There are many ways to learn with The Oasis School, from engaging with one of our practitioners or participating in a programme to commissioning organisational development. At the individual level there are mentors, life coaches, counsellors and supervisors, all practitioners within Oasis Peoplecare.
An easier way to learn with Oasis is to attend one of our seminars. They are usually in the evening and speakers range from international facilitators to local practitioners - they contribute a rich variety of content - sometimes something new; sometimes a different perspective; sometimes telling the story of their lives and their work. The seminars last about two hours and offer the opportunity to explore a topic, an issue, a way of life through the eyes of someone else and to engage in conversation. The seminars are free and donations from the evenings go to our charitable foundation, ODEF. Seminars are not the only free activity supported by ODEF, and in its commitment to disseminating a human relations approach it supports a series of two day programmes for practitioners and managers called Working with Others and The Developing Manager - an exploration.
To build on these foundation programmes, there is a fuller range of exciting and stretching programmes and courses to choose from. Whether you are interested in facilitation and change agency or developing practice; manager and executive programmes or leadership, guest workshops or the transpersonal, we hope you find something that works for you and/or your organisation.
We are always excited about questions and use the questions people bring with them as a way of guiding the learning opportunities we offer. However, in Live Research, the most recent addition to the range we offer, questions are imperative. Particularly with Co-operative Inquiries, the interest and curiosity of individuals is crucial for the methodology to work well. This pedagogy attracts those used to being self-directed learners who value the opportunity to share a group experience but to do that in a co-creative manner.
Even when we work with organisations we seek to discover the questions an organisation is facing and facilitate the people we work with, often the CE, the SMT, or the board initially to work with their questions. Being question-focused rather than problem-focused brings more potential to a situation, more creativity and ultimately more learning.
The Whole Person Learning approach we use underpins all of our work and if you choose to work with us, you will learn about that too.
Of course we take our own learning seriously too and what we use in our practice is lived within The Oasis School - see how we work.
