Facilitating Collaborative Innovation
Working with Complexity: Beyond Analytical Knowing
About This Opportunity
What it is: In a world of increasing complexity, our usual cognitive approaches to understanding and shifting systems often fall short. While diagrams, frameworks, and methodical analysis can provide helpful insight, they can create an illusion of certainty where none exists. Many change initiatives stall not because of a lack of understanding, but because of our tendency to over-rely on cognitive approaches while undervaluing other ways of knowing.
This workshop explores how we can integrate cognitive and non-rational ways of knowing—somatic, intuitive, and feeling—to engage more effectively with complex systems. Through experiential learning, stories, and guided practice, you will develop your capacity to navigate complexity using multiple ways of knowing, leading to more nuanced, effective, and human change work.
Who Should Join
Leaders and facilitators who understand the basics of Collaborative Innovation and want to take concrete next steps. This is likely around process design and facilitation, or engaging members of the collaboration, but also addressing messy questions like: How the heck am I going to get these people to agree to do something meaningful together, and actually do it? And how do I deal with people in these groups when they are being just plain difficult?
What You’ll Gain
In this hands-on workshop, you will:
Learn how to help groups access and trust their somatic, feeling, and intuitive ways of knowing
Learn the unique contributions of each source of insight and when and how to use each in systems change work
Understand how these ways of knowing complement one another and what happens if we neglect one over time
Working with intuition and feeling, learn practical techniques such as intuition pumps, shifting pace, feeling energy, red-yellow-green lights, and regulating our nervous systems
Practical Applications
You’ll learn methods for leveraging intuitive, feeling, and somatic ways of making sense of complex challenges and finding powerful ways forward. These sources of understanding will be a powerful complement to analytical ways of knowing.
Your Trainers
Not assigned yet.
Join us to expand your range of building shared understanding and learning in the face of complexity.
Facilitating Collaborative Innovation
Working with Complexity: Beyond Analytical Knowing
What You’ll Gain
In this hands-on workshop, you will:
Learn how to help groups access and trust their somatic, feeling, and intuitive ways of knowing
Learn the unique contributions of each source of insight and when and how to use each in systems change work
Understand how these ways of knowing complement one another and what happens if we neglect one over time
Working with intuition and feeling, learn practical techniques such as intuition pumps, shifting pace, feeling energy, red-yellow-green lights, and regulating our nervous systems
Practical Applications
You’ll learn methods for leveraging intuitive, feeling, and somatic ways of making sense of complex challenges and finding powerful ways forward. These sources of understanding will be a powerful complement to analytical ways of knowing.
Trainers
Not assigned yet.
Join us to expand your range of building shared understanding and learning in the face of complexity.
What Others Have Said About This Course
Refund & Cancellation Policy
We understand that sometimes changes in circumstances and availability mean you might no longer be able to attend a training session for which you've registered.
We're ready to work with you to resolve any conflicts, including transferring your registration to another member of your team.
If that's not possible the following cancellation and refund policy will apply to all training course registrations received on or after September 21, 2021.
Cancellations received in advance of 30 days before a workshop will receive a full refund.
Cancellations received less than 30 days but more than 10 days before a workshop will receive a refund of 60%.
Cancellations received less than 10 days before a workshop will not be refunded.
To inquire about transferring your registration or requesting a refund, please contact us.
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Welcoming Guest and Co-Host, Lucinda Garthwaite
Lucinda is the founder and Director of the nonprofit Institute for Liberatory Innovation. The ILI generates innovative solutions to create liberatory environments - where compassion leads to action, curiosity inspires connection, and accountability ensures sustained progress. Their work invites people to think and behave differently, and to align their day-to-day lives more closely with an increasingly thriving, just, and peaceful future.
Prior to founding the ILI in 2019, Lucinda worked in youth-serving organizations; and taught writing and social change at the University of New Hampshire and Goddard College, where she also co-directed the undergraduate program, and served as Academic Dean.
Lucinda holds a Doctorate in Leadership for Change from Fielding University, and is a Fellow of the Fielding Institute for Social Innovation. She also has Masters in Education from the University of New Hampshire, and an MFA in Creative writing from Goddard College. She’s the author of Bumbling Humans: Reflections on Liberatory Change (2023). She posts regularly in the ILI newsletter.
