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April 13, 2005
Overview
We are pleased that Oregon ODN members Barbara MacKay and John Smith responded to our request for proposals to present selected OD tools and technologies for the April 13th chapter meeting. Their program descriptions are presented here.
Facilitated Workshop Design with Barbara MacKay
What does it take to successfully design a “no-fail” complex facilitated event? Participants will share stories of their own events, identify factors that contributed to their success (or not), and then learn what others feel are the six factors of success for designing no-fail events. These six factors were identified by over 100 facilitators over the course of several regional, national and international facilitator meetings and conferences. In a future follow-up session, we will discuss what makes an event complex, create questions to uncover complexity, and practice how to use the elements and factors to design great events. Complex can include multiple sectors, interdisciplinary issues, large-scale change or conflict, custom-designs for diverse or large groups; (and where no template exists for the issue/objective of the client group).
New Plots to Blend Net-Based and Face-to-Face Interaction with John Smith
Click here for the PowerPoint slides.
Although ‘Net based technologies do not replace face-to-face interaction in any sense, their availability changes work, learning, and instruction in many subtle ways. I'll show how we’ve combined technologies in new plots that shape transformational learning events. It’s more useful to think of ‘Net-based technologies to set up, support, leverage, and then follow-on face-to-face events. Such training events are not about dispensing information but about experiencing new thought, new relationships, and new practices. This is relevant for OD practice in several regards: 1) OD interventions need to focus on growing the capacity of teams, communities, and organizations, not just the dissemination of information; 2) technology can stretch project budgets to extend the time that groups have to “think together” – not just to make an intervention cheaper but to make it much deeper; 3) OD practitioners needs to influence events, interventions, and training at the level of actual practice – how people work today – rather than how we focused organizational attention in the hey-day of Kurt Lewin!
Speakers
Barbara MacKay, MS, is the principal of North Star Facilitators at www.northstarfacilitators.com. She is an adjunct professor at PSU, an associate facilitator and trainer with the international Institute of Cultural Affairs in both the USA and Canada (ICA USA – www.ica-usa.org), a Certified Professional Facilitator©, and works as an assessor to certify facilitators world-wide. She currently holds the portfolio for Professional Development for the International Association of Facilitators (www.iaf-world.org.) Her responsibilities are co-coordinating and expanding facilitator certification and training accreditation efforts globally. Barbara has an energetic style and clear delivery. She is dedicated to her own and others' continuous professional and personal growth. Her 25 years of experience and knowledge covers about 1000 facilitated and training events delivered to all sectors in the USA, Canada and Mexico. You can reach Barbara at bmackay@northstarfacilitators.com or at (503) 579-5708.
John Smith is a principal with Learning Alliances. John is a technologist, consultant and coach for communities of practice. He is the community steward for CPsquare, an international, multi-lingual community of practice on communities of practice for researchers, students, practitioners, technologists and facilitators from many different social and economic sectors. He uses new configurations of technology, a social constructionist perspective on learning and improv techniques to deliver training that reaches new issues and new depths of engagement. He speaks and writes on topics related to communities of practice, including the design and configuration of technology for communities, community self-visualization, the use of story-telling and improv techniques in learning, community self-assessment, and community development. You may contact John Smith at Learning Alliances (www.learningalliances.net), John.Smith@LearningAlliances.net, 503-963-8229.
Details
The
Fairfield Inn & Suites
6100 SW Meadows Rd
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
Program is from 6:45 - 8:15 pm.
There is no restaurant on site. Food is allowed in the meeting room. There is also a good selection of restaurants and take out shops in the area.
Networking is encouraged, so come early -- say 6 PM -- for some delightful conversation with colleagues!