A wide range of experiential and participatory adult learning methodologies will be used in this programme. These will include games, group exercises, demonstrations, dialogues, field practical, lectures, drama and theatre and practical consulting in real organisations.

Session 1:

focuses on building a supportive and challenging learning community in which the theoretical and conceptual foundations of organisation & systems development and change management are explored in the context of diversity and culture. It lays the foundations for facilitating organisational change processes from a systems perspective, and the use of self as an instrument of change.

Session 2:

develops competences for enhancing awareness at various levels of system as the driving force in organisational assessment. Participants practice in multi-cultural teams to undertake organisational assessment in real organisations.

Session 3:

develops skills and provides practice in the mobilisation of resources and energy for action in organisational change processes. Working in multicultural and multi-disciplinary teams, participants learn how to support organisations to make evidence-based decisions on interventions that would enhance effectiveness, and to support the design and implementation of those interventions.

Session 4:

builds the capacity of participants to evaluate the effectiveness of change processes and provides real-time practice in the evaluation of change interventions. It enables participants to practice how to bring closure to interventions in ways that sustain self-reflection and organizational learning.

Session 5:

pulls all the learning together, enabling individual participants and functional groups in the programme to bring closure to their personal learning goals in an integrated manner. In addition it provides opportunities and structures for participants to continue internalising and integrating lessons and skills from the programme into their practice.

Providers

The Programme is offered by Organization Development Centre-Ghana, an independent not-for-profit NGO that focuses on building African capacity in organization and system development. The OD Centre-Ghana collaborates with the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Organisation & Systems Development Integrative Study Centre and the International Organization & Systems Development Programme of the Gestalt Organization & Systems Development Centre, Ohio, USA, and the Gestalt International Study Centre, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA.