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A Conflict Management Training Seminar
for Leaders and Mediators
Worldwork Conflict Coaching
Drs Max and Ellen Schupbach
in San Franciso, CA
29th - 30th May 2010
Why Conflict Coaching
Recent studies show that two thirds of all performance problems result from tensions in relationships, and not from a lack of training or motivation. General statements about an organization (e.g.“our organization doesn’t value individuals enough”) often point to a crisis in relationships between individual employees and/or supervisors.
In this seminar, we will learn practical methods to embrace and utilize the power of conflict, and at the same time de-escalate it. We will also show how to assist an organization in developing a new culture of conflict while remaining true to its ideals, when new conflict resolution methods collide with the established relationship culture of an organization.
What is Worldwork
This highly interactive seminar will introduce the theory and practice of process oriented conflict coaching, based on Worldwork.Worldwork, developed by physicist and psychologist, Arnold Mindell and his colleagues, is a conflict resolution method and large and small group facilitation approach, implementing theories from new physics and insights from psychology and sociology. Deep Democracy, a principle that values all experiences and voices, including those that disturb us, is one of its core concepts.Worldwork doesn‘t teach behaviors to bring peace, but instead says “yes” to conflict as an initial process of differentiation, which begins by meeting participants where they are. The methodology assists in bringing forth the hidden meaning of conflicts, and organically creates new and surprising resolutions.
Max and Ellen Schupbach have applied Worldwork
in many situations:
- Former Yugoslavia, Ireland, Israel and Palestine in work with open conflicts Conflict Management and Negotiation in Fortune 100 top executive teams, open group resolution in mergers, and inter-organizational conflict between international NGO‘s
- Facilitation of large groups of diverse leaders in the Republic of South Africa 2003-2005
- Sierra Leone and Kenya with tribal conflicts
- Public Open Forums with several hundred people in the USA on racism and sexism, Gulf War, etc.
- India and the former Soviet Union on tensions between diverse ethnic groups
- Public Open Forum in Germany entitled “Jews, Muslims, and Christians - Living together in Germany”
Upon completion of the training, participants will be able to:
- analyze and understand any conflict without assigning guilt or taking sides, achieving a new position of eldership that can truly facilitate
- predict escalation and prevent and manage it ahead of time
- work with organizational behavior in a way that does not require behavioral changes, but rather uses awareness methods that bring organic transformation
- resolve or ameliorate any personal conflict without the explicit collaboration of the other side
Themes Addressed
- rank, power, recognition, respect and authority
- conflict resolution in multidimensional hierarchies
- jealousy, competition, love and hate - emotional and creative aspects of conflict resolution
- diversity of culture as an opportunity - gender, origin, skin color, etc. – conflict resolution beyond political correctness
- culture of conflict in organizations - conflict resolution for organizations in change processes
- multiple conflicts in teams - conflict resolution, conflict management, conflict control
Seminar Program
Day 1
- concepts and theory of Worldwork - field and roles
- facilitating team conflicts
- the “ghostrole” – non-local aspects of conflicts in groups, and their resolution
- facilitation of groups that don‘t agree on ground rules
- diversity in organizations: rank, privilege and essence
- sitting in the fire: methods to stay balanced and lead in themidst of strong conflicts
Day 2
- rotational symmetries in conflicts: how to resolve conflictswithout the collaboration of the opponent
- escalation and de-escalation: understanding conflict
- rhythms and how to facilitate them
- I Am because You Are: systems theory, quantum view and Ubuntu
Seminar Format
This 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 you are working on
The Facilitators
Ellen Schupbach, Ph.D, Dip. PW
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 a 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 been co-creating training programs for Palestine, the USA, UK, Ukraine, and Sierra Leone
Max Schupbach, Ph.D. Dip PW, CPF
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. He facilitates conflicts that appear during mergers and coaches corporate negotiators. 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 conducts public open forums with several hundred participants on issues of public concern; Islam, Jewish, and Christian relationships in Germany, racial relationships in the USA, and White-Aboriginal relationships in Australia, to name a few.
> www.maxfxx.net
> www.deepdemocracyinstitute.org
All you need to know
When?
The seminar starts at 10 am on the 29th of May and ends at 4 pm on the 30th of May
How to register?
Phone: (415) 729-5768
Email: sfleaders@deepdemocracyinstitute.org
Snail Mail: Deep Democracy Institute SF, 123 10th Street,San Francisco, CA 94103
How much?
Price: $ 280.00
Where?
Fort Mason Center, Landmark Building C, Room 370, San Francisco CA 94123
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