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Designing & Leading Change

Organization Change Through Intentional Conversations & Visual Practice

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IN-PERSON | Three days
Jesuit Retreat Center, Los Altos, CA

9am October 28 through 2pm October 30, 2024
(Optional early arrival after 4pm, October 27)

All-inclusive Fee (Includes meals and accommodations)
$3500 

*With Nonprofit/Government/Solo Practitioner Discount 
$2800

One spot available. Contact us to register.

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“Gisela and David packed a lot of theory and practical application in the three-day workshop. I also appreciated experiencing two subject-matter experts share their real-world examples. It was a transformative experience! I've already put the learning into action!”

Lori Van Holmes, MS
Principal & Owner, Infinite Expansion

Overview

Grove Founder David Sibbet and Grove CEO Gisela Wendling, Ph.D. are offering a re-designed in-person Designing & Leading Change workshop that will deliver an in-depth look at visionary leadership and transformational change. It will be held at the beautiful Jesuit Retreat Center in Los Altos, CA.

Using The Seven Challenges of Change and the Wendling Liminal Pathways Change Framework™ process models, you’ll explore organizational change not only in terms of stages of process, but also the interplay between inner dynamics and external structures. Participants will be invited to work with their own personal and professional change challenges in the context of Gisela and David sharing about their approaches to successfully supporting their clients initiating and actualizing change in their organization.

David brings nearly 50 years of practitioner experience with complex processes in public, community and organizational settings. Gisela builds on her 30 plus years of practice and research with organization development, transformational learning, change, and dialogic approaches. Working closely with them, you will experience first-hand the benefit of generative inquiry as you engage with the other participants in a visually facilitated learning environment.

 

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This Course Is for You If:

  • You are an organizational leader looking for insight into supporting a visionary leadership approach and sustaining the momentum of change.
  • You are a process consultant wishing to use The Grove’s integrated change frameworks and templates for a more immersive, visual approach.
  • You are a visual practitioner or facilitator seeking to deepen your practice in designing and facilitating organizational and social-change processes.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn what it means to be a visionary leader guiding high-engagement processes.
  • Learn the Seven Challenges of Change Framework as a guide to designing and leading organization and social change.
  • Explore the Wendling Liminal Pathways Change Framework to understand the basic pattern of transformational change, with a special focus on the challenging inner dynamics of change.
  • Understand how to organize and facilitate a process-design team and design a key meeting.
  • Learn about the range of Grove Graphic Guides® that can support people dialoguing and thinking visually at a system level about their vision and organization.
  • Learn about ongoing contracting for goals, roles, and results.
  • Explore the role and diverse tasks of leaders of change.
  • Practice visionary and change leadership skills, including framing for opportunity-thinking, listening, asking questions, increasing self-understanding, and working with creativity and uncertainty.
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What This Course Is Like:

  • Led interactively by Gisela Wendling, Ph.D., and David Sibbet, who together bring more than seven decades of experience working with leaders to support organizational, social and environmental change.
  • Draws from Gisela and David’s book, Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change and Gisela’s latest book, The Liminal Pathways Study. Chapters of these books will be provided digitally for prereading. Hard copies will be provided at the beginning of the in-person workshop.
  • Provides a safe and confidential learning space for experiencing deep sharing and new relationships with a small group of peers.
  • Allows time to focus on a change challenge from your organization or client.
  • Uses real case studies from successful projects in both private and public sectors.
  • Provides practice with innovative visual formats and tools.
  • Includes optional learning gatherings during the evenings.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the Jesuit Retreat Center in Los Altos, CA and is located on 38 beautiful acres of ecologically diverse hillside land, situated within the quaint town of Los Altos.

There are trails throughout the site and well placed resting benches offering views of the San Francisco Bay, valley and hills.

The spacious dining room provides a view of the San Francisco Bay and serves both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food, buffet style.

Each room (single and double available) has a private bathroom and there is free wifi access throughout the campus.

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Questions about our courses, or interested in organizing a course for your workplace?

Email us at [email protected] or fill out the form below.