At OISE/University of Toronto I was invited to teach a Special Topics course. Five exceptional graduate students each learned work process mapping and exploring institutional organization by putting it to work in their workplaces. Each was working in a professional capacity – in a not-for-profit, college student affairs unit in the university, in a high school after school education program, in human resources at a business school, and in a business school on corporate-client agreements. Talking about their own work and opening up the institutional context that comprised the work processes they worked in, was a vivid and powerful practice. In just 12 weekly 3-hour sessions each made significant discoveries that they took back to their workplaces to assist them in working with colleagues and going about making change.
Teaching Doing Organizational Advocacy Work
