TODN Bulletin Board

OPEN MIKE - Now Scheduling 2023 JUNE, AUGUST-OCTOBER Change SIG Programs
Would you like to do a 'dry run' of a big presentation of a personal, professional, or professional change topic before the big day or showcase latest favorites?  Contact Mary Charles Blakebrough 919-493-5424 or mcbreakthrough@mindspring.com about being one of our 2023 Change SIG speakers.

    NOTE 1:  Currently we are looking for 2023  speakers (June, August-October)
    NOTE 2: No registrations here. OPEN MIKE floats as programs added.
    NOTE 3: The Change SIG is now SEARCHING for several Zoom-comfortable people to produce our programs on a ROTATING BASIS.

NEWS: Only to-do's for each Change SIG NOW are Tech Check & Zoom Host
      -- Do a 45-minute Tech Check 4th (or 5th)  Monday or Tuesday, with speaker(s) & Mary Charles
      -- Handle 4th (or 5th) Friday Zoom details, 8:00 -10:45 AM Eastern

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour..

Building Clients’ Trust Using Research-backed, Coherence-building Techniques 
 (bring your own coffee/tea and snacks).

A change agent's effectiveness is directly correlated with their trustworthiness. In this workshop, we'll explore the relationship between personal coherence and trust and practice research-backed, coherence-building techniques that help engender trust. Along the way, we'll answer the following questions:

   *** What is personal coherence?
   *** How does personal coherence influence trustworthiness?
   *** What techniques help build personal coherence and increase 
        trustworthiness?
Late last year, Harper Wagner and Debbie Morris co-facilitated a TODN Change SIG workshop titled Quantum Collaboration where they linked personal and group coherence to collaborative capability maturity. This workshop will expand participants’ understanding of personal coherence while exploring how it affects trustworthiness.

Harper Ray Wagner   

Harper Wagner is a collaborative leader and change agent who has dedicated thousands of hours to understanding how personal and group coherence influences creative capacity. He recently became a HeartMath certified instructor to help individuals and teams increase intra- and interpersonal harmony, stability, and efficiency. This workshop blends HeartMath research and techniques with other bits of wisdom he’s picked up on his collaborative journey.

NOTE 1: The Change SIG is now SEARCHING for several Zoom-comfortable people to join a group producing our programs on a ROTATING BASIS:

NEWS: Only to-do's for ZOOM HOSTING each Change SIG are NOW the Tech Check & actually HOSTING the Zoom Meeting:

-- Do a 45-minute Tech Check the Monday or Tuesday of the week of the Change SIG, with speaker(s) & Mary Charles

-- Handle Change SIG Friday Zoom details, 8:00 -10:45 AM Eastern

-- Many thanks to DEBBIE MORRIS who will be our May 19th Zoom Host!

NOTE 2: Do you have an idea to polish or a presentation to try out? The Change SIG is looking for 2023 speakers (June-October).

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour.

Reframe Risk for Purpose, Pride & Profit
(8:30-10:30 AM - bring your own coffee/tea and snacks). 

Are you facing a big risk and wondering what your next steps might be? Will they make you proud and align with your purpose?

What are some of the questions about REFRAMING RISK that you might have. Feel free to have them jotted down, ready to ask.

Niha's back in town and has ADDED MORE to each question:

Why is REFRAMING so important in outstanding leadership?
We have to reframe risk in order to make is palatable, irresistible, and increase our internal confidence that WE CAN MAKE IT A SUCCESS. We CAN increase risk tolerance just like we can increase our “spice tolerance” - by trying more spicy things! :) 

Niha Wunnava MHSA, FACHE       

BIO AND LEADERSHIP MASTERCLASSES

Niha Wunnava is a Leadership and Executive Coach for women, women of color and our allies who want to create balanced, explosive success through bold, strategic action and risk-taking. She teaches modern, inclusive leadership skills so her clients outshine and lead with ease - taking their place as an important, essential decision-maker.

