Philadelphia Region Organizational Development Network
September 1, 2002
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Highlights:
CHAIR’S MESSAGE
PRODN CALENDAR
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September
12 Special Event - Presence and the Use of Self with Edwin Nevis (Bryn
Mawr)
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September 12 SIG - Learning Group Open
Meeting (Near Ft. Washington)
- September 17 SIG - New Practitioners
Group Open Meeting (near Conshocken)
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September
24 Monthly Meeting - Social Dreaming - A Consulting Tool
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September
26-27 Special Event – White People Confronting Racism with Antje Mattheus
and Lorraine Marino (Bryn Mawr)
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October
29 Monthly Meeting – Interactive Theater as an Educational Medium (Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine – City Line Avenue)
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November
26 Monthly Meeting – Strategic Inquiry:
How Questions can Transform Individuals, Groups, and Organizations,
(Location TBD)
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December
12 Monthly Meeting – “99 Seconds” Presentations and Holiday Gathering
with Sister Organizations (Location TBD)
OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OD PROFESSIONALS -- Details
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Fielding Graduate Institute Fall Course
Information
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Practitioners Programs In Organizational
Development & Change Management
- September 27-29 - Next Stage learning
in Social Dreaming
- September 21, 2002 Coaching Expo Coaches:
Defining Ourselves – Presenting the Profession sponsored by PACA, the
Philadelphia Coaches Alliance
JOB CORNER --
Details
- A new listing for Account
Executive for The InnerWork Company
OTHER NEWS
- New Practitioners SIG has their own chat
room
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Membership becomes “rotating” it’s
no longer a calendar year proposition. Early Bird Renewal Rate through
September 31.
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Seeking: A PRODN Membership Chair and committee members
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Survey: We want to provide you with the events, services
and support YOU want
CHAIR’S MESSAGE
Dear PRODN Members:
The 2002-2003 Steering Committee has been working hard to prepare for the upcoming program year. I am so pleased to be collaborating with such a talented group of individuals, and excited in anticipation of the coming year’s monthly programs and learning events.
Our goal as a Steering Committee is to be THE premier educational resource for organization development practitioners in the Philadelphia Region. As such, our objectives are to:
- Provide learning opportunities and an environment that consistently appeals to practitioners of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds
- Deliver high quality, innovative monthly programs and special events
- Ensure that our programs and special events have high potential for practical application and/or personal development for our practitioners as change agents
The Steering Committee is pursuing a number of strategies to accomplish our objectives. First, you will find attached a survey that we are asking you to complete. We will use your responses to book programs and events that reflect your professional development requests. Within the current economic and political environment we want to make sure that your development dollars are earning you the greatest returns.
Second, we are committed to building upon the work of former Steering Committee members, and our membership at large, to support PRODN in its emergence as a more diverse organization. If we fail to achieve this goal, I believe that we as a professional organization will lack the insight, talent, and fortitude necessary to survive. We are in the process of establishing relationships with sister organizations, like the National Association of African-Americans in Human Resources of Philadelphia, and utilizing alliances with people of color to energize and inform our direction.
Third, we are focusing our energies to strengthen what we have to offer newer practitioners to the OD field. Our goal is to fortify our mentoring program, continue to support our New Practitioner’s Special Interest Group, and create alliances with regional OD programs, like the Masters program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM). In fact, I am delighted to report that PCOM will be supporting PRODN by providing space for our monthly meetings and learning events this program year.
Finally, big change has happened behind PRODN’s technology scene. After many, many generous hours of technical support, Warren Hoffman has stepped down as PRODN’s technology guru. While we have recently contracted with an exceptional vendor, tremendous thanks go out to Warren for his tremendous commitment. Thank you Warren!
Kim
Eberbach
Chair, PRODN
LEARNING EVENTS
Check out the PRODN web
site http://www.prodn.org to get a full
listing of all the upcoming fall events. Summaries of upcoming events are
included in the newsletter.
MONTHLY MEETINGS -- Details
Non-member
fee of $20 can be applied to Membership when you join at a meeting. A PRODN membership includes free admission
to monthly meetings. One exception is the October meeting, which has a $25 fee
for all attendees. Please try to
attend, the CITE group is entertaining as well as enlightening. Fees cover the cost of actor transportation.
Tuesday
September 24, 2002 - Social Dreaming
with Tom Michael PhD
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
– City Line Avenue) -- 5:30 - 9:00
Social
dreaming is an innovative way of working with dreams that moves beyond the
traditional focus on interpreting their meaning. Instead, dreams and their
associations are examined to uncover the social meaning for the group
or organization. Tom Michael, Ph.D. will lead us in a conversation of our
own dreams.
By working
with a "matrix" created as a result of the conversation in our group,
we will collectively explore themes and meanings that surface for us in
addition to the business application with social dreaming. Additionally, there
will be opportunities for participants to work in small groups to explore
application of the insights that emerge during the evening.
SPECIAL
MONTHLY MEETING
Tuesday
October 29, 2002 –The Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble
Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine (City Line Avenue Philadelphia)
5:00 – 9:00
Price for this event is $25.00 to cover group expenses.
