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Virtual Workshop:
Working with Difference: Leveraging Creative Tensions

September 10, 2025

Pacific US: 11:00 am - 2:30 pm
Eastern US: 
2:00 - 5:30 pm

What It Is

In today’s world, fostering genuine collaboration is more than just bringing people together; it’s about building authentic alignment and trust among diverse people. Creating innovative solutions requires more than just getting everyone to agree on the surface. Real ownership and meaningful alignment from all parties are crucial, especially when emotions are high and the stakes are even higher. In "Working with Difference: Leveraging Creative Tensions," you'll gain hands-on experience and learn proven methods for recognizing, mapping, and harnessing the diverse values and perspectives within your team. This course turns conflict and polarization into genuine alignment and productive collaboration.

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Who Should Enroll

This course is perfect for leaders who anticipate needing to manage deeply ingrained differences and concerns among various stakeholder groups. If you have people who don’t see eye to eye or even outright dislike each other, this toolkit will help you to honor these differences and move a group towards genuine collaboration. 


Duration

One virtual 3.5 hours session

Registration Cost
$375 USD per person | Registration includes digital copies of all course materials and resources.

What You’ll Gain

To drive complex change across cultural, sectoral, and functional boundaries, fostering genuine alignment—not just superficial compliance—is essential. This involves tapping into the diverse values and experiences of all stakeholders to create a holistic understanding of the challenges and opportunities at hand. You'll learn to help others see and appreciate the wisdom in differing perspectives, transforming potential discord into shared understanding. Additionally, you'll develop the ability to anticipate and address conflicts early by understanding the broader context, ensuring smoother and more effective collaboration.

 

You will leave this workshop with enhanced skills in:

  • Understanding Stakeholder Motivations: Recognize the underlying values driving stakeholders' motivations, fears, and behaviors

  • Mapping Value Dynamics: Reveal the sources of unproductive conflict and polarization through values mapping

  • Distinguishing Issues: Clearly distinguish between problems to solve and polarities to leverage

  • Helping Groups Get Unstuck: Facilitate groups in moving through conflict and polarization

  • Reframing Resistance: Use the polarity lens to reframe fear and resistance in a positive and constructive light

  • Fostering Values-Level Collaboration: Promote collaboration at the level of values, resulting in more resilient and sustainable solutions

Practical applications:

You’ll learn how to apply a polarities thinking lens and mapping tools to better navigate human dynamics and also the strategic choices before your collaboration. This practice supports you and your team in embracing a “both/and” approach to change-making.


Join us and turn your collaboration’s differences into powerful drivers of innovation and success.

 

Trainers

Luzette Jaimes and Heather Equinoss

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Join us to build momentum, facilitate collaboration, and achieve groundbreaking solutions together.

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​​Things change, we understand! Learn more about our refund policy.

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Got a tough problem to solve, or a big vision to realize? Register now to get the tools, frameworks, and skills you need to lead complex change.
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