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THE SPACE BETWEEN PEOPLE AND PERFORMANCE A GESTALT APPROACH TO BUSINESS LEADERSHIP AND CONSULTING Building on the series of Gestalt in Organisations workshops run in “The Space Between People and Performance Workshop” Applying Gestalt in Organisations A 3 day workshop exploring the application of Gestalt approaches and models to organisational work, for business leaders and consultants. Workshop participants will emerge with an expanded, more creative range of practices for influencing change and working with people in organisations, and helping organisations to be more successful through higher performing individuals and teams. Drawing on its rich background as a field of therapy, Gestalt is a uniquely effective holistic leadership and consulting approach. This approach has a number of key benefits outlined below. Gestalt in Organisations helps people sharpen their awareness of what’s going on right now; with themselves, with others, within teams and within organisations. Through this increased awareness people are able to make more informed decisions and take more effective action. We also explore the use of Field theory to help people understand what’s happening within and around organisations. The approach develops skills in making real contact with others and building lasting relationships through “authentic dialogue”. Through dialogue people can take responsibility for their actions and responses, and better express what they really think and feel, and, perhaps more importantly, really listen to what is being said by others. These approaches also support more effective coaching, performance management and conflict management. Gestalt also provides a way for people to confidently react and respond to unfolding events through learning the art of improvisation and creative experiment, so that they are better able to thrive during change. In addition, the “paradoxical theory of change” is a unique approach for helping people lead change and support others through change. Application of the Gestalt Cycle of Experience supports more effective individual and organisational learning. This Cycle also has a number of other important applications, e.g. substantially increasing the success rate of projects and improving meeting effectiveness. To ensure a high degree of interaction, the workshop has a maximum of 12 participants. Workshop fee: Personal rate - $1,430, Corporate rate - $1,980 (including GST, plus any accommodation costs). An early bird personal rate of $1,100 and a corporate rate of $1,705 may be obtained by paying a non-refundable deposit of $110 two months before the workshop. (Those with limited budgets are invited to talk with us about rates & payment options.) For more information, including the dates for the next workshop, please email Howard via howard@thespacebetween.com.au or phone him on 0419 436 793. “Inspirational leadership” A three day residential intensive experiential learning event for business leaders who want to inspire their people. Inspirational leadership is experienced by people who feel inspired. This feeling of being ’inspired’ may be as a result of their own actions and the outcomes they achieve, or by the actions of others. People who inspire others, as well as feeling inspired, have a number of attributes that others experience as inspirational. These include, self-belief, confidence, attentiveness to others, presence, clarity and a willingness to make choices. All of these attributes flow from the degree to which the ‘inspirational’ person is at ease with themselves. We believe this stems from the following seven key elements: § Self-awareness § Authenticity § Attentiveness § Presence § Inclusion § Choosing § Improvisation We will explore each of these elements in this workshop This workshop will be led by two facilitators: Dr Trevor Bentley, Howard Boorman and/or Peter Campbell. For public workshops the fee per participant, including GST and all accommodation and food, is $4,400. The fee for single client in house versions is $26,400 plus venue and accommodation costs. Numbers for both the public workshops and in house versions are limited to twelve to enable good contact and attention to individual needs. For more information please email Trevor via trevor@thespacebetween.com.au or Howard at howard@thespacebetween.com.au “Emergent leadership - A Gestalt approach to discover the hidden power of inspiration” A three day residential intensive experiential learning event for business leaders who want to discover their own unique leadership style through spontaneity and improvisation. Each of the three days will focus on a particular theme. During the exploration of each theme participants will be able to experiment with their own style of leadership. Day One - Trusting my spontaneity Day Two - The art and power of improvisation Day Three - Emergence of leadership At the end of the three days we expect that each participant will leave equipped to lead in their own inspirational way. The next step will be the integration of this learning through experiment in the real world in which each person lives and works. Subsequent to the event guidance and coaching support will be available for participants by negotiation. This workshop will be led by two facilitators: Dr Trevor Bentley, Howard Boorman and/or Peter Campbell. For public workshops the fee per participant, including GST and all accommodation and