From: Edward Klein <
edward.klein@uc.edu>
This applied Large Group Training workshop is designed for 21 participants.
At the moment we have 17 members including four from England. We need four
more interested people to hold this exciting Large Group workshop. Please
join us and help recruit colleagues for an excellent learning opportunity.
Thanks.
E. Klein
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The need for professionals to have large group skills has been marked since
the early 1990's in educational, health and business settings. In most
organizations professionals are dealing with downsizing leading to
increased responsibility to manage greater numbers of employees and larger
work groups. These challenges also occur in educational activities due to
the lack of training in large group leadership and process.
A special issue of the journal GROUP was published in 1993 including large
group papers by Drs. Faith Gabelnick, Harold Bernard, Kay West and Edward
Klein. Advanced large group training weekends were then held in Delray
Beach, FL in 1995 and 1996 and in San Rafael, CA in 1997.
The Boston and Midwest Centers of the A. K. Rice Institute in keeping with
their tradition of applying theory to practice, are sponsoring a weekend
Advanced Large Group Workshop with Earl Braxton, Ph.D., Rose Miller, M.S.
and Edward Klein, Ph.D. as faculty. Braxton and Klein were faculty at the
1995-1997 Large Group Workshps and all three are experienced trainers and
organizational consultants.
The training will take place March 26-28, 1999 at the Duncan Center in
Delray Beach, Florida. The hours are Friday, March 26, 11am to 10:15 pm,
Saturday, March 27, 8am to 7 pm, Sunday, March 28, 8am to 4 pm.The
workshop, like previous ones, is designed for 21 professionals who are
interested in applying systems theory to work settings. Preferably those
with some exposure to experience based learning models, including but not
limited to
A.K. Rice events.
The workshop is offered to professionals who wish to learn about large group
member (follower) and consultant (leader) roles. Participants become part of
a three person consulting team twice over the weekend. All feedback from
faculty is given publically with members observing the interactions. The
teams remain together for three days enhancing individual and team learning.
Colaboration among team members is one issue faculty will address. In
addition, team functioning and their interaction with large group processes
is a second focus.
This is an opportunity to:
*increase your understanding of the forces operating in large groups;
*refine your group facilitation skills;
*strengthen your consultative voice:
*experience the rewards and dilemmas of consulting team membership; and
*receive feedback in a constructive learning environment.
The fee is $550. Please contact the administrator, Anne L. Silva, 22 Mill
Street, Suite 405, Arlington, MA 02476, PH: 781-643-0510; FAX: 781-863-0868;
email
ALS1522@aol.com for details.