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Developing Your Eldership - Conflict Resolution for Leaders

A Deep Democracy Leadership and
Self-Management Seminar

June 17-20, 2010
Presented by
Drs. Max and Ellen Schupbach, Portland, USA

What is it about?
Find the ground from which to manage, facilitate and resolve conflict. With the many tools of conflict resolution that you can learn, the most difficult aspect remains the stance of the facilitator and leader. Can you be helpful in conflicts, or do you have a secret agenda that will make a resolution collapse? Deep Democracy is an approach that fosters the diversity in the world around you, but starts inside yourself. To develop eldership, you can open up to appreciating the various voices inside you; those that you like and those that you don't like. Can you give them all space and a place in your life? Eldership is the first and most important step in facilitating outer conflict, as your credibility for the conflicting parties depends on it.

What is eldership?
Eldership is a concept to describe the emotional, intellectual and spiritual maturity of a leader who can be firm if needed, inclusive if called for, provide vision when it is lacking and generously support others in their initiatives and actions. It is a potential in all of us.

The Seminar
This seminar teaches practical skills to rediscover eldership in yourself, and interventions that work with groups and teams in conflict. You will also learn helpful practical methods to guide conflicting parties through conflict situations to assist them to understand (and consequently reduce) their part, without abandoning their own position. We will show you how to meet opponents on a personal level so that they feel appreciated and understood, even in disagreement. New strategies for conflict resolution often collide with a culture's or organization’s normal behaviour. In this seminar, we will explain how to encourage groups to develop a new conflict culture. We will show ways of making a conflict transparent, and consequently resolving it.

What You Will Learn?
To work with conflicts in your personal life and in coaching situations for others involved in conflicts. You will take home from the days:

Day 1: Understanding and using your rank and power in a new way
Learning to recognize and acknowledge the rank and power of the other position. How to dance between appreciation, respect, and your own authority – you will learn to resolve conflicts in multidimensional hierarchies (overlapping rank situations that can include organizational rank (the boss) gender, nationality, tribal affiliation, class, religion, etc.)

Day 2: Understanding your own inner diversity and its relationship to
outer diversity
Cultural diversity as an opportunity – tribal affiliation, ethnicity, skin colour, gender issues, etc. You will learn inner work methods that allow you to relate to and address issues beyond political correctness.

Day 3: How to find your inner stance when working with jealousy, competition, greed, love and hate
Emotional and creative aspects of conflict resolution. You will learn tools to remain centred in the midst of emotionally challenging situations.

Day 4: Show and Tell
Integration and the red thread, what have we learned, how can we use it, and how to practice in the weeks to come. Day 4 ends at 1 pm.

The Format
This seminar is part of a team and group facilitation training, and will focus particularly on the self-management (or inner work) aspect. Each day will follow a similar format: Mornings will focus on teaching and learning personal and professional development skills. In the afternoon, we will show and teach new group and facilitation practices. For participants who have taken our seminars before, emphasis will be placed on the actual practice of the concepts.
The seminar will consist of 30% theory in mini-lectures and 70% practical demonstrations and applied exercises in which you can:
1) try out what you have learned within the seminar setting
2) design solutions for the actual situation that you are working on

All you need to know
When?
June 17-19: The seminar starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m.
On June 20th the seminar starts at 9a.m. and ends at 1 p.m.

How to register?
Phone: 0732354902 or 0729467413
Email: EAleaders@deepdemocracyinstitute.org

How much?
Price: 7,000 KES (does not include accommodation)
Some partial scholarships are available

Where?
Carmelite Community (near Tangaza College)
Langata South Road, Karen, Nairobi
Some accommodation is available, please book directly with the conference center
Tel: 020 89-04-87 (Note the chanqe 020)

The Facilitators
Max Schupbach, Ph.D., Dip. PW, (www.maxfxx.net)
is president of maxfxx, a consulting group working worldwide with organizations, including fortune 100 corporations, international NGOs, government agencies, and religious communities. He has coached multi-ethnic executive teams in South Africa, and worked with Australian Aboriginal communities and Native North American Tribes. Max has facilitated conflict resolution between Croatian and Serbian groups during the Yugoslavian war, and relationships between prison inmates, correctional personnel, and prison administrators in high security prisons on the verge of revolt. He is co-founder and president and training director of the Deep Democracy Institute.

Ellen Schupbach, Ph.D., Dip. PW, (www.deepdemocracyinstitute.org)
is a Certified Processwork Diplomate who specializes in the personal development of the leader and facilitator. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the spiritual experience of the facilitator and coach. Ellen is co-founder and executive director of the Deep Democracy Institute, a Global Think Tank that researches leadership issues worldwide, and aims to create leadership trainings to develop more collaborative systems in today’s diverse societies. She has co-created training programs for Palestine, the USA, UK, Ukraine, and Kenya.

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