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The COMMUNITAS Project:

Leadership in Groups, Teams, Organisations

Group Facilitation, Group Dynamics

Authority, Participation and Engagement in Your Social World

 

 

 

 

Interaction

Intervention

Inter-being

A series of unique events with Gaie Houston, Thom Osborn and Michael Soth


- designed for everybody involved with groups, teams, organisations and their cultures and
dynamics, their learning and development
- for leaders, facilitators, managers,
consultants and all who care
about social responsibility

 

 

The community of stakeholders (staff, customers, suppliers etc) can be considered a complex ecological system, linked into a multitude of interrelationships which are subject to psychological dynamics which are beyond the grasp of 20th century theories.

The COMMUNITAS PROJECT:

This training is suitable for:
  • group leaders
  • executives, leaders and managers from private, public and voluntary sectors
  • human resource managers
  • trainers for teams and leadership
  • group facilitators and consultants
  • group therapists
  • community organisers
  • leaders of campaign groups
  • chairpersons and event organisers
  • trustees and board members
  • social work and medical agencies
  • helping professionals
  • those working with Open Space Technology
  • a cutting-edge project aiming to re-vitalise our engagement with our social world
  • developing leadership and facilitative skills informed by integrative, 21st-century depth psychology
  • bringing together individual creativity and expression with communal belonging and response-ability
  • combining the strengths of authority with the power of communality
  • offering a comprehensive range of group work approaches, theories and tools for leaders, facilitators, consultants, managers and everybody involved in groups and organisations
  • giving experiential learning opportunities for developing your self-awareness, understanding and practice in group contexts
  • providing a microcosm of social organisation, allowing insight into the forces that generate and shape organisational cultures and how they can evolve
  • using the notion of parallel process as a profound tool for perceiving, understanding and working with the complex interrelationship between intra-psychic, subjective experience on the one hand and interpersonal, collective on the other

 

Are you ready for flexible, response-able, engaged, embodied leadership ?

To function as a self-aware, psychologically-informed, sensitive and robust leader ?

To take your business or organisation into a productively abundant and sustainably wholesome future ?

To participate and contribute to your full potential, for your own and the organisation's benefit and development ?

What skills, practices, knowledge, resources do you need to develop in order to maximise your influence and impact on your social environment ?

 

How can you influence and impact on your social environment ?

Do you feel at the mercy of the organisational culture surrounding you and its politics of ?

Overwhelmed by a culture you do not identify with or collective pressures for compliance ?

How can you usefully contribute to groups, businesses, social organisations of all kinds ?

How can you make them work - for yourself and for others ? How can you help them function well ?

What kind of leadership, input, contribution on your part will bring out the best in people within the social organism you belong to ?

How can you deal with the group's effect on yourself in such a way that it becomes a useful response and productive intervention ?

 

 

Resources:

36 Tools for Building Spirit in Learning Communities

By R. Bruce Williams
Published by Corwin Press, 2006
ISBN 1412913454, 9781412913454
192 pages

 

 

 
 
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