Niha offers tailored Masterclasses and speaks to international audiences on leadership fundamentals that they don’t teach in business school, such as:

Working with Niha, her clients become world-class industry thought leaders by owning their expertise and unique experience. Her 12-week private Success Reinvention Experience for ambitious leaders is life-changing. She shares what she learned working directly with CEOs and as a leadership expert for over two decades being promoted year after year right out of college. 

She was a long time Chair of International Language Immersion school, which opened a new 37-acre campus in 2021.

Niha holds a Masters in Public Health from University of Michigan and lives with her husband, a military veteran, and three daughters in Durham, NC.

CONTACT: niha@nihacoaching.com -- www.nihacoaching.com

NOTE 1: The Change SIG is now SEARCHING for several Zoom-comfortable people to produce our programs on a ROTATING BASIS.

NEWS: Only to-do's for each Change SIG NOW are Tech Check & Zoom Host
    -- Do a 45-minute Tech Check 4th (or 5th)  Monday or Tuesday, with speaker(s) & Mary Charles

    -- Handle 4th (or 5th) Friday Zoom details, 8:00 -10:45 AM Eastern
 
Many thanks to _ RICHARD KURTH _  who will be our April 28th Zoom Host!

NOTE 2: Do you have an idea to polish or a presentation to try out? The Change SIG is looking for 2023 speakers (June-October).

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour.

What Are your Three Tomorrows?
How Do You Create the Future You Prefer
for You & Your Organization?
What are your three tomorrows? How do you create the kind of future you prefer? What are your desires for a better future?

Join Jayne Fleener and Susan Westbrook as they explore the Three Tomorrows and how you can expand your understandings about your relationship with the future to set a foundation for the future you desire. They will share their perspectives and experiences with working with individuals and organizations to create possible, plausible and preferred futures. Join them as they take us on a journey to the future! 

Jayne Fleener, Ph.D. 

Jayne Fleener is a Futurist, Professor, Educator, Connector. Jayne is a former dean and current professor at NC State University. She has been working with futurists and community leaders to develop futures literacy and social transformation for new ways of thinking. Her upcoming book Learning and leading in an age of transformation will be published in the forthcoming Living in an Age of Transformation series. She has three graduate degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill, including her doctorate in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in mathematics education. 

Since 2015 when Jayne returned full-time to teaching and research, among her classes she teaches Organizational Theory that includes futuring strategies, many of which are in her Futures Learning website. She is a boundary spanner committed to working across fields for future transformation.

Susan Westbrook, PCC, Ph.D.  

Susan Westbrook spent 3 decades in education before moving her focus to healing, coaching, and writing.  She is the author of The Five Tibetans Yoga Workshop: Tone Your Body and Transform Your Life (Findhorn Press 2014).  Her current manuscript, Who’s Coaching Michelangelo?: Inspiring a Creator’s Mindset in Your World-Shaping Clients, will be book-ready soon.

Susan’s number one agenda is to influence creators, game-changers, and world-shifters by helping them transcend their circumstances and move boldly toward their dreams.  She knows that for action-oriented big thinkers, the greatest "problem" is finding allies who will take them seriously and stop advising them to be more realistic. Big dreams require big containers of support and creative partnership. That is what Susan offers her clients, workshop participants, and readers.

The Change Manager as Gardener: Leveraging the Four Force Framework
(8:30-10:30 - bring your own coffee/tea and snacks). 

The management guru, Peter Drucker, famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Evidence bears this out. According to a recent study by the consulting firm BCG, 75% of transformation efforts don’t deliver the hoped-for results. And a 2018 Corporate Longevity Forecast conducted by Innosight showed that the length of time S&P 500 companies stayed on the list had shrunk from 33 years in 1964 to 24 by 2016, likely dropping to 12 years in 2027.

Given the outsize role of culture, how can change managers harness it to drive successful change? In this interactive session, participants will delve beneath the surface of culture by examining the four forces framework of cultural change. We will explore how the four cultural forces—habit, vision, interest, and innovation—act as drivers of change, and how they interact to either support or impede change efforts. Using case studies, we will then apply the four forces framework in practice, and reflect on how we might incorporate it into our change management toolkits.

