BFR members recommend these Workshops

From April 2005 BFR

 

At our meeting last week, we discussed the best workshops we've all been
too, which we want to share with one another to help inform us as we
consider our own professional development.
 

GREAT WORKSHOPS

Not categorized

  1. Commonwealth Institute’s “Negotiation Skill’s”
    Best feature: facilitators’ style, the process, case studies, story telling

  2. Commonwealth Institute’s “Thought Bridge”
    Best feature: the facilitator’s style
  3. Coaches Training Institute (CTI) Relationship Coaching Program ( 3 day)
  4. Ibis Consulting’s Transferable Skills
  5. Recent Linkage Conference, a teacher from LA about transformation in the classroom
  6. Gestalt Institute Introduction to Gestalt with John Carter and Veronica Carter

 

Large-group Processes

  1. World Work’s “Process Work” (large group process)

      Best feature: learning about deep democracy (also conflict resolution)

  1. Soloman Schwartz’s Process Work (Arnold Mindell)

Looking at systems:

  1. Power and Systems’ “PowerLab” (Oshry) Best Feature: Amazing; Learning Environment best ever
  2. Levinson Institute’s Requisite Organization

      best Feature: Clarified Roles – showed what was missing

 

General OD topics

  1. NTL’s Team Building; NTL OD Theory & Practice
  2. NTL’s Managing Complex Systems
  3. NTL’s Organizational Development Workshop

 

Diversity

  1. Anti-racism Workshop (Heart of Diversity)

      Best Feature: Scenario – watching what went off w/people as they solved tasks

  1. Visions, Level I Diversity Training
  2. Visions (acronym) – organization in Arlington VA

      best Feature: Buddhist Facilitation (Hilda Gutierrez)

  1. Class Action Best Feature: focus on class

Marketing

  1. Recent basic marketing seminar at a successful biotech company
  2. Alan Weiss, often a speaker with NSA (National Speakers Association)

 

Facilitation Skills

  1. BFR: Debra Friedman’s Intro to Graphic Facility (Facilitation?)
  2. Facilitating Difficult Conversations (Roger Schwarz @ IAF Conference)

 

Tools – for working with groups & orgn’s

  1. CAPT’s MBTI Qualifying Program Best Feature: thoroughness
  2. Bernard Mohr’s Appreciative Inquiry
  3.  Watertown’s Public Conversation Project, “Inquiry as Intervention”

      Best Feature – asking questions

  1. Niella Miller - Creative Problem Solving (at ASTD meeting in March)
  2. BFR: Improv Lab (by BFR’s Sheree) Best Feature: application