Leadership and Facilitation Training

“Living Together” is a research-based community-building project that has three components:

1. Community building with insights, unlikely connections, new ideas and potential partnerships;
2. Education and empowerment through learning from each other, and leadership & facilitation training;
3. Research in action to sense current and future trends and gaps to address by society.

Thus, in addition to facilitated public discussions, we envision a number of education and learning events, aimed to share the knowledge and facilitating skills of ProcessWork paradigm and Deep Democracy approach for effectively working with diverse groups and communities, polarities, relationships, tensions, and conflicts.

Below there is an overview of potential training elements, with each training to be tailor-made according to current needs, context and time possibilities:

• Leading yourself, your life, personal and professional development:
  • innerwork and work with disturbances, being your true self in the moment.
• Facilitating your relationships:
  • relationship work, conflict resolution facilitation, work with accusations, criticism, and polarities.
• Leading and empowering your team or community:
  • group facilitation, diversity, equity and inclusion in the group field; rank, privilege and power awareness.

Such a leadership and facilitation training is 30% theory and 70% practice, with innerwork, theory and discussions, exercises in dyads and triads, and group processes.

We follow the ProcessWork paradigm and Deep Democracy approach developed by Arnold Mindell (www.aamindell.net), the MIT physicist and Jungian psychologist, in 1980s, which in a nutshell says that every voice, role, feeling has a meaning and is needed for a group to become whole. By noticing and appreciating all the diversity in a group or community, the information in a group becomes visible. As a result of facilitating different streams of information, better awareness, new perspectives, or even resolutions emerge, which uncovers creative potential of a given group. 

If you are interested in such a training, please let us know.