Detailed curriculum here (420 KB pdf)

FOCUS

• The psychology of group dynamics

• Reading the group / reading self – transference and counter-transference

• Establishing your authority, staying in role

• Building a holding environment that enables challenging work to be done

• Holding the frame, staying steady when the group wants to disarm you

• Benefits and drawbacks of default positions – when winning ways (yours and theirs) get in the way

• Understanding self-generated limits: Kegan's Immunity to Change, windchimes and internal chatter

• Assessing the limits of your permission to act

• Raising the heat – telling people what they need to hear rather than what they want to hear

• Reading the signs of overt and unconscious resistance in groups

• Getting on the balcony and off the dance floor – observing patterns, diagnosing, intervening

• Structuring and sequencing to build trust

• Using feedback and identifying & exploring "undiscussibles"

• Working with contentious issues

• The pitfalls of approaching complexity and ambiguity with too much structure

• Understanding the different impacts on groups of technical vs. adaptive challenges

• Getting the physical setting right

• Increasing commitment, co-operation and action in your workplace and with your clients
  
  

Fee includes workshop, resource CD and luncheon.

2 days non-residential
$2,800 per person

10% Early Bird discount up to 1 September
OR
10% discount for same organisation
(up to 4 people max)