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

Post-graduate certificate program debuts

A prototype certificate program, Designing and Leading Emergent Change: A practicum in sensing and shaping the future of living systems, begins in February — designed to become a model for a rich set of future offerings. For OSR Masters graduates and other interested learners, this post-graduate program will:

• Create a learning community of practice grounded in theory, design, and methodology. The purpose of the community is to develop competent and confident individual practitioners who can engage with organizational systems and design and lead emergent change.
  
• Be guided by Craig Fleck, Roger Harrison, and Mitch Saunders.
  
• Convene 4 times for Friday-Saturday sessions: February 29–March 1; April 11–12; May 16–17; June 20–21
• Provide a certificate from OSR (future offerings may provide certificates from Seattle University)
  
• Cost between $2,000-3,000 depending on type of employment and organizational support.
  

A design team of interested OSR Masters graduates — Steve Byers (OSR 13), Yolanda Christianson (OSR 13), Nick Folwer (OSR 8), Barbara Lewy (OSR 13), and Clarice Sieden (OSR 10) — have been working with the "guides" to define the particulars of the program.

Applications are now accepted through Friday, February 8. A detailed course prospectus and application with intentions, content, schedule, and format is available. Download the pdf >>

Certificate program to launch February 2008

OSR is developing a prototype certificate program for graduates and other interested learners that will ideally become a model for a rich set of future offerings. Preliminary specifications for the prototype currently include the following:

• The course is still to be named and will deal with "sensing and shaping the future" of both organizations and individuals;
• The "guides" for the course will be Craig Fleck, Roger Harrison, and Mitch Saunders;
• The course will convene 4 times for 2-3 day weekend sessions over 7 months beginning Friday–Saturday, February 29–March 1, 2008;
• The course will provide a certificate from OSR (future offerings may provide certificates from Seattle University);
• The total cost for the will be in the $2,000-3,000 range depending on type of employment and organizational support.

A design team of interested graduates — Steve Byers (OSR-13), Yolanda Christianson (OSR-13), Nick Folwer (OSR-18), Barbara Lewy (OSR-13),  and Clarice Sieden (OSR-10) — have been working with the "guides" to define the particulars of the program.