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Facilitating Change in Whole Systems
Tools To Analyze Trends in Organizations, Communities and Families

Change! It's everywhere! In our families, our organizations, our companies, our communities and in society as a whole. But - - which trends will affect you and which ones will pass you by? If you're just responding to what's happening today, you may be too late! The future belongs to those who keep their eye on today while planning for tomorrow.

This course will give you:

  • Tools for grounded, realistic decision making
  • Reality-based visioning and scenario planning
  • A holistic approach to developing your organization
  • Tools to be a stronger, more affirmative leader

Your understanding of how to work with societal change will be placed on a firm foundation with new skills and insights. Included in your manual is one of the most sophisticated, powerful and comprehensive social analysis systems available today.

Course Agenda:

Facilitating Change in Whole Systems

Day One

Day Two

Session One
Discovering Societal Dynamics

  • Social Change - a conversation on how society changes
  • Introducing the "Social Process Triangles" - an analytical tool
  • News analysis - using the "Social Process Triangles"

Session Three
Determining Social Imbalances

  • Political Change - a conversation on how the political dynamics in society change
  • Imbalanced social dynamics
  • Deteriming the processes that are "dominant"
  • Deteriming the processes that are "allies" to the dominant processes
  • Deteriming the processes that are "collapsed

Session Two
Societal Dynamics in the Family and the Workplace

  • Economic Change - a conversation on how the econonomic dynamics in society change
  • Dynamical tension in society
  • Analyzing the family using the "Social Process Triangles"
  • Analyzing the Workplace using the "Social Process Triangles"

Session Four
Analyzing Social Trends

  • Cultural Change - a conversation on how the cultural dynamics in society change
  • Using the "Social Process Triangles" to discover emerging social trends
  • Value screens
  • Identifying key "leverage points"

Benefits

  • Strengthened leadership skills.
  • Balance the cultural, economic and political components of your organization.
  • A greater ability to recognize and understand trends.

One hour of free coaching within 6 months of the course

Prerequisite: Group Facilitation is highly recommended, but it is not required


To arrange this course for your group, please contact us.

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