Bridging Lives


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UPCOMING EVENTS

Are you looking for a dynamic speaker for an event? Transformational topics relate to conscious, enlivening, and sustainable business. Focus where you want it: leadership in general and women's leadership, personal mastery, business and leadership ethics, communication, negotiation, collaboration, conflict resolution, creativity and storytelling, integral growth and well-being, cultural change, etc.
I engage audiences large and small in presentation and participatory format.

Please have a look below and contact me with specific requests.

Current Bridging Lives Seminars
and
Current Speaking Events

Representative Past Events
Marin Coaches Alliance - Panel of Experts

Panel of Experts Q&A Session! Marin Coaches Alliance presents a panel of 4 top-level coaches. In this unique question and answer session, you will get the chance to ask all of those burning questions that you have of these PCC and MCC level coaches. Such topics include marketing and maintaining a full business, finding a niche and much more. So, please bring all of your questions.

This impressive panel includes:
C.J. Hayden, is the best-selling author of Get Clients Now! and Get Hired Now! C.J. is a Master Certified Coach and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach who established her practice in 1992.
Audrey Seymour MA PCC CPCC, is certified by the Coaches Training Institute and the Career Coach Institute, and has had a private practice in career and business coaching for 3 1/2 years.
Beata Lewis, Executive Coach and Change Consultant, is certified as a Master Somatic Coach through the Strozzi Institute. She guides highly accomplished leaders, business owners and professionals to achieve new levels of leadership mastery and intentional transformation.
Ashley Warrenton-Smith, founder of Catalyst Coaching & Training in San Francisco in 1985, an executive coaching, training, and organizational development consulting firm specializing in leadership and team development.

Monday, November 6, 2006

Marin Coaches Alliance


Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: Town Center Shopping Mall, Conference Room
Corte Madera, CA


Leading Conscious Collaboration

What do you intend to create with your leadership?
How does your participation influence the collaborative process and outcomes?

Beginning with these questions, we explore possibilities for catalyzing change in business contexts. Conscious collaboration begins with a clear intention to create something that matters to you.

Conscious collaboration becomes fun and enlivening when people work together by choice and from a creative (rather than reactive) orientation to solving problems. Where does organizational change happen and how? Much depends on where you direct your attention. To achieve change in behaviors and actions (and therefore results), we must pay attention to what drives those behaviors, namely the underlying thoughts, feelings, beliefs and assumptions. The challenge is to move beyond the limitations of unconscious habits and reactivity.

Bridging from theory to practice, students practiced giving and receiving intentional feedback. The challenge is in delivering candid, productive feedback that is most likely to produce the intended outcome. The art of leading conscious collaboration is learned and practiced in the subtleties of conversations like these.

Friday, October 20, 2006

Presidio School of Management - Guest Lecturer


San Francisco, CA

"Beata integrates body, mind and spirit in her facilitation work with groups. She enables meaningful explorations through deep questioning that grounds participants in their being. Beata creates the conditions for individuals and groups to embody their leadership and to pledge their commitment to the common good."

Kathia Castro Laszlo, PhD and Alexander Laszlo, PhD
Co-Founders fo Syntony Quest and Faculty at Presidio School of Management


Leaders Wanted: Part 2

What stories are essential for masterful leadership? In September 2005, Beata engaged Stammtisch members in a conversation about leadership and personal mastery. In Part II, Beata will lead participants in an exploration about leadership and storytelling. Stories inspire and give meaning for the commitments and actions by which you create your results...whether success or something thing else. How can you tell what stories are “real” for people and which ones are "fairytales?" What are the elements of a compelling story that generates synergy and a big “wow!” in business? Come prepared to participate and to be surprised. We will have chocolate!

Thursday, September 7, 2006

Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce - Stammtisch

Time: 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Location: Swissnex
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
(between Washington and Jackson Street)
Tel: (415) 912-5901


Enrolling People to Give Their Best

How do you have to change your thinking when you become a new executive or business owner? A lot rests on your performance, individually. You engage with business at a whole new level of play. But success depends on your ability to envision what you want and to create it with other people. As you strive for excellence in yourself, how are you engaging the people around you? Those people might be internal or external to your business. How does your participation and leadership impact the collaborative process and outcomes? How do other people feature in your evolving leadership story?

