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THE
PROBLEMATIC MOMENT APPROACH WORKSHOP
Chaos
Management Ltd. and The Center
for Gender in Organizations present
a one-day professional development seminar on:
The Problematic Moment Approach:
Finding Underlying Meaning in Group Dialogue
Seminar
Description
The faculty will conduct a seminar on the Problematic Moment Approach
to finding underlying meaning in group dialogue. A problematic
moment is a moment, typically a moment of silence, experienced
by a group that marks a disruption to a particular discourse of
values, beliefs, and assumption being constructed by the group.
It occurs in the division between the group�s conscious and unconscious
mind. Usually, individual group members are not aware of the significance
of the moment as it happens.
Consequently,
a video playback of those moments enables participants to reflect
on the meaning of the moments and to generate hypotheses about
a group�s dynamics and discourse. On another level, the video
playback also allows participants to notice habitual responses
that may be triggered at such key moments and to re-evaluate the
effect of those responses.
Consultants,
academics, facilitators, managers, team leaders, change agents,
and others who are interested in learning about new approaches
to group work and issues of gender and diversity will find this
seminar invaluable. The workshop integrates theories from The
Tavistock Institute (group-as-a-whole perspective), The National
Training Laboratories (T-group) group dynamic traditions, and
critical discourse analysis.
Using
the Problematic Moment Approach permits group members and facilitators
to use actual dialogue to illuminate group dynamics and to thereby
foster awareness and an opportunity for change and development.
"The fact that silence can hint at tensions or undesirable
ideas arising is fascinating," wrote one past participant
in a similar workshop. "Silence being moments of one�s true
self coming through, and speaking as a way of hiding is a powerful
idea. To be able to interpret the silence would be a great key
to successful communication."
Faculty
Evangelina
Holvino, Ed.D., is a senior research fellow with the Center
for Gender in Organizations, Simmons Graduate School of Management,
and President of Chaos Management Ltd.
James
Cumming, Ed.D., is a principal of Chaos Management,
Ltd.
Fees
and Registration
$80
(Includes lunch)
Register
now for this workshop!
In
case of cancellation, a cancellation fee of $30 will be charged.
Call
James Cumming at (802) 258-4486 for further details.
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