PROGRAM OUTLINE

The curriculum is delivered over a two year period consisting of 4 courses which explore the core concepts through application, group experience and reflection.  Over the two years a number of short modules (i.e. basic psychoanalysis, small group training) will bolster in-class learning experiences.  Following is a summary of the two year curriculum.

Year One

First Semester: Role Analysis
The focus of the first class in the curriculum provides an opportunity for participants to learn about a fundamental building block of organizational life – the “role”. Here participants examine the links between their families of origin and their formal and informal work roles. A tool, role analysis, is used to explore the many factors that influence how people take up and are given roles. This course provides a working understanding of role, tying both individual and group learning to one’s present role experiences.

Second Semester:  Core Concepts
Combining reading and case studies, this course looks at the socio and psychodynamics of systems. Participants learn about a wide range of the concepts that are core to the Program’s learning, including practical applications of open systems theory, authorizing roles, the differences between large and small groups, organizational defenses, and other aspects group dynamics.

Year Two

First Semester: Contextualizing Organizational Dilemmas
Participants continue to explore core concepts through application to identified organizational dilemma.  The course is designed to allow participants to apply the core concepts through the experience of presenting and reflecting on the design and process of a diagnostic of an organizational dilemma in one’s own organization or a different one.
 
Second Semester:  Integration & Application
Integration of the core concepts through competency building for application.  This is a practice, reflective-practice and competency building course designed to assist participants in transitioning from  having internalized the core concepts, practices and tools so that these may be applied when needed to accelerate participant's current and future roles.

Modules

One and Two-day workshops are held throughout the two years on topics that lend them-selves to intensive exploration. Topics have included:

All modules are scheduled on weekends (Fridays, Saturdays and or Sundays)