CoCreative: Leveraging Creative Tensions Workshop (Western Americas and New Zealand friendly times)

Do you wish you had a way to transform stuck-ness and confusion into innovation and engagement? How can you help people “see together” so they can combine their diverse perspectives to create better solutions?

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In this highly experiential session, you’ll learn a practical and sophisticated method for creating solutions that are best for the short-term AND the long-term, for strategically optimizing learning AND action, for helping stakeholders be both realistic AND optimistic as they work through complex systemic challenges. Through hands-on examples and practical techniques, you’ll learn to see and powerfully leverage hundreds of dynamics tensions at play in collaborations that you support.

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Release the untapped potential of deep innovation and engagement in your organization, community, and relationships through this powerful both-and approach.

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This workshop will support you to:

1. Identify common tensions that can threaten trust and progress in multi-stakeholder collaborations 
2. Reframe those tensions so they are seen as assets by the group
3. Learn how to manage creative tensions more effectively as a leader and facilitator of change

You will leave this workshop with increased effectiveness and skill in:

• Seeing the underlying values driving stakeholders’ motivations, fears, and behaviors
• Mapping these value dynamics to reveal the hidden interdependence in opposing views
• Foster deeper collaboration at the level of values, resulting in more robust analysis and resilient solutions
• Employ a more culturally integrative approach to collaboration

Best suited for: Individuals and teams who are directly leading multi-stakeholder systems change collaboratives and networks, and consultants who support these leaders.

Session inputs: None required

Registration cost: $225 USD per person. 
Registration includes digital copies of all course materials and resources. 

Course length: 3 hours

Trainers: Russ Gaskin, Heather Equinoss

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