How can you get better results through other people? This Critical Conversation will explore possibilities for leading collaborative "success teams."

Saturday, May 13, 2006

BABW-BusinessWoman's Expo
Women on the Move - From Vision to Action


Oakland Marriott Convention Center
9am - 4 pm
Oakland, CA


From Surviving to Thriving

When we make the choice to thrive, some questions immediately come up:
1) What do I want?
2) What needs to change? and
3) What resources do I already have that can get me there?
As change agents, we guide clients toward making new choices consciously and being able to follow through with congruent action. As change agents, we lead the way by living our own message, working at our own growth edges. Beata Lewis, Executive Coach and Change Consultant, will lead us in a conversation about moving from surviving to thriving. She will share essential tools and insights from her experience that you can apply for both professional and personal benefit.

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Employee Assistance Professional Association

 


San Francisco, CA


Giving and Receiving Feedback in the Workplace

Feedback is an essential aspect of communication for leaders and teams. Effective feedback can generate clarity, alignment and coordinated action. However, when feedback generates misunderstanding and defensiveness, it can contribute to costly breakdowns rather than alleviating them. Participate in this workshop to learn vital distinctions about feedback and practice the art of communicating on purpose.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Stanford Univeristy Graduate School of Business - Management Communication Program


Stanford, CA


Leading Conscious Collaboration

What do you intend to create with your leadership?
How does your participation influence the collaborative process and outcomes?

Beginning with these questions, we explore possibilities for catalyzing change in business contexts. Conscious collaboration begins with a clear intention to create something that matters to you.

Conscious collaboration becomes fun and enlivening when people work together by choice and from a creative (rather than reactive) orientation to solving problems. Where does organizational change happen and how? Much depends on where you direct your attention. To achieve change in behaviors and actions (and therefore results), we must pay attention to what drives those behaviors, namely the underlying thoughts, feelings, beliefs and assumptions. The challenge is to move beyond the limitations of unconscious habits and reactivity.

Bridging from theory to practice, students practiced giving and receiving intentional feedback. The challenge is in delivering candid, productive feedback that is most likely to produce the intended outcome. The art of leading conscious collaboration is learned and practiced in the subtleties of conversations like these.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Presidio School of Management - Guest Lecturer


San Francisco, CA

"Beata integrates body, mind and spirit in her facilitation work with groups. She enables meaningful explorations through deep questioning that grounds participants in their being. Beata creates the conditions for individuals and groups to embody their leadership and to pledge their commitment to the common good."

Kathia Castro Laszlo, PhD and Alexander Laszlo, PhD
Co-Founders fo Syntony Quest and Faculty at Presidio School of Management


Leaders Wanted!

Just because it’s called leadership doesn’t mean that it is leadership. How do you recognize and relate to excellent and seasoned leaders? How do these leaders elicit and reward the best in you and in others? Looking beyond the titles and positions, we will consider the essentials for being a living example of a great leader and why that matters in your business and life. Fuhrvergnuegen!

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce - Stammtisch

Time: 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Location: Swissnex
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
(between Washington and Jackson Street)
Tel: (415) 912-5901


Can You Be Tough Enough?

Women leaders are consistently asked this question, especially by men and especially as they are considered for higher levels of leadership visibility and responsibility. The question “can you be tough enough” can surprise and dismay someone who knows she is otherwise competent and a good choice “on the merits.” It can be heard something like “are you man enough for this assignment?” How do you answer that question? What concerns may lurk behind that question? Can you be yourself (without pretending, for example, to be tougher) and still be the leader you want to be? In this session we will address these and related questions for women learning to be authentic, satisfied and powerful leaders.

