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Organizations and
communities have tremendous power and potential to influence our world.
Yet, far too often, our experience of them is disappointing at best and destructive
at worst. Bright, competent, caring individuals commonly feel stymied by
bureaucracy, ‘politics’ and conflict in business, education,
healthcare and church communities alike.
This training
process will develop and deepen participants’ ability to work with
organizations, leaders, and individuals, to respond more effectively to the
obstacles and challenges they face. In essence, it uses the skills and
theory of learning organizations and unites these with powerful
contemplative practice from the great spiritual traditions. This synthesis
creates broad new possibilities.
The result is a
consistent ability to touch and awaken a profound ‘common
ground’ or ‘collective spirit’. Participants describe experiencing
dialogue and mutual understanding in ways they had not imagined or thought
possible.
This practice, we
believe, creates the possibility of successfully engaging the movements of
co-presencing, co-creating, and the possibility of collective engagement
described by Otto Scharmer in Theory U. Participants describe this as a
tangible outcome in their ongoing work with the practice.
The remarkable
power of this process creates a safety in which participants can experience
being their real and best selves in a group, and work cooperatively for the
common good. It provides groups and their members with a greater ability to
engage and surmount the challenges they face, and to do so with integrity
and compassion.
- Engaging the Collective
Mind of a Group
- Awareness and the Human
Person
- Slowing the Inner Movement
of a Group
- Skills for Dialogue
- The Non-defended Self
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- Developing Organizational
Awareness
- The Stance of
Contemplative Dialogue: non-violence, contemplation, reflective
openness
- Polarity Management
- The Spiritual Context of
Dialogue
- The Life Frame: Seeing the
Depth and Span of Collective Spirit
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Tuition is $880
(inc. GST). Full payment is required to reserve your space, as the number
of participants is limited. Morning and afternoon teas and lunch are
included in the tuition for this session. Accommodation, breakfast and tea
at Kew, Melbourne
can be arranged through E: secretary@campion.asn.au
P: (03) 9854 8110 and at Tuart Hill, Perth
E: stcatherines@westnet.com.au
P: (08) 9443 9020. Session
will end each day prior to tea.
Session begins
(Monday 2 August, Melbourne and Monday 9
August, Perth)
at 10:00 am, thereafter daily at 9:00 am, each day ends by 5:30 pm. On day
4, the session will close by 3:00 pm.
This training is
valuable to those seeking to enhance their relational effectiveness,
personal awareness, and leadership in any organizational or community
setting. Participants also find it valuable in parenting and relationships.
Steven Wirth is
Executive Director of The Centre for Contemplative Dialogue, a non-profit
organization that creatively assists communities and leaders in overcoming
obstacles to organizational renewal and effectiveness.
Prior to founding
the Centre, he was Senior Vice President for Mission for a large, Catholic New York
City healthcare system during its transition into a merger with two other
systems. His role was to care for the organization's spirit and leadership
as it struggled with the changes in healthcare, merger, and an increasingly
uninsured patient population in the urban poor it serves.
Steve has a
distinctive ability to assist groups in finding trustworthy common ground
from which to overcome conflict and allow the best in group members to
emerge. His work has effectively spanned groups with ethnically,
religiously, professionally and economically diverse members. He has worked
with corporate leadership teams, boards of directors, union members, law
firms, provincial government leaders and managers at all levels, as well as
denominational and congregational leaders. His approach to organizational
spirituality tends to produce new frameworks for understanding situations,
and an increased ability to work effectively together for the common good.
Tuition $880 (inc.
GST)
Please register
your interest by clicking here
and completing our online form.
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