Core Concepts for Working with Organisations

A Two Day Introductory Workshop for Organisation Practitioners

Offered as part of our Gestalt in Organisational Development programme

Dates: Friday 4 & Saturday 5 April 2014
Time: 10am to 5pm on both days

The Course:

Gestalt brings a unique perspective to organisational issues. The focus on detailed observation and here and now awareness, its rigorous separation of data and interpretation, its emphasis on exploration and experiment and its innovative methodologies for addressing rigid patterns and blocked process all combine to create a powerful array of tools for anyone seeking to make sense of organisations.

What you will learn:

• How we choose what’s important – Figure and Ground
• Gestalt approach to motivation and achievement – The Cycle of Experience
• A critical tool kit for understanding what’s going on – Awareness
• The power in being fully present – Being Here and Now
• Tuning in to the wider system – Field Theory
• Contact and action – the Gestalt Experiment

Together these ‘big ideas’ constitute the foundations of the Gestalt Approach.

Who should attend:

• Your work involves organisational or personal change and you are looking for new tools and approaches.
• You are an OD consultant, facilitator or coach and you want to extend your knowledge and skills.
• You work in an organisation context and want fresh insights into why people (including yourself!) behave the way they do.

Workshop methods:

• Short briefings and input – straightforward language with real everyday examples to bring ideas to life
• Practical Exercises – to help make sense of the concepts and ground them in experience
• Group Discussions – to clarify and deepen understanding.

Course Faculty:

Tony Fraser is a highly experienced Organisation Consultant and Executive Coach who has worked in the private, public and ‘third sector’ with every level from front line managers to Board Directors. Tony has designed and led organisation change programmes and leadership and team development programmes for some of the world’s most successful organisations.

Christina Schuierer is an OD consultant and trainer with 20 years experience of working with public and private organisations worldwide. She has helped development organisations and teams to become more successful in designing and implementing projects on economic development, environmental protection and organisational sustainability and has worked in more than 50 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.

‘The here and now exercises/ experiments on Day two were particularly powerful learning experiences’

‘I found talking through gestalt cycle of experience very helpful and particularly liked the organisational setting examples as well as the opportunity to explore each stage in smaller groups’

- “FK, Senior OD Consultant”