3-day Train-the-Trainer: How to Conduct the Immunity-to-Change™ Process
Wednesday – Friday, March 10-12, 2010
With Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
This intensive, three-day program is designed to equip participants to incorporate, into their own practice, the "immunity to change"™ process* (ITC) presented in Kegan and Lahey's How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2001) and Immunity to Change (Harvard Business Press, 2009).
*The immunity-to-change™ approach is specifically designed to help individuals, work teams, and organizations make those personal and collective changes that are most important to them-- but have proven resistant even to thoughtful plans and heartfelt intentions. The approach first generates a customized picture of something which is usually invisible—the way our current mindset produces exactly those behaviors which prevent progress on the goal we most want to achieve. This is the immunity to change. Once we see the real source of what has been preventing change, the approach guides us on a new path to accomplishing it.
Who Should Attend
Internal and external coaches in business and public sectors, independent consultants, human resource officers, corporate trainers, counselors and therapists who want to learn how to conduct a powerful process effectively and safely, with groups as small as one and as large as 800, directed to the diagnosis and overcoming of both individual and group-wide immunities. (No prior familiarity with How The Way We Talk or Immunity To Change is necessary or assumed.)
Program Outcomes
Participants will learn:
- How to conduct an Immunity-to-Change workshop (in a group or an individual setting)
- The conceptual underpinnings of this powerful and complex learning process
- How to use the Facilitator's Guide as a resource for further developing your skills
- Typical challenges in conducting the workshop, how to spot them and address them
- Most current research and ITC practices Minds At Work is using
What the Training Equips You to Do
- Deliver an immunity-to-change workshop so that it fits your professional circumstances
- Understand the differences and similarities between this way of helping others and your accustomed approach
- Feel greater confidence in your ability to successfully conduct the workshop
Additional Takeaways from the Program
- A network of colleagues for future consultation or collaboration
- New ideas for how and when to use the ITC exercises
- An overview of the "coaching arc" that can follow the workshop
- Three 'source-books': The Facilitator's Guide to the Immunity-to-Change Workshop; How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work; and Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
Design Highlights of the Program
We begin with a three-hour version of an "immunity to change" workshop, conducted by its designers, thus putting all participants first in the "receiving role" of the ITC exercises. Everyone then receives a Facilitator's Guide to the training, and a homework assignment to prepare to lead the rest of us through a portion of an Immunity-to-Change workshop the next day in a "studio learning" format. Each participant will have the opportunity to "run" a portion of the workshop in a way that best matches how they are most likely to use it. Participants also, in turn, assist others' skill-building by playing the role of a learner in others' anticipated contexts, and by delivering constructive and appreciative feedback.
Throughout the training process there will be frequent opportunities to talk about: predictable snags in facilitation and how to overcome them; the theoretical underpinnings of the process; modifications to accommodate a variety of teaching purposes or group configurations; an overview of the "coaching arc" that can follow the workshop; and the latest ideas about the delivery or uses of the process.
Fees
- $2500 for in-house professionals from for-profit companies
- $1750 for independent practitioners (with non-profit or for-profit clients)
- $1500 for those from non-profit organizations and full-time students
This fee includes a Facilitator's Guide (including a CD-ROM of all the materials necessary to conduct the Immunity-to-Change Workshop), copies of Kegan and Lahey's books, continental breakfasts, lunches and afternoon snacks. It does not include dinners or lodging.
Discounted fees are as follows: early registrants (60 days prior to the date of the workshop) deduct 10%; 2 or more participants from the same group, registering at once, each deduct 10%. If applicable, a participant may combine these two discounts.
Cancellation: Payment is fully refundable up to 30 days before the start of the institute, less a $25 processing fee; it is not refundable thereafter, but can be fully applied to a subsequent program.
Registration: Early registration is suggested. We intentionally keep the total number of participants small for each institute to maximize active learning opportunities, and, as a result, past institutes have been over-subscribed. Full payment is due at the time of registration. Sign Up Here
Confirmation: You will receive confirmation of your registration within two days of receipt. Pre-reading material will be sent two weeks prior to the start of the workshop. Please let us know if you need a formal receipt.
Location: The workshop is held in conference space in Harvard Graduate School of Education's Gutman Conference Center, located in the Ground Level of the Gutman Library on Appian Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Date & Time: March 10-12, 2010. Check-in begins at 8:30am on Day 1. Each day, continental breakfast is served at 8:30, and sessions start promptly at 9:00 a.m. End times vary slightly: day 1, the program ends at 5:00, and this is followed by an informal wine and cheese; end time on day 2 is 5:00, and day 3 is 4:00. Please note that there is homework on the evening of Day 1 (approx. 1 hour).
For further information feel free to contact us or call us at 781-254.4541.
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