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Change with Mereon – if interested, please call us
Lynnclaire Dennis, a
mathematician, scientist, and artist from
“Mereon is a
quanta (a packet) of sound, light, time, and matter that will lead to a new
understanding.” by Dr. David Finkelstein, theoretical
physicist, author of Quantum Relativity.
Instructor:
Lynnclaire Dennis
Location:
Dragonfly Institute at
Systemic
Constellations –
This one-day workshop introduces a provocative new approach to individual and organizational change. Experience a powerful new way of seeing the hidden dynamics in systems that influence how people view situations and how they behave. For example, through the use of constellations you can explore how members of a team impact others members, how a new product will impact a company’s customer base, how customers will be impacted by a new vision, and much more. And you can experiment with alternative possibilities without any expense or risk!
Bring your
most thorny organizational issues and see how the constellation process can
shine new light on them!
Description
We live and work in systems. These systems impact the way we show up and how we behave. The forces at work in a system—organization or family—may be operating at a conscious or an unconscious level.
Recurring patterns echo in our personal and professional relationships. Constellations help us see these patterns—sometimes for the first time, but certainly in new ways. Constellations provide a creative, innovative and profound way of seeing the usually hidden dynamics that shape not only family, but also organizational systems. By placing people in a special grouping (called a Constellation), we can explore perplexing issues with sensitivity and shed light on a variety of personal and professional dilemmas.
Business applications include strategy development, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, recruitment, relationship building, and marketing issues.
Consulting applications include consultant work with clients, ‘right’ placement in a system, leadership team, and performance issues.
Individual applications include issues exploration, decision-making, inner parts work, and relationship challenges.
Systemic
Constellation Workshops
Constellation workshops usually involve eight or more people who wish to explore a deeply felt issue in a confidential, challenging, and creative environment. Issue holders become the ‘client’ when they present a burning organizational or social dilemma and they invite other participants to represent certain colleagues or groups such as customers, government departments, refugees, a nation … even more ‘abstract’ elements such as the stock exchange, a belief system or the future can be represented.
People sit in a circle for the duration of the workshop. As the representatives are named they take a place in the center of the circle. By a process that is not fully understood, representatives seem able to feel profoundly and report accurately the experience of those they are representing.
Constellations enable us to work sensitively and effectively with problematic and sensitive issues in our personal lives and within organizations. This process is different because it is systemic. Rather than artificially freeze-framing issues, the constellation process draws on what might be called ‘the embedded intelligence’ of a situation. By looking at where people or things stand in relation to other things or people one has a physical image that speaks for itself. It shows ways in which issues are inter-related and reveals the underlying dynamics of a situation in ways that bring fresh and profound perspectives—and breakthrough results.
Facilitators:
Diane Hetherington and Beverly Kimble
Cost: $299 – EARLY BIRD! - register before Sept 30, 20 0
Location:
Family
Constellations –
This one-day workshop is a unique experience for individuals to explore issues through the lens of their family and the dynamics of systemic and phenomenological data. Experience a powerful new way of seeing the hidden dynamics in family systems that influence how people view situations and how they behave. For example, through the use of constellations you can explore how members of your family impact others members, how a hidden or excluded family member of your ancestors can affect the family today. And you can experiment with alternative possibilities in the privacy of this small group with no risk.
Bring your
most thorny family issues and see how the constellation process can shine new
light on them!
Description
This family system work has been perfected over a thirty
year period by Bert Hellinger, a psychotherapist, initially working in
Recurring patterns echo in our personal and professional relationships. Constellations help us see these patterns—sometimes for the first time, but certainly in new ways. Constellations provide a creative, innovative and profound way of seeing the usually hidden dynamics that shape family and organizational systems. By placing people in a special grouping (called a Constellation), we can explore perplexing issues with sensitivity and shed light on a variety of personal dilemmas.
Facilitators:
Diane Hetherington and Beverly Kimble
Cost: $299 – EARLY BIRD! - register before October 15, 2005 : $199, couples $299
Location:
Salon for Organization
Development Practitioners –
The one-day workshop
focuses on what organizational development consultants work will be in the next
10 years. In it participants will
grapple with these questions: “What is
our role in assisting organizations to manifest their highest callings?” “What are the most effective
processes/interventions you have used, what are the biggest challenges, and
what values do we need to hold that will allow our work to be held in the
highest regard?” 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 our 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. This workshop is the starting place.
If there is interest we will continue with subsequent workshops
determined by the participants.
Facilitators:
Beverly Kimble and others to be determined
Cost: $299 – EARLY BIRD! - register before January 15, 2006 : $199
Location: Dragonfly Institute at
Mining the Shadow for Gold – if interested, please call us
Part 1 –focuses on the personal shadow
Part 2 –focuses on organizational shadows
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 and more productive workplaces.
Instructors: Beverly Kimble and Lloyd Raines
Peer Coaching – if interested, please call us
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.
Facilitator: Beverly Kimble
A Gathering of Introverts -- if interested, please call us
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.
Instructor: Lloyd Raines
Ken Wilber’s Integral Model – if interested, please call us
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. During the second day we will probe deeply into how we can use this integral model to give fresh light to organizational life.
Instructors: Beverly Kimble and Lloyd Raines
Becoming
a “Skilled Observer”
How do we develop depth and
breath to our perspectives and those of clients?
