Welcome to the Learning Hub for Deep Work with Whole Person Process Facilitation (2023).  This is a Genuine Contact Way learning module.

This page is the Learning Hub for the module and includes details on all of the components. The components are organized in 3 phases of learning:

  1. Pre-Work: self-study materials to complete between your registration and the first real-time learning day
  2. Real-Time Learning: 6 days of real-time online learning, January 9-15, 2023. Audio recordings of each of the meeting segments will be provided of each day's activity for your ongoing learning. Please note schedule adjustment.
  3. Post-Meeting Work: this work continues your learning after the real-time days are complete.

Approximate times for your work with each segment will be provided. Additional information about each segment can be found further down this Learning Hub page.

  • Segment 1: Self-study video focusing on your Business and/or Development Goal. Plan for 1 hour.
  • Segment 2: Five Beliefs of Genuine Contact. Plan for 30 minutes.
  • Segment 3: Four Immutable Laws of Spirit. Plan for 20 minutes.
  • Segment 4: Four Principles of Open Space Technology. Plan for 20 minutes.
  • Segment 5: WPPF in Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Leadership. Plan for 1 hour.
  • Segment 6: Origins of Frequently Used Tools. Plan for 2 hours.
  • Segment 7: Ethics of Working with Story Sharing. Plan for 2 hours.
  • Segment 8: Real-Time Learning. January 9-15, 2023, 4 hours workshop + 3 hours self-study daily. Please note schedule adjustment and updated program focus. Complete.
  • Segment 9: Real-time Mentoring Circle. 3 hours. Date: April 14, 2023
  • Homework revisions to be completed by January 23, 2023
  • recordings and notes from the Summer Academy 2022 offering of Deep Work with Whole Person Process Facilitation for your review
  • information about the book The Genuine Contact Way
  • information about using and purchasing the Developing Leadership Reflection Cards
  • design notes from a 6 day facilitation plan
  • communications sent during the learning from Summer Academy 2022
  • updated design table

Pre-Work

Segment 1: Getting Ready for Your Learning

Suggested Time: 1 hour | For self-study prior to the rest of your learning

Prepare for your learning experience through a series of readiness exercises. Getting ready for your learning might not be something you’ve thought much about before. We believe taking some time before starting a workshop to get in touch with your personal readiness for learning is an important way to set the foundation for focusing and deepening your learning for the best possible outcomes.

This segment guides you through a simple exercise to focus your intention for the rest of the learning package.  The video is 35 minutes and will take approximately 1 hour to view and complete the exercises.

Access the video here.

Segment 2: Five Beliefs of Genuine Contact

This video’s focus is on the Five Beliefs of Genuine Contact and focuses on exploring what these beliefs are and how we at Dalar International Consultancy work with them in our work and our lives.

The video is just over 15 minutes and we recommend making half an hour available for this self-study.

Access the learning segment here.

Segment 3: Four Immutable Laws of Spirit

This video explores the Four Immutable Laws of Spirit by Angeles Arrien and how it can support leadership development and the development of meeting cultures. The video is about 7 minutes long and we recommend making 20 minutes available for this self-study.

Access the learning segment here.

Segment 4: Four Principles of Open Space Technology

This video explores the Four Principles of Open Space Technology and how they can support the development of a meeting culture in any kind of meeting facilitation. In adopting these in a meeting culture, it supports the development of people and their leadership. The video is about 11 minutes long and we recommend making 20 minutes available for this self-study.

Access the learning segment here.

Segment 5: WPPF in Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Leadership

This video explores the ways WPPF can create and sustain a culture of leadership, starting with formal leaders and the people in the meeting and beyond into the organizational culture. The video is about 15 minutes long and we recommend making 1 hour available for this self-study.

Access the learning segment here.

Segment 6: Origin Story

This video focuses on the origin of each of the frequently used tools in Genuine Contact. Some tools were developed by Birgitt Williams and others by other authors or traditions. In either case, this video also discusses the importance of the tool within the Genuine Contact way of working. The video is about 1 hour long and we recommend making 2 hours available for this self-study.

Access the learning segment here.

Segment 7: Ethics of Working with Story Sharing

Storytelling is a method that fits well within a Whole Person Process Facilitated container. It is a method taught briefly in the WPPF module of the Genuine Contact Program and more deeply in Working with Stories for the Benefit of the Organization and Leadership. Working more deeply with WPPF also means an opportunity to work more deeply with storytelling. In this learning segment, we explore the ethics of working with story-sharing as one way to deepen this learning.

Stories are important. They have a tremendous impact on the storyteller and the listener. There is also great risk in choosing to tell one's story, especially if it is highly emotional, deeply personal, or is different than the common narrative. One way of supporting people in telling their stories and creating an environment in which those stories are respected and honoured is to pay attention to the ethics of working with stories. In this video, we explore the context that makes it important to pay attention to the ethics of working with stories, give recommendations for what to include in a statement of ethics, and tips for facilitators of storytelling. The video is about 35 minutes long and we recommend making 90 minutes available for this self-study.

