Virtual Workshop
Working with Difference: Leveraging Creative Tensions
Turn your collaboration’s differences into powerful drivers of transformational change.
About This Opportunity
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 "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.
Who Should Join
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.
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 course 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.
Your Trainers
September 10, 2025: Luzette Jaimes and Heather Equinoss
September 11, 2025: Issac Carter and Russ Gaskin
Upcoming Events
September 10, 2025
Location: Online via Zoom
Times: 11:00 am - 2:30 pm PT | 2:00 - 5:30 pm ET
Cost: $375 USD per person
September 11, 2025
Location: Online via Zoom
Times: 8:00 - 11:30 am ET | 1:00 - 4:30 pm GMT
Cost: $375 USD per person
Time & Location
September 11, 2025 - 8:00 - 11:30AM ET | 1:00 - 4:30PM GMT
Location: Online via Zoom
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Virtual Workshop
Working with Difference: Leveraging Creative Tensions
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 course 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.
Trainers
September 10, 2025: Luzette Jaimes and Heather Equinoss
September 11, 2025: Issac Carter and Russ Gaskin
What Others Have Said About This Course
Chris Ernst
Former Global Head, Leadership & Organization Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
“Given our role as catalysts in creating a world where all lives have equal value, the methods, approaches, and most importantly in-the-trenches experience of CoCreative are invaluable to our mission. Your fantastic facilitation and generosity of spirit left an incredibly positive mark with our colleagues and will make a real difference in our work over time.”
Matthew Carr
Strategy, Learning & Evaluation Director, Walton Family Foundation
“Should you ever have the opportunity to work with CoCreative, you'll find yourself advanced not just with the understanding of collaborative innovation but with an added focus on self-mastery to open up choices and remain grounded."
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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