January 28-30, 2005
Our lives are enmeshed in relationships: husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters, bosses and employees, clergy and parishioners, teachers and students. You name it, people are involved, for better and for worse. It is possible to learn new processes and new perspectives that can have a positive effect on all our relationships, from simple two-person partnerships through complex, multi-relational organization systems. Bob Johnston has fifty years’ experience helping people improve their work, their lives at work, and their personal lives. Expect to return home from this workshop with options for creatively making your work, and your life, better.
Learn psychological and spiritual tools that will include soul-clearing, centering, and balancing, three ways to motivate ourselves and others to choose compassionate options, and nine options for creative communicating. Dr. Johnston will also share his clear and practical guidelines for how to use these options in a wide variety of situations and will provide over 40 options for managing conflict with empathy, intelligence, and flexibility. The systems he teaches are integral processes that enable us to relate in ways that bring out the best in ourselves and in another person, group, or institution. He does a little lecturing, but most of the workshop is a blend of task and process approaches that utilize experiences from our life and work, enabling us to discuss and reflect upon our dilemmas in fresh, exciting ways. This experience is limited to 20 people.
Robert Wayne Johnston is widely known for his pioneering work in integrating Eastern and Western psychology and natural science to provide a foundation for integrating leaders, managers, and organizations into a model that fosters growth and development. He has published 64 articles and presented hundreds of workshops at all levels for both profit and nonprofit organizations. In his spare time he’s custom-written 19 books for corporate clients and is the founding partner in the non-profit volunteer group, OmniMind Associates, dedicated to fostering co-creative self-management. Bob is the founder and leader of the Institute of Noetic Sciences Community Group in Amherst. We welcome him as he leads his first workshop at Rowe.