Next Meeting

Our Next meeting will take place on

24 July 2009

From 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM PDT at Saybrook Graduate School

 Experiencing Systemic Group Dynamics

Working with Organizational Constellations to find 

surprising resolutions to challenging group dynamics

With guest host: Volker Frank

Changing organizational behavior and group dynamics is difficult and serious business – whether you are a business owner, manager, consultant or team player. Even when there is overwhelming agreement about the challenges, there are often as many explanations and suggestions for solution as voices around the proverbial table. We have access to great systemic models and theories that describe behavioral patterns, and yet in practice they often don’t help us identify the actions with the most leverage. They are useful when we are looking into the rear view mirror to learn and appreciate what finally made the difference. 

In this session, we will explore how the felt sense of stepping into our “appropriate place” within an organization can guide us to resolutions of stubbornly persistent group dynamics and challenges. We will use the organizational challenges and real life situations that participants bring to the circle to surface underlying group dynamics in a non-judgmental and respectful way. Together we will explore how Organizational Constellations allow us to step into the informational field of social systems as representatives and use our experience to provide surprising information about hidden contracts and silent agreements that perpetuate conflict, procrastination, indecision, politicking, sabotage. At the end of a Constellation, we will experience what the system feels like when the agreements are resolved, everybody stands in their appropriate place and becomes present to each other.

In this session you will:

• Experience the informational field of organizations in your own body
• Step into new ways to let yourself be guided by your experience when resolving difficulties
• Create new reference experiences for ways to “read a system”
• Let yourself be inspired by the expanded sense of connectedness that the Organizational Constellation approach offers
• Discover the good intentions that are at the root of difficulties
• Learn about the underlying dynamics that create “stuckness” in organizations

About our presenter:

Volker Frank works with small and medium size businesses that face difficulties reaching their goals, managing organizational change, and resolving leadership issues. He supports his clients to increase their effectiveness and ability to learn and adapt quickly to internal changes and external demands. As a former software consultant he focused on how people work, which shaped a conviction that working with social dynamics is key to increasing organizational effectiveness. Today he offers leadership coaching and works with teams and organizations to develop new ways of collaborating, planning and innovating. He is inspired by self-organizing and emergent solutions that bring out the best in people at all levels of the organization.

Please visit: www.VolkerFrank.com for more information.

This gathering will take place at Saybrook Graduate School.

Please RSVP to Jim Martin before Tuesday July 21st to reserve your spot.

General Meeting Information

BASoL meets at: The Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center located at 747 Front St, in San Francisco. Saybrook is wheelchair accessible and a short walk from the Embarcadero BART station. Parking in the neighborhood ranges from $15 to $20 per day.

Our meeting schedule is somewhat irregular, we average about five meetings a year. If you are interesting in being a presenter please visit the About Presenting page

Our meetings run from 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM and are nearly always held on a Friday.

Coffee and tea are provided at each meeting.

We do break for lunch – bring your own or purchase something from the numerous food purveyors nearby. In the Summer months there is park across the street that makes for a lovely place to dine, but the grass can be a bit damp so some ground cover is a good idea.

Meetings are open to anyone with an interest in organizational and societal learning. BASoL operates as a recognized fractal of Global SoL – an IRS approved not for profit organization. 

To defray our costs and cover our overhead we request a $20 donation per meeting from non-members. No one is turned away for lack of funds.