Learn to develop and to lead a Genuine Contact Organization.

The first part of the workshop focuses on the personal beliefs of the participants about leadership, individuals in organizations, and organizations. This will include focus on the preparation of leaders (individuals and management teams) to lead their organizations in a way in which space for freedom to act is clear through a liberating structure, creating conditions for high performance, high creativity, problem solving, and leadership development throughout the organization.

The second part of the workshop takes participants through deeper examination of the technology and processes that along with people make up the building blocks of the Genuine Contact Organization. The technology is based on specific tools of the Genuine Contact program. The processes that will be examined in more detail are the details of the Open Space Technology meeting, the Whole Person Process Facilitation meeting, and the important role of the planning meeting, the debrief meeting, and the accountability meeting. Participants will go through a process of deepening their personal perception and interpretation of the form and essence of the two meeting methodologies.

The third part of the workshop guides the participants to identify the form and essence of a Genuine Contact Organization, including the development of a working definition, a plan for developing a new organization as a Genuine Contact Organization, and a plan for shifting an existing organization into operating as a Genuine Contact Organization.

The final part of this workshop focuses on what is required to assist an organization in sustaining itself as a Genuine Contact Organization.

The workshop is designed to assist participants to develop

• Knowledge of developing an organization as a Genuine Contact Organization
• Your own design to start the development of a Genuine Contact Organization using a single Open Space Technology meeting as a catalyst for system-wide change
• Knowledge in working with the key ingredients of a Genuine Contact Organization to support a solution focused climate
• Knowledge of working with a liberating structure and a participatory architecture
• Key ingredients to support leadership in determining change, and working with change to the advantage of your organization
• A practical means for working with the information, knowledge and wisdom that already exists in your organization and within your broad stakeholder involvement
• Key ingredients for daily and strategic planning and implementation to be simultaneous within an agreed upon purpose and vision for the organization
• Understanding the role of ‘collective intelligence’ about the organization and its development
• A peer to peer mentoring circle for ongoing learning
• An in depth understanding of the dimensions of working with the key ingredients of meeting method Open Space Technology including the dynamics of repeated use of Open Space Technology in an organization.
• An understanding of how to use both Whole Person Process Facilitation and the Medicine Wheel Tool in the development of and sustainability of the Genuine Contact Organization.

The following workshops are pre-requisite to the Genuine Contact Organization workshop:

GCF #1: Path to Organizational Health and Balance—to have received an orientation to the Genuine Contact approach to organizations and time to contemplate your own worldview regarding organizations and regarding the benefits of a healthy and balanced organization.

GCF#2: Organizational Health and Balance: diagnosis and regeneration—to have received the opportunity to learn some basic tools and to have learned at least one application of these multi-purpose tools—to have learned that change from the current state to the desired state must be led from within the organization.

GC#1: Working with Open Space Technology: to have received the opportunity to learn the skills and knowledge necessary to facilitate a highly participatory meeting using the method Open Space Technology and to position the meeting in the organization for optimal benefits to the organization.

GC#2: Whole Person Process Facilitation: to have received the opportunity to learn the skills and knowledge necessary to facilitate a highly participatory meeting using the method Whole Person Process Facilitation and to position the meeting in the organization for optimal benefits to the organization.

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Length: 4 days
Pre-requisites: Path to Organizational Health and Balance, Achieving Organizational Health and Balance, Open Space Technology, and Whole Person Process Facilitation.

Consult our Calendar for details on when & where the public workshops are being held, or contact us to book an in-house session in your own location.  To secure your registration for this workshop, download the registration form, complete and return to us.

Another highly recommended option is to make arrangements for a private workshop with Birgitt Williams and Ward Williams and your whole management team, staff, and/or Board, taking place in a beautiful natural setting just north of Raleigh, North Carolina. This option allows total attention on your organization's unique needs, and any necessary problem solving is facilitated within the workshop format.

Cost for this private workshop (maximum of 12 people) is $10,000, which includes the facility and materials.

Contact us for more details, or to book your private workshop session.