For 20 years, our team of world renowned trainers have been committed to helping companies become “learning organizations” which continually transform themselves. Understanding that your organization is a living system and that it may be operating with mental models which have grown obsolete is key to achieving your goals; organizations need the ability to perceive changes in order to successfully adjust and adapt. The Society for Organizational Learning North America offers several different workshops throughout the year, but also encourages organizations to collaborate with our trainers to develop custom programs. These workshops offer personal transformation and reflection on your place in the world. We help participants better understand themselves as leaders, seek guidance to discover their organization’s core value, and/or further explore the concepts of organizational learning. We welcome deep thinkers to explore new ideas, leave motivated to make the world a better place, and connect with the “why” in others.
Leading Across Boundaries for Systems Change
This intensive, interactive, three-day program builds on decades of hands-on experience by Peter Senge and Darcy Winslow in shifting cultures of organizations for the wellbeing of employees, communities, and the planet. Whether within an organization, a value chain, or a community, deep change often involves building networks of trust and collaboration across boundaries, within and among organizations. This workshop will build skills that you can use right away to make change and move from polarization and inertia to collectively envisioning, initiating, and creating new futures. Special attention will be given to how to help shift the collective focus from just reacting to problems to releasing collective creativity.
Introduction to Compassionate Systems Frameworks in Schools
Offered by the MIT JWEL & Systems Leadership Institute This hands-on workshop is an introduction to the tools and approaches that have been developed for implementing what we call a “compassionate systems” framework. These tools are being used at both the level of classroom innovations and collective leadership in shaping a more generative school culture. In addition to introducing some of the tools in use, we will share examples from the IB prototypes with the aim that participants can begin working together on similar prototypes in their own school and classroom settings. To support this, we recommend people come in teams where they can support one another moving forward.
Foundations for Leadership- Spring, 2020
Offered in collaboration with the Presencing Institute, the Executive Champions’ Workshop (ECW) is not a training session. Nor is it a typical conference. It is both personal and substantive in the way that only deep conversation among peers can be. The ECW takes place in the Green Mountains of Vermont- a special setting for nurturing new thinking and relationships among executive leaders in today’s rapidly changing economic and social landscape. Learn more.
Executive Champions' Workshop
The essence of leadership concerns the capacity of a human community to shape its future. Foundations for Leadership delves into both the personal and inherently collective aspects of leadership. At the workshop, special attention is given to the domains of personal mastery, mental models, and systems thinking as they apply to leading and initiating meaningful change. Guided by Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline, this deeply personal workshop helps participants understand who they are as leaders. Learn more.