Healing Leaders Programs

The Collaborative Leader
The Art of Facilitation - Level 1
The Art of Facilitation - Level 2
The Wisdom of Conflict - Conflict as Teacher
Coaching Services for Leaders

The Collaborative Leader

Your organization’s success depends on how effectively you work with others, especially when the personalities are strong and the stakes are high. Creating an environment of collaboration and openness is vital to making your organization run effectively with everyone contributing his or her best.

Improving your leadership skills helps you to increase your own and your organization’s effectiveness and improve your employees’ ability to work together.

  • It means preventing and managing conflict so everyone’s effort is aligned and focused on the big picture.
  • It means acting with wisdom.
  • It means coaching employees to achieve their personal best.
  • It means creating a safe environment for open communication.
  • It means being able to build agreements from strong opinions.
  • It means being an ethical leader.
  • It means dealing effectively with difficult issues and people.
  • It means being able to listen to one’s self and to others.
  • It means building collaboration with colleagues as well as competitors.
  • It means creating and sharing a compelling vision.
  • It means using one’s emotional intelligence to make decisions.

Learn these skills and much more at our three-day workshop, The Collaborative Leader, led by our internationally-known trainer Bill Southworth. This course is based on Bill’s decades of experience coaching and training leaders, building understanding and agreements, facilitating collaborative problem-solving and preventing and resolving conflict.

The price is $900 per person for the public workshop. Bring another person from your office and reduce both fees by $50.

To set up an in-house workshop for a single organization please call 970-564-1508. Limit, 10 people per class.

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The Art of Facilitation - Level 1

PURPOSE
The Art of Facilitation - Level I is a training for leaders and facilitators who want to develop their collaboration skills and hold highly effective meetings. The training draws on a wide variety of strategies, frameworks, and tools for dealing with difficult as well as typical facilitation problems. There is particular emphasis on preventing meetings from losing their intended focus. The course covers such topics as decision-making options, functions and roles of participants, collaborative problem-solving strategies and tools, building understanding and consensus, keeping meetings on track, planning for successful meetings, creating safe and effective meeting environments, dealing with difficult behaviors, listening to understand, conflict resolution and ensuring follow-through. The strategies and tools are very practical and can be used in any interaction with other people, both work-related and personal.

METHODS
We employ hands-on facilitation experiences using real issues, coaching, presentations, Q&A, "what-if" scenarios, references and exercises from the manual, and small group activities along with video taping of practice facilitation sessions and one-on-one video feedback. The first couple of days are used to align the participants' varying levels of facilitation experience and to create a team atmosphere. Post-training coaching is available.

The open-attendance program is usually a three-day session, however five-day workshops may be arranged at the client’s request.

WHO
Our program is designed for organization and team leaders, managers, internal organization facilitators, neutral facilitators, consultants, and coaches in private, public and government sectors worldwide.

WHERE
Trainings may be held at our facility in McElmo Canyon near Cortez, Colorado, or in-house training for a specific group may be held at a site designated by the client.

LEAD BY
Bill Southworth is an international organizational consultant, coach, trainer and facilitator to leaders in both the public and private sectors. He has coached and trained over 3000 people in facilitation throughout the U.S. and abroad, and has facilitated over 1000 meetings. Some of the clients Bill has worked with include the National Park Service, GE Capital, US Bureau of Land Management, Bank of Budapest, Sun Microsystems, Open Society Institute, AT&T Broadband and Mount Auburn Hospital (a Harvard teaching hospital).

TRAINING FEE
The cost of the five-day workshop is $1950 per person and includes the training and a comprehensive reference manual. A three-day Art of Facilitation, Level I is available for $1250 per person.

Participants arrange for their own transportation, as well as lodging and meals. Further information on these topics is sent to participants on request. Inquiries are welcome via phone or email.

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The Art of Facilitation - Level 2

The Level II workshop focuses on the facilitator: one's heart set and mind set as a facilitator, one's thoughts and feelings in preparing for, conducting and following through with a facilitation. This focus is particularly helpful when dealing with especially difficult meeting participants.

A second focus of this workshop is difficult facilitation situations experienced by the participants since attending Level I. In Level I they were referred to as "What-if" situations. Students' examples will be written out in a questionnaire prior to the training.

A third focus is about strategies and tools - adding new ones, as well as further improving on those already seen in the Level One training and manual. The trainer regularly ads new tools based on his own facilitating experiences and his extensive reading on related subjects. For example, this workshop looks carefully at collaboration, building consensus, listening to understand, the Wisdom of Conflict, the power of acknowledgement, the Four Rules of Life (and facilitation), PIP's (Picture in a Picture), the role of compassion, understanding context, and a style of horse training called "joining up".

WHERE
Most trainings are held in McElmo Canyon near Cortez, Colorado. Training for a specific group may be held at a site designated by the client, however we use the physical setting of McElmo Canyon to participants' advantage, with working hikes onto nearby Canyon of the Ancients National Monument to visit Ancient Puebloan ruins and to soak in the inspiration of this beautiful landscape.
There is time for practice meetings, energizers, questions, journaling and, of course, "shuckin' an' jivin'."

THE TRAINER
Bill Southworth is our lead trainer for the Art of Facilitation, Levels I and II. He is also an international organizational consultant, coach, trainer and facilitator to leaders in both the public and private sectors. We also bring in other trainers, depending on their availability, with expertise in diverse areas which contribute to the Level II workshop.

TRAINING FEE
This five-day workshop costs $1950 per person.

Participants are responsible for their own transportation, as well as lodging and meals. Further information on those topics is sent to participants on request. Inquiries are welcome via phone or email.

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The Wisdom of Conflict - Conflict as Teacher

The Wisdom of Conflict workshop teaches participants to avoid or manage conflict and effectively resolve differences. The process begins with learning to recognize one's own reactions to conflict and, in a safe and intimate environment, learning how old habits and beliefs may have hindered professional and interpersonal communication. It helps participants develop appropriate habits and techniques that can be used to avoid and manage conflict in various situations, both for themselves and among others. This is an extremely valuable awareness for leaders or aspiring leaders to develop, though we find it's also important in any close business or personal relationship.

Some of the other skills built into the workshop include developing an open and listening mindset, creating better communication, getting "enough" of what one needs and knowing how to facilitate a conflict situation for others. Participants can expect to leave the training feeling more open, confident, and able to manage conflict before it occurs or even after it has begun.

The Wisdom of Conflict may be delivered in various formats:

  • As a three-day intensive and personal workshop for small business groups, with follow-up coaching.
  • As a one-day workshop for large group audiences.
  • As a brief hi-lights training of two to three hours for groups of any size.

Bill Southworth, who leads this workshop, has trained corporate and public sector groups in the U.S. and abroad for over four decades, helping them collaborate and resolve conflict through building understanding and agreements. A full resume and sample-client list are available on request.

The price for the three-day intensive workshop is $2700 per person for up to four people, and is held at Moqui Point Retreat near Cortez, Colorado.

The price and location of a one-day workshop or a part-day seminar will be negotiated depending on the length of the workshop, the number of people attending and the location needs of the client.

For further information about this course or related consulting, please contact Bill or Penny healead@fone.net, or 970-564-1508.

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Coaching Services for Leaders

In addition to our consulting and training programs, or independently, we offer coaching for leaders in the following areas:

  • Communication skills, especially listening to understand in difficult situations
  • Conflict prevention and intervention
  • Creating a collaborative, values-based healing organization
  • Creating and sustaining a safe environment for full participation
  • Building understanding and consensus
  • Including difficult people when they are key stakeholders
  • Creating and sharing a compelling vision
  • Planning, facilitating and following up for productive meetings
  • Strategic thinking and planning
  • Collaborative problem solving
  • Choosing appropriate decision-making methods
  • Acknowledging and rewarding employees
  • Encouraging others to take risks and do extraordinary work
  • Change management

Conference and meeting talks by Bill Southworth are available on any of the topics described in our programs.