For people who want to extend their capacity to work with a Gestalt approach in organisations and who have either attended the "Gestalt at Work – The Space Between People and Performance Workshop" or have considerable experience as a Gestalt practitioner within organisations, we offer a public workshop: Advanced GIO – Working at the Hard Edge.

We also facilitate a “by invitation only” Ongoing Development Group for people who want to work at the leading edge of Gestalt in Organisations.

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 UK programs, likely areas of interest are:

·       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 participation in our Ongoing Advanced Development Groups – see above.

For more information, please email Howard via howard@thespacebetween.com.au or phone him 0419 436 793.

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 Australia and the UK (www.centre4gio.com).

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 Mornington Peninsula in Victoria (www.thestablesconferencecentre.com). Although we anticipate something similar for new groups, new programs could be offered in different formats depending on location and participant preferences.

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 UK programs, areas that are likely to be covered include:

·       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

For more information

please email Trevor via trevor@thespacebetween.com.au or

Howard at howard@thespacebetween.com.au

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