Organization Development Network of New York

You are invited to experience and learn to apply Open Space Technology, based on self-organization, the powers of this age-old force in enabling High Performance and Peace.

The Program will take place over 3-4 days.

Day I: anyone who cares to learn the fundamentals of Open Space Technology facilitation is invited to join. This day will be the essentials for opening space with any group, including core principles, the planning process, when to use Open Space, role and behavior of the facilitator, and action approaches. Further practice during the following days will increase your proficiency.

Days II - IV: The design for each of the following three days is identical. In the morning, Harrison Owen, the originator of OST, will offer a brief reflection and the balance of the day will be spent working with your peers and colleagues. We will all be teachers. We will all be learners. At the conclusion you will have a compendium of material (online) to remind you of your experience and to support you in your new ventures.
Reflections by Harrison Owen:
Day II Peace and High Performance - A Natural State
Day III Griefwork - Keeping Things Moving
Day IV Practicalities - Doing High Performance, Peacefully

If you are interested in the facilitation of OST, the first day of the program is essential, as well as having read Open Space Technology: A User's Guide and Expanding Our Now: An Introduction to Open Space. Other recommended books of Harrison Owen are The Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance and The Practice of Peace
For more information and fees, please contact Karen Davis at 1-212-595-9107 or kdavis@concentric.net

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Harrison Owen Harrison is President of H.H.Owen and Co. His academic background and training centered on the nature and function of myth, ritual and culture. In the middle '60s, he left academe to work with a variety of organizations including small West African villages, urban (American and African) community organizations, Peace Corps, Regional Medical Programs, National Institutes of Health, and Veterans Administration. Along the way he discovered that his study of myth, ritual and culture had direct application to these social systems. In 1979 he created H.H.Owen and Company in order to explore the culture of organizations in transformation as a theorist and practicing consultant. Harrison convened the First International Symposium on Organization Transformation, and is the originator of Open Space Technology. He is the author of Spirit: Transformation and Development in Organizations, Leadership Is, Riding the Tiger, Open Space Technology: A User's Guide, The Millennium Organization, Tales From Open Space, Expanding Our Now: The Story of Open Space Technology, The Spirit of Leadership: Liberating the Leader in Each of Us, The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform, The Practice of Peace and Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World.

Karen J. Davis Karen, a consultant with organizations globally for over thirty-five years, is committed to enhancing the health, effectiveness, and joy of human systems. She is dedicated to building global community by working and learning with colleagues throughout the world. Karen has been on the faculty of the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile. She has been part of the leadership of the Organization Development (OD) Network, and the International OD Association. She is currently part of the organizing group for the 2010 OD World Summit in Budapest. Karen serves on the boards of Open Space Institute of USA, a large healthcare organization, as well as on the boards of various community and cultural organizations. Karen is a co-author in The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook. She has been involved with Open Space since before its naming. When not traveling or working around the world, she lives in New York City, returning regularly to her native Arizona. Summers, she is on her farm in rural Quebec, Canada. Karen describes herself as a gardener and a world citizen.

Ralph Copleman Ralph is a sustainability activist, poet, frequent open space facilitator, and veteran management consultant. For over 25 years Ralph has served a range of nonprofit organizations, corporations and communities. His consultations focus on helping people and institutions align plans and operations with chosen ideals. In this vein, he has served Russian entrepreneurs, Iraqi Kurdish political parties, corporate executives, and entire communities in American locales as diverse as Michigan, New Jersey, and South Carolina. In 1997 he served as a lead facilitator at the national Volunteer Summit organized by Colin Powell and co- sponsored by President Bill Clinton and all the living former presidents. In 2005, he helped create Sustainable Lawrence, Inc., a nonprofit aimed at transforming his home community of 30,000 New Jersey souls into an Eco-municipality. He now serves as the organization's executive director. Ralph is the author of The Talk Among Stones, a collection of poems. When not working or writing, he can usually be found on a bicycle

We had so much fun with Pecha Kucha last season that we're bringing the presentation format back for an evening of learning and discusson on Sustainability in Organization Development.

Sustainable management is about operating in ways that restore and enhance all forms of capital (human, natural, manufactured and financial) to generate stakeholder value and contribute to the well-being of current and future generations. Join us Jan. 19 as ODNNY members share examples, tools and techniques of organizations that are addressing the “triple bottom line” of people, planet and profits.

Here's the lineup:

• Open Networking Organizations: Creating Sustainable Enterprises, by Jenny Ambrozek.
• Challenges to Achieving Sustainable Operations: Case Study of an Environmental NGO, by Daniel Doucette.
• Women: Images of Hope and Possibility, by Robyn Stratton- Berkessel & Susanne Mueller.
• You May Already Have Compelling Experience to Help "Green" Organizations, by Victorial Zelin.

Here’s how Pecha Kucha (pronounced pe-chak-cha, and also known as 20x20) works: a presenter accompanies his or her talk by showing 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds.  Slides illustrate the topic - this is NOT your father's Powerpoint.

We'll have four or five presentations. (The roster of presenters/topics will be announced shortly.) Following the presentations, the audience will be invited to join their favorite presenters for 40 minutes of small group discussion.  The evening will end with report-outs from each table and a short Q&A session.

Last year’s Pecha Kucha event drew a large crowd as members of ODNNY and other professional networks engaged in deep conversation.  And it was fun! 

We think this year’s focus on Sustainability will be equally interesting, provocative and fun. We hope to see you there. 

If you'd like to be a presenter, please contact Lisa Locke, lisamlocke@earthlink.net.

This is a free event, but please register so we'll be sure to have enough of everything.

Location: Pfizer, 235 E. 42^nd Street,Tudor Room.
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm (Sign-in and networking starts at 5:30pm)

Active members should log in to register for this program.

Non-members can register by clicking here.