BEYOND FACILITATION 2025:
Working with Conflict, Divisiveness, & Disturbance
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Master the Essence of Extraordinary Hosting: Collective Story Harvesting
with Mary Alice Arthur & Amy Lenzo
ONLINE
FOUR TUESDAYS - FEBRUARY 25TH, MARCH 4TH, 11TH & 18TH
10:00 am - 12:30 pm US Pacific Time | 1:00 - 3:30 US Eastern Time
7 - 9:30 pm Central European Time
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$350.00
Claim your space in this series of four sessions with experienced hosts and stewards Amy Lenzo (World Cafe) & Mary Alice Arthur (Art of Hosting). Join us as we take a deeper look at applying one of the most innovative & effective practices in participatory group process - Collective Story Harvesting - and applying it to today's work with conflict, divisiveness and disturbance.
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If you – and those you work with and for – are feeling a growing amount of overwhelm and complexity, it may be because of the conflict, divisiveness and disturbance that is arising everywhere. Falling into disturbance, conflict and divisiveness robs any group of the potential of using its combined resources to create innovation and wiser action.
No matter what area you work in, or what your work is, it can be challenging to stay out of disturbance.
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Are you are seeking ways to minimise the conflict between groups and help them work with difference in order to create more generative solutions together?
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Are you are looking for ways to support people to move away from the divisiveness that is so prevalent now and listen to each other in new ways?
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Are you looking for a framework that can offer more harmony, and support people to lean into deeper understanding?
For our third iteration of BEYOND FACILITATION, we want to both hear from and learn together with practitioners in the field who are working directly with conflict, divisiveness and disturbance in new and effective ways. At the same time, we want to use a narrative method that can be replicated in your upcoming projects precisely because it can support generative listening, deeper understanding, and stronger co-created outcomes.
What Will Happen?
Over the course of four consecutive sessions, we work with a narrative framework to hear from four senior practitioners in a variety of fields, who are dealing with the complexities of conflict, divisiveness and disturbance in challenging real life projects. Together, we will act both as research and harvesting teams to capture the gold of their real-life experience using the Collective Story Harvest method.
Why this Course? Why Now?
Disturbance and conflict are sapping the life out of group work. As a leader or facilitator you are charged with supporting your groups to make the most effective use of their time together. But complex and innovative work depends on the foundation of group relationship and relatedness. What can we discover from those pioneering at the edges during this challenging time?
We will learn from cutting edge practitioner stories, with field-tested results, and engage in action learning with a potent, ready-to-use methodology.
Collective Story Harvest provides a solid framework for moving away from positionality and into the role of collective sense and meaning making. Through this simple method, we can actively and generatively learn from any story, in ways that make new futures possible.
This will be a highly hands-on workshop. Action learning is one of the fastest and most effective methods of learning and ensures the results stay with you and can immediately be applied in your own context.
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OUR METHODOLOGY
The Collective Story Harvest narrative methodology was born out of the field of Art of Hosting and has been used around the world in a wide variety of applications for more than a decade. Working together with one of the methodology creators, Mary Alice Arthur, will help us step behind the scenes and understand the inherently strategic nature of this potent tool.
OUR STORY PRACTIONERS
We have chosen four practitioners who are experimenting in the delicate space between chaos and breakdown – a space many of us are confronting right now – in different contexts and places in the world.
Each of them is a well-seasoned host and carries their own unique blend of focus and skills
Join us if you are….
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Leading groups that face conflict, divisiveness and you are seeking support in helping them move beyond the disturbance to a more generative working relationship
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Looking for inspiration about how to host groups facing chaos, breakdown and conflict
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Seeking cutting edge ideas on how to work with big, complex issues in new ways
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Searching for a method that can both harness and focus the energy in groups in a more generative way
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Looking for support in the “groanzone” that is group process
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Wanting to work actively with other practitioners who are also exploring the edgy nature of conflict, divisiveness and disturbance
We meet on four consecutive Tuesdays, starting February 25th.
Each of the sessions will take us deeper into working with the themes behind each practitioner story.
SESSION ONE
We begin by taking a closer look at our focus around conflict, divisiveness and disturbance. How do those working at these edges see their work and what are they pioneering?
Then we will introduce both our overall workshop process and the Collective Story Harvest methodology, which is the backbone of this experience.
We outline the strategic choices inherent in each part of the methodology and begin to co-create the Harvesting arcs we will use to work with the stories coming in Session 2 & 3.
SESSION TWO & THREE
In Sessions 2 and 3 we step fully into Collective Story Harvest, acting as researchers into the specific threads we are most interested in learning more about as a collective. Each of our harvesting teams will continue their selected focus over two sessions, building a body of knowledge over their specific topic.
We will listen to two storytellers in each session, sharing their work on the edges and what they have learned from pioneering in their own fields of focus. Our deep listening work will be a gift - a fresh perspective mirrored back to them as they move forward in their work, while at the same time offering us another layer of learning from their stories.
SESSION FOUR
In the final session, we will bring together our complete harvest, looking for specific patterns in what we learned in Sessions 2 and 3.
Then, we’ll deconstruct the methodology, step by step, and complete our work together with each individual gaining clarity on where this methodology might be applied in their own field of work.
Your Hosts
AMY LENZO
www.wedialogue.com
A Steward of the World Cafe community & practice, Amy Lenzo is both a process host & tech host with over two and a half decades of hosting engaging, participatory online trainings for the central garden of practitioners to develop our individual and collective facilitation skills, both online and onsite. Passionate about both technology and nature, Amy loves to create online environments that connect us to ourselves, each other, and the natural world using the languages of beauty.
MARY ALICE ARTHUR
www.getsoaring.com
Mary Alice is a Story Activist working with story in service of positive system shift and for focusing collective intelligence on critical issues. She has been facilitating groups for almost 30 years and is an internationally respected process host and trainer, supporting practitioners around the world as a steward of the Art of Hosting. and is also an active Flow Game steward, with a special love of working with questions. She is the author of 365 ALIVE!: Find your voice, Claim your story. Live your brilliant life.
