Julia Wolfson PhD
Worldworker
Deep Democracy Alliance
Deep Democracy | Process Work | Worldwork
Faciliation, coaching conflict capabilities
Navigating with leaders and teams through a collective reset
using the dream that brought you here, who you are and what you’ve already got
Expertise in:
- train leades and managers to add coaching skills/attitude to their supervisory role
- humanising disability inclusion and education
- residential care and support agency design, repair and revival
- education organisations making role -based transformation
Transitions + bridges
Organisational learning | personal growth in role capabilties|align inner GPS with field/system direction
Implicit as an inner practice is navigation through different dimensions of measurable, subjective and numinous experience in any moment, making it easier to bring out innate vitality, even in the midst of the impossible:
the joy principle!
behind the practice
The vision behind this book is to differentiate aspects of psychological and spiritual rank in the human services context, to make it easier to see opportunities for more congruence in how you actually show up in a positional role for making a real difference in people’s lives and circumstances. People with less social power in a care system can leverage greater influence in the momentary situation and set off strange ripple effects. Power is not only a problem, it is also the solution. The examples offer a humanising and practical way to facilitate hotspots to cool spots, in every day language and in real life cross-cultural situations that will be familiar to anyone in the human services field, and may even be useful in other professional contexts, given that inner powers transcend contexts and cultures.
Part facilitator guide, part leadership+practitioner path and part memoir, Applying Deep Democracy in Human Services is a resource for the helping professions. Nine innate capabilities are named and their process structure revealed as an implicit group process unfolding in real time situations. Each internal capability is made visible with stories from around the world. We are more familiar with thinking of power and lack of power as social roles within systemic conditions that hold structural discrimination in place. Within that broader arc, the focus in this book is on strength-based capabilities to shift those conditions.
These inner powers (referred to as deep power) were found to be present in leaders, practitioners and people receiving services alike. These capabilities can raise a person’s psychological and spiritual rank to influence their situation and even the broader ecology, regardless of where the positional role is on the hierarchy ladder.
Current policy in delivering services for the elderly is spoken of as consumer directed care. However, all too often consumer voices are unheard. Whether care is provided in the home or a residential facility, Applying Deep Democracy in Human Services offers timely practical advice to ensure respect and dignity are embedded in all aspects of service delivery.
Julia is weaving the thread of personal development, emotional intelligence and whole system thinking into a new approach to care systems, where we learn how partnership, empowerment and awareness of rank and privilege create wisdom and eldership for the community of caregivers and people requiring support … for anybody who is interested in making care more humane, less custodial and more fun for everyone involved.
This is the book Human Services people have been waiting for without knowing it. Why do we succeed sometimes and not others? Because, Julia’s powerful book explains, we are using our innate strengths as human beings to connect deeply with others, those whom we serve, and recognise what they have to teach US.
Doctoral research behind the book, December 2024 Research Fest IAPOP (International Association of Process Oriented Psychology)
15 minute view with topic tabs
the name turning forward attempts to convey a momentary experience and timeless principle
that we are moving the world as we inwardly turn,
and the world turns us as it moves
