The Graduate Diploma is a two year part-course. This is a three-day orientation workshop held in late February. Participants meet each other and explore their personal learning agendas. Emphasis is placed on journal work, reflection and issues inherent in organisational consulting. Emphasis is placed on the consultant as action researcher, on models of change and on the client-consultant relationship.
Participants begin work on their first change project for the program.
In this workshop, participants spend five days exploring the physco-dynamics of group life. They learn about different levels of analysis for understanding groups, and also about themselves as individuals and group members. Different options for consultant interventions are also experienced. The workshop runs in June between first and second semesters and is a major event acting as a catalyst for further work in the program. This subject also provides opportunities for participants to work on actual organisational issues of concern to them in either consultant or enquirer roles and with the assistance of a reflecting team.