OSR Alumni Association presents
2009 Annual conference
Exposing your nonconscious resistance to change
with Thomas O’Connor
| Saturday, June 20 | |
| 90 minutes: 10:30 am–Noon | |
| Repeats: 3:00–4:30 pm | |
How many times have you attempted a personal change (lose weight, decrease your carbon footprint) only to find a few months later that you have not made any progress?
Or when helping facilitate a change effort, a few months go by and your clients have made little progress towards their goals?
Life/work planning is about being conscious of the choices we make and how those choices effect how we feel. Because, by some estimates, more than 95% of our behavior is driven by our adaptive nonconscious, it is difficult to effect change in ourselves until we become aware of the behaviors that inhibit the desired change, the competing interests that drive those behaviors, and the untested assumptions on which those competing interests are based.
This workshop will introduce you to Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey’s Four-Column model that raises awareness of the hidden parts that sabotage your commitments to change.
Your workshop takeaways
- The pervasiveness of the nonconscience;
- Changing behavior often requires invalidating big assumptions. Those cannot be invalidated until they become conscience;
- Kegan and Lahey’s Four-Column model.
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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
3 ways to learn more
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