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

Serve on OSR 15 Degree Committees

OSR 15 students are seeking graduates to serve as field advisors on degree committees. Graduates of cohorts 1–12 are eligible to participate.

A quick refresher about a field advisor's role. Field advisors:

• Serve on a degree committee to support, challenge and guide an OSR student in navigating the Master's program to reach academic and specific area-of-focus goals.
• Attend four formal meetings, approximately two hours in length, between now and graduation in June 2010.
• Prepare for each meeting, often investing at least two hours to read student work and formulate questions.
• Are available for informal discussions as appropriate to support a student's degree process.
• Attend the cohort's graduation brunch on Sunday, June 13, 2010.

If you have an interest in serving as a field advisor,

• Visit the OSR web site to view students' Degree Committee ads in Job opportunities. (You will need to sign in to My OSR before accessing the ads; the user name is your email address and the password is your first name unless you changed the password).
• Update your contact information and make sure your visibility preferences are set to "all."
• And update your bio/resume so that students can find a good match. 

For help or more information, contact Paula Brekke.

Waiting list for last-minute openings in OSR 15

A waiting list is now in progress while faculty and staff process applications and finalize membership for the OSR 15 Master's cohort. Prospective students are encouraged to submit an application as places may open up before classes begin.

A kick-off dinner for the 15th cohort is planned for Saturday, September 6; the residential session at Pilgrim Firs is Monday–Friday, September 22–26. Complete schedule information.

Introducing two new OSR Masters faculty

Addi Brooks and Mauricio Puerta join the OSR Masters' historical roster of faculty. Addi has lived in the Seattle area for many years; Mauricio and his family will be moving to Seattle from Cleveland in June or July. Addi, Mauricio and Bill Koenig (OSR-8) will be the core faculty for the September 2008 launch of the 15th cohort. With two overlapping cohorts for the first time, OSR will be serving 66 concurrent masters students.

Addi Brooks — An organizational development consultant who focuses on developing creative strategic solutions. She has taught in public education, worked as vice president of human resources for a Fortune 500 company, and runs her own company specializing in organizational change, leadership, and human development. Addi received her Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute where her interests in the interface between our internal awareness and external realities helps create new meanings for working and living in a more conscious, sustainable way with each other and the world. Addi serves on the Board for Opus Archive and Research Center, where the archives for Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, Marion Woodman and James Hillman are housed and accessed to assist with current and future insights.

Mauricio Puerta — An organizational development scholar and practitioner with over 15 years of experience in the areas of organizational transformation, adult education, experiential learning, group facilitation, and coaching in Latin America, the US, and Europe. Through his work, he seeks to support organizations to become life-giving systems for their members and for the world at large. Some of the organizations he has worked with include the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Peruvian Ministry of Education, Unilever, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

A search committee worked throughout September in service to the future of OSR interviewing faculty candidates:

• Larry Daloz, representing OSR-NW Board
• Brian Mason (OSR-8), representing OSR Alumni Association
• Claire Ricci (OSR-11), representing OSR Alumni Association
• Bob Woodruff (OSR-4), representing OSR faculty
• Nancy Ahern (OSR-13) , representing OSR students
• Bill Koenig (OSR-8), representing OSR administration
• Mike Bisesi, representing Seattle University
• Jodi O'Brien, representing Seattle University