DDI Calendar
Potentials and Allies - DDI Intensive Otranto
Seminar, Lecture, Open Town Forum, Consulting, Conference
October 12 2012 - October 21 2012
Presenters:
Dr. Ellen Schupbach, Dr. Max Schupbach, Dr. Josef Helbling, Dr. Stanford Siver, Dr. Ruth Weyermann
Deep Democracy Leadership Intensive for Individuals, Teams and Organizations; Discovering Creativity and Mystery in the River of Change of our Times
How can we become congruent and stay connected with our deep and diverse experiences, making them useful for our teams, and not lose sight of the purpose and goal that we are trying to achieve? We think our 10-day Intensive answers this question — Process-oriented Leadership.
Deep Democracy places the observer/facilitator/leader in the midst of the stream of complex, non-linear events of teams, large groups, and the world as a whole - and NOT on the river bank, as do many comparable methodologies. Leadership, which includes large and small group facilitation and conflict resolution, stands on two legs; inner work skills to find the detachment and strength to flow with the river, and facilitation and conflict resolution skills to support your boat crew to get along with and use the turbulences without loosing contact with the deeper vision and goals of the team or organization.This intensive is meant for leaders, consultants, coaches, and community builders.
Join us in Otranto for a 10 day Deep Democracy Intensive on Worldwork, large group facilitation, personal development, inner work, relationship work, conflict resolution, and 721 vision and project management. An international team of facilitators and trainers will come together with facilitators from our Deep Democracy Learning Group.We are expecting participants from the US, Russia, Ukraine, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, to convene from different industries and backgrounds—including profit and nonprofit sectors, community building and social activist groups, businesses, and banks—to work on how to develop themselves, their leadership skills, and their projects.
At the core of our intensive is the PRACTICE of the following Worldwork principles:
1) Deep Democracy in everyday life: How to discover and practice deep democracy in our everyday lives, projects, and organizations.
2) Deep Democracy appreciates all roles: You will have a chance to practice daily facilitation within large and small groups.
3) The core of Deep Democracy is your own heart: Developing your inner work practice in relation to group work, relationship work, and your personal vision, will be a key element.
These concepts are well known to some of us, and we look forward to focus together on the PRACTICE of them. We think the practice of Deep Democracy is simultaneously a spiritual path of following the mystery and unknown of difficult situations, an awareness practice of working on our relationships to everyone else, and a love for the world of facts and results.
What is a Process-Oriented Leader?
Process-Oriented Leader in Organizations: A process-oriented leader can bring multiple, explicit, and covert stakeholder opinions, perspectives, feelings, and ranks to a consensus that allows groups to move forward. A process-oriented leader understands that conflicts are part of the creative tensions in oneself, one's team, across organizations, and within the community. She or he facilitates, encourages, frames, and resolves conflicts.
Process-Oriented Leader as an Elder: A process-oriented leader brings eldership—a spiritual, emotional, and factual overview—and understands phases and directions of people and groups. She can support and frame these processes and be clear about possible boundaries. In other words, she helps you to be even more yourself in a way that doesn't hurt you or others too much. A process-oriented leader realizes the necessity to be powerful and clear at times, yet understands that there are always other options that are more inclusive, and therefore more empowering. She understands that the information in the entire system is never redundant, and over time needs to be used creatively. This means that disturbers and "off opinions," even if they momentarily can't be fully heard, do need to be understood and used/integrated. She can also support the disturber to develop the ability to see him/herself as an important force, yet understands that the majority view, although not right per se, is also a direction that belongs to the Deep Democracy approach.
Conflict Resolution and Innerwork: A process-oriented leader understands that the core metaskill needed to bring all of this across depends on the ability to recognize and resolve her own inner conflicts. She understands that she needs a systemic view, and that she herself is part of the system that is organizing her experience, and vice versa. Access to multiple perspectives is essential.
Body Symptoms and Health: A process-oriented leader works with her own physical experiences and body symptoms, and also understands health issues not only as personal experiences, but also in terms of the team and organization.