Access the learning segment here.

 

Real-Time Learning

Segment 8: Real-Time Learning

6 x 4 hours | Complete

This live learnshop is your opportunity to work together with others in deepening your work with Whole Person Process Facilitation, for yourself, for teams you are working within, and for organizations that you support as a facilitator, coach, consultant or leader. With all registrants being GC Trainers and with nearly everyone having taken this workshop before, the focus of this real-time learning has been adjusted to have a focus of preparing for offering this module as GC Trainers

Facilitation method for the workshop: Whole Person Process Facilitation, designed for the learning styles of the adult learner. The workshop will be online using a combination of Zoom for audio/video and Miro Boards for our collaborative workspace. Both Zoom and Miro can be used with their web-based applications with no software to download. For both, you can also choose to download and install their apps if you prefer.

You can access the Miro board here.

Daily Notes - PDF Format

  • Day 1: Preparatory Work: Opening the Container & Service Delivery Model
  • Day 2: Preparatory Work: Deep Essence + Describing the Module
  • Day 3 & 4 were independent work and have no notes.
  • Day 5: Fine Tuning:  Review and Finalize Designs
  • Day 6: Fine Tuning: Recommendations for Future Trainers
    • Finalized Recommendations for Future Trainers Presentation: PPT | PDF

Audio Recordings

Day 1: Preparatory Work (Service Delivery Model)

  • 0:00:00  Welcome
  • 0:06:04  Transfer In
  • 0:23:53  Hopes and Fears
  • 0:39:40  Service Delivery Model
  • 1:08:09  Homework
  • 1:13:36  Closing Circle

Day 2: Preparatory Work (Deep Essence + Describing the Module)

  • 0:00:00  Welcome & Transfer In
  • 0:17:40  Reviewing what was thought through about this module using the Deep Essence
  • 0:33:14  Describing the module
  • 0:59:00  Homework
  • 1:08:51  Closing Circle

Note: Day 3 & 4 were independent work and have no audio recording.

Day 5: Fine Tuning (Reviewing and Finalizing Facilitation Designs)

  • 0:00:00  Welcome & Transfer In
  • 0:29:18  Reviewing each other's designs
  • 0:32:48  Working together to finalize 1 design
  • 1:20:15  What have you been learning about designing facilitation plans?
  • 1:30:27  Closing Circle

Day 6: Fine Tuning: Recommendations for Future Trainers

  • 0:00:00  Welcome & Transfer In
  • 0:19:15  Develop an Orientation Presentation for Future Trainers
  • 0:41:30  Gifting modules to the Genuine Contact Organization - some considerations
  • 0:47:10  Parking Lot Questions
  • 1:02:32  Closing Circle

Homework

Day 1: Deep Essence Tool

Please use the Deep Essence Tool to help think through your intended training in Deep Work with Whole Person Process Facilitation. The questions to consider are:

  • Story: Why does it make sense in the story of this organization to bring this workshop in at this time
  • Spirit: What is the spirit of this module?
  • Assumptions: What are my assumptions about this workshop?
  • Values: What the the values underneath the assumptions?
  • Purpose (hint: look at the purpose from the Service Delivery Model for inspiration).

No need to add anything in the structure or behaviours & actions layers.

Please add your notes to your personal homework frame in our Miro board

Day 2: Facilitation Design

Working alone, in pairs, or in small groups, develop a facilitation plan for the Deep Work with Whole Person Process Facilitation module. Do your design thinking in whatever way works best for you. Complete the facilitation plan using the Design Table.

Tip: the design table has a space for pre-work, real time work, and post-work so the training is actually in three parts. Remember to consider all 6 layers of the Evolutionary Spiral.

Note: Day 3 & 4 were independent work on the facilitation designs. No additional homework was assigned.

Day 5: Facilitation Designs

  • Continue working on your facilitation designs over the next few days.
  • Early next week, review each other's facilitation designs to offer feedback and suggestions.
  • Refine your facilitation design based on the feedback offered.

Day 6: Recommendations for Future Trainers

  • Continue working on your facilitation designs. On Friday, January 20, Birgitt and Rachel will review the designs and offer feedback and suggestions.
  • Refine your Orientation for Trainers presentation until Friday, January 20

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Post-Meeting Work

Learning through Application

To benefit the most from your learning, we recommend using your learning from the Deep Work with Whole Person Process Facilitation module as soon as possible after your real-time learning. Use it in as many life and business situations that you can find to apply it to. As recommended in Segment 1: Preparing for Your Learning, this is the time of implementing your learning, paying attention to how it unfolds, and then making adjustments to future applications based on what you have experienced and learned so far.

You can revisit your learning materials, including the recordings from the real-time learning segment, to support you in applying your learning.

