• TRAINING FOR LEADERS, LINE MANAGERS, PROJECT MANAGERS, COACHES, FACILITATORS, CONSULTANTS AND COMMUNITY ORGANISERS

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    Do you recognise any of these common challenges?

    • Lots of energy is going into making your culture and impact the best it can be, but challenging interpersonal dynamics keep coming up that veer you off track?

    • The same topics keep getting discussed in circular conversations?

    • Frustration or stress is building due to untimely decision making or unproductive pieces of work?

    • Repeatedly getting stuck in decision making limbo, or not achieving the buy-in needed to proceed with decisions?

    • There are a few people who generate all the ideas or action, without much engagement from others?

    • People are not really speaking to one another, excuses, gossip, cliques, and/or postponement are common roadblocks to effectively communicating?

    • There’s lots of staring and silence in meetings, and not much dialogue?

    • The idea of dealing with tension is secretly scary, therefore, it just gets avoided?

    • Clients or stakeholders have disengaged?

    • Resistance to change or leadership decisions is common?

    Develop skills in participative leadership and conflict transformation to deal effectively with these challenges.

    The Lewis Deep Democracy Foundations training is an internationally acclaimed methodology designed specifically for anyone who leads processes with others to achieve impact.

    It offers a practical toolkit which improves culture and unlocks the potential within teams and groups through collaborative decision-making and constructive conflict transformation.

    The methodology is particularly useful for supporting groups resolve relationship and group dynamic difficulties that arise from dealing with inherent differences.

    PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:

    How to understand team dynamics

    • Read the dynamics of a group, recognise early signs of resistance and emerging conflict.

    • Learn tools for dealing with tension in a timely manner. Skilfully diagnose and intervene in situations where people are stuck.

    • Understand the obstacles to good communication and develop new ways of speaking and sharing views that enable a culture of high trust and high impact.

    Practices that enable participative cultures

    • Facilitate dynamic conversations that enable diverse opinions to be heard.

    • Make clear decisions that weave in diverse points of view.

    • Unleash creativity and engagement, whilst maintaining leadership or operational boundaries.

    • Harness the power of collective intelligence by learning techniques to enable quiet participants to be heard.

    Tools to manage tension and conflict

    • Use tension as an opportunity to enhance learning and strengthen relationships.

    • Learn tools for resolving relational and group tension or conflict instead of allowing anger and blaming to bubble away or escalate.

    • Deliver simple, key statements that address “elephants in the room”.

    • Learn how to create spaces where conflicting views can be expressed and heard, fostering participative, innovative, and respectful cultures.

    Upon completion, participants will receive a certificate.

    SUCCESSFULLY USING THE LEARNING WILL:

    • Save time, energy, and money. Instead of using these resources to deal with interpersonal dynamics, you can focus on your impact instead.

    • Strengthen relationships through having relevant and successful conversations where everyone feels heard.

    • Create peace of mind and stability through a culture of clarity and participation.

    • Improve performance by unleashing collective agency, insight and accountability

    • Build the long term skills and capacity of leaders to enable highly performing, healthy teams.

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  • I provide group facilitation, executive coaching, leadership development programmes, and bespoke off-site retreats.

    I also offer in-house training programmes in Lewis Deep Democracy.

    Contact me to discuss possibilities for working together.

  • Practice circles are designed for people who wish to deepen their skill and confidence in using the toolkit of Lewis Deep Democracy.

    Each Practice Circle is a programme of three 1.5 hour group sessions, held online across three months.

    The prerequisite to attend is completion of CoResolve or Levels 1 and 2 in Lewis Deep Democracy.

    In these circles, you will be able to:

    • Hear how others are putting the tools into practice in day to day life and work

    • Practice the tools you learned on live questions in a supported learning environment, deepening your skill and confidence using the method

    • Explore variations of LDD practices that can be used in more "bits and pieces" in your facilitation and/or leadership

    • Receive group coaching on how you might bring LDD to a live piece of work

    • Continue your Metaskills development, which supports you to understand and embody the work more deeply.

    Group size is limited to 12.

    The next circle will run online, February 14, March 14, and April 11th 2025, from 12pm - 1:30pm.

    Intro offer: £90 for all three sessions.

    The price will increase for future Practice Circles.

    Register here.

  • I am a certified:

    • Lewis Method Instructor and Facilitator.

    • Integral Development Coach (PCC).

    • Mediative Facilitator (DPC Global).