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Check out what we are up to in the month of February.  Our newsletter is available here.  Find out where our next interest group events will be held and what we'll be sharing at this month's chapter meeting.  We look forward to seeing you this coming month!

ATDps Members are Invited to deepen their facilitation skills in this FREE 2 hour workshop, facilitated by Sage Ways Consultants Anita Bhasin and Liz Welch.

About the workshop: “How to Manufacture Heat in the Classroom”

As facilitators, we often need to bring people to their learning edge. To do this through the lecture/storytelling mode just isn’t enough…. instead we need to focus on experiential learning where we produce ambiguity, uncertainty, and confusion for leaders— not comfort. Creating this heat provides the crucible for learning. This can be very uncomfortable for facilitators who will almost certainly be blamed for the confusion. But for development to occur, “trainers” must learn to stop teaching and step aside.

The purpose of this session is to provide you with an under-the-covers view of how you can intervene skillfully to raise the heat in the classroom. The method of teaching this session is different from what you might traditionally find in a classroom. The intent is to create the conditions in the room that you might find in your workplace so that you can learn how to intervene skillfully by doing so yourselves while in this session. The process involves taking risks, learning on the edges of your current knowledge and expanding it, and learning by actively doing leadership -  not listening to someone talking about leadership. This approach, called Case-in-Point was pioneered at Harvard and aims to help participants bolster their leadership capacities by having them experience challenges in the "here and now," rather than simply discussing leadership concepts.

To learn more about who should attend, what you’ll learn, the method used, and your facilitators please visit the REGISTRATION link, where you can also register to participate.

Space is limited to 24 participants, so grab your spot today!

Link to registration:

The 2017 CPLP preparation program schedule and testing schedule are available. Registration for the Knowledge Exam (April to October windows) and for the Skills Application Exam (March to December windows) is now open.

Becoming a volunteer is the best way to get known, and get to know others in our great chapter!

There are a number of different ways to get involved, each with different commitment levels. Please review current openings on this page, as well as position descriptions for managers and coordinators linked to below. If you have any questions please reach to our Director of Membership Services at membership@atdpugetsound.org.

Registration Coordinator

Speaker Manager

Speaker Committee Member

Visit:  http://atdpugetsound.org/VolunteerOpportunities

ATD is seeking 2 Registration Coordinators.  This is a great opportunity meet new people in the industry.  If you are interested, please contact President@ATDpugetsound.org  Here is a link to the position description.  

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Join PNODN for a two-day training event
on the underlying mechanisms of successful  transformational change processes at the Dialogic OD Laboratory.

Increasing Your Dialogic OD Practice

with Gervase Bushe

 Details and to register

All organizations grapple with change. It’s challenging to manage even when it is small-scale, specific, planned, and embraced by the organization. When it comes through unexpected disruption, and the organization faces the need for urgent, significant transformation in operations or culture, even the most experienced leader can feel

overwhelmed by the complexity.

The Dialogic OD Laboratory will be an experiential, inquiry-based learning event. The Dialogic OD Laboratory will build on participants’ knowledge and/or experience with one

or more dialogic methods (like Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, Dynamic Facilitation, Art of Convening). The lab will go beyond the techniques to explore the

underlying change processes and frameworks required for successful application of any dialogic change process.

Dr. Gervase Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organization Development, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University

Dr. Bushe is one of the OD profession’s most original thinkers. He helped develop the Appreciative Inquiry approach to change, and authored the bestselling book , Clear Leadership. In 2009, Dr. Bushe and Dr. Robert

Marshak of American University published the article “Revisioning Organization Development: Diagnostic and Dialogic Premises and Patterns of Practice,” which challenged the diagnostic foundations of modern organizational change practice. Their co-edited book, Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change, was published by Berrett-Koehler in May 2015, and reflects the results of their collaboration with an international group of scholars and practitioners to develop the theory and practice of Dialogic OD.

You are invited to help International NGO staff work on training issues they face in their work. Attendees of the LINGOs Global Learning Forum come from all over the world, working in health, conservation, humanitarian, relief, and other non-governmental organizations. They will explore how to shape their sector by collaborating on learning solutions that anyone can use.

In this 2.5 hour session, inspired by the hackathon approach to problem-solving, you have the opportunity to help NGO staff and leaders tackle some of their sharpest pain points by improving training and development for their employees and the populations they serve.

Details and Registration for this work session here. Due to space limitations, pre-registration is required for this event

Questions: Contact Erin Peterschick, co-organizer