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Sharpening the ‘Self-As-Instrument’:
Staying in Contact with Self and Other
A 2-day workshop (May 3 & 4) for increasing personal efficacy in the professional role – for leaders, executives, managers, facilitators and change agents.
Presenters: Martin Ringer and Doug Aberle
Why ‘self as instrument’?
This workshop is for people who are already competent in their roles but who want to increase their resilience, agility and stamina in their professional lives.
Once we reach a certain level of competence and maturity, our effectiveness is limited less by our knowledge and skills than by our personal efficacy as human beings. This includes our capacity to be aware of our selves and what is happening around us and our ability to recover quickly when we lose our emotional balance. For instance, when we have a ‘button’ pushed, it is easy to find oneself in emotional turmoil and hence to lose contact with our selves lose contact with others with whom we are interacting. Hence, in order to be fully effective at work we need to be able to:
· Understand our capabilities, vulnerabilities and the ways in which we allow others to destabilize us
· Notice and make sense of what is going on around us and in our own emotional and psychological worlds
· Support ourselves to stay in constructive contact with ourselves and others
· Mobilize our knowledge and skills even when we are stretched emotionally and intellectually
· Be attuned to, and responsive to, the needs of those we serve.
This seminar series is intended to directly impact all of the above domains to enhance attendees’ efficacy in life and specifically at work.
Why attend?
· To enrich your awareness of your own implicit patterns of “perceiving, believing and behaving” so as to build better understanding of how you relate to others and the world of work.
· To better understand the psychodynamics of groups and individuals.
· To enhance your capacity for maintaining in-the-moment contact with yourself and with others.
· To improve your capacity for self-support so that you can mobilize your capabilities and function well in the face of challenging situations.
· To ignite your curiosity and inspire you to keep pursuing these lines of learning.
The approach
The workshop will be highly interactive. Early in the workshop, participants will be offered a conceptual framework for thinking about ‘contact’ and ‘self-as-instrument’ and the remainder of the program will consist of sub-groups and the larger group working experientially to apply these concepts to their own lives.
Group size and composition
The group will be limited to 10 participants who enroll for both days. Attention will be paid to avoiding potential commercial conflicts.
Venue
Seminars and application groups will be held at Workspace Unlimited, 139 Claremont Crescent Swanbourne.
Dates/Times
May 3 & 4, 2014.
Start 9am and end at 5pm both days.
Fee
Total enrollment fee for two days, including lunch, tea and coffee = $950+GST.
About the presenters
Doug Aberle:
Doug is a transformational leader who has 40 years’ experience in the intensely scrutinized environment of Western Australia’s largest electricity company, culminating in six years as Managing Director. Over this time he has honed and integrated his skills as an engineer, project manager, negotiator and coach.
In parallel he has developed a psychotherapy practice and is a member of the Faculty of Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles and a registered member of the Psychotherapy And Counselling Federation of Australia.
Doug currently provides coaching, mentoring and consultancy services to senior business professionals including facilitation of strategic planning for CEOs and executive teams and coaching in the use of psychological principles to drive organisational effectiveness. He has a particular interest in working with companies committed to improving the quality of dialogue between key individuals and groups (including customers, stakeholders, suppliers and staff).
He regularly facilitates sessions at international workshops in Europe for managers and consultants on the application of psychological principles to the solution of organisational problems. His groundbreaking work in producing dramatic improvements to safety, productivity and customer outcomes at Western Power is now the subject of regular presentations to the UWA and Curtin Graduate Schools of Business and management teams of a variety of commercial enterprises.
Doug is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia; a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University; and currently Chair of the Australian National Committee of CIGRE and the Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management WA.
Martin Ringer
Martin is socio-analyst who has runs and international consultancy in organizational leadership, culture and dynamics. He has led his own independent consulting company for over twenty years.
He has specialist experience, knowledge, tools and techniques for ameliorating conflict and improving collaboration and cooperation in projects and organizations. His recent client projects have all focused on creating high quality ‘thinking spaces’ in organizations. Major consulting projects include working with the owners of both the Gorgon and the Wheatstone joint venture LNG projects, Fortescue Metals Group, Rio Tinto; the Institute for Public Administration of WA, the Western Australian Association for Mental Health, and the WA Planning Commission and Department for Planning and Infrastructure. Martin is an award-winning author whose work is widely published and he has presented dozens of keynote speeches and many more workshops internationally on group dynamics, experiential learning, collaboration and organizational dynamics.
Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce and a full member of the ISPSO (International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations) www.ispso.org. He has a bachelor’s degree with honors in engineering and a master’s degree in Education. For further information see www.groupinstitute.com
Enrolment process
Attendees are asked to pay the full fee in advance. Other arrangements may be available by negotiation.
Early enrolment is encouraged as places are strictly limited and enrolments will close when the maximum number of ten paid applications has been reached.
Participants who require invoices addressed to their employers should notify Doug as soon as possible.
All applicants should return the completed enrolment form (below) by email to
Please pay the applicable fee into the following bank account:
Name: Marple Bridge
BSB: 036 237
Account #: 350732
Please indicate the name of your bank account that will appear on the recipient’s statement as well as the amount and date paid. GST receipts will be issued.
Enrolment form
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What difference do you hope attending this seminar series will make for you?
For further inquiries please contact:
· Doug Aberle on 0417 937 727 or
· Martin Ringer on 08 9467 6008 or
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