Duration: 90 minutes
About the workshop:
As facilitators, our job is to help diverse groups come together, engage in dialogues that encourage positive collaboration across differences, enable groups to overcome resistance, access more of the wisdom inherent in the system, and craft solutions that stick. Resistance is a dynamic that slows down or sometimes even blocks the system from moving toward a decision.
In this session, participants learn about the Lewis Deep Democracy, which was developed in South Africa after the fall of apartheid to help organizations recover from the legacy of racism. We will share a tool to diagnose resistance in a system. We will focus our attention on our inner systems and reflect on where we are with resistance. We will search for the answer to “what is needed to work with resistance” by using self as a fractal of the systems we work with.
Participants will gain a tool for diagnosing resistance as well as deeper insight into the dynamics of resistance in themselves and in groups.
Learning Objectives
In this session, participants will:
- Learn a tool to diagnose if everything is said in a group: The Resistance Line
- Gain insight into personal Resistance Line Behavior
- Gain Deeper awareness about a current resistance one is having
NOTE: This workshop will be recorded for distribution to all who register (breakout rooms will not be recorded).
This is a 90-minute workshop. It will take place starting at 12pm EST.
Speaker:
Ipek Utun’s passion is to contribute to a world where people dare and commit to live and lead with their full potential, with love and strength. Ipek is an ICF-certified PCC level Coach, ORSCC Certified Relationship and Systems Coach, Certified Shadow Work Group Facilitator and Personal Coach, and Certified Deep Democracy Facilitator, Trainer, and Elder. She has extensive experience in coaching and training C-level executives, senior leadership teams, women’s leadership groups as well as facilitating small to big group processes, which hold an emotional charge, polarization, and divisiveness. Ipek’s differentiating edge is her capacity to work with the deeper patterns driving complex situations and enabling personal or systemic transformation.
Maya Townsend develops human-centered, conflict-positive organizations which bring out the best in people and allow them to collaborate productively across differences. She works with corporations, nonprofits, and coalitions to help identify strategies, mobilize networks, lead change, and resolve conflict. Co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR (AMACOM), her writing on networks, change leadership, and business ecosystems has appeared in strategy+business, People & Strategy, Nonprofit Quarterly, and other publications. Past clients include the Austin Healthy Adolescent Initiative, Bayer, Biogen, Cambridge Community Development, Fidelity, Hanover Insurance, Headspace, and Open Sky Community Services. She holds an MSOD from American University and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Leadership & Change through Antioch University.
ONLINE WORKSHOP REMINDERS
- No refunds or credits for registration cancellations.
- Registered participants will receive instructions for joining the live session and any additional details 1 day in advance and the morning of the event. Please be sure to look for the link in your email.
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- MAFN Members have access to all online workshop recordings via the MAFN website.
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