Constant change in the world and in organizations presents us with the challenge of how to lead into the unknown. Adopting a holistic organizational development approach is one way to meet this challenge. This approach has evolved over thirty years of experience, including with the international Genuine Contact Organization. By providing an opportunity to explore what you need to guide organizations through their ongoing evolution, this workshop can help determine if you wish to adopt this approach either a leader or as a consultant.

A piece of wisdom among indigenous peoples is to do your best for your generation and for seven generations to come. What principles, concepts, laws, and values are we working from as we take this wisdom on board, and put systems in place that are on the right track for now and for generations to come?

What you will learn

Throughout this learning program, you will explore, create and learn:

  • The dominant world view about organizations today, alternatives, and making a choice about your world view.

  • Principles, whether explicit or implicit in the organization, their influence, and making a choice about the principles that seem best suited to you.

  • Changing concepts and approaches about organizational development for the best future and making a choice about the concepts and approaches you adopt.

  • Laws such as the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, and their implications in organizational development.

  • Values that are meaningful to you to choose in order to anchor your organization and sustain its integrity through all change.

  • Skills, knowledge, and capacity for developing an organization using a holistic organizational development approach.

  • Simple multi-purpose tools from the Genuine Contact toolkit, to support your work using a holistic organizational development approach.

  • A roadmap for your ideal organization using a holistic organizational development approach.

What to expect

Pre-work will be given as part of the workshop and is available immediately upon registration. Make sure you give yourself some time to start diving in to the material.

The workshop is facilitated using the participatory whole systems method Whole Person Process Facilitation.

You will find yourself in a variety of configurations, sometimes working in pairs, small groups, individually and in the group as a whole. Activities are designed for you based on best adult learning practices. Questions are offered to stimulate reflections and conversations. Consider that you are entering a learning experience that taps into a combination of playfulness with wisdom, engaging all learning styles.

Who should attend

This workshop is for all those who are interested in and involved in Holistic Organizational Development:

  • Formal leaders, managers, and consultants who have roles in preparing the organization to adopt a holistic organizational development approach and leading with that intention in mind.

  • Everyone who identifies as a stakeholder of the organization and is curious to learn about the holistic organizational development approach and the intended shift in the culture of the organization.

  • Throughout the organization, skill, knowledge, and capacity are needed to adopt a holistic way of operating as an organization, for the benefit of individuals and the whole organization. If this holds your interest this is the right workshop for you.

Supporting Learning in Teams and Groups

At Dalar, we are big believers in whole teams and groups learning together. To support group learning, we are pleased to offer the following team discounts:

  • 20% off for 3-5 participants
  • 40% off for 6-10
  • groups of 11+ please contact us for pricing or in-house training opportunities

Project, intact, cross-functional, and leadership teams, small organizations, boards, and volunteer groups are some examples of the kinds of groups eligible for these discounts. Contact Rachel Bolton for registration details.

This offer is applicable to Early Bird and Regular Rates of registration. It cannot be combined with any other discounts available (i.e Genuine Contact Organization member discounts).

Part of the Genuine Contact Way

This module offers a complete set of skills and knowledge that creates value on its own. It’s also part of the Genuine Contact Way – a modular approach designed with intention. You can engage with specific modules to meet particular goals in your work and life. When you’re ready to expand your learning, comprehensive Learning Paths are available, including Simplifying Leadership, Participatory Methods that Get Results, Designing Thriving Organizations, Aligning with Your Genuine Self, and Train the Trainer.

A Global Network of Authorized Trainers

Birgitt Williams and Rachel Bolton are authorized Genuine Contact Trainers. They are part of a global network of professional trainers and facilitators who teach the 19 learning modules included in the Genuine Contact Way of Working – including this one. You’ll find a complete listing of upcoming workshop dates – online and in-person and offered in several languages to suit your learning preferences in the International Genuine Contact Organization’s upcoming events calendar.

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