Dive in and experience the 20 dynamic archetypes of the
integral facilitator...

During this workshop you will:

• Learn a new Integral Model of Facilitation to successfully engage complex issues and groups.
• Learn about 20 archetypes (competencies) that will help you become a flexible and powerful facilitator and collaborator.
• Practice self-mastery skills and behaviors such as objectivity, presence, intuition, adaptability, and empathy.
• Explore the impact of developmental levels on facilitation.
• Learn strategies for changing the "state" of groups.
  
• Learn and practice intervention techniques using depth, timing, language and more via an integral framework
• Practice the latest group process applications of brainstorming, grouping, selection, decision-making, and consensus building.
• Practice diagnosing group process from an “all quadrant” (holistic) perspective.
• Magnify your facilitative leadership by learning how to collaborate with diverse groups and perspectives

Workshop Agenda

Pre-Workshop, Learning Community Calls: Phone into interactive and web delivered bridge line calls prior to coming to the workshop. You’ll learn the basics of the integral framework, meet your fellow sojourners, and prepare for our journey of learning.

Day 1: The Call of Facilitation. We will explore what brought you to this workshop, describe the integral facilitation model and competencies, and begin exploring core facilitation practices.

• Answering the Call
  • What called you into this work?
• What is Integral Facilitation?
  • Navigating the Maze of Complexity:The Nature of Complex Systems
  • A Map for the Journey
  • Your Vision as a Facilitator
• The Inner Game of Facilitation
  • Being in Front of the Room: Centering Skills
  • Objectivity: What Drives You Away From or Towards Objectivity?
• Preparing for Facilitation
  • An Integral Model For Assessing the Desires and Expectations of the Group and Your Client
  • Maintaining Group Memory By Energizing Your Flip Charting Skills
• Facilitating Group Process
  • Listening Deeper: Cultivate Your Awareness of What is Taking Place in the Group
  • Facilitating Flow Through Simple Intervention
• Closing Activity
  • Preparing to Jump
    

Day 2: Trials of Facilitation. What is it like to be in the complex, messy bogs and magical moments of group work? During this day, you will experience first hand the stresses and difficulties while outfitted with powerful competencies and tools.

• Testing your metal
  • Finding Integrity through the Fire of Difficulty
  • Presenting By Demonstrating Professionalism, Self Confidence, And Authenticity
• Facilitating the Process: The Latest Techniques in Brainstorming, Grouping, Selection, and Decision Making
• Interactive Case Study Application: The incident on Red Cedar Lake
• Closing Activity
  • Preparing to Let Go

Day 3: Dissolution. Okay, now you’ve hit rock bottom! How does an integral facilitator walk forward when things dissolve? Using fully interactive case studies, you’ll learn how to use integrity, intervention, and relationship to discover fantastic structures in group formation.

• How Does the Standard Way of Conducting Meetings Help Us Build An Improved, Integral Approach
  • Trading Old clothes for New Clothes
• Facilitating A Dialogue: Solving Complex Problems
  • Practice, Observation, and Debrief of a Current Public Policy Issue
• Integral Intervention and Intuition
  • Basic Integral Intervention Cycle and Methodology
  • Attuning to and Recognizing Intuition, Using Intuition to Engage Group
  • Intervention Techniques: Depth, Timing, Shift, Language, and Frequency
  • Practicing Intervention By Understanding the Conditions and Causes of Group Development
• Closing Activity
  • Scraping Bottom

Day 4: Discovery & Adventuring. You and your sojourners will head out into the field of the Madison campus to observe facilitated sessions using the integral framework learned thus far. This will be your opportunity to apply, invent, and discover your own path of facilitation and collaboration.

• Facilitation Field Trip (Madison only event)
  • Observe and Assess
  • Reports from the Field
• Tapping the Magic of Conflict
• Decisions, Consensus, and Collaboration: How Can Decision Making Be Revitalized Using An Integral Framework?
• Closing Activity
  • Basking in the Mystery

Day 5: Integration. How can we bring the experiences and practices of this workshop into our lives? During this last day you will reflect, challenge, and commit yourself to apply what you’ve learned. The final part of the day will ask us to walk together on the path of integral facilitation through a very unique closing activity.

• Reflecting on Your Call and the Journey
• Invoking Collective Energy
  • Dialogue: How Can Lessons and Discoveries Help Us Behave and Plan Differently as Facilitators?
  • Engaging the Room by Caring for the Spatial Environment
• The Intersection Facilitation and Culture
  • What Are The Unique Challenges Of Using Collaboration In Various Contexts?
• Closing Activity (Madison only event)
  • Dancing in the Maze: Group Field Trip (Local Area)

Post-Workshop, Learning Community Practice:
An on-going discussion and community will continue to help apply and share what we’re learning.

Who should attend?

If you are new to facilitation, this workshop will offer you the attitudes and hands-on practice you need to step into the role of facilitator with increased confidence. 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!

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 DARIN HARRIS, OR CALL (608) 262-1289