Methodology
Our Training Program Objectives:
- Address the learning needs of individuals and organizations
- Learn skills to lead, manage, and consult to change efforts
- Influence people and processes
- Increase skill and capability to achieve desired outcomes
Teaching methods are varied and include lectures, readings, demonstrations, fieldwork assignments, and small group practice. Feedback on a consistent basis is a critical part of the hands-on and experimental nature of these programs. Faculty ratio averages 1 faculty member for every 4 to 6 participants.
The programs have at their heart a four-fold focus:
- The Gestalt OSD framework
- Designing interventions
- Developing individuals, groups, and organizations
- Developing systems
The Intent of Skill Enhancement in Our Work:
- Discriminate among observations, interpretations, and judgments
- Develop greater awareness of one’s own internal and external experience
- Recognize resistance in the client and systems and adopt a respectful attitude in working through it
- Observe and attend to processes at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and organizational levels
- Identify conflicts and choices related to interventions required at each level of system