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Module 1
Reflective Evaluation of Learning Experience (RELE)
The RELE process is an opportunity for you to reflect on your experience and awareness
to create the basis for your subsequent work on the Programme.
This short workshop represents the formal start of the Programme and of the building
of the learning community. You will be able to share and further develop your
“work in progress” with colleagues and Faculty.
Workshop 1 – Forming an Organisation
In this workshop we pay attention to the parallels between the formation of each proramme group and the development/formation of a new organisation while taking account of the
leadership represented by Faculty members. Aims of the workshop are to both support
and reflect on processes of organisational formation, viewing organisations as complex
networks of relationship and interaction.
Workshop 2 – Philosophical Perspectives on Organisation Consulting
As consultants and managers we make claims to knowledge. In this second workshop
we intend to consider the question “how do we know what we know?” In doing so we will
be interested in how we choose to inquire into and make sense of organisations, how we
learn as consultants, and how we help our clients to learn and make sense of their
organisations. In particular we introduce you to the ideas and practice of action inquiry.
Workshop 3 – The Practice of Consulting
During this workshop we will be exploring three aspects of consulting:
our understanding of the ideas and approaches informing consultancy as a practice the craft of consulting, particularly in terms of the early stages of engagement with a client organisation ideas regarding the design of interventions through time. Workshop 4 – Psychological Perspectives in Organisation Consulting
This workshop is broadly concerned with the relational processes and patterns that go on
in organisations. Specifically we will explore how we as individuals make meaning of our
organisational experience and how this leads us to think and behave in organisational
settings.
Workshop 5 – Sociological Perspectives in Organisation Consulting
At the heart of the Programme is our assumption that organisations are complex
networks of relationship and interaction. In this workshop we make a critical assessment
of the theories of Complexity and of Dialogue that inform that assumption and consider
the implications of each for consulting practice.
Workshop 6 – Social Construction and Appreciative Inquiry (USA)
We will consider the challenging implications of this view for our membership of
organisations and roles as consultants. In particular we will be looking at Appreciative
Inquiry as an approach to consulting practice that has been developed out of these
beliefs. The workshop will explore the underlying thinking and methodologies of
Appreciative Inquiry and will look at its application through a number of case studies.
Module 3
Workshop 7 – Change as Lived Experience
In this workshop we return to some of the themes initially raised in Workshop 1. We will
be exploring in more depth our ways of perceiving and understanding the process of
organising and change in organisations.
Workshop 8 – Contextual Perspectives (Schumacher)
In this workshop we deliberately extend the focus of our attention to take in the wider
context of an organisation’s operation. The overall framework of inquiry will encompass
ethical and practical issues associated with corporate globalisation, the relationship of the organisation to its stakeholders and society, and the challenge of ecological
sustainability.
Workshop 9 – Emerging Consulting Praxis
Through reflective conversations with your peers, co-operative inquiry and shadow
consulting experiences in the workshop, you will be encouraged to consider the question
“what kind of consultant/professional am I becoming?”, to prepare and engage others in
an expression of this emerging consulting practice, and receive feedback and responses.
Module 4
Workshop 10 – Action Inquiry
Practice inquiring methodologies and enhance your consulting skills. Develop an outline of your inquiry, its topic, methodology and anticipated field of theory.
Module 5
Developing inquiries and presenting experience
Designed to combine group inquiries with particular aspects of consulting through relevant methodologies.
Module 6
Formulating and testing propositions
Develop emerging propositions about the practice of consulting which have the potential to contribute new knowledge to the field.
Module 7
Writing up and practical implications
Write up experiences, inquiry process and method, the proposition and its implications for your practice.
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