Offerings – In addition to the seminars and programs listed below we have a catalog of courses. You can contract with us to provide these for your organization. We also develop courses or tailor them for your needs.
		All programs are held at our Great Falls, Virginia location, unless otherwise noted.
		Short Seminars Building Intelligent Development – 3 days This course is ICF Accredited for 19 hours of CCEUs (including 12 hours in core competencies). It is a 3-day program designed especially for coaches and other service professionals: executive and personal coaches, OD consultants, HR practitioners, therapists, and educators. You will learn a fluid process for using the Intelligent Development System to help harness both intelligence and energy more effectively. This is a diagnostic and strategic process, linking the four domains of intelligence—the mind, body, emotions, and spirit. A simple framework taps into insights and exercises that highlight the natural synergy between these domains, growing their capacity for living healthy, wise, and productive lives. Ken Wilber’s Integral Model – 2 days It’s big; it’s all-inclusive, and comprehensible! Wilber’s “simple” model has been a challenge for many to get their arms around, but once done, is a sweet embrace. Let’s pop some popcorn, lay out the models of “the good, the true, and the beautiful,” and its companion—the “I, We, It, and Its,” and grapple with the direct applications of the insights they generate for us to our lives, work, and spirit. Special note: we’ll listen to selected excerpts from “The Wilber Sessions,” the only interviews recorded with the iconoclastic and profane Wilber himself. Search for the Organizational Soul Using Spiral Dynamics – 2 days This seminar explores the basics of Don Beck’s Spiral Dynamics for the purpose of using it to look at organizations in a distinctive way. This interpretation will lend yet another lens of insightful learning about the organization, what matters, and what needs to change. Build Community through Drumming Together – 1 day This seminar teaches folks how to get groups drumming together using drums and percussion instruments (hand made or conventional) creating spirit and motivation. Mining the Shadow for Gold – 2 days This two-day program focuses on the use of Carl Jung’s concept of archetypal shadows (both dark and golden) as a personal and organizational tool that yields subtle insights for self-care, growth, empathy, and constructive responses. It investigates individual and organizational shadows, how to learn the skill of observation and mine the treasures there, and how to shift from destructive to constructive behaviors around shadow dynamics. It provides participants with practical methods for revealing their own shadows as well as recognizing the shadows of others. Insights into shadows allow a more assertive, compassionate and humble awareness of self and others. We will be going into the under and over developed archetypal energy of the Sovereign, the Lover, the Warrior and the Magician. Applying those insights helps build relationships with integrity, creating more meaningful lives. Organizational Constellations 1 day This one-day workshop introduces a provocative new approach to individual and organizational change. The systemic perspective enables consultants and leaders to view unique pictures of their dilemma and apply creative ways to resolve complex and intractable difficulties within organizations and among different stakeholders. Often people cannot see the hidden dynamics of a situation and spend months and even years circling around it sometimes never alighting on an effective solution. Constellations light up these situations, give them new meaning and provide an environment where alternative solutions can be considered. The constellating process draws on what might be called “the imbedded intelligence” of a situation. It shows how issues are inter-related and reveals the underlying dynamics in ways that bring profound perspectives—and breakthrough results. Consultants and leaders can see how they are contributing to the process, ways they may be colluding with their clients and stakeholders. The new perspectives allow issue-holders fresh insights, a renewed sense of possibility and a strong focus on action. Becoming a “Skilled Observer” – 1 day Becoming a skilled observer of oneself and others takes practice and understanding about the multitude of ways of knowing available to us. In this one-day program we will delve into lateral thinking, embracing contraries, the art of the long view, and critical thinking, looking at each of them as an approach to shifting our observer. Chris Argyris’s theory of double- and triple-loop learning will be reviewed to understand how this approach has been used effectively and how we might incorporate it into our work. We will experiment with a scenario and develop several plausible approaches to a reasonable solution. Play at Work – 1 day This seminar focuses on how to motivate employees, inspire co-workers, boost the triple bottom line. It provides many examples of ways to bring play into the workplace as well as looking at best practices in specific companies. Discover the Values that Drive You – 1 day How can your business be value driven? Using the timeless music of The Beatles as a metaphor and vehicle for exploring key questions around values this program provides each participant the opportunity to explore their values and to prioritize them for the purpose of honing in on “What Matters” to them. The learning here can be applied to organizations that want to be value driven. Innovation Inspired by Nature – 1 day This seminar is a primer about what we are doing to the environment and how we can turn conservation language into restorative language and get organizations interested in doing better by using Nature as our teacher. Ecology of Commerce – 5 days This program will provide participants with a framework for deep learning about practical ways they can adopt ecology of commerce in their own and their client’s everyday practices. The group will work together, using resources such as the Internet, crafts, stories, video, etc to construct an exciting program for their clients. The Path to Dignity – 1 day In this seminar we explore the nature of dignity, respect, fairness, and mutual accountability for establishing dignity from the personal to the international level. A Gathering of Introverts – 1 day You know who you are. Yes, this is for you. Come enjoy a day of light-hearted reflection, personality insights, and intimate conversation around the delights and exotic ways of introversion. Of course, we’ll cover the joys and challenges of introversion, as well as the joys and challenges of being with our extraverted partners, friends, and colleagues. So, join with a critical mass of fellows of a similar bent and explore this unique angle on the world. And, for our dear extraverted friends and colleagues, come as well, and heed the siren call of your less-preferred attitude. Salon for Organization Development Practitioners –3 days As an organization development (OD) practitioner, do you sometimes feel at a loss to create lasting change in the organizations you serve? Are you challenged to stay current on the myriad of issues facing your clients (e.g. managing