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• OD Workshop - Trauma Informed OD - Understanding the Neuroscience of Healing in our Organizations

  • When
    January 13, 2025
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    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Meeting

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  PNODN Workshop - Trauma Informed OD - Understanding the Neuroscience of Healing in our Organizations

                              

      Reut Schwartz - Hebron          Faith Addicott

  
  

  Join us on January 13 from 5 - 7 PM PT for a session with Reut Schwartz-Hebron and Faith Addicott.

  No organization is immune to the collective trauma of our times. From global conflicts and political polarization to economic instability and the ongoing impacts of systemic inequities, both leaders and employees are carrying unprecedented levels of stress in their bodies and brains. In this experiential workshop, we'll explore the neuroscience behind organizational trauma and examine how current societal challenges are manifesting in workplace behaviors, decision-making, and team dynamics. Through the lens of trauma-informed organizational development, we'll discuss how chronic stress and uncertainty affect the nervous system and why traditional change management approaches may need to evolve to meet this moment.

  Participants will engage in small group discussions to share their own experiences of workplace trauma and stress, whether from external pressures like inflation and geopolitical tensions, or internal challenges around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We'll create brave spaces to discuss how different identities – including race, gender, and neurodivergence – intersect with organizational trauma, and examine why mental health can no longer be separated from organizational health. Through structured dialogue and reflection, we'll practice naming these often-unspoken impacts on ourselves and our clients.

  Drawing from the latest research in neuroscience and trauma-informed care, we'll collaboratively develop strategies for creating psychologically safer workplaces and supporting organizational healing. Participants will leave with practical tools for recognizing trauma responses in organizational systems, facilitating difficult conversations about mental health and wellbeing, and designing change initiatives that honor both individual and collective experiences of trauma. Together, we'll explore how OD practitioners can help organizations build resilience while acknowledging the very real human impacts of living and working in these challenging times.

  Learning Objectives for this Session

  1. Identify and explain how current societal stressors manifest as trauma responses in organizational systems, using a neuroscience framework to understand the biological impacts of chronic stress on workplace behavior and decision-making.

  2. Develop competency in recognizing and naming mental health impacts in professional settings, with specific attention to how different identities and lived experiences intersect with organizational trauma.

  3. Apply trauma-informed principles to OD practice by designing interventions that create psychological safety, support healing, and build organizational resilience while honoring both individual and collective experiences of trauma.

  
  

  About Your Facilitator

  Reut Schwartz-Hebron is the Founder of the Key Change Institute. She is an internationally recognized authority in the area of Unlearning and the Neuroscience of Transformation, a Board Member of neuroscience and change-related organizations, a published author of multiple books and articles about Neuroscience applications (in renowned publications), a speaker, a TV and media guest expert (with guest appearances on channels like Fox and CNN and interviews in documentaries), a Master Neuroplastician, and a master coach.

  For the past 17 years, Reut had the honor of studying neuroscience and collaborating with world-renowned neuroscientists and change experts. Reut started her career in the field of change and transformation more than 25 years ago. Since then, she continued to work as an OD consultant, team development facilitator, coach, and HR leader with some of the leading corporations and organizations in the world (across various industries).

  Faith Addicott is President of the Board for PNODN, a fierce advocate for bravery, transformation, and a better tomorrow for all people. She is a dynamic and results-oriented consultant with a deep passion for organizational transformation, systems change, and community healing. With advanced degrees in Public Administration from The Evergreen State College and Positive Organization Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, Faith combines rigorous academic training with practical experience and a good sense of humor to help organizations evolve and thrive.

  
  

  COST:

  $15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

  $25 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered

  $10 for students/seniors pre-registered
  

  
  

  AGENDA:

  4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting

  5:00- 7:00 pm Training

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• OD Partnership Series - The Power of Agency: Cultivating Autonomy, Authority, and Leadership in every role

  • When
    January 23, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Smart Building Center, Pacific Tower 1200 12th Ave. S., Suite 110, Seattle, WA 98144 & ONLINE HYBRID

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  OD Partnership Series - The Power of Agency: Cultivating Autonomy, Authority, and Leadership in Every Role

  
  

  Fred Miller
  

  Join us on January 23, 6-8pm for an IN PERSON & HYBRID interactive session led by the indomitable Fred Miller at the Smart Building Center, Pacific Tower 1200 12th Ave. S., Suite 110, Seattle, WA 98144,  discussing agency in organizations based on Judith Katz and his 7^th book, The Power of Agency: Cultivating Autonomy, Authority, and Leadership in Every Role to be published by Berrett-Koehler, in November 2024. (A hybrid, online participation link has also been added at the request of ATD.)
  

  Fred and Judith have been recognized with lifetime achievement awards from several organization for their contributions to the advancement of work interactions to ensure all people, of all roles, levels, tenure, and identities have the power, influence, and voice to make choices and decisions related to their jobs and the betterment of the organization. Their book The Power of Agency brings each of their 50 years of experience to the forefront as the next major organizational change.

  This event is partially a fund raiser for LIOS! Join us in supporting leadership and OD education in the Puget Sound.
  

  “I’m a raving fan of Fred Miller and Judith Katz. They have been successful coauthors in the business space for years. Their newest book, The Power of Agency, is about every person realizing their capacity to perform, excel, and lead at a higher level. What could be better? Read it!” Ken Blanchard

  Co-Author, “The New One Minute Manager and Simple Truths of Leadership”

  About Your Facilitator
  

  Fred Miller - Cited as a forerunner of corporate change in The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management, Fred has been honored with the The Forum on Workplace Inclusion’s 2018 Winds of Change Award, as the OD Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, as one of the 40 Pioneers of Diversity by Profiles in Diversity Journal, as one of the Legends of Diversity by the International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals, and as the NAACP Berkshires Branch W. E. B. Du Bois Award recipient. 

  As CEO and Lead Strategist of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.—named one of Consulting magazine’s “Seven Small Jewels” in 2010—Fred specializes in developing workforce inclusion strategies that accelerate results to deliver higher individual, team, and organizational performance. For 50 years, he has been a pioneering change agent and thought leader in the field of organization development. His experience includes partnering with organizations to accelerate growth, enhance bottom-line results, and work through turnaround situations, as well as positioning leaders for success in start-ups, entrepreneurial ventures, and transitioning from founder-led companies to the next generation of leadership.

  
  

  COST:

  $30 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered

  $50 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered

  $20 for students/seniors pre-registered 

  AGENDA:

  5:45 - 6:00 pm Gather & socialize
  

  6:00- 8:00 pm Session begins
  

  Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.

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