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Proven methodologies
Theory U
Theory U is a methodology at the intersection of science, deep social and organizational change, and consciousness. It has been used by thousands of teams, organizations, and communities worldwide to more effectively address planetary challenges: climate change, the food system, inequality and exclusion, finance, health, and education.
Social Presencing Teather
Arawana Hayashi developed this social technology, which utilizes simple poses and body movements to reveal the current state of an individual, team, or system. It also helps explore future possibilities that are often overlooked and healthier. This approach dismantles limiting beliefs, facilitates direct communication, taps into intuition, and uncovers the inherent wisdom within each social system.
Art of Hosting
The Art of Hosting, also known as the Art of Participatory Leadership, is a leadership approach that operates at both personal and systemic levels. It uses personal practice, dialogue, facilitation, and co-creation of innovation to tackle complex challenges. It seeks to generate a collective interpretation of things by creating conditions that enable conversation processes that lead groups to deeper insights and meaningful outcomes, thereby achieving wise and practical collective action.
Empathic / Nonviolent Communication
Empathetic Communication, or Nonviolent Communication (NVC), is a model developed by Marshall Rosenberg to help people communicate empathically and effectively with each other and themselves. Its emphasis on deep listening, both to ourselves and others, helps us tap into the depth of our compassion. Through NVC, we can learn to clarify what we are observing, what emotions we are feeling, what values we want to live by, and what we want to ask of ourselves and others to enrich our lives.
Flow Game
Flow Game is a powerful tool for creating interactive reflection, dialogue, and active space for groups, teams, individuals, and families. Working through a game is a simple way to ground, strengthen, and bring clarity and flow to people and their lives, leadership, and actions. A powerful question is a doorway to a new perspective, stimulating and tickling you. It can even shake you up. But it can change everything if you dare to stand in the fire.
Timeless Wisdom Training
Led by the modern mystic Thomas Hübl, this foundational and intensive two-year program creates a space for individual and collective growth to address unintegrated past trauma and explore intergenerational, individual, and collective healing to connect with greater clarity and strength to our purpose. It is a vehicle for deep group and individual process work to develop new levels of competence in self- and co-regulation, trauma integration, group coherence, and contemplative practices. Some central themes are relational awareness, mystical principles, collective trauma, inner development, transparent communication, and the path of meditation.
Dialogue for peaceful change
This global training program was developed by practitioners working in diverse contexts around the world to address national and international conflicts. It integrates various tools and methodologies to manage aspects of interpersonal and group conflict. It covers the nature of conflict, models and practices of applied mediation, and developing tools for conflict resolution.
Work that
reconnects
This global community of facilitators, inspired by Johana Macy, is dedicated to weaving deep connections, empowering creative expression, and collaborating in service of the Great Turning. Work That Reconnects (WTR) enables people worldwide to discover and experience the inherent interconnectedness of all beings and the healing power of the web of life. It transforms apathy and despair into collaborative action. WTR involves a series of exercises, rituals, and practices to co-heal the world powerfully and effectively.
Holding Space at the death bed
A process for supporting people who are dying as their souls separate from their bodies. Understanding the emotional and spiritual journey of active dying. Finding tools and rituals to honor grief and ease fear. Learning to meet the last breath with grace and compassion.
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate
This therapy offers a somatic approach to trauma-informed care, including a deep understanding of the body's relationship to wounding and social, environmental, developmental, relational, spiritual, and cultural healing.