Saturday, September 24, 2005

Women's Leadership Conference offered by the Monterey Institute of International Studies

Monterey, CA

FREE ADMISSION
WHEN YOU PRE-REGISTER

GROW
Gaining Real Opportunities for Women

By connecting women who are making a difference in our community and our world


Playing with the Inner Skier

Special Event for Body & Spirit Week

Come exercise your spirit of play and curiosity in a different way. Experience your inner skier. Meet your fellow skiers.

This engaging interactive session considers the integration of body, mind, heart and spirit as it relates to skiing on particularly challenging terrain. What awareness do you need to expand your capacity and boundaries? What physical, mental, emotional and spiritual practices make you a better skier, one who also has more fun and fewer limitations on the mountain? We also explore the interface with awareness and practices that produce mastery in other areas of your life.

Monday, August 29, 2005

Portillo Ski Resort
Portillo, Chile

 


Play Like a Woman;
Win Like a Man

We are changing how the game of business is played. For women leaders, what could it mean to play like a woman and to win like a man? Generations of women have strived to play like men, adapting themselves to overcome a persistent presumption of incompetence and lack of credibility as leaders. More women are getting very good at the game as it is played. And many of those women are choosing to reclaim what they sacrificed along the way. Playing like a woman might open new possibilities for making life-enhancing choices to advance in the game. Winning, whether like a man or otherwise, might not even be the point. As we bring more of ourselves to conscious leadership and business practices, we play to experience success in new ways.

This will be the first of several sessions offered at this FREE all-day conference for Women in Business.
See
http://www.sanfranciscobaywomensconference.com/ for further information and to pre-register.

Saturday, April 30, 2005
8:30 a.m.


San Francisco Bay Area Women's Conference:

Women Playing to Succeed

FREE ADMISSION
WHEN YOU PRE-REGISTER
Jack London Inn
444 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 463 0200

Hosted by:

Silicon Events


Communication: Building or Breaking Trust?

Trust breakdowns are often surprisingly persistent and costly. They are also opportunities for learning and risk taking. What types of trust are crucial for productivity in the workplace and in leadership? What and how you communicate builds or breaks trust. Explore distinctions between authentic and blind trust. Experiment with communication to restore trust. Practice so you're ready when it counts.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Stanford Univeristy Graduate School of Business - Management Communication Program


Stanford, CA


Balanced Leadership: Integrating the Masculine and Feminine

This fourth annual program in our 'Women in Leadership' series will look for the best of both the feminine and the masculine qualities that find expression in both men and women so that powerfully conscious leaders can emerge. How can leadership practices be more inclusive of the strengths of both? If leaders were strong and integrated in both, what difference could it make in these times of leadership crisis in our world? Men and women are invited to participate in this evening of inquiry.

Conversation Starters:
Beata Lewis, Leadership Coach; Creator, Collaborative Leadership workshops (http://www.bridginglives.com);
John O'Neil, Founder, Center for Leadership Renewal (http://www.leadrenewal.com); Author, Leadership Aikido;
John Renesch (http://www.renesch.com), Author, Conscious Leadership and The Conscious Organization;
Nicole Shapiro, leadership Coach and Management Consultant, Author, Negotiating for Your Life: Success Strategies for Women;
Lynne Twist, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, Institute of Noetic Sciences (http://www.noetic.org); Co-Founder, The Pachamama Alliance (http://www.pachamama.org); Author, The Soul of Money (http://www.soulofmoney.org).

Tuesday, January 25, 2005
7 p.m.


Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
747 Front Street (@ Broadway)

San Francisco, CA

PRESIDIO DIALOGUES

Article by Beata Lewis, click here.

Fresh Perspectives for Everyday Negotiations

Special Speaker exclusively for Guidant employees

Do you miss opportunities to improve your situation, partly due to a reluctance to ask for what you want or need? How can you negotiate from a position of greater strength, whether on your own behalf or for the benefit of others? As a conversation aimed at finding optimal solutions for everyone involved, negotiation is an essential workplace, leadership and life skill. Whatever your attitude and experience with negotiating, find out how you can benefit from insights and tips offered in this session.

Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Guidant Corporation
Santa Clara, CA

SCORE Presentation


Negotiating Win-Win at Focal

Special Speaker for a conference exclusively for Intel employees

What rides on the success of your focal conversation? Project assignments, compensation, bonuses, promotions, ... not to mention self esteem. Consider this: when under pressure we generally perform to the level of our practice, not to the level of our potential or expectations. So, what practices are you ready to take on that will increase your chances of creating satisfaction in critical negotiations, like your focal? This interactive session will provoke creative thought and help you gain clarity about behaviors and strategies you can choose for greater wins at focal and beyond.

Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Conference Workshop

Me, ask for that? Yeah right!

Special Speaker for a series exclusively for Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. employees

Much of the conversation at our August meeting revolved around knowing what you want as team member or leader and asking for it. Asking for what you want...and getting it. For certain kinds of issues and with certain people, it seems rarely that simple! At our September meeting we will inquire about what works and how we can get out of our own way in making requests. Requests that produce a different quality of interaction and open new possibilities for results. We will address concerns that arise for women leading and collaborating at various levels of our organization, including senior leadership levels.

Thursday, September 23, 2004
Pleasanton, California

Women in Leadership
Communities of Practice Series

 


Embracing Change: What Choice Have You Got?

You've heard it said that the only reliable constant in life is change. But does that truism make it easier to deal with it? Even welcome change has its challenges, but unwelcome or surprising change can by truly disruptive, uprooting, and life-altering. What can help you navigate new territory that is being mapped as you go? ...And feel good about your life while it's happening? Find out for yourself how you can be more resourceful and experience greater ease in dealing with change. Participate in this workshop and expect to move towards what you really want!

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Elite Leads Meeting Center
210 Porter Drive
, Suite 205
San Ramon, CA

from 680 exit Crow Canyon; Right at Porter, Right 2nd driveway; Building on Right; at top of entry staircase, 1st door on Left

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Leading for a Change

Not so long ago it was news that women were leading in science. There is still a lot of room for more women leaders in science, especially at the more senior levels. What else matters besides numbers? Impact.

If you want essential changes in how men and women lead scientific ventures, you are in the best of company. How will those changes happen? By choices you make and actions you take. Are you ready to lead for a change?

Beata Lewis will speak to the issues of impact and change, drawing particularly from her experience coaching women leaders in science. She will include an overview of the study she conducted in 2003: The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science as well as supportive findings from related studies about women as leaders.

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Genentech
Building 5, Room 5Q
1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Presence: Succeed by Putting Your Best Foot Forward

Did you know that a person "sums you up" in just 7 seconds? What are they evaluating? Technically oriented consultants have a great opportunity to increase their professional success by developing a strong, trustworthy, open presence.

Learn how to:
• Build rapport with your clients and
• Communicate your authority and competence in how you present yourself.

By paying attention to how you "show up" and connect, you can produce greater satisfaction for yourself and your client.

Thursday, April 8, 2004
Dinner Meeting

Embassy Suites Hotel
2885 Lakeside Drive
Santa Clara, California

6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Core Reflections

Break-Out Session for the
2004 Annual Conference of the
Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California (ADR-NC)

What is at the core of conflict? Trust breakdowns.

As practitioners of conflict resolution in any context, how do we touch into the core of what produces resolution and new possibilities for our clients?

Conflict resolution is typically taught and practiced as a mind-based discipline. Despite increased awareness and acceptance of the mind-body connection, it mostly stays in the realm of conversation rather than being experienced in learning and embodied in practice. In this session, participants will share core reflections from their experience as well as engage in experiential, interactive learning. Beata C. Lewis, J.D., will share reflections from her work as a leadership coach, organizational consultant and mediator.

See also Core Reflections: Paying Attention to Trust article

Saturday, March 13, 2004
San Francisco, California

 

The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science:

Do You Recognize Yourself?

