OSR Alumni Association presents
2009 Annual conference
Introduction to the organization workshop
with Sophie Parker
| Saturday, June 20 | Limited to 30 participants |
| 90 minutes: 10:30 am–Noon | |
How does your particular role within a system (company, social group, church, family) shape the choices you make when relating to others? Could it influence over 80% of what we see and think?
Come find out why Barry Oshry says “yes” to that question.
Top, Middle, Bottom and Customer are conditions all of us face at whatever level we occupy and in whatever function we perform in the organization. Even independent consultants have to negotiate needs of each client, partner, vendor, and clients’ system from Tops to Bottoms.
Based on Oshry’s The Organization Workshop, this session explores why partnership is critical to organizational success.
Your workshop takeaways
- Take in your own data about the way roles (particularly the role of the Middle) powerfully influence experience;
- Learn how to get better results through creating partnerships between the Middle and the other roles in the organization: the Tops, other Middles, Bottoms and Customers in your life;
- Explore how the Middle role can become the key player in changing the organization.
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- Sponsored in part by a contribution from the Institute for Systemic Learning, and by Seattle University, home to OSR and generous provider of conference spaces.
Conference workshops
- Saturday, June 20
- Designing at your edge — Michael Keller, Jean Singer
- Essential questions for work-life balance — Freddie Barrett
- Exposing your nonconscious resistance to change — Thomas O'Connor
- Leveraging the non-verbal with Samurai decisiveness — Kim Frerichs, Cathie Bachy
- Occupational integrity — Christie Diamond
- One practice from the art of illumination — Mark Shimada
- Introduction to the organization workshop — Sophie Parker
- Tapping sources of innovation — Dee Endelman, Lucy Garrick
- Sunday, June 21
- Five practices of the art of illumination — Steve Byers, Mark Shimada
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