Therese Rowley, Ph.D.
Facilitating personal alignment, conscious community, and organizational integrity
I have come to my path through a number of diverse fields of discipline. This page offers you links to some of the sources I have used to weave together a rare combination of energy, spirituality, psychology, business, education and communities of action. They run the gamut from traditional to planetary edge. I welcome your recommendations for additions.
Free Resources
METHODS FOR TRANSFORMING ORGANZIATIONS AND COMMUNITIES
Appreciative Inquiry – originator Dr. David L. Cooperrider of Case Western Reserve University says Appreciative inquiry is about heightening our awareness of the value, strength and potential of ourselves and others. It is a way of thinking and asking question that arise from focusing on what is positive and life enhancing about any area of life. centerforappreciativeinquiry.net
Open Space Technology – a method of facilitating meetings, events and organizations so that participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance.
Accelerated Learning – this method embraces Harvard professor Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences and illustrates that each of us has an individual preferred way of learning that suits us best. When you learn the study skills that exactly match your personal style, you are learning the way that is most natural for you. As it is natural, it is easier and so becomes faster. www.accelerated-learning.net
Large Scale Change – an accelerated method for change has been proven effective by several pioneers in the field of organization development and change management
- “Search Conferences” Merrelyn Emery – focused on multi-organization approaches implemented in communities and entire industries. Merrelyn Emery conducts workshops calls “Search Conferences” which focuses on creating learning organizations that center around concepts and practices of organizational democratization, as a way to break out of the vicious cycle of deskilling, apathy, and dissociation. web.nmsu.edu/~dboje/TDemerys.html
- Whole-Scale™ approach to change – Dannemiller and Tyson – Apply this approach in strategy development and deployment, work design, mergers and acquisitions, culture change, and community organizing in diverse settings around the world. www.wholescalechange.com
- Conference Model® – The Axelrod Group pioneered the use of large groups to bring about organizational change. It’s process for redesigning organizations and processes has received international recognition in books, articles, and videos. www.axelrodgroup.com
SPIRITUAL NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES OF ACTION
Imagine Chicago--Inspiring hope, imagination, civic leadership and community engagement www.imaginechicago.org
Sageheart Alliance, a growing community of visionaries exploring new avenues of personal growth, vocational expression, and conscious evolution www.sageheart.com
Center for Spiritual Guidance and Dynamic Leadership – offers programs and seminars from gifted teachers and healers
Institute of Noetic Sciences – member association that provides the forefront of research and education in consciousness and human potential through rigorous science. www.noetic.com
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Organizational Development Network - a place for organization development professionals to gather, improve skills, network and create new ways to engage -
www.odnetwork.org/odnc/
Creative Problem Solving Institute - Practical artists in business bring practical methods that include humor and light to real business needs-
www.creativeeducationfoundation.org
SPIRITUAL AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING
Spiritual Leadership Institute -- courses and programs in spirituality; certificate program in spiritual direction-http://spiritual-leadership.org/
The Jaffe Institute - training in advanced energy healing, personal growth and spiritual unfoldment- http://sufiuniversity.org/#
Invision – A School for Psychics - Formerly Midwest Psychic Institute, training in basic understanding of energy in the body-invisionpsychic.com
PSYCHOLOGY
Hakomi, body-centered psychotherapy “astounding methods for getting to core [emotional and psychological] material. It is well grounded in theory and revolutionary in its results.”
- Association of Humanistic Psychology Newsletter www.hakomi.com