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
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
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
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
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