A Spiral Dynamics Perspective
SDi Level Two Certification Training
Boulder – October 25-28, 2007
Cost: $850 per person, $1,600 if combined with SDi Level One;
$1,800 if combined with SDi Level Two onlinePeopleSCAN
This analysis of leadership in Boulder will take you beyond the current Integral categories elsewhere, to identify the deep impulses that emerge and conflict in real-world environments.
Rather than simply use naive labels, endless Power Point presentations, or sterile hypothetical case-studies designed to evoke interior Flatlander awareness, this full-range simulation will expose you to the deeply felt ego, involving experiences to get to the core of issues that currently confront us as a people.
You will learn how to defuse partisanship and polarizing forces, to actually design practical solutions in highly complex setting, and utilize a suite of tools and techniques to inform leadership in its many diverse manifestations.
You will, for the first time in a formal workshop context, witness the effectiveness of Full-Spectrum Leadership in South Africa, in the Middle East, in the Netherlands, Mexico, and in Singapore in dealing with the "Red" vs. "Blue" states, and in places where racial and ethnic divides continue to wreak havoc on the planet.
This event will not be for the faint-hearted, nor for those locked in cosmetic or theoretical viewpoints without the actual hands-on experience of getting "down and dirty" in sorting out problems and challenges that are literally and figuratively setting the world on fire.
Join with SDi visionaries and Center for Human Emergence action teams for direct experiential exposure to fresh approaches that will take you into new vistas of understanding of human-nature-on-the-edge natures often driven by fear yet poised to either jump ahead in a quantum leap or fall back into decades of aggression and repression, as we navigate through turbulence, uncertainty, and danger.
You will learn...
- How does the “us” develop in groups and social units, which then most often polarizes and contrasts with the “them” at various levels of scale in social systems?
- What are the forces that turn this natural process into rigid, fixed definitions, ultimately resulting in abstraction of the “causes” into zones that justify violence, murder-suicide, and even genocide?
- What are the forms of procedural conflict conclusions that leadership can use at various stages in the process to defuse, deflect, or minimize those powerful motives, on behalf of a broader perspective and more rational resolution of the issues?
- How can leadership identify the hearts and minds necessary to think in ways that work in this dynamic, so that solutions are natural, relevant, and congruent with the way people think and act?
- How can leadership operate within the context of a large-scale intervention where multiple forces are tearing society in many different directions simultaneously?
We will use our innovative “Live Wire” technology to bring into the workshop the various voices of real leaders who can provide us with both insights and tactics, to provide us with further first-hand perspectives on what works and what doesn't, and how we need to be prepared for unexpected events, wild cards, and other threats to resilience.
We will also co-create the SDi in Action Leadership Map, which will lay out all of the many existing leadership theories and practices across the full spectrum of the Spiral and illustrate both the mega- dynamic nature of the Spiral and how one chooses the appropriate practice for the task at hand.
Nowhere else in the world can you find this level and quality of Spiral thinking, nor the hands-on demonstration of real-world, practical application of Spiral Dynamics in action.
In fact, what you can access in our training only and nowhere else is that specific ingredient other imitative courses miss: knowledge of the actual dynamics of change. Rarely discussed elsewhere in the Integral worlds, let alone taught, is the deceptively simple exploration of what different people mean by “change.”
Without understanding how complex systems, including levels of ego involvement, actually “change” – and in which change variation – means people are simply not realistic about real-world conditions.
So join us for a truly unique experience, where we will both model and teach, complete with global research and applications, when, why and how large-scale systems “change” (or don’t!).