WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Throughout this learning program, you will explore, create and learn:

• The dominant world view about organizations today, alternatives, and making a choice about your world view

• Principles, whether explicit or implicit in the organization, their influence, and making a choice about the principles that seem best suited to you

• Changing concepts and approaches about organizational development for the best future and making a choice about the concepts and approaches for you to adopt

• Laws such as the whole being greater than the sum of the parts and the implications in organizational development

• Values that are meaningful to you to choose to anchor your organization to sustain its integrity through all change

• Skills, knowledge, and capacity for developing an organization using a holistic organizational development approach

• Simple multi-purpose tools from the Genuine Contact toolkit to support your work using a holistic organizational development approach

• A roadmap for your ideal organization using a holistic organizational development approach

The Genuine Contact Summer Academy is more than a workshop. It is an experience, starting with the invitation and finishing with the follow on online mentoring circle.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This workshop is for you if you are interested in and involved in Holistic Organizational Development. This includes:

• Formal leaders, managers, and consultants have clear roles in preparing the organization to adopt developing itself from a holistic organizational development approach and leading the organizational development with that intention in mind.

• Everyone who identifies as a stakeholder of the organization are oriented to the holistic organizational development approach and the intended shift in the culture of the organization. Skill, knowledge and capacity is needed for the people to adopt a holistic way of operating as an organization for the benefit of individuals and the whole organization.

HOW WILL THE WORKSHOP WORK?

The workshop starts on June 24th at 9am and finishes June 28th at 4pm. The daily schedule is 9am to 6pm with 3 nourishment breaks: 15 minutes mid-morning, 2 hours lunch and 15 minutes mid-afternoon. 

Pre-work is expected as part of the workshop. Four weeks before the GC Summer Academy, you will receive a link to the Learning Hub for the Summer Academy. In this portal, you’ll find the pre-work so make sure you give yourself some time to start diving in. 

The workshop is facilitated using the participatory whole systems method Whole Person Process Facilitation. You’ll enter the space that is set up with a circle of chairs. The facilitators, Birgitt Williams and Rachel Bolton, will be introduced to the group by the sponsoring team and at that point, although the hosting experience will continue to be carried out by Doris, Richard, Yolanda and Marielle, Birgitt and Rachel will facilitate your learning experience. 

You’ll find yourself in a variety of configurations, sometimes working in pairs, small groups, individually and in the group as a whole. Activities are designed for you based on best adult learning practices. Questions are offered to stimulate reflections and conversations. Art and craft supplies are provided to access wisdom through creativity. Case anecdotes are used in role-play, with some costuming available to enhance the playfulness of the role-play. Consider that you are entering a learning experience that taps into a combination of playfulness with wisdom, engaging all learning styles.

Practical Information

Dates of the Summer Academy:     24, to 28 June 2024

It will start at 9:00am on June 24th and finish at 4:00pm on June 28th. The daily schedule is from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm with 3 breaks: 15 minutes mid-morning, 2 hours for lunch and 15 minutes mid-afternoon. 

Location: The Summer Academy will take place in a small center in the Center of the Netherlands, called De Lunterse Boer, located in Lunteren.

Workshop Price: Included in the workshop price are the workshop fee, workshop materials, and workbooks, refreshments, lunch, and dinner during the Summer Academy.

• Ticket Price | €1850.00 + 21% VAT (Total € 2238.50)

Special Reductions for Members of the Genuine Contact Organization:You will receive a 10% reduction on the ticket price if you are a member of the Genuine Contact Organizations at one of the following levels: Friend (Orange), Partner (Green), Ambassador (Blue), Steward (Purple), and Elder (Gold).

You can indicate if you are a member on the registration page.

Accomodation at De Lunterse Boer | During the Summer Academy, it is possible to stay at the Lunterse Boer or should you prefer, make your own arrangements for lodging in the area. An overnight stay at the Lunterse Boer includes hotel room (single, or double occupancy are available) and breakfast each day of the workshop.

Once you have registered, we will be in touch with you with more information about how you can book your accommodations.

Lodging costs are per person per night and include 9% VAT and Dutch Tourist Tax.

• Single Occupancy | €116.00 per night

• Double Occupancy | €67.25 per night

It is possible to book accomodation at the Lunterse Boer on the 23rd of June, for a special reduced pre-workshop rate for that evening.

• Single Occupancy | €93.50

• Double Occupancy | €56.00

Upon registration, you’ll be sent the more information so that you can plan your experience, including whether you’ll arrive in the Netherlands days before the Summer Academy starts or stay after its completion. 

MORE INFORMATION | Please Feel free to contact us if you have questions about this training or would like more information. Email us at doris@dorisgottlieb.com

Birgitt Williams | Senior Consultant at Dalar International | Co-Founder of the Genuine Contact Program

Birgitt Williams is an international management and organizational solutions consultant, author, meeting facilitator, teacher and executive coach.

Birgitt is the author of The Genuine Contact Way.  Birgitt maintains that there is leadership capacity within everyone and that it is time for people to awaken their leadership potential.  She teaches about leadership as a verb, action to be taken. She believes personal and professional leadership development cannot be separated.  This book offers the reader the opportunity to take a deep dive into the subject of personal and professional leadership development.  Readers are challenged to claim leadership of their lives and their businesses and organizations for the greater well-being of all, including our children and grandchildren.  Readers are offered the opportunity to read a segment, reflect, discuss, and determine what makes sense for them in their personal and professional leadership, as individuals and as teams.

She has worked with health care professionals including researchers in Nigeria, India, Indonesia, Australia, Ethiopia, the UK, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, the USA, Sweden, and Germany. She has been a mentor and executive coach to leaders and to senior organizational development consultants in Armenia, Australia, Austria, Cameroon, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, and Uganda.

Rachel Bolton Senior Consultant and Coach Dalar International and Director of the Genuine Contact Organization

Rachel has been a member of the Dalar team since 1998 including more than a decade as the Production Director and in this role played integral part of the team at Dalar during the co-founding of the Genuine Contact™ Program. Today, she carries out her work as senior consultant and facilitator focusing on, meeting facilitation, strategic planning, leadership development and organizational development work. Most of her work is carried out online, for clients around the globe, using her skillfulness in meeting the needs of multi-cultural organizations.

Rachel favors taking on assignments that are complex, getting great joy out of unraveling the threads of the complexity to assist clients find elegant yet simple solutions. She loves helping her clients find the best path forward for themselves at this time, with a perspective of helping them be the best version of themselves, individually and as an organization. She makes the complex simple.

Rachel is also the Director of the international Genuine Contact Organization, a global community of more than a thousand consultants, coaches, leaders, and facilitators whose work is rooted in the Genuine Contact way of working. Under her leadership as Director, the organization is growing and evolving including transforming itself at present to a membership organization.

The international Genuine Contact Organization carries its work out in a number of countries with consistent results cross-culturally. A multicultural group now co-owns the Genuine Contact program and leads its ongoing development through their own ‘walking their talk’ as an organization in relation to what the professionals teach. Rachel has been a Co-Owner of the program since 2007.