A broader aim of the workshop is to develop the metaphor of the change manager as a gardener. As a gardener, the change manager must adapt to changing conditions, keeping an eye on the future, nurturing employee needs for growth, cultivating productive habits, and using a healthy dose of sunlight to spur innovation.

Suggested Pre-Work: Journal of Business Anthropology article by Matthew J Hill and Mario Moussa, Organizing Cultural Change: Leveraging the Four Forces Framework. (Dec. 15, 2022)

Matthew J. Hill, PhD  

Matthew J. Hill, Principal of Matthew J Hill Consulting, is a well-published academic, experienced business anthropologist, and executive consultant.

He advises senior leaders on a wide range of issues. Areas include organizing change campaigns, improving operational processes, developing impactful strategies, and building high performing teams.

Matthew employs cutting-edge ethnographic research methods and participant observation to help leaders gain deeper insights into their organization’s cultural dynamics. He taps into people’s interests and passions, harnessing them to drive successful organizational campaigns. An expert in cultural change initiatives, Matthew also facilitates Action Learning Projects where teams collectively research troublesome operational processes, identify the underlying causes and generate solutions to solve them.

Matthew has published widely on business and organizational issues in leading business journals and executive forums. Recent articles include Organizing Cultural Change: Leveraging the Four Forces Framework in the Journal of Business Anthropology and Pathways to Digital Transformation CU Management, and an article on cooperative entrepreneurship for the Kauffmann Foundation.

Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewjhillphd/

NOTE 1: The Change SIG is now SEARCHING for several Zoom-comfortable

people to produce our programs on a ROTATING BASIS.
NEWS: Only to-do's for each Change SIG NOW are Tech Check & Zoom Host
-- Do a 45-minute Tech Check 4th (or 5th)  Monday or Tuesday, with speaker(s) & Mary Charles

  -- Handle 4th (or 5th) Friday Zoom details, 8:00 -10:45 AM Eastern

Many thanks to  DEBBIE MORRIS  who will be our February 24th Zoom Host!

NOTE 2: Do you have an idea to polish or a presentation to try out? The Change SIG is looking for 2023 speakers (March, June-October).

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour.

TODN Change SIG: 1/27/22 - Creative Consensus in Decision Making - Martie Weatherly

(8:30-10:30 - bring your own coffee/tea and snacks). 

Creative consensus is the best way to achieve high commitment decisions, in complex situations that require creative thinking and have 100% commitment to implement the decision. It is a process of discovery to combine the wisdom of the group for the best possible decision for the whole group at that time.

Martie will introduce us to this form of decision making, will review what consensus is and is not, and the three main skills that are needed. We will have a chance to role play making a decision together using this model.

• When is consensus the right type of decision making for this issue and this group?
• What is the most important belief that everyone must bring into the room for consensus to work?
• What is the value of dissent in a consensus discussion
  
  

Martie Weatherly  

Martie Weatherly has been a life and consensus coach for over 20 years.  Her passions are health, well-being, vitality, and community. Recently retired after 20 years as a hospital supervisor, Martie is focusing on sharing the magic of consensus in moving from a You vs. Me World to a We World.

She is now bringing her knowledge to groups who want high quality decisions with increased trust, faster execution, and higher commitment. Since becoming a founding member of Liberty Village Cohousing, she has successfully used consensus and facilitation to help build their community to where it is today.

NOTE 1: The Change SIG is now SEARCHING for several Zoom-comfortable people to join a group producing our programs on a ROTATING BASIS:
     -- Review the Google Drive agenda used to manage the programs and insert handout(s), if any
     -- Handle 4th Friday Zoom details 8:15-10:45 AM Eastern
     -- Do a 45-minute tech check 4th (or 5th)  Monday or Tuesday, with speaker(s) & Mary Charles

     -- Many thanks to ______ who will be our January 27th Zoom Host!

NOTE 2: Do you have an idea to polish or a presentation to try out? The Change SIG is looking for 2023 speakers (March-October).

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour.

