emBODY-INg CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION

Integrate your physical experience and mental awareness
Increase your effectiveness with conflict and collaboration dynamics

Date: Friday, August 24, 2001
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Cost: $240 -- BRING A FRIEND FOR $80 -Shared price becomes $160 each!
Location: The Golden Gate Club, San Francisco

This workshop is for you if you: Lead or coach people engaged in change initiatives Must work effectively with people with differing subject matter expertise, cultures, languages and perspectives Wish to add dimension to your skills in conflict resolution and communication.

"Extraordinary workshops have what I call an X-factor. I don't know what it is, but I recognize it when I see it. Your workshop had the X-factor!"

In business we regularly encounter metaphors such as the "negotiation tango" and "dance of change," but we rarely, if ever, explore their actual physical truths and implications. Despite increased awareness and acceptance of the mind-body connection, it mostly stays in the realm of conversation rather than being experienced in learning. Time for a change!

Awareness in the mind wanders freely between past, present and future. To be fully present and available for experience in the moment requires awareness of the physical and emotional body. In order to be fully present during conflictÑto resolve it and restore collaborationÑwe can (re)-learn ways to perceive and use our physical body as a valuable source of information and as an instrument of communication.

In this highly interactive workshop you will expand your capacity to understand conflict and regenerate collaboration. You will gain a deeper and more differentiated awareness of conflict dynamics that you experience in interaction with others. You will be on your feet for at least 50% of the day, integrating exercises in body awareness and improvisational movement with practical examples of conflict situations. You will then translate what you first experience in your body back into mental models and distinctions.

Space is Limited and Pre-Registration Required
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Beata Lewis, together with her German colleague Ulla Glaesser, developed this original approach to utilize and integrate practices for improvisation and body awareness to support greater effectiveness and ease in conflict resolution and collaboration. Workshop participants have been from such diverse professional areas as law, alternative dispute resolution, organizational development, coaching, counseling & therapy, dance & body work, education, and corporate management. Workshops applying this approach are now offered and continuously augmented and refined by a network of professional who combine expertise in law, conflict resolution, movement and healing. To date, emBODY-INg CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION has been presented in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

 

Presented in May 2001 as a Pre-Conference Workshop for
IAF Conference 2001
Minneapolis, Minnesota

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