The conversations happening in the Genuine Contact google group can also support you during this time. This ongoing email-based mentoring circle is a place where you can share your designs for working with Whole Person Process Facilitation to ask for feedback and share your stories about what worked and what didn't to support your adjustments for future applications. You can access this google group through membership in the Genuine Contact Organization. White Level membership is free and paid membership levels are also available that offer additional resources and other benefits. Contact the Director of the Genuine Contact Program to learn more or sign up as a member here.

Segment 9: Real-Time Mentoring Circle

3 hours | Facilitated Group Work Experience | Friday, April 14 at 9 am EDT

One of the things we believe in all of our training is that having ongoing learning opportunities is critical for learning retention, application of your skills, and continually growing your skills and capacities.

When you have the opportunity to gather with others who have also learned a particular skillset – to share your experiences, wisdom and insights and to ask questions where you still have more to learn – it offers all participants a possibility for ongoing and deepened learning.  As part of our commitment to ongoing learning for your leadership development, you are encouraged to participate in mentoring circles with a focus on Whole Person Process Facilitation.

You also qualify to participate in all mentoring circles about Whole Person Process Facilitation in the future. These mentoring circles are offered without any additional fees for participation. Your participation is included in your original workshop registration.

Save the date in your calendar now (check your local time zone). You can register now for email reminders (this link takes you to the Genuine Contact website).

Also available as a recording for self-study approximately 1 week after the real-time event.

 

Additional Resources

Design Notes (Birgitt and Rachel's facilitation notes), meeting notes, and recordings from the Deep Work with Whole Person Process Facilitation offered at the Summer Academy 2022. These materials are included here to allow you to review what you experienced in the workshop design of the Summer Academy as you prepare for facilitating this module yourself.

Design Notes

Meeting Notes

The notes are available in the original Miro board.

Audio Recordings

  • Day 1/May 29 Audio Recording (Energy Fields + Spirit Matters)
    • 0:00:00 welcome & creating the collective energy field
    • 0:13:17 orientation to the meta agenda
    • 0:22:10 transfer in
    • 0:54:00 hopes and fears
    • 1:16:10 what did you notice in the transfer in? and in the hopes and fears?
    • 1:32:04 what energy fields are you experiencing?
    • 1:58:10 homework described
    • 2:06:56 closing circle
  • Day 2/May 30 Audio Recording (Energy Fields + Change is Constant)
    • 0:00:00 welcome & co-creating the energy field
    • 0:12:02 transfer in (note: there are 2 minutes of silence and getting started chatter at 1:10:45 - you can skip ahead here to the next activity)
    • 1:14:05 presentations of the visual of the energy fields in the WPPF container
    • 1:56:30 what senses did you use for noticing? what did you notice in the presentations?
    • 2:15:50 what are you noticing about change?
    • 2:19:26 homework described
    • 2:22:57 closing circle
  • Day 3/May 31 Audio Recording (Blueprint for Optimal Health + WPPF as a Textured Approach)
    • 0:00:00 welcome & co-creating the energy field
    • 0:07:55 transfer in
    • 0:56:34 using WPPF to tap into the optimal health and balance of the organization
    • 1:13:50 reflection circle on using WPPF to tap into the optimal health and balance of the organization
    • 1:31:12 WPPF as a textured approach
    • 1:52:05 homework described
    • 1:56:12 closing circle
  • Day 4/June 1 Audio Recording (Script + Bridging + Design Table)
    • 0:00:00 welcome & co-creating the energy field
    • 0:07:10 transfer in
    • 0:34:45 sharing scripts with a partner (instructions only, no processing of this step in the group)
    • 0:41:08 reflection circle on bridging
    • 0:54:42 orientation to the design table
    • 1:11:31 reflection circle on working with the design table
    • 1:28:45 homework described
    • 1:34:03 closing circle
  • Day 5/June 2 Audio Recording (Working with the Design Table + Keeping it Simple)
    • 0:00:00 welcome & co-creating the energy field
    • 0:08:15 transfer in
    • 0:41:24 working with the design table
    • 0:47:15 reflection circle on working with the design table
    • 1:28:10 homework described
    • 1:33:44 closing circle
  • Day 6/June 3 Audio Recording (GC belief in action + what is WPPF + first paragraph)
    • 0:00:00 welcome & co-creating energy field
    • 0:09:42 transfer in
    • 0:44:31 "genuine contact" belief in action
    • 1:09:53 "what is WPPF?"
    • 1:22:35 write an introductory paragraph for the book
    • 1:28:44 homework described
    • 1:35:35 closing circle

These additional resources are intended to support your learning and work with Whole Person Process Facilitation.

To access additional resources for working with Whole Person Process Facilitation, join the international Genuine Contact Organization. White Level membership is free and paid membership levels are also available that offer additional resources and other benefits. Contact the Director of the Genuine Contact Program to learn more or sign up as a member here.