Big 2022 AH-HA for You? 22nd Annual Tips & Tricks Exchange

 (8:30-10:30 - Bring your own coffee/tea/snacks) 

NOTE: Gifting will be by Google SLIDES again:
--- INSTRUCTIONS & LINK to TIPS & TRICKS slides now AVAILABLE in
     REGISTRANT LINK email AND in REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION.
--- those already registered, look for your link in a separate email.

This is our annual SIG Holiday TIPS & TRICKS EXCHANGE. It is a joint Nov/Dec meeting and the agenda is one that we have had for 22 years. We gather to share something that has impacted us either professionally or personally during 2022. 

You 'gift' us by sharing a book, a tip, a technique, a brain-friendly recipe, a picture, a poem, a great quote, or anything else that has inspired, pleased or touched you in the past year. If it has been surprisingly successful, that's even better.

NOTE: 2022 Tips or Tricks will be shared with the group over ZOOM. For some Zoom clues: Getting Friendly with Zoom. 

To enable our sharing in this virtual meeting, we have created a document in Google Slides, where you can add links, pictures, or text on your own slide. Your REGISTRATION confirmation email contains the document link.

NOTE 1: Be sure to add your contact information, as it's our way of exchanging business cards.
NOTE 2: Sign up, even if you have a conflict, so you can add your GIFT this year and be able to view other gifts later.

We can then share these slides in the meeting, one by one, giving each person a few minutes to say something they are grateful for in 2022, and then explain their gift as we go around the virtual room. 

At the end, we'll have a super cool artifact for ourselves and to share with anyone who couldn't be with us in real time.

If you're new to Google Slides, it's just like PowerPoint, only simpler. There are instructions that will guide you through the process of creating a slide for your gift in the Tips & Tricks Exchange confirmation email when you REGISTER or get your ZOOM LINK email.

NOTE: If this process creates a barrier to your participation, don't sweat it!

• You can send your responses to Mary Charles Blakebrough on email at mcbreakthrough@mindspring.com and she will create your slide for you
• Or you can share your screen during the Change SIG and show us whatever you like as your gift.

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573 or mcbreakthrough@mindspring.com) or Vickie Bevenour.

Quantum Collaboration: Consciously Co-Creating Change
 (bring your own coffee/tea and snacks). 

Today’s change agents are encountering an increasing number of challenges to effect change. One prominent challenge is the growing sense of separation amongst individuals, leaders, and organizations, even though there are frequent calls for more connection. What can we do differently to foster more connection and help co-create the changes that humanity needs? 

In this interactive workshop, we will explore how you can expand your ability to co-create change by consciously operating with one foot in our 3D reality and the other in the quantum field. Debbie and Harper have built a model that outlines how to more effectively collaborate at increasing levels of complexity and will relate that model with basic concepts from the growing field of quantum mechanics. 

• How might we invent new ways of collaborating in organizations? 
• What could it look like if organizations intentionally identified, developed, and sustained collaborative processes?
• How might change agents more consciously operate in both the 3D and quantum worlds?

Debbie Morris   

Debbie Morris is an OD practitioner who has specialized in strategic planning, organization and personal change, facilitation and training. She spent her formative years at Nortel Networks and their R&D subsidiary, BNR. As an independent consultant, she enjoyed using Appreciative Inquiry and performance consulting methods to help clients plan and execute significant organizational improvements. She wrapped up her formal career as Planning Director for the NC Department of Revenue. Now Debbie offers project assistant services to other consultants, and has finally had time to work on this long-standing passion project. 

Harper Ray Wagner   

Harper Ray Wagner has worked as a management consultant and professional development instructor for 17 years. His expertise includes improving organizational program and project management capabilities and leading business process automation efforts. His fascination with the energetic dynamics of groups grew once he started applying the Collaborative Operating System (COS) practices in 2018. Harper now enjoys experimenting with techniques to increase group coherence while facilitating organizational change meetings. 

-- Many thanks to Debbie (Beaufort, NC) & Harper (Croatia) who will be our October 28th Zoom Hosts, as well as our Presenters!

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour.

MINDING THE STORE:  Mindfulness Practices for the Workplace
 (bring your own coffee/tea and snacks). 

