Are you wondering what it takes to lead in today's team-based, flattened, multidisciplinary organization? Join us for a powerful journey into the complex world of facilitation and collaboration and learn the vital skills you need to become a confident and effective facilitative leader in the modern workplace.

In this workshop , you will be introduced to a comprehensive model for facilitation, one that balances “hard” and “soft” skills. Using hands-on, multi-modal approaches, we’ll take you beyond theory to walk the path of mastery using a holistic set of 20 facilitation competencies. These competencies are based on a new model encompassing twenty archetypes of the integral facilitator, informed by the "integral" philosophy of Ken Wilber.

Upon completion of the workshop, each “sojourner” will be awarded a professional certificate in Integral Facilitation and Collaboration from FacilitatorU.

Group collaboration is an art and science whose time has come…

Overall, 36% of a company’s profitability, innovation, quality, and growth
are due to its Collaboration Index.
—Frost and Sullivan White Paper Sponsored by Verizon and Microsoft—

Over the past three years 80% of participants who attended
the Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration Workshop
said that they use
what they learned on a daily or regular basis.

Who should attend?

This workshop with serve you best if you have at least some basic facilitation and leadership experience. It will offer you the attitudes and hands-on practice you need to serve in the role of facilitator with increased confidence, and will help expand your self-knowledge and ability to self-manage, skills critical to your success as a leader. If you are an experienced facilitator, this is your chance to take your existing practice of facilitation into some new terrain with a fresh new model that offers increasing depth and breadth of practice. We look forward to taking this journey with you!

Attending this course helped me to understand the importance of facilitation skills in everything that I do,from leadership, to supervision, to participation. I have thought about things I learned in the course every day since the course ended.
--2007 Workshop Participant--

My sister and I attended the JOFC Workshop in June, 2009 in Madison. Her work life has been transformed by the experience.  She is so much more confident, grounded and open. As her sister it makes my heart sing!
--2009 Workshop Participant--

Why should you attend?

This workshop goes beyond typical facilitation trainings. Here are some highlights of what to expect from attending this workshop:

- You will learn a holistic approach to solving problems in groups rather than just a set of tools. Many facilitators know how to use sticky dots and post it notes…they tend to focus on the process of facilitation as an end in itself. With a more comprehensive approach, we assess the requirements for a group session (or project), then deliver a process tool that fits that situation.

- This course includes a focus on culture and community. The ability to build and sustain relationships is a very important part of facilitative leadership. Coming up with solutions and outcomes that in fact create positive relationships can nurture positive workplace climate and lead to more creative, meaningful work over the long term. The sustainable perspective builds community by tapping into the HUGE potential of a group.

- Beyond learning effective facilitation tools, you’ll also work with the more subtle aspect of yourself as an instrument of group process. When something changes inside, everything tends to change on the outside. Therefore, our integral approach to facilitation addresses the inner and the outer aspects of yourself and the group. While leaving out perspectives tends to lead us to incomplete or inadequate solutions, our integral perspective will help your groups arrive at the most comprehensive and relevant solutions possible.

- While traditional planning tools generally gauge what will likely occur in the future, they are less useful for addressing the issues of emergent complexity. As such, firm answers are often elusive, and the quest for them can be time and resource intensive. Instead, if we prepare ourselves and our staff and stakeholder teams to facilitate conversations that emerge in the midst of uncertainty, we are developing an organizational capacity to nimbly respond to those issues more appropriately and efficiently than any traditional approach. In this workshop we teach facilitative leaders the competencies they need to support divergent thinking while sustaining group relationships, which ultimately leads to effective and durable decisions. The cost benefit of this investment is critical for companies to understand, for it takes us beyond the reactive, quarterly-return approach and begins to build infrastructures for moderate term and longer term change.

- You will be immersed in an environment of challenge and uncertainty, very much like most of the groups and situations we find ourselves in every way today. You will be offered perspectives and tools to help you navigate this dynamic complexity.

- The course will likely transform your thinking and behavior around the value and limitations of facilitation skills in every role you play, whether it be leader, supervisor, or follower. And it will give you the confidence and the humility you need to jump into the toughest situations.

What past participants have to say about their experience in this workshop

This is the best workshop I have ever attended, and I have attended
a lot of workshops! Everything about the experience was positive.
I not only learned more than I thought I would, but I also use what I learn.
--2008 Workshop Participant--

I can honestly say that this workshop transformed my approach to dealing with myself, group dynamics, teaching, and everyday problem solving. I could sing the course praises that would cover the Skagit River shorelines, but I think the best approach would be to experience it yourself!
--2009 Workshop Participant--

Click here for testimonials and comments made by those who've attended this workshop in the past.

Instructors: Darin Harris, Harry Webne-Behrman, Steve Davis, and special guests.

Registration: Register early, as space is limited to 25 participants. Click here to register.

Lodging: Meals and lodging are available to participants adjacent to the workshop sites. Click here to learn more about the lodging and workshop facilities.

On Wednesday night, I went to bed knowing that there wasn't enough time left in my lifetime to learn how to facilitate. On Thursday morning, I woke up with a plan for my next meeting. Good work fellas!
--2007 Workshop Participant--

Note to Integral Thinkers

Integral fans interested in new applications of integral theory are welcome to attend. With that said, please be forewarned that this is not a course on integral theory. The primary focus of this course is on the skills and practice of facilitation and collaboration; though it is informed by integral theory, we do not adhere to every letter of integral law.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WORKSHOP?
CONTACT STEVE DAVIS , OR CALL (760) 371-2140