in the information age, mergers and acquisitions, a weak economy, virtual teams, strategic planning in a time of rapid, the changing workforce, etc)? This is an opportunity for people doing OD work to come together, to learn from one another and to discover how we can best serve or clients and ourselves. During these three days we will explore the issues and concerns most prevalent in today’s workplace and those we anticipate for tomorrow. We’ll work in community to share helpful practices and to design new ones. Bring your enthusiasm, your curiosity, your defeats and your triumphs and revel in rich conversation with colleagues who have chosen this exciting career path. Polarity, Spirit and Coaching – 1 day Spirit is everything in motion—that oscillating dance of light and dark, work and play, creation and destruction, good and evil. It’s nature’s way, juxtaposing elements in a dynamic tension, producing the roiling fertility of life. This workshop explores the polarity of holistic life, and how coaches can directly apply this lens in their coaching conversations to benefit their clients. We will focus on four “sacred relationships”: self to self, self to other, self to labor, and self to nature. Each spoke in this spiritual wheel generates an essential dimension in the human community. We will go deep in exploring each spoke and how their interdependence impacts the viability of an ecologically sustainable and socially just future. Peer Coaching – 4 days This program will be scheduled in four one-day meetings over four consecutive months and will provide an opportunity for coaches to come together and practice coaching while exploring different coaching models, exercises, and processes. It will be participant driven with a process facilitator monitoring the content and learning dynamics. You can attend any number of sessions. The cost for a single day is $100. Long Programs – to learn more detail about each of these program click on them Organizational Coaching – 6 months What does it take to develop a self-reflective, self-corrective, and generative culture in an organization? In this half-year program, organizational coaches will develop a coherent and practical approach to introducing and sustaining a coaching culture within their clients’ workplaces. We will collaboratively create a learning community to support a bold, grounded story around the human and organizational benefits of a full-blown coaching culture. By cultivating unique coaching skills, insights, practices, and behavioral shifts, as complements to organization development tools and frameworks, organizational coaches will engage in practicum experiences through partnerships with clients around this strategy. The learning community will serve as a knowledge support network that assists each participant’s efforts with their clients. This program extends over a 6-month period with three two-day conferences. It provides practical and theoretical experience with organizational coaching. You will be part of a group that learns together experientially for the purpose of inspiring and motivating employees. You will learn how to: Use coaching distinctions to enhance learning in the domains of body, emotions, mind, and spirit Embed in leaders at all levels the skill of shifting “the observer I am” Strengthen working relationships and collaborative learning Create safety in individual and group space for learning Integrate the skill of group dialogue/conversation Encourage deep & wide learning as an organizational strategy This program requires participants to prepare and grow through reading and writing assignments, and to develop study and laboratory organizational groups for the purpose of real-time organization coaching work. Living Leadership – 6 months This unique six-month program is designed for leaders in every part of the organizations interested in exploring what it means to live daily from a stance of leadership and to cultivate a leadership perspective throughout your organization. Participants will acquire models, frameworks, tools, and skills to deepen authenticity and embed continuous learning as part of the everyday culture. Our initial focus will be at the personal leadership level, closely followed with a focus on creating an intentional cascading effect of living leadership in your organization. The program provides executives of large, medium, and small companies with the generative and integrative skills necessary to continually renew, grow and transform themselves and their organizations. Leaders are in unique positions of visibility and influence to inspire and motivate their organization’s people toward common goals. They tell and re-tell stories that celebrate and reinforce organizational identity, their collective contribution to the marketplace and world, and their sense of community. Living Leaders make a pervasive contribution that is felt in the heart, mind, and spirit of employees. Every individual, organization-wide, knows that he or she is valued, makes a meaningful difference, and has an impact. This means that leaders are supportive of processes and reward systems that reinforce leadership development and embrace feedback and reflection as a core part of their social infrastructure. Learning therefore is embedded naturally in the ways work gets done, and the art and practice of learning is cultivated at every turn. This program is for people who support organizational health as well as for leaders in organizations. Everyday Ethics – 3 months This experiential program stimulates reflective thinking and dialogue for participants concerning everyday ethical situations. Using simple scenarios to evoke complex considerations, participants experience the natural push-pull of self-interest, and the shifting of moral viewpoint depending on the position we play in the scenario. This course is designed to highlight the basic ethical principles that govern behavior in the human community. These principles draw from the major worldviews of thought: utilitarianism, Kantianism, egoism, religions, and the more contemporary ethics of care. Each presents a framework with methods or tools (such as the Golden Rule) for applying to situations and coming to judgments about what is right and good. Organizational Ecology – 6-month program Join a community of Organizational Development professionals and coaches who are passionate about our connection to nature and our need to protect the earth’s precious resources. The program will begin with an exploration of how we can learn from the natural world, applying laws and rhythms of nature to the way we live and work.  We will observe the complexity and simplicity of nature to discover how we’re a part of this evolving system.  The learning will focus directly on the development of life enhancing processes which will be instrumental in transforming the way we eat, what we drive, the amount and toxicity of waste, sustainable energy, and other topics which can help to safeguard our precious earth.  We’ll also explore how we can use nature as a guide or teacher in our work with organizations and coaching clients. Program participants will direct their own learning through research, reading and projects. Outside speakers may be invited to enhance our learning.
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