This organizational culture session will encourage small group discussion, collaborative problem solving, and creative presentation skills.  Participants will explore personal and professional practices to help make the world a better place for each of us, and for everyone around us, particularly in those places where we hope to work well with others.

1. What mindfulness practices might be useful in both personal and professional settings?
2. What are the six overarching categories of these considerations that will simplify my own practice?
3. How does practicing these things make a difference?

Greg Whitt   

At Drum for Change, Greg Whitt facilitates workshops and retreats designed to connect people to one another and to the world around them. He studied holistic lifestyle practices in graduate school through the Transformative Leadership and Social Change program at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. His studies focused on wisdom traditions to benefit modern society and these support his work leading experiential education programs.

Greg creatively connects people in ways that are joyful, engaging, and good for you.  He shares hands-on philosophy about how we can live, work, and play well together in community, only it's cleverly disguised as music and delivered as interactive and engaging fun.

NOTE 1: The Change SIG is now SEARCHING for several Zoom-comfortable people to join a group producing our programs on a ROTATING BASIS:
     -- Review the Google Drive agenda used to manage the programs and insert handout(s), if any
     -- Handle 4th (or 5th) Friday Zoom details 8:15-10:45 AM Eastern
     -- Do a 45-minute tech check 4th (or 5th)  Monday or Tuesday, with speaker(s) & Mary Charles

     -- Many thanks to Richard Kurth who will be our September 30th Zoom Host!

NOTE 2: Do you have an idea to polish or a presentation to try out? The Change SIG is looking for 2023 speakers (March-October).

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour.

Creating Relationship Awareness Through a Systemic Lens  (bring your own coffee/tea and snacks). 

Relationships are integral to what it means to be human. Though we sometimes think of ourselves as separate beings, we’re more connected than we are separate. In this session we’ll look at the systemic basis for understanding the space between us in relationships.

• How balanced is the giving and receiving/taking in your relationships?
• What is your tendency when giving to others?
• How easy is it to receive or take from others?

We’ll use Systemic constellations, a process for exploring hidden dynamics in family systems that encourage or disrupt connection. In a gentle, respectful way they can shed light and bring new insight that helps relationships. They can offer a new perspective on relationships – and the issues that inevitably come up between people who care about each other.

In small group practice sessions, you’ll be invited to explore a relationship you value, and that you’d like to examine more closely. We’ll look at the balance of giving and receiving/taking, and how it affects relationships. You’ll have an opportunity to explore some of the hidden dynamics that keep issues in place, and have the chance to experiment with new ways of connecting.

Betsy Hostetler, Ph.D.   

Dr. Hostetler has helped leaders shift their cultures to become healthier, more robust and more customer-service oriented. Using participatory methods to bring leaders, teams and organizations together, Betsy has helped them lay the groundwork for change. Deeply trained in the systemic constellation method, a groundbreaking method to uncover the hidden dynamics that hinder progress, she has helped leaders achieve breakthroughs they didn’t think possible. She works in healthcare, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, and can be reached at www.HostetlerConsulting.com.

Mindy Schrager    

Mindy Schrager is an ICF PCC credentialed coach, Integrative Coach, Systemic Facilitator, and Aura-Soma practitioner with a passion for transformational work. Her experience and transformational training has been focused on creating positive change in life and business experiences (i.e. shadow, family DNA) for herself and her clients. She loves to shine the light on hidden patterns and the root cause of dysfunction and then help you create new pathways to growth.

NOTE 1: The Change SIG is now SEARCHING for several Zoom-comfortable people to join a group producing our programs on a ROTATING BASIS:
     -- Review the Google Drive agenda used to manage the programs and insert handout(s), if any
     -- Handle 4th Friday Zoom details 8:15-10:45 AM Eastern
     -- Do a 45-minute tech check 4th (or 5th)  Monday or Tuesday, with speaker(s) & Mary Charles

     -- Many thanks to ______ who will be our August 26th Zoom Host!

NOTE 2: Do you have an idea to polish or a presentation to try out? The Change SIG is looking for 2023 speakers (March-October).

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour.