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The Organization Program at The William Alanson White Institute offers a two-year certificate in ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS

The Organization Program is a two-year program designed to help people learn how the dynamic life of organizations affects the ability to work. Through reflective practice, didactic and experiential learning, the Program uses the knowledge of organizational learning (group and system dynamics) to develop an individual’s capability to lead and work more effectively in her/his role.  Participants examine different components of organizational life - the individual, the group, and the organization – to make sense of what occurs in the workplace.

Participants come to this Program from a wide range of public and private sector organizations, working in roles as managers, clergy, educators, human resource professionals, consultants, mental health professionals, entrepreneurs and professional service providers. Often entering the Program while contemplating a career transition, participants find that the Program’s conceptual framework and experiential design enable them to gain new perspectives on their experience, together with tools for integrating learning in practical application at work. Many graduates view the program as transformative in their careers.


The Organizational Program provides a unique model


The Organization Program offers:

  • A methodology that views organizations through the theoretic lenses of psychodynamic and organizational theory
  • A learning environment designed to help individuals develop competency in their work role(s) through:
        • Understanding the felt experience of work and a willingness to examine oneself in role
        • Experiential opportunities for developing and honing one’s skills to act and reflect successfully in role
        • An integrative, iterative process of acquiring and applying new knowledge
        • A milieu that fosters dynamic learning and reflective practice


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    The Organization Program helps participants learn about the complex and constantly shifting processes inherent in organizations. Our goal is to help you develop the multi-dimensional vision required to discern these over-lapping purposes and develop strategies to increase organizational effectiveness.

    "Emotions in Organisations: disturbance or intelligence?", an article by David Armstrong

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