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            • Freedom and Fairness:

              Facilitating Wisdom in Times of Crisis

              An Online Mastermind

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            • A Time of Crisis

              - A Clarion Call for Wisdom -

              Crisis

               

              In times of crisis we often fend for ourselves, lean on known habits and execute decisions that are familiar to us. We attempt to secure ourselves and the people we most love.

               

              While self-preservation is key, we often “double down” on what we think we know. We impose a "status quo" bias on a situation that is anything but status quo, which leads us to perpetuate suffering because we are not dealing with things as they are. And, in the face of fear, anxiety, and the unknown we take actions that are filled with unexamined biases or projections that often cost us and foster even greater risks down the road.

               

              Crisis can quickly devolve individuals and groups into group think, breakdowns in coordination and response, and rapid degradation of trust. Unfortunately, history is littered with examples of what these well trodden paths lead to.

               

              While deeply challenging times often necessitate re-investing in our foundations, we are wise to re-imagine the most basic ways we live. To secure our old patterns is often to deny the change that’s already here.

               

              Wisdom

               

              Crisis can be our invitation into transformations we cannot fathom until we go through them with our eyes, hearts and hands wide open.

               

              Whether we accept it or not, our deep challenges are calling us to access wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to see a situation clearly, without distortion from our biases and projections. Much is born from the clear "seeing" that wisdom provides - a galvanizing vision of who we can be, greater discernment, and action that relieves suffering, heals, and builds resilience. Through the cultivation of wisdom we can put bold possibilities into motion within ourselves, relationships, and communities.

               

              Answering the call of crisis with wisdom and skill requires radical forms of facilitative leadership.

              This is what this Mastermind seeks to cultivate in its participants.

               

              Our larger potentials demand that we, as facilitators and leaders, support our groups and communities in coordinating and collaborating in ways our past lives denied.

               

              To meet this call requires an unwavering courage, interpersonal and emotional sophistication, and vision for us to support those we serve in touching the precious opportunity of inner transformation in service of radical cooperation.

            • "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire."

               

              - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

            • Curriculum

              Each topic will be covered over the span of two weeks

              They will likely be sequenced in this order, but is dependent on participants' organic learning cycles

              1

              Integral Praxis

              • Three fundamental perspectives
              • Facilitating interiors and exteriors
              • Seeking and taking perspectives
              2

              Somatics of Conversation

              • How to set the environment for group work
              • Polyvagal Theory and safety in groups
              • Working with "Sameness & Difference"
              3

              Adult Development

              • Understand how the self evolves
              • Deep dive into Ethnocentric self
              • How to work with people's worldview in groups
              4

              Strong Emotions in Groups

              • Deepen intimacy with fear, anger, grief
              • Transmute emotions in self and other
              • Working with emotional patterns
              5

              Shadow in Conversation

              • Working with marginalized viewpoints
              • Identifying "missed edges" in conversation
              • Cultivating compassion
            • Learning Outcomes

              By the end of this mastermind you will come away with the following meta-learning outcomes

              1

              Wisdom

              • Cultivating Life Purpose (Reason for Existence & Questions of Ultimate Concern)
              • Disciplined inquiry for creating more robust meaning and value in your work and relationships
              • Insights into your identity
              2

              Sovereignty

              • Increased ability to relate to group dynamics in more nuanced and accurate ways free of your own biases
              • Foster deep insight into group dynamics and psychological constructs to expand your influence
              • Learn to be distinctly you while maintaining intimate contact with others
              3

              Belonging

              • Let go of interpersonal barriers inhibiting the relationships that matter most to you 
              • Enjoy new abilities for rapidly growing meaningful connections
              • Cultivate lasting interpersonal bonds to support your work beyond the course
            • Answering the Call

              This Training is For You:

              • If you are hungry for impact beyond your facilitative capabilities.
              • If you are longing for deeper, nourishing, and impactful relationships to support my higher potential.
              • If you are willing to challenge your own hard won conclusions and analyses of how to work with groups in the context of our polarized, us-them world 
              • If you feel the desire to enter community to engage questions and dialogues you are not able to have in your contexts in service of discovering new frames, practices and realities outside the conventional approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion that are more result in greater freedom and fairness in groups. 
               

              This Training May Not Be For You:

               

              • If your attention, energy and facilitation work are fully invested in promoting and advancing the well-established frameworks and approach to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.
              • If you cannot embrace and absorb challenges to your views and behavior. 
              • If you require professional care and support that fall outside the scope and resource of this training environment. 
            • Master Mind Structure

              Facilitating Wisdom in Times of Crisis

               

              Kicks off with a 6 hour immersion (+1 hour for lunch)

              Followed by 10 sessions over 10 weeks

               

              Every week there will be a live 120 minute zoom session; sessions will be recorded

              Limited to 16 participants

               

              Required Reading:

              Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart

              Immersion

              We will set the groundwork for our time together by connecting to purpose, fostering intimacy, and laying down foundational teaching:

              • Intention Setting & Ground Rules
              • Integral Praxis Foundation
              • Adult Development Foundation 
              • Shadow in Conversation Foundation

              Week 1 - 9

              Teaching

              Sessions 1 - 9 will deepen the foundations covered in the immersion and introduce remaining topics

              (see Curriculum Section)

               

              Facilitation Practice

              Also, these sessions will focus on participants having and facilitating generative dialogue.

               

              This mastermind is designed based on action learning - meaning you learn by doing in a feedback rich environment.

               

              As such, the trainings are highly experiential and engage the group in dialogue and exercises intended to awaken understanding and capabilities of working with power dynamics, “us versus them” dynamics, emotional and relational dimensions, fear and unconscious biases, and techniques to support individual and group transformation.

               

               

              Week 10

              Integration session

            • Lead Instructor

              Gabriel Menegale Wilson

              Gabe, founder of Developmental Design, is a leadership coach and organizational consultant, with a specialty in diversity and inclusion efforts. He is the co-author of Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart. His work takes us to the intersection of social justice and purpose driven enterprises, design thinking, human psychology and group dynamics.

               

              Freedom and Fairness is an initiative within Gabe's work to apply Integral Theory, zen training, and adult developmental psychology to the theory and practice of group facilitation in the context of DEI and intergroup conflict.

               

              Gabe studied adult developmental psychology and leadership through Stanford’s Masters program in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies (POLS). He was a lecturer at Stanford University for the innovative program, Designing Your Life, where he taught undergraduate and graduate students the principles of design thinking as applied to personal and professional development. He is a certified Integral Facilitator and an associate at Delta Developmental, a leadership and organizational development consultancy. He is a practitioner of meditation in the Soto Zen lineage at the Two Arrows Zen Center.

            • Dates & COST

              Date

              June 25 - August 27

              Weekly on Thursdays

              10 - 11:30 am PST / 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST

              Cost

              $1,000

              (Scholarship available due to COVID-19)

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