CREATING WORKPLACES WHERE PEOPLE THRIVE:
SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING NEEDS-BASED SYSTEMIC CHANGE IN BUSINESSES AND NONPROFITS
A Six-Day Intensive
Facilitated by Gregg Kendrick
* Oct 25–Nov 1, 2009:
Seeg, Germany
* March 21–28, 2010:
Richmond, Virginia, USA
See http://www.nvcti.com/creatingsystemicchange
Over the years we've had a lot of people in our trainings express interest & excitement about bringing NVC into businesses & organizations, and now we have developed a training to support those who are venturing into this territory.
With his background in owning & managing small businesses, Gregg has focused the last eight years on facilitating needs-based consciousness in organizations—first in his own 19-year-old business, and then as a consultant to a variety of businesses & nonprofits including a 4-1/2 year engagement at a company that does pharmaceutical studies.
The intention within our work is to foster the fullness of needs-based consciousness—the living energy of needs—such that we not only impact the human relationships within the organization but we systemically transform the organizational processes, strategies and structures to be in harmony with this consciousness.
OUR INTENTIONS WITHIN THIS WORKSHOP
* Share our experience of NVC/DSG as processes for organizational development
* Develop NVC skills & needs-based consciousness, beyond the intrapersonal & interpersonal, to encompass groups of people with a common mission & aim
* Learn to introduce NVC to people within businesses & organizations through inspiring rather than selling
* Expand the mission of any organization so that it becomes a "living organization"
* Introduce Dynamic Self-Governance (Sociocracy) as a framework to hold needs-based consciousness
* Experience circles as the core organizational unit and explore the dynamics within those circles that fulfill the needs of the participants and the needs of the whole
* Invite hands-on practice of essential NVC organizational skills in facilitation of meetings, expressing & hearing disagreement without blame, mediating conflicts and coaching
* Explore how common processes—e.g. meetings, employee reviews, hiring, terminations of employment, email communications—are transformed to create an environment of authenticity, connection & mutual interdependence within the organization
* Witness—and learn the skills of—a new leadership that emerges in living organizations
* Learn the crucial role of systemic feedback for a living organization to thrive
Varied Learning Modalities
* Large group sessions to enhance awareness of significant concepts using short lectures combined with role play demonstrations and somatic "whole body" exercises.
* An integral Business Simulation throughout the workshop provides a common context for dynamic learning through role plays and group interactions … every participant has a role in the business
* Each participant co-creates and participates in a small group of three to five people called an Affinity Group which has scheduled time to meet each day of the workshop with the purpose of practicing and integrating core concepts and applying the workshop material to your real-world situations
* Each day has scheduled Personal Integration time in which each participant makes choices as to how to best integrate the material, e.g. an information discussion with another participant, personal reflection, taking a walk, etc.
* We encourage you to "get out of your head," tap into your creativity and experience the core concepts and awarenesses using somatic movement exercises and simple percussion instruments.
* Each evening we invite everyone to a Community Meeting to celebrate and mourn our experience of the day, to offer feedback, and to reflect on how we are doing at creating community.
* On the final evening of the workshop, we host a Grand Finale Celebration where each participant is invited to express how we intend to carry this transformative work out into the world.
* We invite participants to offer session of their own that they want to share with other participants in Open Evening Sessions
* Each participant receives a comprehensive 100+ page Participant Workbook that includes session notes, drawings and diagrams, and supplemental resources. See the following sample from the Workbook:
o Co-CreatingtheLearningEnvironment.pdf
Intended Participants
* Business owners, managers and NVC/DSG "champions" who want to integrate NVC/DSG into their businesses and non-profits
* Consultants who want to facilitate the integration of NVC/DSG into client organizations
* Certified & non-certified NVC trainers who want to facilitate the integration of NVC/DSG into client organizations
* DSG (Sociocracy) consultants who want to understand how NVC integrates into DSG
Co-Requisite
NVC Training Institute's Seven-Day "Living Energy of Needs" Training or equivalent foundations in NVC skills & consciousness