Co-Creating Desired Futures
Facilitation Process
Are you…
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wanting to expand your skills in bridging divides?
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exploring effective approaches for participatory leadership?
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seeking to encourage diversity and creativity, while also generating alignment and coherence?
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interested in learning powerful new ways for working with groups?
Above text and image of Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada used with permission
Co-Creating Desired Futures Facilitation Intensive
In this 6-session online learning journey, you’ll join others on Zoom to experience some of the basic elements of Co-Creating Desired Futures facilitation. You'll start by engaging in the process as a participant, and then you'll have opportunities to practice facilitating and co-facilitating with coaching and appreciative feedback. During the sessions, we’ll be periodically reflecting on what we are learning. This cycle of experience and reflection on experience is a key part of the learning process.
This professional level training course is taught by Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada, with the assistance of Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg. It grows out of Rosa’s earlier “Listening Our Shared World Into Being” workshops.
Maximum 9 participants
Six three hour Zoom sessions over 6-10 weeks
Cost range: $400 to $1200
Partial Scholarships may be available depending on your circumstances.
Next start date to be determined. Interested? Contact Us.
"In times of democratic peril, listening may seem too soft a tool to meet the hard edges of political crises. Indeed, many tools are needed. Yet in the practice of democratic innovations, it is often the inner discipline of facilitators—their capacity to withhold, to attune, to reflect—that helps understanding to grow and coherence to emerge."
LISTENING ACROSS DIFFERENCES research paper by Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada
More about the CCDF Facilitation Process
The Co-Creating Desired Futures (CCDF) facilitation process draws from several tried-and-tested models of group facilitation and communication. Empathy Circles help us learn to listen deeply, so others feel heard and differences can be explored in constructive ways. Nonviolent Communication helps us learn to honor the underlying human needs that we all share, even when these needs are expressed unskillfully. Dynamic Facilitation helps groups enter and stay in a creative flow, by making room for creative tension in ways that feel emotionally safe.
You can learn more about various group processes and organizing tools on the website from our friends at the Co-intelligence Institute. In addition, you’ll find real world examples of initiatives oriented towards wholeness, co-intelligence and wise democracy.
Meet the CCDF Facilitation Intensive Team
Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada Ph.D.
Rosa’s calling is to help develop our societal capacity for transforming friction and conflict into creative energy and systemic insights. Trained as an organization development consultant, one of Rosa’s practices is Dynamic Facilitation. She is the author of From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A User's Guide to Dynamic Facilitation. and she teaches this collaborative sense-making process internationally.
With a life-long passion for social change, Rosa explores the intersection of group facilitation and social transformation in her occasional blog The Listening Arts. Her most recent writings are accessible through her Link Tree.
Laurie Simons M.A.
Along with her husband, Terry Sterrenberg, Laurie has a video production company called Educational Videos Plus, and has produced numerous documentary films. Laurie is the author of Taking No for an Answer and other Skills Children Need, as well as manuals for teachers, parents, and communities. Laurie has had extensive experience as a child development specialist and parent counselor and is certified as a Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) provider. Laurie and Terry enjoyed writing The Gatherings screenplay together, and they both have a passion for bringing The Gathering Process to everybody.
Terry Sterrenberg M.S.W.
Terry is a retired Gottman Method couples counselor, and filmmaker. Together with his wife, Laurie Simons, he has produced multiple documentary films, including The Healthcare Movie; Now is the Time: Healthcare for Everybody; and The Dream We Choose.
Together, Terry and Laurie designed and produced the Community Wealth cooperative board game, and most recently they have co-authored the screenplay The Gatherings. Terry's dream is that
Gatherings become ubiquitous, create a listening culture, and lead to a positive future for everyone.