The Philadelphia Region Organizational Development Network Presents...
with
The Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble
We are fortunate to have The Cornell Interactive Theatre
Ensemble (CITE) join us for an evening of dialogue and exploration about
sensitive workplace issues. Using carefully scripted scenarios as the trigger,
and a safe and open forum, we will engage in conversations to work through our
reactions, perspectives and stereotypes to gain a greater appreciation of the
underlying motivations and subtleties of misunderstanding that can escalate
into intense conflict.
This group of professional actors and facilitators, formed in 1992, has worked
extensively with business, academic and government clients across the country.
Tuesday
November 26 – Strategic Inquiry: How Questions can transform Individuals, Groups,
and Organizations with Dr. Marilee Goldberg-Adams and Dr. Andrea Zintz
Location TBD: 5:30 – 8:30
Strategic Inquiry provides the foundation for
thinking and communicating. It has strong application for leadership, strategic
creativity, effective teams, productivity, and for shaping and achieving
desired outcomes both individually and for organizations.
Through a combination of presentation, discussion
and interactive exercises, Dr. Marilee Goldberg-Adams and Dr. Andrea Zintz will
assist us in developing our own "strategic inquiry" techniques. Come
away from the evening with the ability to ask better questions so that your
clients get better results!
SIG MEETINGS
September 12, Thursday
(6:00pm) – Learning Group SIG
The mission of the Learning Group is to learn and support each other in
facilitating organizational change. We try to integrate the message of the
books we read through discussion and implementation in our lives. We are
committed to the Learning Group Rules of Trust.
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What is said here stays
here.
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Accept each person -
where they are and support each other's growth.
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Be prepared.
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Have a sense of humor -
laugh at ourselves.
We meet at the homes of the members, approximately once a month, in the
evening from 6:30 to 9:00 as decided by the members, and all contribute to the
meal. We share a meal, then discuss the previously agreed on reading.
Next
Meeting. The book we have decided on is:
Lessons from the Field, Applying Appreciative
Inquiry
Sue Annis Hammond and Cathy Royal, eds. (Please
read pages 1-48)
Published by Thin Book Publishing ISBN: 0966537335.
How to join us
If you are interested or curious, you are welcome to contact Debbie
Woolf at Deborah.J.Woolf@gsk.com
to let her know that you would like to come and to get directions.
September 17, Tuesday (6:00pm) - New Practitioners Group SIG
We welcome new and
experienced practitioners to our first meeting this fall.
For the last several years,
both experienced practitioners and many beginning their OD practices created a
space to learn about ourselves, each other and the field of OD. Our opportunity
to continue this tradition of sharing, encouragement and support will begin
again in September.
Monthly meetings will be near Conshohocken. Please contact Cynthia Brancato for directions or additional information at 215-652-1602 or
Cynthia_Brancato@Merck.com.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Thursday September 12 - Use of Self as An Instrument of Change with Edwin Nevis
Gregg
Conference Center at American College Bryn Mawr PA Phone (610) 526-1100
Registration at 8:30 Program 9:00
– 5:00. Fee includes breakfast and lunch.
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PRODN members |
Non-members |
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Prior to Sept 3 |
$150 |
$170 |
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Sept 3 or After |
$170 |
$190 |
Questions?
Eileen Shanahan @ 215-922-5223
For phone registration contact Devon
Office Center at 610-341-8600
The concept of presence is one of the cornerstones of the
Gestalt Model. It deals with the stance that we each take - often without being
aware of it - when attempting to influence others. Our presence is a function
of strongly held beliefs and assumptions about teaching, learning, and exerting
influence. To this we add our personal "style" - the unique way in
which we contact other people. Every one of us has presence, but there are many
different ways in which it is manifested.
In this workshop, we will look at some basic definitions and
examples of presence, and we will look at the assumptions that form our
particular way of taking a stance. We will look at the use of evocative and
provocative modes of exerting influence, and apply this to our own cases.
Attention will also be devoted to use of self in dealing with resistance.
Thursday
& Friday, September 26 & 27, 2002 White People Confronting
Racism with Antje Mattheus and Lorraine Marino
Gregg Conference Center at American
College Bryn Mawr PA
Phone (610)
526-1100 Registration at 8:30 AM,
program from 9:00 AM– 6:00 PM
Cost: $250 breakfast and lunch are included.
Questions?
Diane Kitson after 6:00 pm at 610-701-5698.
diane_l_kitson@uhc.com
For phone
registration contact Devon Office Center at 610-341-8600
This workshop - White People Confronting Racism - is part of
a long-term learning process for all OD practitioners. Parallel to the white
people workshops, people of color will look at how racism has affected them. In
addition, joint sessions will be set up for cross-race dialog. The majority of PRODN members who are people of color have
encouraged us to hold this workshop and have provided input to the content.
Who
should attend this workshop?
