Prof Van Nuys interviews Max Schupbach

Shrinkrapradio, a Californian Internet Radio focusing on psychology interviews Max Schupbach on Worldwork. Listen to it by clicking HERE

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WORLDWORK AND CHANGEMANAGEMENT

For those of you who speak German, you might enjoy Max Schupbach's article which appeared a couple of days ago in the "Zeitschrift fuer OrganisationsEntwicklung", on how to use Worldwork in Changemanagement. Click here to download the pdf-version of the article.

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3 YEAR AFRICAN LEADERSHIP IN SIERRA LEONE

The Deep Democracy Institute is in an advanced stage of developing a 3 Leadership Program in Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding Sierra Leone (see contact details below). It will be a unique program, the first in a series of programs geared towards African Leadership.  We hope to conduct our first trainings towards the late fall of 2008.
Here are the components:

Year 1:
Facilitation, Leadership and Processoriented Management


This year will teach facilitation and leadership skills, and build management skills on these foundations.

Year 2:
Organizational Development, Collaboration, Financial Strategies

This year will teach conflict resolution and collaboration within tribal, ethnic and national diversity, and show how organizational development and financial strategies and habits are linked to these patterns.

Year 3:
Specialization Year: the course participant can pick one of the following specializations:

1) Educational Leadership
This module teaches how education can  be developed at the intersection of cultures, national identity and global development

2) Health Leadership
This module teaches how health provisions, health measures and health policies can be developed  at the intersection of diverse medical models and paradigms, conflicting views of the role of health and its relationship to spirituality

3) Civic Leadership
This module teaches how a civic society can be build at the intersection of a national identity, colonial history, and independent cultural and economic development within a world that experiences globalization

4) Traffic and Communication Leadership
This module teaches facilitation and leadership of traffic and communication at the intersection of diverse tribal, religious and ethnic groups.

 

For participants in Sierra Leone, please contact

 

Center for Justice and Peacebuilding
P.M.B 882
7 Siaka Stevens Street,
Freetown-Sierra Leone-West Africa
Tel: 232 22 224994 (Office)
Mobile: 232 76 664589
Fax 232 22 224439

Augustine and Mariama Lansana

all others, please inquire at info@deepdemocracyinstitute.org 

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FACILITATION, LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATIONAL AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING IN THE UKRAINE

We are looking forward to beginning our 3 Year Facilitation, Leadership, and Coaching Training in the Ukraine. We have had many discussions with our Ukrainian colleagues, Vyacheslav Gusev and Maria Makuha, around the need for an awareness-based leadership training in the Ukraine, and the possibility of learning how the psychology of the individual leader, the national culture and history and the mounting pressure of accelerating globalization can all be addressed in a single program. It will again have organizational and business development units as key elements of the course. We will be starting the first Module of the Year 1 course on May 9th, 2007 in Kyiv. Please inquire with Maria or Slava for more details

 

Vyacheslav Gusev and Maria Makuha

akrid@idi.in.ua             |       maria@persona.cc

+380 - 66 280 21 78      |       +380  -  44 272 1035

 

Here are the pdf-files of the programs:

The Ukrainian Version 

3 Year Leadership Program Ukraine (ukrainian) 

and here for the visitors from Russia who might be interested in the program, in Russian 

3 Year Leadership Program Ukraine (russian) 

and finally here is the program in

3 Leadership Program Ukraine (english) 

 

And here the UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN-ENGLISH VERSION in one file

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LEARNING AND TEACHING IN PALESTINE

Our 3 Year Leadership course has started in Jenin, in the North of the Westbank. We learn and share a lot with many participants from Jenin, and with some traveling to the course from Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah. It's a special opportunity to meet and share with many people from different parts of the Palestinian society: academics, students, business people, and government staff. We learn, we study, we teach, we hang out, we eat and we dance: we share for a brief moment our lives. Here are a few moments that may throw a light on some of the experiences our groups shared in Jenin.

We love learning and teaching with the participants of our course. Look at a couple of highlights from the course !!

 

 THE COURSE

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We love visiting Jenin, and its inhabitants, the city and nearby villages. Here we are visiting a school in the refugee camp,  adjacent to Jenin. We are grateful to the elders of the refugee camp who were so open to us, and to discussing with us many of their issues. See a few moments of when we meet the kids !!!

