Deep democracy leadership, large-group facilitation and coaching – DDI

Presenters: Drs Ellen and Max Schupbach

Deep Democracy, developed by Arnold Mindell, is a whole-system, holographic paradigm that links individual development, team development, and world changes in one cohesive theory. It unifies elements of indigenous cosmologies, modern physics, and complexity theory, as well as cutting-edge psychological research and perennial wisdoms in the world religions. The framework can be used to work on personal and professional development, team development, organizational development, and universal world changes. Depending on your context, it naturally shows the interdependence/connection between these processes at any given moment.

Deep Democracy assumes that your personal “life myth” process, our term for a deeper essential direction in your life, is intricately linked to the organizing principle behind world changes, and that the experiences we have in organizations, teams, relationships, and in our inner lives are symmetrical, local expressions of larger universal processes.

Process Work, another term for Deep Democracy, has a vast array of tools that assist in bringing these hidden structures to the forefront, allowing creative, often surprising solutions to spring out of complications.

In this six-day workshop, we will give an overview of the theoretical approach, and demonstrate skills that you can use for your own development, work, coaching with individuals, and facilitating groups and communities in diverse settings. It is also serving as an introduction to our two-year training program, starting in 2018.