Becoming a skilled observer of oneself and others takes practice and understanding about the ways of knowing through the messages of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit. In this one-day program we will explore and expand the concept of “The Observer I Am,” developed from Chris Argyris’s theory on single, double, and triple loop learning. By looking closely at our internal stories we see how they powerfully shape and edit how we see and interpret the world. When cultivated, the benefits of being a skilled Observer (of self, others, and nature) include a more global perspective grounded in actions that embody dignity, fairness, empathy, and compassion. Throughout the day we will engage in diverse real-time experiments with noticing and intentionally shifting “The Observer I Am.”
Participants will:
· Learn 3 methods for deepening and broadening their own and their clients’ capacities for observing
· Experiment with at least 4 action learning scenarios to experience the value and direct applicability for OD practitioners, leadership development consultants, and coaches
· Customize their own methods for employing The Observer I Am as an on-going developmental practice for clients
· Understand the benefits of shifting the depth and span of The Observer I Am to enhance organizational intelligence, contributions, and sustainability
Together we will explore ways of bringing this kind of knowing to our clients. We will discover the value and use of these and other organizational reflective practices and how they can affect our success.
Instructors: Beverly Kimble and Lloyd Raines
Cost: $299 EARLY BIRD! – register before December 18, 2005
and pay $199
Location: Dragonfly Institute at
Intelligence
for Growth and Sustainability –if interested, please call us.
How do we help leaders in organizations tap capacities and generate outcomes for growth and sustainability? How do stressed-out and over-worked individuals and teams replenish their energy and momentum? This integral method develops the intelligences within and between the mind, body, emotions, and spirit. A simple framework culls insights and activates the natural synergy between these domains. Learn a fluid process for using the Intelligent Development System to effectively harness intelligence and energy. This diagnostic and strategic set of tools enhances growth and sustainability for leaders, teams, and individuals. 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 professional: executive and personal coaches, OD consultants, HR practitioners, therapists, and educators.
Instructor: Lloyd Raines
Emotional Intelligence: Personal and Organizational Learning through the Enneagram – if interested please call us
The Enneagram, a brilliant centuries old and comprehensive system for self transformation, is catching fire today in workplaces where it is practically applied to strengthen individual leadership, teamwork, organizational culture and values, communication, professional development and conflict management. Not for the feint of heart, it is a road map for the person or organization that truly seeks transformation. It allows us to identify our own blind spots, personal foibles and vanities, while affirming our talents and abilities. We gain a genuine understanding and compassion for ourselves and others, as well as improve our overall effectiveness and impact. Today, when organizational success and survival depends on working cooperatively together, the Enneagram provides the map. In an Enneagram culture, feelings are hurt less, trust is built, factionalism abates and we can get on with business in a happier work environment.
In this 2 segment series of one-day interactive workshops, we will look at the 9 profound and very different ways in which people feel, think and act. We will identify and work with our own pattern and communication style as we explore the Enneagram's depth and breadth. On the second day, we will reflect on and continue self-observation of our style while we work with conflict situations and team roles. The overall focus of each day's activity is to improve our ability to self observe and to learn to interrupt the unconscious habits and dictates of mind that inhibit our learning and growth.
Instructor: Anne Wotring
Long Programs
Whole Organizational Practice – if interested, please call us
What does it take to cultivate self-reflective, self-corrective, and generative attitudes and behaviors in leaders, managers and staff? How can we work with leaders to introduce these capabilities at all levels of the organization? What systems and processes reinforce and embed those attitudes and behaviors? What practices best enable leaders to shift their consciousness so they can see more. What does mature leadership, top to bottom, inside out, look like? In this half-year program, organizational development coaches and professionals develop a robust and comprehensively-designed approach for building an integral learning culture within their clients’ workplaces: addressing the interior life of individuals, observable behaviors, culture, and systems.
As a learning community we will explore the reality of the organization as a ‘living entity’. We will create learning practices supporting transformation that wants to emerge. We will study and apply insights and models from Ken Wilber, Clare Graves, Bert Hellinger, Richard Barrett and others’ work, and craft a boldly conceived story and strategy around that awareness. Participants will draw from our internal conversations to dialogue with clients, exploring ways to surface and explore possibilities that serve a triple bottom line: financial, human, and ecological—in short, generative in nature, stewards in practice. The learning community will serve as a knowledge support network that assists each participant’s efforts with their clients.
Our program extends over a 6-month period with three two-day conferences. It provides practical and theoretical experience with organizational learning and coaching. You will learn how to:
- Use the history of evolution as a metaphor for how organizations
of today are evolving
- Learn and apply distinctions that
enhance learning in the domains of body, emotions, mind, and spirit
- Learn and apply practices that cultivate a self-reflective,
self-corrective, and generative way of being and way of doing
- Develop the capacity to become a “skilled observer” of
oneself, others, work, and the world
- Introduce and use integral models for assessing, diagnosing, and
designing strategic shifts
- 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 grow through reading and writing assignments, active dialogue with fellow participants, and to develop study and laboratory organizational groups for the purpose of real-time organization coaching or consulting work.
Instructors: Beverly Kimble and Lloyd Raines
Organizational
Ecology – if interested, please call us
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.
Facilitators: Terri Conti and Beverly Kimble
To Register: call the Dragonfly Institute at 703-757-7591 and ask for Beverly Kimble or go online to dragonflyinstitute.com and click on Registration.
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