Developmental Workshop

1) Advanced Facilitator Training <Back>

(Cancelled due to low enrollment)

Date: July 24-26, 2009

Time: 2:00 PM Friday - 4:00PM Sunday

Enrollment: 10 participants

Staff: David Bradford

Location: Pajaro Dunes, CA

Fees: $500

Objectives:

1. To increase skills as a trainer and member in interpersonal and group dynamics. This includes (but is not limited to):

2. Further enhancing our use of one's self:

• "How to more fully use myself in an increasingly authentic way?" (Including identifying strengths I might be under-using)
• "Appropriate self-disclosure" (What to share and what not to share.)
• "Identifying how I inadvertently trap and limit my effectiveness"
• "Seeing how my raining style interacts with my personal issues" (And seeing how I could use those in the service of the group?)
• "Identifying the mental models that we hold"

3. To further develop our ability in "experiential learning" by deriving theory from our own experience.

2) Facilitating Diversity Dialogue (Fall 2009) <Back>

4) Group Level Facilitation  (Winter 2010) <Back>

Power Equity Group (PEG)

Date: February 19 through 21, 2010

Staff: Rianna Moore and Rick Huntly

Location: Dolce Hayes Mansion http://www.dolce-hayes-mansion-hotel.com/, San Jose, CA

Fee: $350

The Power Equity Group in Theory and Practice Workshop

February 19-21, 2010

The Power Equity Group Model is a way to understand groups and build your understanding of groups at the group level. The Power Equity Group assumes mutual empowerment with everyone fully present, responsible, and valued for their diversity.

About Power Equity Group Theory

·        Power Equity Group (PEG) Theory completes a continuum of group work from flat structure to hierarchy. Groups are envisioned through flat, inclusive group technology, rather than hierarchy.

·        PEG Theory provides a theoretical and practical basis for working in and with complex adaptive systems.

·        PEG Theory is meta-theory, giving a frame of reference to the field of OD. It expands the use of all theory.

The Power Equity Group:

1.     Requires us to act on a worldview of cooperation, rather than competition as we work together.

2.     Increases the creativity and resources available for accomplishing tasks.

3.     Heightens awareness of diversity and helps to value and work with it.

4.     Dramatizes personal and group change.

5.     Empowers both individuals and groups as a whole.

6.     Facilitates leadership emerging in ways that enhance the work of the group.

Organizations are increasingly using structures in which individual responsibility and creativity are emphasized. Members are expected to work cooperatively and value the diversity of the members. These structures take on numerous forms and names, such as self-directed teams, independent work groups, and quality circles. We tend to idealize these structures, yet, like all human systems, they can be demanding as well as exciting. Power Equity Group Theory provides a theoretical and practical basis for working effectively with such structures, whether they are a small segment of a large organization or the way the whole organization functions.

What this workshop will do:

This workshop gives personal experience and a theory base for understanding both the dynamics of egalitarian or flat structures as well as your personal actions and reactions when you are in one.  It will increase participants’ skills in working with a wide range of groups and group theory in a variety of organizational structures.

This workshop is for Facilitators and the Bay Area NTL community who wish to:

1.     Continue professional development and personal growth

2.     Learn more about how they function in groups where leadership is shared

3.     Expand their theory base and skills in dealing with flat-structured, inclusive groups

4.     Increase their awareness and skills in managing diversity

About the Trainers:

New Dynamics consultants have worked with hundreds of organizations and groups since 1972, challenging and overcoming barriers of institutional racism and colorism, sexism, and heterosexism. They are the creators and developers of the Power Equity Group Theory and Model and are the originators of other conceptual models for understanding the life journey of individuals and society, from the collusion of dominance and subordinance to the experience of colleagueship. Their work is systemic and experiential. Our trainers from New Dynamics for this workshop will be Rianna Moore and Rick Huntley.

For more information about them, please go to their website at www.newdynamicsconsulting.com.

Fees, deadlines, logistics and registration:

·        The cost of the workshop is $350.00

·        The registration fee will cover lodging, meals, facilitator fees and miscellaneous administrative costs for the two-and-one-half days.

·        Due to our desire to keep the costs to a minimum, all rooms will be double occupancy, except when there is an odd number of females/males.

·        This workshop is open to Stanford GSB Facilitators first and then will be open to NTL members after January 15^th 2010.