Power Issues, Personal History, and the Earth: Power issues belong to organizations and teams, and are also connected to our own historic experiences around its use—as women, men, members of ethnic groups, age groups, and/or nationalities. A process-oriented leader understands the meaning of process, collectively and individually, as it is connected to addictions and personal history, including issues of abuse. In today's diverse world, leaders need to have a deep understanding of the emotional dimensions of these issues, and their outer social rank dimensions, while not forgetting the basic essence / ground upon which we all stand, the earth whose children we all are, and its beings—our siblings—and finally the universe, our ultimate parents.
The Course
The intensive will show the connections between these various aspects and provide opportunities to explore, practice, and live them within a community.
The 10 days will focus in 3 practical areas:
1) Inner Work: Inner work, personal history, and developing your own creativity and passion in the areas of business development, art, spiritual expression, etc. This will be connected to your myth and vision on the planet, and its momentary expression in space and time.
2) Group Facilitation: We will learn and practice group facilitation and multi-stakeholder consensus building in diverse groups and teams. We will form ad hoc teams for both community building and project related experiences.
3) Relationships: We will learn skills and attitudes to resolve relationship issues by connecting to personal growth and personal experiences, while at the same time understanding oneself and ones own relationship issues within the larger context, in terms of your basic myth on this planet.
Topic Overview for the 10 Days
Through the course of these days, we will cover the following topics:
Group process: Methods, attitudes, skills, and diverse practical applications of group process theory and facilitation.
721 strategy–result approach: A portion of the time will focus on application of our unique 721 strategy–result approach that allows you to discover projects waiting to be born in you, to develop dreaming strategies for them, and to understand results as a synchronistic coming together of a multifaceted, multidimensional approach that includes inner work, relationship work, and action-oriented strategy.
Conflict resolution: We will devote two days to conflict resolution in various settings, both facilitating your own conflicts, and assisting with those of others.
Relationships: An entire day will focus solely on relationships—more specifically,
deepening them by discovering and bringing form to their unique inspirational spark.
Health and Body Symptoms: We will focus on personal experiences around health and body symptoms, as well as team health issues, work, and lifestyle, and how to approach these topics as a process-oriented leader. This includes global health, team health, and how we think about these topics in general.
Power and Abuse: Working on your own power and abuse issues, as well as how to facilitate and recognize these issues in others, while concurrently working on rank and power across organizations, is a key ability for a Deep Democracy leader. This topic addresses issues around fear in relation to ethnic issues linked with survivor guilt, and national mindsets in relation to leadership and power, as well as experiences from one’s personal history.
Addiction and Creativity: Addictive processes are connected to altered states and creativity. We will work on personal experiences around addictions, as well as the collective aspects, applying the perspective of the Native American tradition that addictions are tribal, collective processes, not individual.
Course Format
Morning; large group setting with participant facilitation, intervision learning groups, theoretical presentation + practical exercises.
Afternoon; small group facilitation, with supervision and learning space
Evenings; special topic focus and learning - case presentation, etc.
• Opportunities for individual coaching sessions with a Process Work Diplomat
• Triad meetings for mutual support, learning, and practice
• Project development—you will have opportunities to create, develop, and deepen your own project throughout the 10 days. This can be for a team that you lead, an organization, or a personal project in which you are the "sole owner."
The Place
Otranto, Southern Italy: We look forward to meeting together in a lesser traveled area of Southern Italy, where our organizers are linked to part of the social artist and community building scene. You will have the opportunity to join an open forum that includes the local population, and you will have a chance to meet local European artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs.
The Course Tuition
The course tuition is 1350 Euros. It doesn't include lodging and meals. These can be arranged individually in various price categories in the village itself. However: In support of the ongoing and continuous learning among the larger DDI student community, this price also includes the module 4 of our 4 stepping stones series, which can be taken free of charge in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Kyiv, Nairobi or Moscow in the fall of 2012 if you wish to do so.
(This is a one time offer. Module 4 cannot be exchanged for other seminars.)
please register with with
otranto@deepdemocracyinstitute.org
or skype: ddi-intensive
+ 31 (20) 8081518
Seminar language
english with translation groups for Russian, Spanish and German
How much
1350 Euro - some workscholarships are available
Coordinator
Intensive Coordination
Phone: +31 (20) 8081518
Fax: skype: intensive-ddi
Email: intensive@deepdemocracyinstitute.org
When
October 12 2012 10:00 AM
October 21 2012 01:00 PM
Where
Otranto, Italy
Website: http://tinyurl.com/d48fqd7
