~ By Renate Harris, ODA member Thanks to Dawn Jarvis for leading an engaging ODA session. The topic, Use of Self, explored how our biases can impact our effectiveness as OD practitioners. Dawn created a safe space for discussion, encouraging participants to take a closer look at their own values and biases and consider how these shape the way we …
February 2025 Event Review | No Silver Bullet: how do practitioners end up in collusive dances with clients?
With Steve Hearsum To start the 2025 ODA program, we welcomed Steve Hearsum who led an insightful conversation around how we potentially collude with our clients as OD practitioners. It was a provocative exploration of our relationships with certainty, being experts and the expectations of clients. Steve challenged us to think about how we can be drawn into colluding with …
May 2024 Event Review | OD & Me
What a delight to be held by Soumya and Radhika to contemplate and reflect on ourselves as OD practitioners. In this work, we invest so much of ourselves in helping others. Here we were able to invest time and energy in helping ourselves. The OD & Me process focused us on people, projects and changes which have been significant for …

