves as well as collective fields, and it considers questions such as:

• What tools can be used to tap into a "new We" and what might organizational and community forms look like?

• What do presence, transparency, compassion, and contemporary mysticism mean on the next coming level?

• How do we live and work if we radically make Awakening the core?

• What does it mean for our communities and the collective?

As a new We emerges, we experience a new awakening that takes us beyond usual forms of individual experience: field thinking, transparent communication, recognizing experiential spaces inside people, naturally extended perception abilities, elevated levels of synchronization and transcendence - these are just a few signs of a new era.

Thomas Hübl is a contemporary spiritual teacher of uncompromising clarity whose work reveals the enlightened potential of a new form of humanity, which he calls a ‘we-culture’, accessible to us all. Drawing from mystical experiences of all spiritual traditions, his international workshops, trainings and talks guide people to a deeper level of self-awareness and personal responsibility – radical transcendence of an ego-centered world view opens the doorway to a profound life of authentic expression, service and alignment with the Absolute.

Save the date! OSR alumni association hosts Open Space on September 10

The OSR Alumni Association plans to convene 3 Open Space events throughout the year.  September 10 is the first one of the year.  A convening question is still to be determined. 

If you are interested in attending or contributing to the design of this event, please contact Nancy Walton-House.

This is open to OSR alumni, students, prospective students and interested friends and colleagues.

Register for Pegasus conference by August 31 and save $150

Systems Thinking in Action®: 
Because Sustainable Success Doesn't Just Happen
21st Annual Conference
 October 31-November 2, 2011
 Westin Seattle Hotel 
Seattle, WA

We can wait for change to happen to us, or we can make it work for us. Which course will you and your organization choose?

At this year's Systems Thinking in Action Conference, you'll learn proven ways to
    •    turn the tide of change in your favor,
    •    launch timely new initiatives or overhaul existing ones, and
    •    avoid the kinds of outcomes that can sink any endeavor.

Whether you're a beginner to the work of systems thinking and organizational learning or an experienced practitioner, join us to develop skills to help you navigate today's complex dynamics and set a course for sustainable success.

Learn more

Check out a few images from the OSR conference

The 6th annual OSR conference held on June 18 was quite simply wonderful.  We were joined by Bill Grace who introduced his newest book, "Sharing the Rock, Shaping our Future through Leadership for the Common Good" as well as Bill Koenig, OSR Director, who shared with us highlights from his doctoral dissertation.

The OSR design team made up of several OSR graduates crafted an engaging day and workshop presenters touched us with new information, new questions and conversation.  From my own perspective, this was a relaxing, engaging and authentic conference.  All in OSR style!

Here for you to sense just a bit of the conference energy are a few pictures...

 
Bill Koenig asks, "what are we giving birth to in our vital conversations?" Graphic by Anne Jess, OSR 13 graduate

Bill Grace addresses, "Going deep to lead sustainably." Graphic by Claire Bronson, graduate of OSR 6.

Conference attendees were asked to capture what stood out for them at the end of each workshop.  We captured it all in one wordle!