Workshop Intensives

Wanna go a little deeper into building skills of a cooperative culture?

We’re offering additional program days for workshop intensives!

After the main weekend AoC conference there will be two additional days of program offerings on Mon. and Tues., Sept. 24-25.  Spaces are limited for these workshop intensives – if you are interested in staying on to dive a little deeper, register now!

We’ll also be holding a Social Change Summit concurrently with the workshop intensives.
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The Workshops:

Monday, Sept. 24th, 9am – 5pm:

Deep Democracy Worldwork Processes - (based on the process work of Arnold Mindell)
- facilitated by Carol Swann and India Harville

Workshop Cost: $85 
Includes breakfast, lunch, & dinner with the option to attend a fun evening of improv.
Lodging is an additional fee, see below for details.

Carol and India will expand on their weekend workshop entitled “What’s Rank and Privilege Got to Do With It?” by exploring various dynamics involved in group conflict:

Conflict is scary to most of us. Culturally we are not taught tools to deal with conflict, to think of conflict as negative and lastly, to end up in polarities, digging our heals deeper into our own “sides” even if we have been seasoned community members! Mindell coined the term “Deep Democracy” to refer to an approach that “believes in the inherent importance of all parts of ourselves and all viewpoints in the world around us to be heard”. We will learn how EACH position or “role” in a community issue is not only valuable but is INSIDE of each of us. We will learn a specific method of embodied role switching which will allow us to understand that which might normally feel impossible. We will also learn a set of Worldwork tools that supports an awareness of the container in which EVERYONE is considered a “Participant/Facilitator” in their own unique way. “Worldwork” commonly deals with hot issues such as: power dynamics, race, privilege, ageism etc. and how the personal relates to the political.

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Monday, Sept. 24th, 9am-5pm AND Tuesday, Sept. 25th 9am – noon:

Governance By Design – Organizing Ourselves to Get Things Done
- facilitated by John Schinnerer

Workshop Cost: $130
Includes breakfast, lunch, & dinner on Mon. night w/ fun evening of improv, plus breakfast & lunch on Tues. You are welcome to sit in on the end of the Social Change Summit Tuesday afternoon once the workshop ends.
Lodging is an additional fee, see below for details.

During the Art of Community weekend conference John will be doing a shorter version of this workshop to give you an overview of Sociocracy. Last year he presented during our open space marketplace and was so well received that many participants asked that we formally include him this year and offer a more in depth opportunity for study and experience of the process.

This experiential workshop explores how we organize ourselves to get things done, focusing on Sociocracy (a.k.a. Dynamic Governance). Sociocracy is a whole systems full-featured design for self-governance. It is suitable for any group, organization, business, cooperative or other collection of people who want to organize and govern themselves effectively and efficiently using equivalence and transparency, optimizing group intelligence and wisdom while retaining individual similarities and differences.

My workshop will be primarily experiential, offering participants an opportunity to engage directly with issues of governance and sociocratic structure and process in real-life contexts. Essential content delivery on values, principles etc. will be as interactive as possible. Relevance will be focused on intentional communities (and creating and maintaining community in general). Most workshop time will be used for exercises that engage workshop participants with both Art of Community conference themes and sociocratic approaches to governance.

For further information see:

• Sociocracy dot Info: http://sociocracy.info
• Wikipedia page on sociocracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy
• The Sociocracy Consulting Group (which John is a part of): http://sociocracyconsulting.com
• Governance Alive (principal and pioneer of sociocracy in the USA – John Buck is my mentor towards international sociocratic consultant certification): http://www.governancealive.com/
• …and of course do an internet search on ‘sociocracy’ or ‘dynamic governance’ for more information

Registration Info for Workshop Intensives:

You do not have to attend the weekend main conference in order to register for a workshop intensive, although we recommend you consider doing so in order to experience the building of energy and take advantage of the many networking and skill sharing opportunities.

If you choose to arrive Sunday night, there is a special dinner celebration and presentation that night once the main conference ends. Attendance to Sunday dinner is an additional $30.

Lodging (can be added to your workshop registration at any time):

• Sunday night only: $35
• Monday night only: $35
• Sun. & Mon. nights:  $55

NOTE:
If you are not registering for the weekend conference, choose the last ticket type option “Art of Community Special Events”, and then you will be able to choose the workshop of your choice and lodging options if needed.

If you are registering for the weekend, first choose your weekend ticket type, and you will then get the option of adding on the additional workshops later in the registration process.

You CAN add the workshop intensives to your registration for the weekend conference at any time by returning to the registration site, but remember- spaces are limited and once the workshops are full we will not accept more registrants.