Skills Workshops - Organized by GAIN*, supported by NSF

(*GANE in the previous message.)

Funded by NSF ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation and Dissemination (PAID) Award 0620087, to Mary Anne Holmes & Suzanne O'Connell.

WHEN: Tuesday, January 21, COACh (http://coach.uoregon.edu/index.html)

Afternoon session 1:30-5: Strategies For Leading Change

Sign-in/pre-workshop survey/ refreshments 8:30-9:00

WHERE: Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, 1 Atwood Dr., Northampton, MA

WHO: Men and women scientists and graduate students. Reservations will be accepted on a first-come/first-served basis.

COST: (includes coffee breaks and meals, costs vary by discipline)

In other venues, it is common for people to pay between $300 and $450 for a COACh Workshop. (Attendance limited to 35.)

Geoscientists – free, $100 deposit, refundable when you attend the workshop. Lodging, meals and transportation will be covered for geoscientists from the northeast (New England, New York, New Jersey). All costs except transportation will be covered for geoscientists from outside the region.

Non-geoscientists - $150 (non-refundable)

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COACh WORKSHOPS

What is COACh (http://coach.uoregon.edu/index.html)?

COACh was formed in 1998 by a group of senior women faculty in the chemical sciences with a common concern about the gender-based obstacles women scientists face in trying to attain their career goals.

COACh Goals

* To work towards eliminating inequities in the system that impede the careers of women scientists and engineers.

* To develop and implement workshops for women in technical fields that will assist them in achieving their career goals.

* To provide avenues for networking and mentoring with other women scientists and engineers.

* To work in an advisory capacity with departments and institutions to increase the recruitment, hiring, retention and success of women in the sciences.

* To provide programs that will improve the climate in our institutions and laboratories so that all scientists can achieve their full potential.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Strategies For Leading Change (Afternoon session)

         The goal of this workshop is to increase the ]capabilities of institutional leaders to effect change within their organizations. Many highly successful people can easily identify what changes need to happen, but find it difficult to lead others to confront the challenges facing their group. Building on the theatre and leadership techniques introduced in the morning workshop, Strategic Persuasion, participants will learn a new way of thinking about group processes. They will experience the potential of charisma, the power of vocal presence and clarity, learn how tactics can be expressed through the voice, learn to differentiate types of challenges, understand how roles determine strategies, identify the pressures behind the resistance to change, and learn how to make effective interventions.

         In a highly interactive format which encourages deeply personal learning, we will analyze a case that arises from the group and explore a method to clarify the larger purpose while identifying the trap of “quick fixes.” Through a personal questioning process and partnered debrief, participants will have an opportunity to examine their own organizational challenges. Participants will leave with new strategies – theoretical, psychological, and physical -- for successfully leading change in their institutions or organizations./p>

Biographies of COACh Workshop Coordinators

Lee Warren is Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University (http://bokcenter.harvard.edu) and is a pedagogical coach for faculty and graduate students teaching at Harvard. She works with clients on group process issues individually, in workshops and seminars, and through videotape. Lee also teaches in the Leadership Executive Programs at the Kennedy School of Government, and consults internationally with Cambridge Leadership Associates. With Nancy Houfek, she has led over 100 STRONG WOMEN/STRATEGIC PERFORMANCE workshops for universities and professional organizations throughout the country.

     Her Ph.D., from Stanford University, is in English and American Literature. Before coming to Harvard, she taught at UMass/Boston and MIT and was the Academic Dean of Merrimack Valley College, part of the University System of New Hampshire. She has worked as writing consultant, writing about social issues for numerous private, state, and non-profit organizations in the Boston area. She has published numerous articles on teaching and learning, race, gender, class, case teaching, and leadership, and has co-produced several videotapes used internationally.

Nancy Houfek is Head of Voice & Speech for the American Repertory Theatre (http://www.amrep.org/iatt/houfek.html) at Harvard University where she teaches graduate courses in vocal production, coaches the professional acting company, and administers the M.F.A. in voice training pedagogy. Nancy has presented workshops using theatre techniques for the Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning, the Harvard Medical School, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Radcliffe Fellows program, as well as for clients in the private sector. A film of her work with Harvard faculty, "The Act of Teaching," has been produced by the Bok Center for national distribution to faculty development centers. She has coached professional speakers since 1978, and, with Lee Warren, led "Strong Women/Strategic Performance" workshops since 1999 in the United States and Canada.

    Nancy holds a B.A. from Stanford University and M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theatre. She has directed or performed over 100 plays or musicals off-Broadway and at regional theatres throughout the country. Faculty positions include the University of Washington, the drama Studio of London, A.C.T., Southern Methodist University, and the University of Minnesota where she headed the actor-training program. She is published in The Voice & Speech Review, The Complete Voice and Speech Workout and the VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainer's Association) Newsletter. Nancy is a Master Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.