Date Change: March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and April 12

REGISTRATION UPDATE: We’ve extended registration by a week, to match our new start date. To register, contact Kate@EmergeCollab.com

SIX ONLINE sessions, Mondays 3:00-5:00 PM PST

Tap your wants for real systems evolution with organizational tools that radically uplift your business and community impacts. Tools for Change's holistic practices easily integrate and connect the personal with the relational and structural from the get go.

The skill set:

• opens diversity, equity and inclusion as structural growth assets
• clarifies channels for deeper collaboration and engagement
• gives process for actionable and inclusive decision-making
• roots relationship patterns for high-performing co-leadership
• integrates impact evaluation that completes action-research growth cycles
• works whole-system accountability for more integrated actions and mutuality across your organizations, stakeholders, and community.
• connects how your leadership identity and organizational patterns can impact great outcomes , and practice hands-on with your real time scenarios.

These tools build transformation, inclusion, collaboration, equity and systemic action in business and community process by their very natures, from micro-gatherings to entire systems transformation projects. We'll show you how to integrate them in your daily leadership and changemaker practices, and see the rippling impacts in daily and systemic shifts.

Coming from liberatory, social justice, bio-psychology & embodiment, circular economy, intuitive consciousness, natural systems cycles, collective knowledge mobilization, physics and collaborative creativity practices, these tools can shift your entire way of working for satisfying, real world impacts of equity and sustainability.

Activate inclusion, agency, systemic insight and far reaching organizational development - and collective joy in the work!

In six 2-hour online workshops over six weeks, you'll learn key skills and tools to:

• Lead and facilitate intensive, high stakes transformation of infrastructures, relationships, roles and identities in social impact organizations;
• Set up and activate high performance, systemic and inclusive collaboration for cross-system evolution; and
• Facilitate holistic, collaborative decisions that are trusted, actionable, and impactful.
• Source from social justice & liberation practices, DEI impact tools, transformational psychology, physics, ceremony, and community development learning of over 50 years.

You will learn 15 leading facilitative and transformative tools to work with:

• Complexity as a root leverage point, and stepping into the freedom in what’s “chaordic” (the sweet spot blend of chaos and order).
• Collaboration and collectivity as the foundations of resilience, interdependency, mutuality, diversity inclusion, whole systems process and systemic vision.
• Embody and lead mindful systemic awareness for clarity in the midst of change.
• Creativity and decision-making tools for collaborators to move confidently with agency and trust.
• Conflict and systemic blocks: Facing obstacles with witnessing, insight and creativity.
• How tools for diversity, equity and inclusion build more resilient, impactful and evolutionary organizations;
• Grieving what is leaving, including certainty, dominance, power and ego isolation.
• Shifting ego-based control systems and identities into collaborations of trust and courage;
• Naming privilege, and changing or leveraging it personally and structurally.
• Adaptation: naming cycles to reduce fear of change and the loss of predictability, and better seize the upturn for growth
• Inquiry paths that reveal what's emerging and how to work with it.
• How to track systemic process, content, decisions, and shift limiting stories about them.

Each session will include:

• Guided embodiment practices to grow your systemic awareness
• Pair and small group hands on activities to integrate with your projects
• Inner work tools for cultivating your inner knowing

Why now?

We need leaders everywhere.

We are in a special time of unprecedented change. This is an opportunity to redirect, restructure, re-prioritize. We're relearning what is truly most important to our functioning: healthful, sustainable, inclusive and peaceful worlds. And that we can do it.

We need each other as never before, to make meaning of what is happening, to build good ways forward, and to act with courage and audacity.

Who is this for?

For mid to advanced managers and directors in the health, social, education, creative, and green tech sectors.

For front-line leaders seeking perspective, reflection, inspiration, and creativity to build up their toolbox.

For change makers and leaders who want to try on new systems transformation viewpoints that are emerging.

Sessions will be recorded should you have a schedule conflict.

A note on our pricing

We're making these sessions accessible to help you, your community and your organizations/enterprises create the changes that this time calls us to: to equity, to sustainability, to health, to connection. We have three levels of pricing and also bursaries. Please be in touch with us directly if you need a bursary to be able to participate.

Please extend the ripple affect, and forward this invite to your colleagues, leaders, and collaborators.

Welcome by Sandra Greene, Haida Elder and Knowledge Keeper

Sandra is of the Haida Nation, of the Eagle Clan and with over fifteen years experience in Administration and Management of developmental programs for families, youth, art and governance. She has organized and facilitated community, regional and national forums in the fields of Health, Women, and Indigenous governance, and has led policy-making, project management, organizing, public relations and workshop facilitation. She led and facilitated Vancouver Aboriginal Child Family Services Society’s Strengthening Families program, with master storyteller Woody Morrison LLB, for 10 years. Sandra has represented on numerous boards, including the Council of Haida Nation; Board of Directors for Native Education College for over 10 years; Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Society; Vi Fineday Transition Home as well as many others. She is an active artist and traveller, and provides cultural leadership to community services across the Lower Mainland.

Testimonials

"The Tools for Change Workshop is an essential workshop for those in organizational development or working on strategic change for their organization. Kate and Christine are excellent facilitators that will guide you through a very hands-on and experiential workshop that you can apply to the workplace, your own work or personal development. Definitely worth your time & investment."

~ Francoise Coupal, CEO, Mosaic.net International, Inc.

"I found in the Tools for Change course there was this real beautiful merging of delving into the aspects of praxis and the practical realities of this work with a beautiful invitation of really understanding the work at an energetic and spiritual level. There is something about that wholistic exploration that we did together that was beautifully guided and facilitated. The invitations were so easefully offered. I witnessed people really dipping into them with such openness and curiosity. That lead to what felt like this massive opening. I just feel like my synapses were firing in all directions. I just felt so enlivened. I felt like I was engaging in the type of deep, yummy, juicy dialogue that I crave, along side other practitioners. That space of asking many questions and not having many clear answers. And a space of dreaming and imaging what is possible. To me it really felt like a getting to live into a new paradigm of my being in relation to my work and practice."

~ natalie abdou, Community Facilitator & Artist, Weaving Connections

"I am so grateful that I attended the Tools of Change Workshop in May. The content and conversations were rich and inspiring. I was surprised that the series was active, immersive, dynamic and emergent; it became its own living and breathing, collective entity. I engaged with the materials, facilitators, and other participants in a way I have never experienced in an online class before, so much so that I refer back to my class notes often to integrate these expansive ideas. I hope to do it again someday, as I imagine the experience is unique every time you take it."

~ Elisabeth Dent, Sales & Business Development Executive, and Advocate

"I was a participant in the first Tools for Change training session and was delighted to come across facilitators that I aligned with in values and style of facilitation.

It was such a dive into deep aliveness to witness what I practice, and with new tools that I can use to further my work in systemic racism.

My long journey as a racialized facilitator has taken me to many spaces and to come in a circle with authenticity was a gift, and yes I loved it so much that when Kate and Christine approached I jumped at the opportunity.

Soon my mind was on my identity , as a racialized facilitator I reflected, struggled, questioned about my alliance with two white women and I know optics do not look right especially in these critical times, my decision was intuition-led to try a new alliance where our similar intent and values but different privileges will create a equitable future in small but sure ways.

And the journey of our allyship will continue to foster critical questions of race, gender, history, power and how we weave these in our discussions, facilitation and decisions ... This is a field I would like to dive deeper in all its aspects."

~ Priti Shah, Drishti Consulting & Emerge Collab