What is it about?

This 3 day workshop is for leaders, facilitators, mentors, and teachers interested in enhancing their leadership by leveraging the psychological development of groups, teams and individuals.

 It has three key focuses:

1)      Trauma, Personal History, and Empowerment: Subtle or explicit traumatizing experiences such as grief and loss, illness, or violence can unconsciously inhibit self-empowerment to act on personal visions with full potential. In this seminar, we will show simple self-management methods to transform our own traumatic experiences into vision and leadership. Every leader should take this training for better understanding of self and others.

2)      Trauma and Mentoring Tools: As leaders, facilitators or teachers, we often work with individuals who have experienced trauma in the past. This work will teach simple mentoring and counseling tools to recognize individuals and teams for whom this knowledge might be important, and to mentor and coach them through transformational steps. Every leader should take this training for increased ability to transform resistance and reduce conflict.

3)      Trauma Work in Organizations, Communities and Teams; Trauma can effect organizations and communities as well as individuals. Leaders and facilitators need to work through their own personal histories and empower their teams, organizations, and communities to do the same.  This workshop will show you how. Every leader should go through this training to learn to assist communities and organizations to develop.

During these three days, you will learn self-management tools (practical inner-work), mentoring methods (coaching), group facilitation and leadership methods. 

We are using methods from the Deep Democracy and Worldwork paradigms. For more information, please browse the website!

This seminar can also be taken as part of an ongoing leadership, coaching and facilitation certification course. For more information, please see: http://tiny.cc/newprog2010

The Format 

This seminar is part of a team and group facilitation training, and will focus particularly on the self-management (or inner work) aspect. Each day will follow a similar format: Mornings will focus on teaching and learning personal and professional development skills. In the afternoon, we will show and teach new group and facilitation practices. For participants who have taken our seminars before, emphasis will be placed on the actual practice of the concepts.

The seminar will consist of 30% theory in mini-lectures and 70% practical demonstrations and applied exercises in which you can:

1) try out what you have learned within the seminar setting

2) design solutions for the actual situation that you are working on 

Nov 26-27: The seminar starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m.

Nov 28: On November 28th the seminar starts at 9a.m. and ends at 1 p.m.

Phone: 0732354902 or 0729467413

Email: EAleaders@deepdemocracyinstitute.org

Price: 7,000 KES (does not include accommodation)

This rate is subsidized by Deep Democracy Institute International

Dimesse Karen (near the junction of Karen Rd. and Lang’ata Rd.)

Karen Road, Karen, Nairobi.

Some accommodation is available, please book directly with the conference center

Tel: 0724 939 871         

is president of maxfxx, a consulting group working worldwide with organizations, including fortune 100 corporations, international NGOs, government agencies, and religious communities. He has coached multi-ethnic executive teams in South Africa, and worked with Australian Aboriginal communities and Native North American Tribes. Max has facilitated conflict resolution between Croatian and Serbian groups during the Yugoslavian war, and relationships between prison inmates, correctional personnel, and prison administrators in high security prisons on the verge of revolt. He is co-founder and president and training director of the Deep Democracy Institute.

is a Certified Processwork Diplomate who specializes in the personal development of the leader and facilitator. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the spiritual experience of the facilitator and coach. Ellen is co-founder and executive director of the Deep Democracy Institute, a Global Think Tank that researches leadership issues worldwide, and aims to create leadership trainings to develop more collaborative systems in today’s diverse societies. She has co-created training programs for Palestine, the USA, UK, Ukraine, and Kenya.