Presentation to the East Bay Chapter of the
Association of Women in Science (ebAWIS)

The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science is the title of a study Beata Lewis conducted in 2003. It is also a focus for her ongoing inquiry about
1) what women in science encounter as they develop themselves as leaders and
2) what kinds of support can most benefit them.
Over 50% of the participants in her FFLS study were AWIS members (past and present). From her perspective as a leadership coach, Beata will share her insights on essential leadership awareness and skills for women leading in science. Her talk will include highlights from other recent studies that indicate a transformational role for women in business.

Members and non-members welcome.

Thursday, March 11, 2004
Chiron Corporation

4560 Horton Street, Emeryville, CA

 

Leading from Center

Professional Development Workshop

This workshop is for entrepreneurs, business owners and organizational leaders. As you reorient yourself or a team to move through uncertainty and change, take time out to re-clarify your commitments and experiment with new ways to approach leadership challenges. Includes 1/2 hour individual coaching (scheduled separately). (click on title link for full-page description)

See also Just the Fact Ma'am article and
Leadership in Transition article

Thursday, February 26, 2004
Mill Valley, California

 


The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science:

Do You Recognize Yourself?

Presentation to the Palo Alto Chapter of the
Association of Women in Science (paAWIS)

The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science is the title of a study Beata Lewis conducted in 2003. It is also a focus for her ongoing inquiry about
1) what women in science encounter as they develop themselves as leaders and
2) what kinds of support can most benefit them.
Over 50% of the participants in her FFLS study were AWIS members (past and present). From her perspective as a leadership coach, Beata will share her insights on essential leadership awareness and skills for women leading in science. Her talk will include highlights from other recent studies that indicate a transformational role for women in business.

Members and non-members welcome.

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, CA

 

Why Am I Doing This?

Presentation to ProSearch

Career transitions are stressful: they move us out of the familiar into something new. They can involve significant changes in how we perceive ourselves and in the degree of control we have over our destiny. What future do you want to create for yourself?
How can you:
* Not get stopped by fear
* Take care of practical concerns
* Turn a negative into a positive picture
* Keep your "eye on the prize"
Explore how you can stay "on track" for that future even when you feel like you're getting "derailed" by circumstances.

Thursday, December 4, 2003
ProSearch

Oakland, CA

 


Leading from Center

Professional Development Workshop for Women Leaders

This workshop is for women entrepreneurs, business owners and organizational leaders. As you reorient yourself or a team to move through uncertainty and change, take time out to re-clarify your commitments and experiment with new ways to approach leadership challenges. In a circle of women professionals, experience a reciprocal exchange of assessments of what works and what will support you. Includes 1/2 hour individual coaching (scheduled separately). (click on title link for full-page description)

See also Leadership in Transition article
Click here for printable flyer (pdf document)

Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003
Mill Valley, California

 


Where is Your Energy Going Now?

 

Presentation to SIRENS

As a woman leader or entrepreneur, you need a lot of personal power to juggle multiple commitments, overcome obstacles, and gain trustworthy support to create the life you want. How much of your essential energy goes to putting out fires, expecting perfection from yourself, or getting distracted by people and circumstances that do not contribute toward fulfillment of your dreams? How might your professional and personal life be different if you used more of your creative energy for yourself and to forge a way of leading truer to your nature?

Especially in times of complexity and change, leaders who by their presence and competency can build trust quickly and inspire others to collaboration are the ones who succeed. Building your presence as a leader is a process of coming into an authentic and powerful sense of self and being able to extend into the world with clear intention, skillful action, and grounded compassion. With somatically-oriented leadership coaching you learn to lead not only by virtue of your knowledge and role but also by the power of your presence.

Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2003
San Francisco, California

 


Leading from Center

What inner resources do you need to meet the increased demands and complexities of leadership in times of transition?

Join us for an exploration of embodied skills and practices that allow you to navigate uncertainty and change with greater ease, trust and personal power. 1-Day professional development seminar for business owners, leaders, and professionals. Includes 1/2 hour leadership coaching (scheduled separately). (click on title link for full-page description)

Co-designed and co-led by Leadership Coaches
Beata C. Lewis, J.D. and R. Eric Biggs, Ph.D.

