Peter Block at The New School

Community: The Structure of Belonging

Please join The Change Forum and the Organization Development Network (ODN) at The New School for a special evening with Peter Block!

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As OD practitioners we are in the business of learning, not teaching or training. All learning and change require a community to sustain it. Community, and a sense of belonging, is created by shifting the conversation from problem solving to possibility, deficiencies and needs to gifts, and blame and barter to ownership and commitment. Peter Block's session will be a demonstration of it's theory, so the tools of communal transformation will be in the experience.

To learn more about the Organization Management concentration at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, visit http://www.newschool.edu/milano/subpage.aspx?id=19656

Peter will define a form of leadership that depends on listening, convening, invitation, and the triumph of questions over answers. This session will maximize experience, no small task in a world of speed, efficiency, and fast food. This is a shift in the ecology of gathering as the way to sustain healthy culture, high performance, and a carbon-free way of being together. All this requires a shift in thinking. He will explore a way of thinking about our places (workplaces, neighborhoods, towns) that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and will discuss what we can do to make that happen. Learn powerful conversations that will shift the focus to engagement and possibility, leading to the creation of a new future.

Learning objectives:

* Understand the conditions under which transformation can occur.
* Define leadership as listening, convening, invitation, and the triumph of questions over answers.
* Understand the importance of community and how it is created.
* Demonstrate in this session the principles of community being discussed.
* Ways to design gatherings so that transformation can occur.
* Learn conversations that will lead toward a future different from the past.

Location: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall.
10/11/2010 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

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