Campbell-Ozten Associates
FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SYSTEMIC ORGANISATIONAL PRACTICE
Learning group session topics in past Programmes
The specific topics covered reflect the learning needs of the group and contemporary organisation and management debates. Those covered in past years give a taste of what is possible.
Systemic Organisational Practice Foundation Programme - September 2006 - July 2007
Introductory 1 day workshop Opportunity to develop systemic practice
Describing systemic organisational practice - key words and themes. Experiential use of key interventions and techniques. Establishing a collaborative learning dynamic within this reflective practice group.
Session 2 Organisational and individual learning. Essential skills of working systemically – reflective & inquiry abilities: practising hypothesising, questioning, reframing
Session 3 Talent management and CMM (Coordinated Management of Meaning)
Session 4 Focus on circular and reflexive questioning techniques, a skills build. CMM revisited and Approach - Method - Technique
Session 5 Complexity and ambiguity in leadership and the containment of anxiety
Session 6 Organisational resilience and when resilient change takes place. Conversations which create change
Session 7 Charismatic Leadership and strange loops of stuckness which charismatic leaders & their followers get into. Unravelling unwanted repetitive patterns.
Session 8 Harvesting the systemic crop and celebrating the group: ending by participants presenting their application of systemic concepts to a work project. Reviewing and acknowledging our learning within the group dynamic.

Contact time: 50 hours              Course work: 30 hours
Systemic Organisational Practice Group 2005/6
Session 1 Organisational and individual learning. essential skills of working systemically: practising, hypothesising, enquiry, reframing and reflection.
Session 2 Feedback processes in organizations - discovering the patterns that connect people to organisations and how feedback can strengthen these
Session 3 Focus on circular and reflexive questioning techniques, a skills build. The Domains Model for choosing how to speak and act
Session 4 Conversations which create change, change through conversations using CMM - Coordinated Management of Meaning, as a framework
Session 5 Leader conversations and leader actions: unravelling unwanted repetitive patterns - getting out of stuckness using CMM & Strange Loops
Session 6 Organisational resilience and when resilient change takes place
Session 7 Ending by reviewing and acknowledging our learning within the group dynamic using the framework of Appreciative Inquiry and psychodynamic theories of groups
Systemic Organisational Practice Group 2004/5
Session 1 The framework and essential skills of working systemically. Practicing hypothesising, inquiry and reflection while doing consultation the Systemic way
Session 2 Taking a look at our own practices using Domains of Action model.
Circular questioning theory-practice
Session 3 Skills build: Consultation using the Daisy model to inform Circular interviewing. Exploring the power of transference for why people follow leaders
Session 4 Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and strange loops in the context of learning. Postmodernist and modernist definitions of learning and dilemmas of learning in our group
Session 5 Appreciative inquiry in the context of inspiring change and leadership development throughout an organisation using the theory of employee engagement
Session 6 Organisational resilience and when resilient change takes place
Session 7 Ending by reviewing and acknowledging our learning within the group dynamic
Systemic Organisational Practice Group 2003/4
Session 1 Consultation the Systemic way and use of circular questioning, curiosity and language
Session 2 Taking a look at our own practices using ‘Approach, Method, Technique’ and the Domains model
Session 3 The Power of the Discourse including the Management of Change, transformational or second order change. Skills build: systemic questioning technique.
Session 4 Conversations as change, change through conversations What kind of conversations do you have that create change?
Session 5 Organisational resilience and when resilient change takes place
Session 6 Organisational change and story telling. Coordinated Management of Meaning – inspiring and harnessing incremental, spontaneous change
Session 7 Group dynamics. Ending by acknowledging how the group has enabled our learning.