Thursday, May 15, 2003
Mill Valley, California

See also Leadership in Transition article


Feminine Face of Leadership in Science

Women leaders in science have a story to tell. ...

The Feminine Face of Leadership in Science is an inquiry to understand what women face and what they need to succeed as leaders in their chosen fields. From the perspective of encouraging whole-person leadership, it is also an inquiry about how women leaders in science want to shape the character and practices of leadership to meet current and future challenges in business.

Completed April 2003

 

Leadership in Transition

What inner resources do you need to meet the increased demands and complexities of leadership in times of transition?

An exploration of embodied skills and practices that allow you to navigate uncertainty and change with greater ease, trust and personal power. 1-Day professional development seminar for business owners, leaders, and professionals. Includes 1/2 hour leadership coaching (scheduled separately). (click on title link for full-page description)

Co-designed and co-led by Leadership Coaches
R. Eric Biggs, Ph.D., and Beata C. Lewis, J.D.

Saturday, November 23, 2002

Tiburon, California

 

 

Leadership: What's Trust Got to Do With It?

What do our clients need to know and embody about trust?

In her experience as a coach and consultant to leaders in organizations and as a mediator (and formerly as an attorney), Beata Lewis has found that a central underlying question in leadership and collaboration is: how to restore trust? Where people have taken trust for granted and pursued more "obvious" bottom-line priorities at the expense of relational concerns, the costs of damaged trust can be stunning and far reaching. Often it isn't until trust is damaged or shattered that people in organizational contexts begin to realize the essential nature of trust in all relationships. What to do then? What support--what awareness, skills, and practices--helps restore authentic trust so people can work together as they need to?

Beata Lewis, Bridging Lives (www.bridginglives.com), will lead a conversation about coaching individuals and groups within organizations to create greater awareness and skill around trust dynamics. She will highlight approaches that emphasize healing, by contrast to the culturally more familiar approach of asserting rights and demanding other types of remedies.

Monday, July 15, 2002

East Bay Satellite of the Bay Area Organizational Development Network

Berkeley, California

Also, Wednesday, April 17, 2002

San Francisco Satellite of the Bay Area Organizational Development Network


Trust in Leadership

What distinguishes a leader you WANT to work with
from one you HAVE to work with?

In order to accomplish strategic goals, today's business leaders are often faced with the task of rebuilding trust in organizations without the support, tools or understanding necessary to work with the complex dynamics of trust. 1-Day professional development seminar for business owners, leaders, managers, or consultants seeking insights and effective tools for understanding and redirecting trust and betrayal dynamics in the workplace.

Thursday, November 1, 2001

San Francisco, California

emBODY-INg Conflict Transformation

Dieser Workshop lädt dazu ein,

  • typische Reaktionsmuster (physische, emotionale und intellektuelle) im Konflikt kennenzulernen und das Spektrum der eigenen Handlungsmöglichkeiten zu erweitern;
  • den eigenen Körper als differenziertes Instrument der Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung zu erfahren; und
  • grundlegende körperbasierte Improvisationsprinzipien fY¨r einen effektiveren und kreativeren Umgang mit beruflichen und privaten Konflikt- und Streßsituationen nutzbar zu machen.

Der Workshop richtet sich vor allem an Menschen, die in ihrer beruflichen Tätigkeit viel mit Konflikten arbeiten - also insbesondere an MediatorInnen, JuristInnen, ManagerInnen etc. Für die Teilnahme sind keine speziellen Fähigkeiten oder Vorerfahrungen in den Bereichen Körperarbeit und Bewegung erforderlich.

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While we regularly encounter metaphors such as the "negotiation tango" and "dance of change," we rarely, if ever, explore their actual physical truths and implications. This is a highly interactive workshop where you will experience a deeper and more differentiated awareness of conflict dynamics in yourself and in interaction with others. By integrating exercises in body awareness and improvisational movement with practical examples of conflict situations, you will gain greater capacity to understand and transform conflict and to regenerate collaboration.

