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Modern Taoism:
Finding Your Way in Life utilizing Process Work
Process Work is an innovative approach to individual and collective change that brings together psychology, Taoist principles, shamanism, Zen Buddhism and communication science. Formulated by Arnold Mindell, Process Work shows us how a coherent and meaningful flow of experiences underlie all life events.
The Deep Democracy Leadership and Facilitation Course:
Four Stepping Stones to Developing Organizations,
Groups, Teams, and Yourself
With Drs. Ellen and Max Schupbach
Process-Oriented Deep Democracy is a unifying paradigm that brings together theoretical concepts from modern physics, research from psychology and systems theory, and experiences from aboriginal cultures, creating an overarching paradigm for facilitating change in individuals, teams, communities, and organizations. We focus on discovering hidden structures and system wide, non-measurable tendencies, and how to use them creatively while enhancing measurable goals and strategies.
Deep Democracy Institute International is a unique organization that uses the entire Process-Oriented Deep Democracy paradigm in
- personal, psychological facilitation of individuals within a coaching environment
- facilitating groups of up to 1000 people using an open group process model that doesn’t require a priori negotiation of ground rules
- resolving and managing conflict on large and small scales, and
- pulling these interventions together in an organic strategy that makes sense, and is carried by a group consensus that engages everyone.
This program’s practical applications include a unique coaching model, an approach to conflict resolution, and a large group facilitation methodology that is both relevant and useful for leaders and practitioners who are responsible for the development of organizations, groups, and teams. It can be used for one’s personal learning, or applied towards one of our certifications and specializations.
THE COURSE
THE FOUR STEPPING STONES
This Deep Democracy Leadership and Facilitation Course brings the teachings in four “steppingstones” to developing organizations, groups, and teams. Each steppingstone is a stand-alone module so that those practitioners and leaders who would like to focus in a particular learning area can choose a single seminar. The four steppingstones are also interlinked and thus ideally suited for those who seek to integrate all of the skills and wish to take the entire series. Each seminar addresses all the above levels and doesn’t arbitrarily separate one area, leaving you wondering how it is all connected. When we dance, we move, feel, listen, relate, and become part of the music, the moment, and the tradition that brought us here. That is also how we envision learning Worldwork and Deep Democracy.
1) I AM U – and X :
Overview of everything and the connection between the parts: “I am U – and X” focuses on the relationship between our inner experiences and subtle altered states, and our psychology, the outer world of relationships, work, politics, science, art, etc, and the process that unifies them. This module presents the breadth and depth of the Deep Democracy coaching facilitation method through demonstration of immediately practical tools for at least one reliable intervention for each of the areas mentioned above.
2) THE RELATIONSHIP DOJO:
Relationships and Leadership in coaching, facilitating, and consulting require the fluidity of a martial artist. We learn in the Dojo, practicing, improving, and enriching relationships on many levels. We show and learn to work with the interface between personal and professional relationships and the non-locality of physics
that shows the timespirits which move us and how personal and transpersonal experiences are twins that dance together. How can we have boundaries, yet be united with the team? How can we love, yet own our rank? How can we <fill in your own relationship topic here >?
3) LARGE GROUP FACILITATION:
Process-Oriented facilitation methods for discovering and utilizing hidden potentials in groups and teams lead the group or team in new directions. This course will include conflict resolution methods and innerwork with an emphasis on large group facilitation. Many organizations shy away from large group facilitation and many models inaccurately describe their methods as large group facilitation when they are based on breaking large groups down into like-minded smaller groups. Worldwork—tested in the waters of past war zones such as Ireland, Yugoslavia, the Middle East, and in areas of high tension diversity processes like US mega-cities during racial riots, Berlin during high tensions between diverse communities, and in cities with seemingly irreconcilable stakeholder processes—guarantees outcomes that bring stakeholders closer together and inspires new and unexpected solutions that are innate yet undiscovered by an everyday mindset, as they were concealed within tensions and conflicts.
4) STRUCTURE and DESIGN
Bring it all together : You will learn to analyze process structures in organizations and groups, to create interventions, and to design co-ventions. Whether working in corporate, community, or relationship settings, analysis of the hidden structure allows you to then design custom-tailored intervention strategies including large group processes with diverse and conflicting groups that bring resolution, involve everyone, and guarantee positive outcomes.
WHAT
The Deep Democracy Leadership and Facilitation Course:
Four Steppingstones to Developing Organizations, Groups, Teams, and Yourself is rooted in the Worldwork perspective, which is a powerful, universal paradigm for facilitating change in organizations, teams, and individuals.
This program’s practical applications include Process Work training, a unique psychological model that is based on awareness and flow. It has a large group facilitation methodology that can be applied without establishing a priori ground
rules and can be used across diverse cultures. It also entails an approach to conflict resolution based on symmetry concepts from modern physics, which stresses that conflicts are a natural occurrence that can be facilitated to bring out innate systemic solutions.
FACILITATORS
Drs. Max and Ellen Schupbach, founders of the Deep Democracy Institute and other DDI colleagues (please consult the seminar schedule on our website)
FOR WHOM
Leaders and practitioners, coaches, facilitators, conflict resolution mediators, and entrepreneurs, who are responsible for the development of organizations, groups, and teams. We are proud of our diverse participant groups from business, politics, organizational development, the arts, grass roots movements, the non-profit world, psychology, and hard science.
WHERE: Fort Mason Center, SF
WHEN: Module 1: September 23-25, 2011; Module 2: February 17-19, 2011; Module 3: May 18-20; Module 4; September 21-23
HOW TO REGISTER: Phone: + 1 (415) 729-5768
E-Mail: sfleaders@deepdemocracyinstitute.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Phone: + 1 (415) 729-5768
E-Mail: sfleaders@deepdemocracyinstitute.org
HOW MUCH:
Each single module: $350.00
If you take all four modules, prices are:
modules 1-3: $350.00 each—module 4: $200.00
Deep Democracy Institute students: 15% off all above listed prices.
Please inquire about our limited work scholarship opportunities.
