Working with Resistance: A Deep Democracy Approach
November 15 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Free – $35As 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).
Presenters: Maya Townsend and Ipek Utun