* GESTRICHEN *
CANCELLED DUE TO 9/11/01 EVENTS

Samstag und Sonntag,
29. & 30. September 2001

München, Deutschland

Munich, Germany

Siehe Artikel in deutscher Sprache oder Article in English, submitted for IAF Conference 2001 Proceedings

Vertrauen in der Mediation, Mediationsausbildung und Zusammenarbeit

Vertrauen ist ein unabdingbarer Schlüsselfaktor
für konstruktive Konfliktbehandlung und produktive Zusammenarbeit.

Dieser praxisorientierte, interaktive Kurz-Workshop richtet sich hauptsächlich an MediatorInnen, die bei der Mediationsstelle - Frankfurt (Oder) tätig sind. Sie lädt aber auch weitere Menschen ein, die sonst im Bereich Konfliktbehandlung tätig sind.

* GESTRICHEN *
CANCELLED DUE TO 9/11/01

Samstag und Sonntag,
6. & 7. Oktober 2001

Frankfurt (Oder), Deutschland

Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Vertrauen in Konfliktbehandlung und Zusammenarbeit

Vertrauen ist ein unabdingbarer Schlüsselfaktor
für konstruktive Konfliktbehandlung und produktive Zusammenarbeit.

Dieser praxisorientierte, interaktive Kurz-Workshop richtet sich insbesonder an Menschen, die in Teams, in Führungspositionen, im Personalwesen oder im Bereich Beratung und Konfliktbehandlung tätig sind.


* GESTRICHEN *
CANCELLED DUE TO 9/11/01


Mittwoch, den 19. September 2001

München, Deutschland

Munich, Germany

emBODY-INg Conflict Transformation

While we regularly encounter metaphors such as the "negotiation tango" and "dance of change," we rarely, if ever, explore their actual physical truths and implications. This is a highly interactive workshop where you will experience a deeper and more differentiated awareness of conflict dynamics in yourself and in interaction with others. By integrating exercises in body awareness and improvisational movement with practical examples of conflict situations, you will gain greater capacity to understand and transform conflict and to regenerate collaboration. (click on title link for full-page description)

Friday, August 24, 2001

San Francisco, CA

See article for IAF Conference 2001 Proceedings

emBODY-INg Conflict Transformation

While we regularly encounter metaphors such as the "negotiation tango" and "dance of change," we rarely, if ever, explore their actual physical truths and implications. This is a highly interactive workshop where you will experience a deeper and more differentiated awareness of conflict dynamics in yourself and in interaction with others. By integrating exercises in body awareness and improvisational movement with practical examples of conflict situations, you will gain greater capacity to understand and transform conflict and to regenerate collaboration. (click on title link for full-page description)

Wednesday, May 16, 2001

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Pre-Conference Workshop for IAF Conference

Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace: Introduction to the Reina Trust and Betrayal Model™

At the core of all relationship building is our capacity to lead and participate in collaboration from a resilient connection of trust. Trust is, however, often the weakest link in the core leadership triad of knowledge, trust and power. Leadership power arises in effectively mobilizing knowledge and trust. Leadership in this spirit and trust-based collaboration are essential for real (rather than in name only), sustainable and successful partnering of any kind in business.

Although trustÑand the absence of betrayalÑcan be critical to the accomplishment of strategic organizational goals, todayÕs business leaders are often faced with the task of rebuilding trust in organizations without the support, tools or understanding necessary to work with the consequences of betrayal and complex dynamics of trust.

Join us to learn about a new research-based and objective framework for understanding trust and betrayal dynamics in the workplace. Beata Lewis, Bridging Lives, will introduce the Reina Trust and Betrayal Model that distinguishes between types of trust and betrayal and identifies corresponding behaviors that build and restore trust.

