OD Threshold Experience

This course is designed for OD practitioners and leaders who wish to deepen their understanding of organisational systems and and how to influence them.

Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, you will gain valuable personal and professional insights that will enhance your effectiveness as a leader and as a transformational agent within your system.

This 2-week course is designed to be transformative, both professionally and personally.

You'll explore how you get pulled into the systems you're trying to change and start to develop the awareness and steadiness needed to work with greater clarity, objectivity and impact.

It will be delivered in Four 2 interactive online sessions, spread over two weeks. Each session will last around 2 hours and provide a reflective space for us to meet and start moving beyond the limits we can impose upon ourselves as practitioners.

Module scheduling has been timed to provide a rapid immersion that fits within an extended lunch hour.

Don't worry if you miss a session, they will be recorded.

The OD Threshold Experience is built around four linked modules.

Each session helps you to develop a different kind of orientation: first to yourself, then to the patterns that pull you in, then to the wider system, and finally to the real interventions you might make.

Module 1: Knowing Yourself in the System
Recognise how your own stance, identity, assumptions and reactions shape the way you relate to and influence organisational systems.

Discover and own how your state of presence is a key part of the intervention.

June 15th 12:00-14:00 GMT

Module 2: Mastering the Energy Lens
Explore the power of the Burke-Litwin model to see beyond symptoms and transform deeper patterns in leadership, culture, relationships, structure and performance.

Start noticing where pressure, trust, leadership, culture, structure and performance interact and identify where energy may be blocked, leaking or misdirected.

June 16th 12:00-14:00 GMT

Module 3: Becoming an Energy Catalyst
Understand the role of energy catalyst and bring more presence and power to holding spaces that enhance a leader's thinking and being.

You will explore your own story, patterns and default moves in the system. Using reflective exercises and self-regulation practices, you will strengthen your capacity to stay clear, grounded and useful when the system becomes anxious or stuck.

June 23rd 12:00-14:00 GMT

Module 4: Belonging to a community of practice
You will explore the practices, relationships and rituals that sustain this work over time, cultivating social 'wells' of learning, wisdom and connection that nourish and sustain practitioners.

This final session helps you to integrate what you have learned and to consider how you will continue developing your OD practice beyond this foundation experience.

June 24th 12:00-14:00 GMT

Module 1: Knowing Yourself in the System
June 15th 12:00-14:00 GMT

Module 2: Mastering the Energy Lens
June 16th 12:00-14:00 GMT

Module 3: Becoming an Energy Catalyst
June 23rd 12:00-14:00

Module 4: Belonging to a community of practice
June 24th 12:00-14:00