 

CHILDREN JENIN REFUGEE CAMP 

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We have made many friends, connections that we feel will last a lifetime. Our Palestinian friends have taught us the essence of generosity and hospitality, for which we will be forever grateful. We are also thankful to the father of the family, who allowed us to show this little clip with members of his family dancing on our website.

DANCING WITH FRIENDS 

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OUR VISION

 

Why is Leadership Development a Key to Sustainable Local and Global Development

In our view, each region of the globe, each community, each organization, and each person has a unique individual path of development. This individual path includes its own framework from which to view reality. Individual paths are reflected in diverse narratives and philosophies within local communities and within the global community. They create diversity on our planet and between cultures with all their aspects, for example the experience of space and time, or the place and importance of relationship, or the role of history and ancestors, and many more.  This culminates in a multifaceted diversity about what it means to be human on this earth and in the universe.

We adhere to the Deep Democracy Paradigm, which suggests that all of these frameworks are equally valid and needed. Over time, all viewpoints must be heard and related to, as all information in a system is vital for its sustainability and blossoming. We are aware that at a given moment in history, some styles are more central and some more marginal.

We believe that leadership is the act of stewarding and tending to a chosen collective by assisting that collective in discovering its own developmental path, and helping it to blossom. We consider the awareness process in developing leadership for each region, community, and individual, to be the key to re-discovering innate value, appreciating, and consequently developing it. Each group will apply its own style, way, and timing on this natural path. Our leadership trainings assist in making organizations and individuals aware of this process, and facilitating its emergence.

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DDI VISION TEST

Enjoy the DDI Vision Test

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OUR VISION AND THE ROLE OF HEALTH

Many organizations have strong initiatives for health care, based on the belief that access to health care is important for a sustainable global development. We believe that these organizations are addressing an important issue. Our work brings an additional perspective that draws on the wisdom of local medical systems and traditional medical practitioners within a given culture. We believe that the reluctance of many global communities to pick up Western medical practices is not due to lack of education; it is  rather part of a dialogue between conflicting medical communities and their respective life values. Our work cultivates leadership cultures that recognize the value of local medical systems. Our trainings teach leaders to facilitate the relationship processes between global health organizations and local medical communities and their medical views.

In DDI we hold the vision that diverse, explicit leadership disciplines and cultures will promote an enriched and sustainable local and global co-existence. Our work encourages the blossoming of individuals and communities and assists them in communicating their unique essences within a diverse world without asking them to change, but to become even more themselves.

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OUR VISION AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATION

Many Organizations follow an implicit or explicit belief that the world is divided between more and less educated populations, and that sustainable global development depends on making worldwide education available. We believe that these organizations address an important issue, and add to their efforts by bringing an additional component. We depend on the inherent cultural or organizational wisdom and traditional teachers of a given collective for the foundation of everything we do, and seek to discover and bring these out. DDI co-develops leadership cultures that are based on appreciating knowledge and knowledge management system that are already present. This is an organic way for us to learn from other groups and cultures. In addition, our leadership training focuses on facilitating the dialogue between natural wisdom and knowledge management of a region (such as storytelling) and knowledge management of global communities (such as academia with its journal tradition, for example.)

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OUR VISION AND THE ROLE OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Organizations that hold a vision for building global sustainability by implementing conflict resolution methods are important for global development, as they assist all of us who are identified with our national, ethnic, tribal or religious communities to relate to one another in the global village in a new way. However, we feel it is equally important to value and respect  unique inherent cultural processes by affirming them rather than suggesting from an outside perspective that there is a superior way to deal with conflict, and that conflicting parties should leave their natural development process to go beyond war. This is based on an additional view which suggests that conflicting parties are simply groups that are in the process of clarifying their identities and values as they develop their own new leadership cultures. These new leadership cultures are essential for establishing neighborly relations upon a foundation of self-confidence and pride in belonging.
DDI aims to accept the global situation at face value and to fill the gap by assisting in the process of developing leadership cultures that are based on each group’s distinctive way of relating to its neighbors, thus co-facilitating with the region the natural development process.

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