·        The workshop will be held at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose.  The workshop will begin at 4:00pm Friday afternoon and end at 4:00pm Sunday afternoon.

·        If you are serious about registering for the course, please do the following:

o   Send an email to Paul (below) confirming your intention to come.

o   Send a check for $350 (made out to Stanford University and dated no earlier than January 15^th) to:

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Attn: Paul Mattish

518 Memorial Way

Stanford, CA 94305

For additional information on logistics, please contact:

Paul Mattish

650-736-1272

mattish_paul@gsb.stanford.edu

 or

 Flo Hoylman

(415) 332-1043

Hoylman_Flo@gsb.stanford.edu

6)  Intra-personal Level Facilitation (Spring 2010) <Back>

Date:  May 1-2, 2010, Saturday & Sunday

This two day workshop will focus on developing skill and understanding of the Intrapersonal level in T group work.

Outcomes of these 2 days of training:
        1. Heightened ability to stay on my side of the net
        2. More awareness of the filters I use to make sense of the world
        3. More ability to see and work with projections

The overarching outcome is to increase my use of my authentic self

The primary way of working in this workshop will be self disclosing rather than offering feedback.  Even if you have attended this workshop you are welcome again, as each time we explore the intrapersonal we are different and open to different learning opportunities.

Interpersonal Dynamics T-group Weekend

You are invited to an upcoming introductory Interpersonal Dynamics T-group Weekend, May 20-23, 2010.  This session is geared especially for people who may be interested in applying to Stanford's Group Facilitation Training Program but who have not had any/much exposure to T-groups as a learning method.  The program will begin at 7:00 PM sharp (please eat dinner beforehand) on Thursday night, May 20, and will end by 1:00 PM on Sunday, May 23.  In between you'll get a full dose of T-grouping!

LEARNING GOALS

The overarching goal of the session is to increase your interpersonal skills. That is, to be able to:

·        Communicate in a more congruent fashion

·        Build open, trusting relationships

·        Learn how to be more fully yourself; express more parts of yourself

·        Be in touch with your emotions and express them in an appropriate way

·        Give and receive constructive feedback that increases learning

·        Raise and resolve difficult interpersonal issues that may arise in the group

·        Diagnose, reveal and divulge in a manner that promotes inquiry and dialogue

·        Understand the dynamics of small group interaction

·        For all of us to better appreciate and explore the impact of all forms of diversity and difference that may occur in the group, including those of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.

WHO MAY PARTICIPATE

The weekend is open to those who are interested in exploring the T-group process.  Special consideration will be afforded to those intending to apply to the Stanford Facilitator Training Program either this coming year or at some future time, to "partners" of present facilitators, and to those who have not attended a T-group.  Two NTL Trainers (Mary Ann Huckabay and Craig Schuler) will lead the group. These labs can be especially rich given the diversity of those attending.  We encourage people of diverse backgrounds, especially people of color, to attend the program and to join our learning community at Stanford.  While diversity is a factor in determining the makeup of the group, we also give some preference to early registrants, so get your check in quickly.

Also please note that couples cannot share a T-group.

FEES AND DEADLINES

The registration fee will cover lodging, meals, facilitator fees and miscellaneous administrative costs for the three-and-one-half days.  Due to the variability in housing accommodations and our desire not to increase the cost, participants usually share rooms and may need to sleep on a rollaway or share a king size bed.  Also, we'll be preparing meals together.

If you are serious about registering for this weekend experience, please do the following:

Read the article entitled "The Week at Inverness" that describes in some detail the experience of being in a T-group.  Read this article before you register for this weekend.  The article is in an attachment to this invitation.

If you are currently a client in psychotherapy, discuss your participation in this experience with your therapist before registering.

Send an email to Paul (below) confirming your intention to attend.  Complete and attach the Participant Information Sheet (below).

Print out the attached release form, sign it and send it with your check for $600 (made out to Stanford University and dated no earlier than May 1^st) to:

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Attn:  Paul Mattish

518 Memorial Way

Stanford, CA 94305

For additional information on logistics, please contact:

Paul Mattish

650-736-1272

mattish_paul@gsb.stanford.edu

 For information on the weekend experience itself, please contact either:

Mary Ann Huckabay

510-684-6462

Huckabay@synth.org

Craig Schuler

408-930-4343

Craig.Schuler@LMCO.Com