food, is $4,400. The fee for single client in house versions is $26,400 plus venue and accommodation costs. Numbers for both the public workshops and in house versions are limited to twelve to enable good contact and attention to individual needs. For more information please email Trevor via trevor@thespacebetween.com.au or Howard at howard@thespacebetween.com.au Advanced Gestalt in Organisations Workshop A three-day residential workshop available to people who have attended one of our other workshops and to Gestalt therapists with organisational experience. In this workshop, we explore how a holistic approach can help integrate all aspects of an organisation e.g. people and profit, working at the hard edge and with softness, caring for individuals and thinking systemically. People who have worked with us in the past know that our approach is to work with the interests of the group and with what emerges as we work together. From our experiences from our other Australian program and · Using our self as instrument to understand what’s happening within an organisation and with its people – seeing the unseen and hearing the unsaid · Gestalt processes, models and tools that have direct practical applications to leadership, consulting, project management, etc. · Parallel process – paying attention to what’s happening between you and the organisation and between you and people in your wider field · The space between just enough support, too much and not enough · Working with experiment, paradox, ambiguity and uncertainty, and supporting people at the edge of chaos · More on contact styles, (e.g. how polarities promote polarised responses) This workshop is a potential pathway to the formation of new Ongoing Advanced Development Groups – see below. Workshop fee: Personal rate - $1,430, Corporate rate - $1,980 (including GST, plus any accommodation costs). An early bird personal rate of $1,210 and a corporate rate of $1,705 may be obtained by paying a non-refundable deposit of $110 two months before the workshop. (Those with limited budgets are invited to talk with us about rates & payment options.) For more information, including the dates for the next workshop, please contact Howard via howard@thespacebetween.com.au or +61 (0)419 436 793 “Gestalt in Organisations Ongoing Advanced Development Group Program” A series of residential workshop modules over 12 months covering key challenges facing organisational leaders and the consultants who support them. The first year of this program was completed in 2005, and the original group continues to operate. We are now considering establishing new ongoing groups in Sydney and Melbourne Attendance at this program is by invitation and the program is generally only available to people who have worked with us before. Program Outline The aim of this program is to bring together a group of people to explore, through regular contact, the practical application of a Gestalt approach to business and organisational issues. This program draws on the ongoing programs that we’ve run for many years in The work is highly experiential, practical, experimental and improvisational. Naturally what we work on in each module will be drawn from what’s happening in the group and the interests of the participants. Themes are likely to include “Moments of Leadership”, consulting with a Gestalt focus, contact at the edge, spontaneity, creative adjustment and improvisation. See below for more information on the possible content of the modules. Program format and costs The format of the current group is two three-day residential modules, each about six months apart, running over four days at “The Stables at Redhill” on the Each group is limited to a maximum of eight people. We ask all participants to commit to attending all workshops and pay the fee for each module in advance of the 12 month program. The fee for any new groups will be dependent on the module format; as a guide, based on the format of the current group, the fee for the whole program would be $2,860 at the personal rate and $3,960 at the corporate rate. (plus accommodation costs). We rely on each participant to determine their applicable rate. (As always, we invite anyone with a limited training budget to talk to us about rates and payment options.) Accommodation costs are separate and paid directly by participants. We aim to work in venues with reasonably priced accommodation. Module content The theme for each module will be developed beforehand in consultation with the participants, and further shaped by the ”in-the-moment” interest of the group and what emerges as we work together. From our experience with our other Australian programs and · Recognising organisational and individual behavioural patterns, especially those that may be getting in the way of the organisational and individual effectiveness, and helping to develop organisational awareness of fixed Gestalts and other options · Formal and shadow systems · Organisational evolution and fitness peaks · Using metaphor and storytelling · Giving and receiving difficult feedback · Moments of Leadership · Working with conflict and polarities · Valuing diversity and “outsiderness” and “insiderness” in self and others All Ongoing Group workshops will be led by Trevor Bentley and Howard Boorman.
For more information please email Trevor via trevor@thespacebetween.com.au or Howard at howard@thespacebetween.com.au |
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