Workshop for managers and businessmen

Integral view – the coordinate system for business development:

Workshop for managers and businessmen

Introductory course: May, 13, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (St. Petersburg) or May, 12, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM (Moscow)

Main course: May, 27, 2:00 PM – 9:00 PM, May 28 and 29 – 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

(St. Petersburg, Pushkin, “Potyemkin” hotel)

Guided by Dana Carman and Jesse Mckay

This is the first Russian workshop devoted to PRACTICE of integral development of companies.

Why should you come:

• To make a stop and examine your business and activity from the outside
  ·        To solve your current tasks with help of integral approach and other participants
  ·        To see your “filters” of perception, to observe how they work, which aspects are left out of your view and consequently not used
  ·        To widen your view, to find new possibilities for personal development as leader and development of your team
  ·        To use the experience of your colleagues – participants of the workshop – managers from different businesses, eager to entire and aware development of themselves and their companies
• ·        To work together with interesting people, that are not involved in long-term relationship with you – without roles and stereotypes; to gain real feedback
  ·        To master the practical technologies of integral development
  ·        To learn to settle contradictions and conflicts in the company and in life, to find solutions, that take into account all revealed and not revealed aspects of conflicts by means of technology “Polarity management”

What more will have gain the participants see below.

What will happen?

The workshop will be conducted by two experienced coach-consultants – Dana Carman (25 years of practice) and Jesse Mckay (10 years of practice) who during their professional activities are in charge of projects and consultations for a broad number of clients in USA, Canada, Central America, Africa and Europe. See the list of clients below.

The flow of the workshop will be designed to support participants in the process of progressively deepening their understanding. The basic progression will be from understanding cognitively, to practicing experientially, to application in one’s real life. More specifically, we’ll be moving from integral vision acquaintance (at the intoductionary workshop and reading articles on integral consulting) to direct work at the workshop on May, 27-29: hearing case studies and getting a chance to discuss them, experiential exercises, question and answer, practicing sessions with hands-on coaching, action reflection cycles and real time learning, integration of new embodied knowledge in one’s real life challenges.

The workshop will start with meeting of the group with Dana and Jesse – with fixing of understanding the basic material, with which we will work, viz. reading three articles: (1) using the integral map in organizational consulting, (2) polar management, (3) strategical developing thinking; with the introductory course during which the participants will get familiar with the basic notions and with the Integral Operating System (IOS).

The introductory course will be conducted in Moscow and in St. Petersburg by Marina Danilova and Alexander Savkin on May 13 and 14.

In the beginning of the workshop with Dana and Jesse we will start our work with a couple of training cases from their working experience as consultants. For each case we’ll cover selected details as:

·        what they were asked to do (the presenting problem or challenge offered by the client)
·        what they saw (including through the various lens of the integral model)
·        how they responded to what we saw
·        how and why they did they did in that particular situation
·        the key lessons they took from the experience.

The presentations of the case studies will naturally open up to a discussion in which we share our experiences of:

·        what seems to work consistently in applying the integral approach
·        what seems like it will work, but doesn’t
·        what works depending upon the complexity of thinking the group you are working with

From there we’ll move to understanding and applying the quadrants as an approach to systems thinking. Utilizing various simulation experiences we’ll work extensively and experientially with the four quadrants using them as both an assessment instrument and also as a way to understand and work with organization patterns.

The work with the quadrants will naturally progress into our work together in exploring how to manage polarities. The quadrant model offers two of many polarities to manage.
Finally we’ll practice applying this new approach to the problems and challenges they face in their own daily work environments.
Throughout the workshop we’ll be sharing with the participants lessons learned, helpful tips, and important principles on handouts. 

How the workshop is going to be?

The workshop design will include auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and mental aspects and will be designed to be emotionally engaging. 
Participants should expect that at points during this workshop we’ll be identifying and sharing personal individual blind spots and personal challenges, including gaining an appreciation of how these affect (and possibly challenge) communication with clients, colleagues and maybe the world in general and provoke the problems appearance.

What the participants will have gained:

·        To have learned new ways of thinking and tools, connected with the integral approach and its implementation in the working practice, what will help to see new horizons and perspectives for the personal development and development of a company.

