If you value interpersonal relationships, social responsibility, and self-reflection, then the Organizational Approaches to Transformation and Healing (OATH) program is for you. This 12-credit graduate certificate program, directed by the PATH Institute at Plymouth State University, challenges traditional models and examines the implications of emerging paradigms for organizational health.
Learn about the integration of holistic approaches to leadership, and cultivate the qualities of a compassionate heart, open mind, and good intention. Through an examination of personal, organizational, and global contexts, you’ll develop into an agent of change in your working environment.
At Plymouth State, you can take up to 12 credits before being admitted—so, you don’t need to apply in order to complete the OATH certificate, however there are minimum requirements that must be met in order for your certificate to be awarded.
- Required Courses – 12 credits
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3OH 5700 Creating Organizational HealthThe course is designed as an intensive introduction to the theories, methods and tools for building wellness concepts into the strategic planning process of organizations. The class will define the future of wellness in the workplace evolving beyond mechanistic approaches to individual wellness and developing holistic principles leading to organizational health. At the completion of the course students will have an understanding of ways to institute a new health paradigm into organizational design.
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3OH 5200 Social Justice at WorkThis course examines the role of "positive institutions" in creating and supporting the well-being of its members while maintaining its profitability or non-profit mission. Issues of power, privilege and prejudice as challenges to the formation of ethical and socially just institutions will be explored. Topics include issues of diversity, equity, ethics, and social justice.
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3OH 5300 Work as a Personal JourneyThis course offers an exploration of the personal, interpersonal and transpersonal elements of work and personal growth. Through varied learning methods, participants will attend to the ways in which occupations transform us and how we transform our work to support personal development. Learning will extend to the ways in which we, as followers and leaders, can cooperate to support these synchronous and reciprocal processes creatively and with intention.
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3OH 5820 Women as LeadersThis course challenges women to consider the cultures, climates and contexts that limit and support their capacities as leaders. Students will explore personal leadership styles, characteristics of effective leaders, and strategies for developing themselves as leaders.
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3OH 5100 Full Spectrum LeadershipThis course offers a study of a leadership model based on personal authenticity. The fundamental premise of this model is that effective leadership emerges from the synthesis and synergy of body, mind, heart and spirit to weave intention and presence into the organizational environment. Through varied learning methods participants will explore ways to foster culture that links knowledge and resources to promote a climate of transformative trust in the service of individual well being and the organizational mission.
- Total for OATH Certificate – 12 credits
Use the Course Planning Matrix to see when OATH courses will be offered.
You can also apply your OATH certificate credits toward a self-designed master’s degree or Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies. Contact the program coordinator for additional information.
Getting started is easy!
Apply today or request more info.To begin planning your program, contact:
Nancy Puglisi, (603) 862-0929 or e-mail: npuglisi@plymouth.edu
