Facilitative Leadership Across Cultures
| When: | 09/20/2006, 12:00 AM to 09/24/2006, 12:00 AM |
| Where: | Hollyhock Retreat Centre |
| Cost: | $595 CDN, $522 US, for non-profits $350 CDN, $292 US (meals & accommodation extra), 4 nights |
| Taught by: | Julian Griggs & Michelle LeBaron |
| Email: | (Click to email) |
| Phone: | 604-669-4802 |
| Scholarship Application Deadline August 8 | |
In this advanced facilitation training, participants will use their leadership experiences as a foundation for learning activities that will deepen their creative resources; increase cultural fluency; and apply new skills in order to prevent, manage and transform conflict in their work.
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This advanced training is designed for business and government leaders, campaigners, community organizers and senior nonprofit staff who are engaged in facilitation, negotiation, or conflict resolution in a cross-cultural context, and wish to master a more comprehensive set of skills.
Case studies and examples will be drawn from a diverse range of organizational settings and multicultural contexts. Participants should have working familiarity with the following: facilitative leadership, conflict resolution, conflict management, negotiation and facilitation.
At the conclusion of the course, participants will have:
- Developed and applied practical strategies for preventing, analyzing and managing intercultural conflicts in and between organizations and communities;
- Increased awareness of cultural and worldview differences alive in contemporary multicultural organizations and communities;
- Increased understanding of power and hierarchy and their abilities to work constructively in asymmetric situations;
- Developed cultural fluency including the ability to anticipate, adapt to and work across a range of communication starting-points and values;
- Deepened their capacities to work through and beyond impasses in negotiation and facilitation;
- Learned about creative process and explored their inner geography of
creativity, so they will be better able to make choices that stimulate and
energize creativity for themselves, their organizations and their
communities;
- Enhanced abilities to facilitate, lead and collaborate with others
across a diversity of worldviews and values with awareness, sensitivity and
increased confidence and choice.
Julian Griggs is one of the founding Principals of
Dovetail Consulting Inc., and has been a regular trainer and facilitator
for the Hollyhock Leadership Institute since its inception. In the last 10
years, Julian has designed and facilitated over several hundred workshops,
strategic planning retreats and conferences for corporate, government, First
Nations and non-government clients.
Michelle LeBaron
is an educator and author whose passion is fostering creative capacities to
prevent and manage conflict across cultures. She has consulted and
taught on a wide range of issues in Canada and abroad in public policy,
educational, family and commercial contexts. Her current work explores
connections between the arts and cross-cultural conflict using storytelling,
public theatre, videography and photography. Michelle serves as Director of
the UBC Program on Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law. She is the
author of Bridging Troubled Waters: Conflict Resolution from the Heart
(Jossey Bass, 2002) and Bridging Cultural Conflicts: A New Approach for a
Changing World (Jossey Bass, 2003).