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You are invited to make a presentation at The 38th Annual Information Exchange on “What is New in O.D. and HRD” and “Organization Development in Crisis Situations” being held May 11-16. 2008 at the Beckwith Conference Center on Weeks Bay near Mobile, Alabama. Registration is $210 for members of The O.D. Institute (a membership costs $110 and provides about $345 in benefits) and $270 for nonmembers. This is a colleague conference, not an academic conference. You are invited to share with us some of the exciting things you are doing and learn from what others are doing without having your presentation judged in advance by someone who knows less about your subject than you do. Our usual format is twenty minutes for your presentation and ten minutes for a discussion of your ideas with the audience. We have found this provides a maximum opportunity for you to share your ideas with the group and for the group to hear a wide variety of ideas from others. We encourage the development of panel presentations by you and the consumers of your services. . If you would like to write up your presentation in ten double spaced pages or less, we would be happy to consider it for publication in The Organization Development Journal. If you expect to be looking for a job or consulting assignments, this is an inexpensive way to let people know who you are and what you can do for them.
One participant wrote, "This is a conference you should attend if you want to meet people in the OD field who are really passionate about their work and helping others in the field. It is a great place for those who are new to the field to get some advice and support and to get a taste of what O.D. is all about. The huge diversity of topics and people is very impressive. We were truly building a learning community - each participant had responsibility for making the conference worthwhile. It was very unlike most other conferences s where all you are expected to do is sponge learning from others. Here, we taught each other, both through the presentations and through lots of invaluable unstructured conversation time."
Dr. Jeanne Maes, RODP, Tel: 251/626-1910, E-mail: JMAES@usamail.USSouthAL.edu, Chair of our 39th Annual Information Exchange has reserved a block of rooms for us at the Beckwith Conference Center on Weeks Bay off Mobile Bay in Alabama. A room with two snack breaks and three meals included is $95.25 per person per day in a single and $73.25 per person in a double. A room can be reserved by sending one days deposit to Jo Masters, The Beckwith Conference Center, 10400 Beckwith Lane, Fairhope, Alabama, 36562-6008 Tel: 251/928-7844 or Cell: 251/583-7986. The airort airport closest to Beckwith is the Pensacola Airport. The normal taxi fare to Beckwith is about $73. However, if you make a reservation through Wendi Scott at Americab Express Tel: 850/490-0794 they offer a discounted rate of $63 regardless of how many people or bags.
The 38h Annual Information Exchange will begin on Sunday evening May 18th with a trust building community building session. Ted Nguyen, RODP, Editor of The O.D. Journal will do a focus group on The Future of The O.D. Journal. Dr. Robert Golembiewski, RODC says he hopes he can come and speak to us. John Rouse, RODP Chairman of The 27th O.D. World Congress will come from Malmo, Sweden to tell us about the 27th O.D. World Congress scheduled for Malmo Castle in Malmo, Sweden. Mario Gastaldi, RODP will tell us about starting an O.D. Network in Italy. We will end with The Awards Luncheon on Friday noon. The Jack Gibb Award of $1,000 will be given for the best presentation by a fulltime student not working fulltime. Silver Bowl Awards will be given for The Outstanding O.D. Project of the Year (organized by Dr. Peter Sorensen, Jr., RODC). There will also be an award of $2000 for The Outstanding O.D. Article of the Year (organized by Ted Nguyen, RODP, Editor of The Organization Development Journal).
Conference registration is US$210 for current members of The O.D. Institute and US$270 for nonmembers. (A membership is US$110 and provides about $345 in benefits.) Your conference registration check should be sent to The O.D. Institute. We give a full registration refund if you cancel in advance. To keep expenses down, we do not accept credit cards. If you live outside the USA, we need a check drawn on a bank with a branch in the USA or an International Money Order.
You are invited to make a presentation at The 28th Organization Development World Congress being held June 8-14, 2008 at Cagliari Castle on the island of Sardinia off the coast of Italy You are invited to come and share with us some of the exciting things you are doing and learn from others what they are doing. Our usual format is twenty minutes for your presentation and ten minutes for a discussion of your ideas with the audience. We have found this provides a maximum opportunity for you to share your ideas with the group and for those attending to hear a wide variety of ideas from others. We encourage the development of panel presentations by you and the consumers of your services. If you have an interest in some special subject, let us know and we will see if we can organize a special session for you on that subject.
The 28th O.D. World Congress will start on Sunday evening June 8, 2008, with a community building trust building exercise. We will end Saturday noon June 14, 2008, following a meeting of O.D. Networks Worldwide. Early bird registration for the 28th O.D. World Congress is encouraged. To qualify and be listed on the preliminary program, your registration must reach The O.D. Institute, 11234 Walnut Ridge Road, Chesterland, OH 44026 USA before October 15, 2007. Registration fee for The 28th O.D. World Congress is US $130 for members of the O.D. Institute and US $180 for nonmembers. We will give a full refund if you cancel before May 15, 2008.
Dr. Mario Gastaldi, RODP, Chairman of the 28th O.D. World Congress and Contact Person for the Italy O.D. Network, is reserving a block of rooms for us at Hotel Califfo – www.hotelcaliffo.com. A single room with breakfast will be about US $78.30, or US $53 per person in a double. To reserve a room at Hotel Califfo you will need to send them a deposit before April 30, 2008. They accept credit cards. Round trip airfare from New York to Sardinia will be about US $800 if you sign up early. So that everyone can enjoy this intense learning experience, there will be no registrations for the Congress at the door. Registration for those who can register before October 15th is US $130 for members of The O.D. Institute and US $180 for nonmembers. (A membership is US $110 and provides roughly US $390 in benefits.) After October 15th, Congress registration will be US $210 for members and US $270 for nonmembers. The O.D. Institute will provide 15 free registrations for students who apply before October 15th and pay a US $10 application fee. We are looking for organizations that would be willing to sponsor an opening reception as was organized at the O.D. World Congress in Southampton, England, and Vienna, Austria. The 28th O.D. World Congress will begin with an Opening Session on Monday evening June 7th and end with a farewell lunch on Saturday at noon. The Saturday morning meeting is open to anyone interested in helping build a local O.D. network and in discussing how we can be most helpful to one another. Registration for the Saturday morning meeting is free as a contribution from The O.D. Institute towards helping to build the field of O.D. into a profession.
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