The Deep Democracy Leadership and Facilitation Course:

Four Stepping Stones to Developing Organizations,

Groups, Teams, and Yourself

With Drs Ellen & 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.

THE FOUR STEPPING STONES

This Deep Democracy Leadership and Facilitation Course brings the teachings in four “steppingstones” to developing organizations, groups, and teams. Each stepping stone 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 stepping stones 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.

WORLDWORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

Most change and facilitation models are a collection of tools and methods that have proven valuable in specific contexts. However, when not informed by a unifying theory, they are rarely effective in a diverse set of contexts or on a systemic level. Deep Democracy is the philosophical basis of the Process Work and Worldwork paradigm developed by Arnold Mindell and colleagues since the 1980s. Worldwork is a powerful, universal paradigm, which combines the concepts of modern physics, systems theory, and psychology to formulate flow and change in social transformation. When these innovative concepts are applied in all realms of organizational development—from leadership and team development to strategy formulation, implementation, and negotiation to diversity and conflict resolution—both rational and irrational aspects of organizational life, as well as logical and emotional components of change processes, are accessed in order to analyze organizational dynamics and to design intervention methods, thus bringing about unique solutions in context.

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.

For full description:  http://deepdemocracyleadership.eventbrite.com/

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.