Conflict & Deep Democracy

Spiritual Warriorship, Facilitation, & the Tao

JOIN our one-day-training

Stanford Siver, Ph.D., Dipl.PW, MBA
July 16th, 2011, 10AM-5PM
Port Townsend, WA

Come join a one-day introductory Deep Democracy workshop on understanding and facilitating conflicts. We will learn together and practice Deep Democracy, an awareness based methodology for working with challenging moments in groups and conflicts in relationships, teams, and communities and develop our own awareness based leadership skills.

Deep Democracy, a concept developed by Arnold Mindell and colleagues, is a cutting edge, coaching, relationship, facilitation and leadership development model. These concepts are part of unified paradigm that can be used for facilitating groups. This approach integrates concepts from Quantum Mechanics and social field theory and shows how personal and collective processes and the Tao mirror each other in our somatic body experiences, in relationships, and in the roles and tensions that exist between them in conflicts. Learning to notice our own felt body experiences, verbal and nonverbal signals, roles, and the mirrored patterns that structure conflicts in the world around us provides powerful intervention tools.

Deep Democracy Facilitation is centered on learning to notice more deeply and trust your own experience in a new way and using this to develop greater understanding and spiritual eldership towards all of the voices, states of consciousness, and frameworks of individual and interpersonal experience in conflict. The information carried within these various levels of awareness are all needed to understand the structure of conflicts and group dynamics and to facilitate disturbances in any given system. Deep Democracy facilitation can help business organizations, NGOs, communities, civic groups, families, couples, and individuals develop awareness and the leadership and facilitation skills needed to facilitate disturbances in order to help the collective system find more effective resolutions and sustainable outcomes.

WHAT YOU WILL GET OUT OF This one-day-seminar

Please
join us for a day in which we will present concepts and practice new ways
of dealing with conflicts in groups, teams, and relationships. This workshop is meant for team members and leaders of organizations and communities, group facilitators, mediators, and anyone
interested in conflict resolution.

You will Learn

to see group dynamics as a dance of roles
to notice rank issues, tensions, and signals
to use your own experience to understand group dynamics and form effective interventions

BIO

Stanford Siver, PhD, Dipl.PW, MBA

is a facilitator and Certified Processwork Diplomate. He has studied and practiced process oriented psychology since 1994, earning a doctorate in the psychology of conflict exploring the relationship between our inner experience and community, organizational, and global conflict. He is Development Director of the Deep Democracy Institute and is passionate about bringing awareness into relationship, conflict, and leadership efforts.