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News DVD/workbook programs to be released IDA's John Forman and Eric Klein, Founder of Dharma Consulting, have recently completed a pair of programs commissioned by the Association of Critical Care Nurses, one of the largest nursing associations in the United States. Each program is based on a series of short DVD modules. These engaging, professionally produced modules are fun to watch, content-rich, and present core principles and practices that you can use to renew your purpose, enhance your work, and create a healthy workplace. While they are designed for nurses, the two programs are informative for any organization looking for ways to engage the dynamics of "Change" and "Re-energizing The programs make
it easier for you to do what you already want to do: -
Re-ignite people’s passion -
Help people grow and develop – as
leaders and team members -
Coach people out the “victim
thinking” trap -
Re-energize the mission Forman and Klein have made engaging these difficult topics as easy (and as fun) as possible. But, they are not offering a magic bullet that will do the work for you. Like any true solution – these programs need leadership and involvement. They need leadership's attention and passion. "What we have done," says Forman, "is provide the structure, system, and content – that will make the process a simple as possible to implement." Forman to lead workshop at AACN conference The American Association of Critical Care Nurses has invited IDA's John Forman to lead a workshop in Chicago, May 3-8, 2008, at the 35th annual National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition. The event is the world's largest educational conference and exposition focused on acute and critical care nurses. Forman will be leading a workshop called “Immunity to Change.” The process was originally designed by Robert Kegan, professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. The workshop helps people to surface internal contradictions and personal “assumptions-taken-as-truths.” It creates a simple, but elegant map or diagnostic of a dynamic called the “immunity to change.” The process is built on the discovery of a set of new ways of talking about our situations that honor the complex nature of every person. Each new form of discourse represents the transformation of a more familiar mode. The exercise is remarkably powerful as a stand-alone workshop, but participants who have come to previous workshops tend to find additional momentum by taking what they have learned back into the workplace. Consulting assistance is available to anyone interested in a specific follow-up. In the workshop, participants will be helped to create their own custom-designed version of what is usually a highly powerful personal technology for transformational learning. Participants are asked a sequence of reflective questions – each designed to provoke a distinctly different form of discourse with a debriefing partner. The process does invite people out into deep waters, but it is always left to the individual participant to set the depths to which they choose to go. By the end, each person will have an actionable, new path for learning their way through intractable problems, enabling them to make sustainable change, not just temporary or apparent change. While individual participants will benefit from this workshop, the process is espcially useful for nurse executives, supervisors, charge nurses or any other team leader interested in the pursuit of lasting change. By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
Each workplace is, among other
things, a "language community." The way
that we think and talk about our workplaces, and the
associated emotions that arise, influence what we
are able to see and do. Consequently, one of the
more powerful avenues to coping with change (both
desired and imposed) is to find new forms of
discourse.
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