We use deep democracy paradigm, a scientific approach based on physics, psychology, and anthropology, developed by Arnold Mindell. This paradigm allows us to bring awareness about individual and group dynamics, mainstream and marginal sides, notice and integrate missing information, and thus bring more flow in processes that are stuck, for better communication and relationships in highly polarized settings.
In our facilitated events we welcome different views and opinions, and create a space that can hold complexities and contradictions between diverse and opposing views. We believe that all voices, feelings, and positions have a right to exist and we facilitate interaction between polarities for new understanding and perspectives to emerge.
There is a hope that through a facilitated conversation, there could be more awareness that can positively impact life, relationships, and collaboration between different sides, cultures, nationalities, backgrounds, and worldviews in highly polarized society and workplaces.
Facilitators
Magdalena Schatzmann, ProcessWork Dipl, a musician, a coach, and a facilitator, https://kulturland.ch. She lives in the Swiss mountains near Bern.
Yuliya Filippovska, PhD, ProcessWork Dipl, a co-leader of the Deep Democracy Institute Ukraine https://filippovska.com. Originally from Kyiv, she lives in Geneva.
Our friends and colleagues from the Deep Democracy Alliance, a network of professional international facilitators from around the world.
Our partners
Together with our partners we choose a particular theme. A facilitated event starts with 2-3 speakers, each sharing a story or life experience on this theme for 5 minutes. It brings a beginning understanding of different voices and polarities in the room. It follows by a facilitated conversations among participants.
Such facilitated events are meant to create a space in which diverse communities and viewpoints can interact with one another and share views in an open exchange, including those beyond political correctness. Such a public space is used to create connections, friendships, action groups, and initiatives. In addition, government officials, representatives from NGOs, or stakeholders of the topic can join our gathering to use insights from the discussion to shape their policies and initiatives.
It is an alternative “United Nations” laboratory with unity as not given and static, but in flux and evolving as an ongoing process to work on together as a global community. If you are interested to participate, contribute as a participant or a speaker, and/or become a partner, please reach out to us.
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