Consulting Excellence:
Finding Your Developmental Edge

Using GISC’s signature combination of support and challenge, participants will
examine aspects of themselves that may lead to difficulty in case work. A unique structured exploration will be used to explore how some aspects of their core competencies can be obstacles to success when overused. The result will be a
clearer sense of the connection between who they are and what they do, a sense
of the mechanics underpinning their consulting style, and new tools and practical experiences for increasing their developmental edge.

The course work will blend the supervision method used by clinicians with case consultation methods used in consultant development. The format will include a
range of experiences including casework, self-analysis, and group discussion. Participants will have opportunities to expand their ability in shadow consulting to
each other.

Benefits

Participants will:

• Obtain greater clarity defining their core competencies.
  
• Surface blind spots in the assumptions underlying their work,
  through peer and faculty feedback.
  
• Gain insight into how the strengths of their consulting style may
  be related to difficulties they experience in consulting work.
  
• Achieve greater confidence through understanding why certain
  people and situations are uniquely challenging.
• Have an opportunity for extensive practice.

Participants

The workshop is open to experienced consultants, coaches, and other practitioners.

Coaches - This program qualifies for International Coach Federation (ICF) Continuing Coaching Education (CCE) credits. Please see the Continuing Education page for full details.

Dates and Fees:

“I have been coming at least once a year to GISC for different programs; I make it a habit
to give myself a week for reflection and learning each year. This makes it possible for me to go deeper in the understanding of the Gestalt approach and how I can grow as a consultant working with this perspective. The last program I attended was about developing my edge as a consultant – and I enjoyed it very much, which means that I plan to come back during the year 2012 for another program pursuing my personal and professional growth.”

Aake Johansson, MSc
Gestalt in Organizations
Sweden