Consultants, trainers and leaders of European-American descent -- white people
-- who want to strengthen their self awareness and ability to address racism
and racial issues -- at the level of individual, group, and systems. It is also
intended for whites who want to learn to become better allies with other whites
and people of color to work toward a non-racist society. Also encouraged to
come are consultants who might think they've already "been there, done
that" with diversity or feel frustrated by previous experiences in
diversity programs. We are our best instruments: the more we do our own work,
the better we are able to support our clients.
What
will I learn if I attend the workshop?
This workshop differs from traditional diversity offerings in that we will
learn about racism from the perspective of our whiteness - to understand what
it means to be white in a society where whites and white culture predominate.
OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
(opportunities for learning from other OD organizations or our presenters)
Next
stage learning on Social Dreaming
If you are interested in learning more about or attending a three-day workshop on Social Dreaming to be conducted September 27 - September 29th at McCall Field, please contact Dr. Marvin Berman at 610.940.0488 or mhberman@aol.com.
Fielding
Institute OD Degree and Change Management Certificate Program
Fielding Graduate Institute Fall Course Information |
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Once Summer is over... why not go back to school this Fall! Fielding Graduate Institute is introducing our new program in Coaching & Mentoring available as a graduate certificate and/or a focus area in our current Master of Arts in Organization Development degree program. |
Please take a look at our website at www.fielding.edu/prog.htm under the School of Human and Organizational Development for more information.
Feel free to email Wendy Overend, OMOD Admissions Counselor, at woverend@fielding.edu, or call 1 800 340 1099 ext 4001 to talk to her directly about our exciting new programs.
Deadline to apply is August 30, 2002 for our Fall term. Online orientation and courses begin September 19, 2002
Practitioners Programs in Organizational Development
& Change Management with Edie Seashore and Michael Broom
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AN INTENSIVE PROGRAM FOR… THE COURSE |
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DETAILS
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When: |
One day per month for 9
months, from 9:30am - 5:00pm. Saturdays in Columbia and New York, Fridays in
Philadelphia. See actual date below. |
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Where: |
Columbia, MD, New York City,
and Philadelphia, PA |
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Class Size: |
maximum 15 participants |
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Tuition: |
$3150.00 ($500 non-refundable
deposit due upon acceptance; balance due by the first session). Fee
includes 2 individual coaching sessions. |
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Discounts: |
$200.00 for registering
before August 15, 2002. |
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CONTACTS FOR REGISTRATION AND QUESTIONS
New York: Deborah Howard, 718 237-5777 or deborahhoward@earthlink.net
Columbia: Sharon Newman, 301 292-7623, cfinewman@aol.com
Philadelphia: Marianne Kaplan, 610 918-1160, mariannekaplan@worldnet.att.net
All program questions to Michael Broom, 410 730-1601 or michael@broom.net
The Philadelphia Area Coaches
Alliance (PACA) – Coaching Expo
The
Philadelphia Area Coaches Alliance (PACA) is proud to announce the opening of
registration for our 1st Annual Coaching Expo.
COACHES:
Defining Ourselves. Presenting the Profession.
Saturday,
September 21, 2002, 8am to 5pm at
The American
College in Bryn Mawr, PA
For more
information visit the conference site: http://www.coachingexpo.com/
Questions
please contact Julie Cohen at Julie@Juliecohencoaching.com
JOB CORNER
Account
Executive The InnerWork Company
Established national management consulting and training company seeks an experienced Consultant to grow the company's revenues through direct sales and delivery to Fortune 1000 corporations. Excellent company team environment, and a broad range of self development, team development, and O.D. programs and consulting services to represent, and implement.
Base pay and generous incentive package, benefits, and professional training & mentoring with the company founders.
Tara Shinn The InnerWork Company
1066 Bartlett Lane
Chester Springs, PA 19425
Phone: 610-469-5001
Fax: 610-469-5002
Email: tshinn@innerwork.com
OTHER NEWS
Chat room for New
Practitioners SIG group.
Click
on the Chat Room button on the PRODN home page to register for this chat room
to become part of an on-line discussion with other interested members of the
group. This provides a quick way to ask
questions, and network with other SIG members.
Rotating Membership
This
year PRODN is switching our membership dues from a calendar year (with
occasional rate reductions at the end of the year) to a rotating membership
calendar. This means that if you
register as a new member or renew your membership, that your membership will be
“up for renewal” a year from that date.
Current
members who have already paid for a calendar year, your renewal will become
effective January 1, 2003 so as not to reduce the value of your
membership.
Early
Bird Reduction Renew before September 31, 2002 at $80 per year. New and renewing
members after September 31, dues are $100 per year. (Still a bargain –attend 5
meetings and all the other services are free!)
Seeking
Membership Chair and Committee Members
What better way
to really find the value in your organization and add an important component to
your resume, than to become involved?
The board is looking for individuals interested in growing and serving
our membership. You are invited to
contact Board President, Kim Eberbach by phone 717-335-2461 or email keberbach@onemain.com
to learn more about this opportunity.
Survey
Please complete the survey included in this mailing to provide feedback and suggestions about what you would like to see in coming months from PRODN. We are interested in learning how we can add value to a membership and bring you the programs that will build your practice, and add to your professional affiliation.
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