DEEP DEMOCRACY: The Micro-Skills of Leadership, Collaboration and Facilitating Collective Change
Research demonstrates that leaders function as emotional guides for the group, whether within organizations or the community at large. Self-awareness, empathy and truth-speaking are therefore critical skills necessary for leaders, directly impacting the health of any group or team. Leaders also need to be facilitators, understanding how to unfold collective processes in order to effectively manage the needs of people and projects.
"Deep Democracy" is an important underlying principle to understanding both individual and group processes. Democracy begins with one’s self, bringing all of who we are to the table, including those qualities, habits, feelings and thoughts we push away, are uncomfortable with and marginalize. Similarly, in our teams and workplaces, ensuring that all of the voices are heard - including those that are difficult or challenging to hear and holding group tensions effectively allows for transformation and breakthroughs to occur.
Anima Leadership is thrilled to bring back Julie Diamond, one of the pioneers of Deep Democracy and Vice-President of Academic Affairs at the Process Work Institute– an organization recognized by many for developing facilitators with the highest level of conflict transformation and dialogue skills, many who work in global conflict “hot spots.” Julie will be leading a unique year-long leadership mastery program for practitioners wanting to develop skills that will allow them to work more effectively in tough and pressured situations—to learn how to BE the solution as well as facilitate it.
Consisting of 4 modules – each three days in length – this intensive Deep Democracy course will cover the following topic areas:
Module I: Who You Are: Developing Fluidity for Effective Leadership
Module II: Facilitating Change in Groups, Communities and Organizations
Module III: Who You Are Part II: Edges, Ancestry and Altered States
Module IV: Facilitating Under Fire: Advanced Leadership for Hotspots, Attacks and Volatility in Group Process
About Julie: Julie Diamond is a trainer, facilitator and consultant, who has been working in the field of human and organizational change for over 25 years. She consults and trains internationally and locally on leadership development, group dynamics, team development and conflict facilitation for organizations, businesses, government agencies, NGOs, non-profits, schools and universities. She currently serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the Process Work Institute of Portland, a graduate institute devoted to research and training in the Process-oriented model of individual and organizational transformation. Author of two books on the worldwork approach, Julie continues to write about the problems of leadership, power and learning on her blog, A User’s Guide to Power
Community of Practice: In order for greater depth and acceleration of learning, as well as enhanced levels of group trust, a cohort model will be used with participants moving through all 4 modules together. As a result, it will not be possible to sign up for individual modules.
We, at Anima Leadership, eventually hope to develop a community of practice locally and nationally, of agents of change from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors who could collaborate on tough and complex issues that face our communities and organizations. We believe programs like the Deep Democracy will serve as important steps towards developing strong networks of people who can support each other both personally and professionally.
There will be a limited number of spaces due to the intimate nature of the work. Furthermore, Julie has sold-out previously in Toronto, so we recommend you reserve your spot early. First 10 people to register after Sept. 1, 2011 get a $100 discount! (Two spots taken so far).
For more information, please contact james@AnimaLeadership.com.