Organizational Health and Balance Workshop Series

This Organizational Health and Balance series of experiential workshops prepares participants to look holistically at the current state of balance of their organization and to initiate strategies to create a healthy work environment, strategies that are critical to success and viability. Participants will learn and apply simple and practical tools, frameworks and approaches that integrate ancient wisdom and leading edge practices. These tools have been used with great success around the world in developed and developing countries in all kinds of organizations, associations and communities.

Leaders today know that being a healthy organization is not optional. A healthy and dynamic working environment is the precondition for generating skills and knowledge, collaborative working relationships, change readiness, resilience, and innovation. Much has been written about WHAT needs to be done, but there is very little guidance as to HOW to get there. These workshops help to fill that gap.

How will my learning benefit my organization?

Rick Colbourne, M.A., AACI, P.App., Regional Manager PILT, Public Works and Government Services Canada, Atlantic Region had this to say about an Organizational Health and Balance process completed with his team:
“There were no more games, just simple truth, caring, the beginning of understanding and an acknowledgment that everybody wanted something better and, they were willing to work for it. That was almost two months ago and the changes started from the first day we returned to the office….. What I can’t begin to describe is the light that has come back into people’s eyes, the energy that has returned and the willingness to share and help that has developed….and the “real work” seems to be taking care of itself.”

We invite participants from corporate, non-profit, education, the arts, health care or other public sector organizations. If you are a leader, manager, consultant or anyone who needs to work with others to achieve results, this program offers new and practical paths to create the future of your organization.

The Organizational Health and Balance workshops help to develop leaders and leadership. They are foundational to our leader development programs based on Genuine Contact™.

What Will I Learn At This Workshop?

Our teaching model is rooted in experience. The platform design for the model is Whole Person Process Facilitation. The reality of learning from experience is embedded in ancestral worldviews from which our model evolves. For more information go to http://genuinecontactway.blogspot.com .

Part 1: Path to Organizational Health and Balance provides a broad overview of the importance of organizational health and the steps required to achieve it.

Part 2: Achieving and Regenerating Organizational Health and Balance deepens the exploration of organizational health and its achievement and provides practical experience using the tools to develop an assessment and regeneration plan for your organization

You will leave these workshops equipped with:

Key questions to ask to start your organization on a path to health and balance
An understanding of the Medicine Wheel Tool© and other simple tools as holistic diagnostic frameworks for understanding your organization’s current state of health.
A completed ‘diagnosis’ of the health of your organization, from your perspective (or from the perspective of your Management Team/Board if you attend together)
A process for developing strategy and energizing collective action to move the strategy forward
A customized practical, holistic framework for achieving and maintaining long-term organizational health that equips you to propel to higher levels of development and continually learn how to connect people, strategy and the bottom line.
Knowledge of how to increase the capacity of your organization to work effectively in rapidly changing times to:

Positively impact your bottom line,
Improve the effectiveness of training programs,
Enhance the effectiveness of customer service and quality assurance
Promote health and well being of your employees, and
Reduce the human and financial costs of stress.

An understanding of the importance of relationships, that are based on genuine contact, to achieve results beyond your expectations
An approach to Whole Systems Thinking – a holistic perspective and working with organizations as living systems

Each workshop includes a workbook to support ongoing learning. All participants have access to support and mentorship following the training through an international network of Genuine Contact™ professionals. For more information go to www.genuinecontact.net.

Our Approach

Our teaching model is rooted in experience. The foundational facilitation process for the workshop is Whole Person Process Facilitation, which pays attention the multidimensional human being including learning styles, different intelligences and levels of consciousness. This facilitation methodology creates conditions that maximize the learning of individual participants and also creates the opportunity for the emergence of collective learning. The process invites participants to make genuine contact with themselves, others, the collective and the community – building relationships and new ways of working together during the workshop. This allows participants to mentor each other as they apply the learning.

Program Options

In Person Offering
Visit our Upcoming Events for details on when & where the public workshops are being held or contact us for more information.

NEW! International Online Offering
Courage Group is pleased to partner with our colleagues at Open Space Consulting in Sweden to offer this program in an online format to leaders in North America and Europe. The workshops will be offered in English. Join us to develop your leadership competency in creating healthy organizations. Our online Whole Person Process Facilitation process is a leading edge methodology using Microsoft Live Meeting Client.

Visit our Upcoming Events for details on when & where the public workshops are being held or contact us for more information.

Technical Requirements:
We will be using Elluminate Live for this online workshop. In order to fully participate in this online workshop you will need to be able to access the internet and have the following:

Operating system:

Windows XP or higher
MacIntosh 10.5 or higher
Linux Ubuntu9.10

Web Browsers: Internet Explorer 7 or higher, Firefox 3.6, Safari 4.
Most up to date Java client
A Headset with microphone required to participate
We encourage you to access the following resources before the conference to help you.

An 8 minute video overview. This is a great way to learn the tips and tricks of working with Elluminate. It is built in the Elluminate platform, so you can also ensure the webware works properly on your computer at the same time.
A PDF User Guide. You may wish to download this guide and keep it handy during the sessions. This guide walks you step by step through all of the things you can do in Elluminate.
A Brief PDF User Guide. The short version of how to use Elluminate.

An invitation will be sent for the first session approximately 1 week prior that will remind you to ensure that your system is ready for the live session.

Facilitator Team

Courage Group International co-owners make up our facilitation team for the in-person workshop: Michelle Cooper of Integral Visions Consulting Inc (Ancaster, ON), Donna Clark of Emergent Futures Consulting Inc (Halifax, NS) and Marquis Bureau of MBureau International Inc (Notre Dame de la Salette, QC). Thomas Herrmann of Open Space Consulting and Johann Rehnberg of Manaki Consulting, both from Sweden, join the Courage facilitation team for the on-line offering. They are authorized Genuine Contact™ Trainers and Co-Owners who have been working with the Program for a number of years. This collaboration offers participants the opportunity to learn from Genuine Contact Professionals working across Canada and internationally in a variety of sectors including health, government, private sector and education. It also allows us to offer the Genuine Contact workshops both in English and French, providing participants with a unique and customized learning experience.

For more information in Europe contact Thomas Herrmann.

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Another valuable option is to bring this workshop into your organization for your staff, managers, leadership team, and/or Board. These private workshops can take place at a location of your choosing. This option allows total attention on your organization's unique needs, and any necessary problem solving is facilitated within the workshop format. Contact Us to find out more.

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Visit our Upcoming Events for details on when & where the public workshops are being held or contact us for more information.