 ·        To have had the opportunity to shorten your learning curve by sharing in what has and has not worked in our years of professional experience with individuals and companies from all over the world.
·        To have enhanced your ability to navigate the complex adaptive challenges that your business faces through practical application of the Four Quadrant model.
·        To have increased your potential for effectiveness and success by recognizing blind spots that you might be bringing to your work.
·        To have become better at working with people who see the world differently than you do by learning the basics of developmental thinking.
·        To have found solutions for your urgent tasks using the approach suggested by Dana and Jesse.
·        To have gained insight into how to break cycles of polarization and win-lose dynamics; and instead be able to create win-win “both/and” solutions with Polarity Management.
·        To have deepened their understanding and got the practical experience of working with the integral model of organization, what will help to create competitive advantages in different squares for providing attractiveness of the company for the clients, on the labor-market and on other markets.

·        To have gained an appreciation for when and where to apply integral thinking and practices in your professional work, viz. how to build a real system of learning integrally and to create a self learning company.

·        To have acquired new insights into how to lead successful organizational change efforts.
·        To have learned how the integral approach eases the establishment of innovative business.
·        To have understood when and where is it possible to use the integral thinking and approach in one’s professional activity.

And, maybe the most valuable result – to have had  communication and experience exchange with colleagues who are seeking the answers to the similar questions as yours.

You can find some simple overviews of case studies of past consulting engagements at the following URLs:

http://www.pacificintegral.com/docs/pipfcexample.pdf

http://www.pacificintegral.com/docs/pihcexample.pdf

http://www.pacificintegral.com/docs/pigoodtogreat.pdf

Client experience

For over 20 years we at Pacific Integral have served to improve the growth and effectiveness of hundreds of companies. A partial list of the clients we have worked with include:

Autodesk	IBM	The Gap
Barton Memorial Hospital	Institute of Noetic Sciences	The Healthcare Forum
Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Institute	Loyola University Medical Center	The Hunger Project
Care Oregon Health Plan	Matagorda City Hospital District	The West Wayne Group
Center for Psychology and Social Change	Rational Software	TIRR Systems.Inc.
Community Health Plan of Washington	Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)	United Nations (UNDP)
Cook County - Loyola - Provident Family Medicine	Rehabilitation Institution of Chicago	Ventura Consulting
Covenant Healthcare Systems	Salomon Smith Barney	Western Rehabilitation Institute
Creative Spaces Construction	Sisters of Providence	Wisconsin State Hospital Association
Elmbrook Memorial Hospital	Special Commitment Center, Washington State Department of Health and Human Services
Ernst and Young	Stevens Healthcare
European Space Agency	Sun Microsystems
German Aerospace Center	TEKsystems, Inc
Federal Government of Canada	Trefethen Vinyards

The number of the participants – up to 30 persons

Cost (100% prepayment) – 28 600 RUR

The price includes – the introductory course, prepared print materials, the workshop (21 hours), handouts, 2 lunches (May, 28 and 29), 5 coffee-breaks and one dinner (May, 27)

Residence and extra dinners are to be paid separately at the same time with the payment for the workshop.

After May, 1 we cannot guarantee free places.

The place of conducting the workshop – “Potyemkin” hotel, that is located on Krasnoselskoye highway, on the edge of the pictorial Babolovskiy park (Pushkin), 15-20 minutes drive from Ploshyad Pobedy. It is a new comfortable hotel.

You can have a great time there with your family. There is a pool in the hotel (included in the price), a sauna, 2 restaurants, bar, gym, comfortable parking lot. A pictorial park around, palaces and museums of Pushkin nearby.

20 minutes drive from Pulkovo arport.

The cost of residence (breakfast, swimming pool included) per night (from 2:00 PM till 12:00 AM) special prices for the participants till May, 1.

Single standard – 3 100 RUR
Double standard – 2 persons – 4 200 RUR
Double comfort – 2 persons – 6 000 RUR
Family room – 6 900 RUR

An additional space for a child (cot, folding bed)
under 3 years of age – free, from 3 to 11 years of age – 300 RUR/24 h, from 12 years of age – 1200 RUR/24 h