Weaving Magic – Skills for resilient projects – With Nick Osbourne.

south west | community | event notice Tuesday January 11, 2011 11:50 by Shift Bristol - Shift Bristol shiftbristol at yahoo dot co dot uk

Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th May

St Werburghs Community Centre, Horley Road, Bristol, BS2 9TJ – 10.00am to 5.00pm

£70 – £110 on a sliding scale

A 2 day workshop on working creatively and effectively with other people.

Exploring how we can cross stony ground without falling out with each other. Many social action groups fail or are ineffective because we don’t pay enough attention to quality of our relationships with each other, our group process, conflict management or how we run our meetings.

What the course covers:
• Running effective meetings
• Conflict management
• Looking after ourselves & each other
• Roles & tasks
• Group purpose
• Collaborative communication and power
• Decision-making & leadership

Benefits of doing the course;
• Understand the diverse features which create & sustain healthy groups
• Identify issues your group is currently facing
• Plan for how to address difficult issues

For 15 years Nick Osborne has worked in management, leadership, training, consultancy or activist roles with organisations including Changemakers, Shell, Amnesty International and the Ecovillage Network. He works freelance as a Trainer & Consultant, as a founder of Response-Ability, working to help people to respond creatively and flexibly to today’s challenging change and complexity. Nick is an active member of Transition Glastonbury, helped develop a network of Transition groups in Somerset and delivers Transition Training nationally. Nick is currently developing ways to support all kinds of organisations to become resilient organisations which sustain the social and ecological systems on which they depend.

To book a place please email shiftbristol@yahoo.co.uk and request a booking form.