TRAINING SCHEDULE
Virtual Workshop: Leveraging Creative Tensions
December 10, 2020 | Cost: $225 per person
In this essentials workshop, you will experience and learn methods for seeing, mapping, and leveraging the fundamental differences among stakeholders’ values in order to convert conflict and polarization into authentic alignment and productive collaboration. By providing a practical framework and tool for addressing the underlying fears, values, and aspirations at play in any situation, this approach lays a foundation for success in working on even the most polarizing challenges.
Virtual Workshop: Leveraging Creative Tensions
December 14, 2020 | Cost: $225 per person
In this essentials workshop, you will experience and learn methods for seeing, mapping, and leveraging the fundamental differences among stakeholders’ values in order to convert conflict and polarization into authentic alignment and productive collaboration. By providing a practical framework and tool for addressing the underlying fears, values, and aspirations at play in any situation, this approach lays a foundation for success in working on even the most polarizing challenges.
Virtual Course: Introduction to Collaborative Innovation
February 2, 4 and 9, 2021 | Cost: $400 per person
In three, 3-hour sessions, we'll help you build your capacity to lead multi-stakeholder collaboration to help groups Connect, Align, Learn, and Make what they need to effect systemic change.
This course is designed for changemakers, leaders, facilitators, collective impact backbone staff, and consultants who are working on vexing problems that can only be addressed using a collaborative approach.
We’ll introduce the key elements of Collaborative Innovation--a process model and an integrated set of concrete tools to effectively lead powerful change with multi-stakeholder, multi-sector collaborations.
Virtual Course: Facilitating Collaborative Innovation
March 2, 4, 9 and 11, 2021| Cost: $600 per person
In four, 3.5-hour highly experiential sessions, we'll cover an integrative and powerful approach to leading collaboration. It focuses on the nuts-and-bolts planning, facilitation, and leadership practices to help diverse groups move from goal setting to advancing real work together, building engagement and momentum over time. We combine mini-lectures with applied facilitation in real situations, covering both virtual and in-person collaboration. We also use real facilitation challenges faced by participants to learn and apply methods for moving through conflict, confusion, and uncertainty in groups.
Virtual Course: Championing Systems Change
April 20, 22 and 27, 2021 | Cost: $550 per person
In three, 3-hour sessions, specially designed for funders and senior leaders, you’ll develop your unique role as a champion of systems change initiatives. It focuses on the unique pressures that sponsors of systems change work have to their internal stakeholders and to the change system they are helping to catalyze and support. In this course, we share stories and examples from actual systems change initiatives, both successful and unsuccessful, to help you more deeply understand the kind of commitment, clarity, and resourcing it takes to lead effective systems change.