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A word from our OSD Center President …

The Gestalt Center for Organization & Systems Development, familiarly referred to as the OSD Center, has been a supporter and sponsor of the OD Network Conference for many years.

The ODN Lifetime Achievement Awards went to Gestalt OSD Faculty

for 3 consecutive years:

2011 Brenda Jones   OSD Faculty and current NTL Institute President 

2010 Edwin C. Nevis OSD Founder and GISC Co-Founder

2009 John D. Carter  OSD Founder and current OSD Center President 

ODN Lifetime Achievement Award 2011

Brenda B. Jones,

MS

is an organizational consultant based in Columbia, MD, with over 20 years' experience. She is a past Board of Trustees member of the OD Network, and a member of NTL Institute and IODA. She is on the faculty of the American University/NTL Graduate Program for Organization Development, and the Gestalt OSD Center.

ODN Lifetime Achievement Award 2010

Edwin C. Nevis, Ph.D.

is co-founder of the Gestalt International Study Center, an educational organization that he and his wife, Sonia M, Nevis, formed in 1979. He also helped found the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland in 1956, where he remained as President until 1973, and as an active faculty member until 2001. While connected to the Cleveland Institute, he co-created the well known Organization & System Development Program (1977), and the International OSD Program (1991).

is Currently President of the Gestalt Center for Organization & Systems Development (OSD), John has served the fields of OD and applied behavioral science since 1969 as founder and CEO of John D. Carter & Associates, and as an esteemed faculty member of several educational institutions (e.g., Gestalt Institute of Cleveland [GIC], Saybrook Institute, Union Graduate School, Columbia University, and Case Western Reserve University [CWRU]).

John D. Carter, Ph.D.

ODN Lifetime Achievement Award 2009

What We OfferOrganization & Systems Development Program (Standard Format & Weekend Format)Becoming a Better IntervenerInternational Organization & Systems DevelopmentInternational Coaching ProgramGroup Intensive Program (Advanced) & International

Group TrackWorkshops: Introduction to Gestalt Interpersonal Interaction

OSD Workshop Series BBI Workshop

Meeting Space at Larchmere

Meet our OSD Training Program Chairs

Marcella Benson-Quaziena, PhD Email: mbquaziena@gestaltosd.org

Monika Moss, MFA Email: mmoss@gestaltosd.org

Duncan Coombe, PhD Email: dcoombe@gestaltosd.org

Veronica Hopper Carter, PhD Email: vhcarter@gestaltosd.org

John D. Carter, PhD Email: carterjdc@gestaltosd.org

To Be Announced www.gestaltosd.org

OSD Standard

OSD Weekend

OSD International  

OSD Group Intensive

OSD BBI

OSD International Coaching

Seattle, WA Meeting Space

OSD Standard Training Program

Marcella Benson-Quaziena, PhD is principal of The Benson-Quaziena Group. She consults for public and non-profit sectors in the areas of organization development, coaching, leadership, strategic planning, group process, group facilitation, and diversity. She is a faculty member at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, and adjunct faculty for the Master's Degree Program in Organization Development at the Fielding Graduate Institute.

OSD Weekend Training Program

Monika K. Moss, MFA has dedicated her talents to helping hundreds of organizations and individuals in mapping their future for over 15 years. As a founder of MKM Management Consulting, she provides a full range of custom-designed services in capacity building, planning, meeting facilitation, and training to both private, public, and nonprofit organizations.

OSD International Training Program Chair

Duncan Coombe, PhD  I express my work as a teacher, author, researcher and advisor. The central theme of my work is human well-being. I am deeply committed to being a voice for humanity in the workplace and am particularly focused on the topic of love in organizations.  I have lived and worked in the US, Switzerland, the UK and South Africa.

OSD Group Intensive Training Program

Veronica Hopper Carter, PhD brings experience as a psychotherapist to her work as a trainer of organizational consultants, emphasizing all levels of system. With over 20 years' experience in the practice of Raj Yoga, she integrates spiritual principles, Gestalt theory and practice, and systems thinking into a base for her teaching. She is an associate of John D. Carter & Associates.

OSD BBI Training Program

John D. Carter, PhD is an international organizational consultant with 30 years' experience. He has served on the Executive Boards of GIC, NTL, and the Fielding Institute, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the OD Network. Themes in his work include managing complex systems change, merger integration, the management of professional organizations, and the personal and professional development of minorities.

TRAINING PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

1. Address the learning needs of individuals and organizations

2. Learn skills to lead, manage, and consult to change efforts

3. Influence people and processes

4. Increase skill and capability to achieve desired outcomes

Teaching methods are varied and include lectures, readings, demonstrations, fieldwork assignments, and small group practice. Feedback on a consistent basis is a critical part of the hands-on and experimental nature of these programs.

Faculty ratio averages 1 faculty member for every 4 to 6 participants.

The programs have at their heart a four-fold focus:

The Gestalt OSD framework

Designing interventionsDeveloping individuals,

groups, and organizationsDeveloping systems

SKILL ENHANCEMENTDiscriminate among observations,

interpretations, and judgmentsDevelop greater awareness of one’s own

internal and external experienceRecognize resistance in the client and

systems and adopt a respectful attitude in working through it

Observe and attend to processes at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and organizational levels

Identify conflicts and choices related to interventions required at each level of system

Hope to See You Soon

Join us for a memorable personal and professional experience that will stay with you forever and change your life.

Come visit our website for our current offerings http://www.gestaltosd.org

LIVING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

THROUGH MY PRESENCE