Live Sessions in Santa Barbara, California
Attending a live venue in Santa Barbara: It is not a good idea to schedule social, client, or tourist activities any time you attend a live, intensive seminar or training session. Some students have found it worthwhile to come a few days early to acclimate; schedule social, tourist, or client activities in the area; or to have quiet time for advance reading and preparation. Santa Barbara is a lovely tourist destination; early hotel/air/auto reservations are essential.
Spiral Dynamics and basic Adizes seminars are OPTIONAL, but there are significant benefits: Students are required to enrol either in an 11-week online class, or in a class format which includes the live seminar combined with a subsequent online dialogue for graduate credit. The Adizes seminar is 2.5 days and requires 7 weeks of subsequent dialogue online. The SDi seminar is 6 days and requires 3 weeks of dialogue online. These seminars will overlap one of your regular online classes.
- Seminars are scheduled twice yearly, in March and November
- Seminars overlap other coursework so they accelerate completion of your degree program. This is the only time that three academic courses could be completed in one trimester.
- Seminars are scheduled back-to-back so that you can attend both seminars in one trip.
- Seminars, particularly SDi, often attract participants from around the world. They are a wonderful opportunity to engage - live - with other students and faculty, and to see how others are using these concepts in many different cultural, organizational, and societal venues.
- Seminars add to program cost only because of travel expenses.
- Tuition and credit granted for each seminar/dialogue is the same as for an 11-week online class.
- If you choose to accelerate your degree program, you should seriously limit your other appointments during the intensive seminar timeframe - about 4-5 weeks. Picture this: you could attend two seminars over 9 days and (for 3 weeks thereafter) be involved in two online dialogues, plus your regular online academic course.
Note that the Spiral Dynamics seminar, if selected in lieu of the online course, MUST be attended at the Santa Barbara location. This is the only location the provides a specific focus on leading oganizational transformation and that parallels Adizes concepts.
Click here for information on the live Adizes and Spiral Dynamics seminars.
Attending Phase I-XI classes in Santa Barbara: Students will spend a great deal of very intensive time in on-site Phase training in Santa Barbara, California. There will be required reading and homework almost daily, in addition to final Phase examinations on site.
On-site class requirements | Diagnosis | Design | Teleology |
Phase I, II, III | 19 days |
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Phase I, II, III, IV + VI primers, and Phase V |
| 26 days |
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Phase I, II, III, V + VI primers, and Phase IV |
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| 22days |
Phase VIII, IX, XI |
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| 11 days |
Attending Phase I-XI internships at client facility:
Each Adizes Phase requires three Internships at a client facility and a concurrent online lab. In the first Internship, you observe a Certified Adizes Associate working with a client. In the second, you assist in delivering material. In the third, you deliver the material yourself with supervision. Questions and answers, and details of the performance are discussed during the concurrent online labs, which also help you journal your evaluation of company progress for the capstone project.
The number of actual days in a live session will vary from client to client depending upon the number of participants, the size of the company, and complexity or scope of the project. The latter two supervised internships may be undertaken back-to-back, but it is more likely that students will need to budget three independent internship sessions for each Phase with a client. There are never times where more than one Phase can be delivered in one client session.
Client site - internship requirements | Diagnosis | Design | Teleology |
Phase I, II, III internships | X |
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Phase IV, V, VI internships |
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Phase IV, VIII, IX, and XI internships |
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| X |
Approximately 23 hours of client observation or facilitation equals one semester unit for the clinical internship experience. The following are minimum time committments expected for completion:
TIME REQUIRED | Pre-Internship = observation | Two supervised internships - one partial delivery & one full delivery, minimum total time expected |
Phase I | 5 days | 15 days |
Phase II | 4 | 12 |
Phase III | 4 | 12 |
Phase IV | 4 | 8 |
Phase V | 8 | 16 |
Phase VI | 6 | 14 |
Phase VIII | 1 | 3 |
Phase IX | 4 | 8 |
Phase XI | 4 | 8 |
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