The Reina Trust and Betrayal Modelª and corresponding measurement instruments offer a comprehensive and practical framework and tools to help leaders understand the dynamics of trust and betrayal in the workplace. The corresponding measurement tools--The Reina Organizational Trust Scaleª, Reina Team Trust Scaleª, and Reina Leadership Trust Scaleª--each measure trust through the lens of the model and offer pragmatic guidance for how to build and restore trust. These are the only research-based and statistically valid measurement instruments available specifically to address behavioral dynamics of trust and betrayal in the workplace.

This model and corresponding instruments have been used with remarkable results in organizations in private industry, state government, higher education, and the non-profit sector, including AT&T, BF Goodrich Aerospace, Harvard University, Ben & JerryÕs, Bankers Trust, and Walt Disney World.

Beata C. Lewis is one of a select group of coaches and consultants certified to work with this model and administer the instruments to benchmark, measure, and monitor levels of trust within organizational systems. She offers occasional public seminars in trust building and has begun to use these tools for leadership development initiatives within organizations. Trust building is a leitmotiv through all of Beata's work as a coach and consultant helping leaders and their teams develop mastery in practices that cultivate sustainable, profitable collaboration. It is a direct extension and creative application of her professional experience as a mediator and, formerly, as an attorney.

Monday, May 7, 2001

San Jose, California

SBODN Meeting

Trust in Leadership

Do you know how essential trust is for leadership success? The most accomplished companies - and the best places to work - have leaders who mobilize the power of trust-based collaboration in their organization. 2-Day seminar for business owners, leaders, managers, or consultants seeking insights and effective tools for understanding and redirecting trust and betrayal dynamics in the workplace.

Wednesday & Thursday, May 2 & 3, 2001
San Francisco, California

Building Relationships of Trust in the Workplace

How can we build bridges of trust across the chasms of our differences in the workplace? What are the possibilities and boundaries of trust with someone fundamentally different from you? What is necessary for restoring trust when it is damaged or lost? Where does trust figure in our success as leaders and business women partnering with others? Beata Lewis, Principle of Bridging Lives, will introduce models and insights specifically about trust building as part of what promises to be a provocative conversation about the art of cultivating relationships in business and life.

Wednesday, April 25, 2001

San Francisco, California

Offices of Andersen Consulting, 101 2nd Street, 11th fl., 5:50 pm-8:00 pm

WCAN Meeting

Facing Anti-Trust Within

How can we build bridges of trust across the chasms of our differences? What are the possibilities and boundaries of trust with someone fundamentally different from you? This will be a conversation about noticing and perhaps overcoming what stops of from building trust in relationship.

Participant Comments:

My experience of Ms. Lewis' presentation is very positive, refreshing, and thought provoking. She models in her presentation getting to the heart of business and personal relationships through inner-directed authenticity, integrity and trust, the source of success. Rayna Lumbard, LMFT (Co-Founder of The Awareness Network)

Thursday, March 15, 2001

San Jose, California

Awareness Network Meeting

Collaborative Leadership Skills

Use collaboration to be more effective in your work - with less stress and more fun - bring forward your natural leadership capacity.

Successful collaboration depends on bridges of trust between people working together. Trust is the foundation of relationships and is vital to individual, group and overall organizational performance. Trust-based leadership increases creativity, critical thinking, and collaborative capacity and pormotes flexible and adaptive work environments. Beata Lewis, principal of Bridging Lives, will emphasize five areas where collaboration tends to break down and can be strengthened:

  • communication
  • negotiation
  • conflict resolution
  • collaborative process
  • agreement structuring.

Beata will also introduce the Reina Trust and Betrayal Modelª which provides a comprehensive and practical framework to help people understand the dynamics of trust and betrayal in the workplace.

This workshop will help you:

  • develop collaborative leadership skills
  • highlight your natural leadership ability
  • support and enhance your collaborations
  • define your values and goals
  • earn greater success in your career.
September 16, 2000

South San Francisco, California

Northern California Chapters AWIS 9th Career Development Workshop

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Beata C. Lewis, JD, MSC
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Bridging Lives
P.O. Box 3146
Sausalito, CA 94966

T: 415-332-8338
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