Guidebook and Workbook
The guidebook is designed to support your learning with the self-study materials. It can be printed to have a place for taking your notes and following along with the material.
Self-Study Guidebook (COMING SOON)
Every Genuine Contact Program module includes a workbook designed to support your learning both while taking the module and as you beginning working with its teachings. While each Genuine Contact Trainer can facilitate the learning of a module's teaching objectives as they wish, all workshop participants receive the same workbook to support common learning experiences.
Whole Person Process Facilitation workbook
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.
Segment 2: Welcome to Whole Person Process Facilitation
Suggested Time: 1 hour | For self-study prior to the rest of your learning
This learning segment orients you to all of the components of your learning with Whole Person Process Facilitation. It gives you some tips for making the most of your learning and helps you to know what to expect through the 3 phases of your learning: preparatory work, real-time learning, and ongoing learning post-workshop.
This segment guides you through a simple exercise to focus your intention for the rest of the learning package. The video is 24 minutes and will take approximately 1 hour to view and complete the exercises.
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Segment 3: Cooperative Components of Whole Person Process Facilitation
Suggested Time: 1 hour | For self-study
In this learning segment, we examine three aspects of a Whole Person Process Facilitated meeting. First, we look at the dual role of Whole Person Process Facilitation as both a platform or operating system that can support a variety of applications, and as a process or method for learning. We will highlight, yet not delve too deeply into, the form of a Whole Person Process Facilitation meeting as part of the process. Understanding this dual role is fundamental to understanding what clients frequently refer to as the magic of whole person process facilitation. Next, we look at the concept of developing a meeting culture for an organization.
We offer to you that the two roles of whole person process facilitation as both a platform and a process, interwoven with the intentional development of a meeting culture, are interconnected cooperative components that are all at play when facilitating a meeting or workshop using whole person process facilitation.
The video is approximately 21 minutes long and will take approximately 1 hour to view and process your learning.
Access the learning segment here.
Segment 4: The Planning Meeting
Suggested Time: 1 hour | For self-study
The planning meeting might call up images of sorting out logistics for a meeting, but it’s so much more than that. It’s a preparatory meeting with the facilitator and the sponsor that’s important when considering using participatory meeting methods for making the most out of the investment in the meeting. Within the Genuine Contact way of working, we designed the format of the Planning Meeting specifically for meeting methods Open Space Technology and Whole Person Process Facilitation. However, it’s beneficial to use when thinking about any type of participatory meeting, no matter the method chosen. When you build planning meetings into your meeting facilitation process, you might even discover that it’s beneficial to plan all kinds of meetings.
This learning segment leads you through the form of the planning meeting and gives tips for how to make the most of using some of the tools from the Genuine Contact Toolkit to ensure you are designing the best meeting possible to achieve the intended objectives, what the most suitable facilitation method and plan will be, and what is needed within the organization for working with the outcomes after the meeting.
The video is approximately 34 minutes long and will take approximately 1 hour to view and process your learning.
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Segment 5: Four Fold Way
Suggested Time: 20 minutes | For self-study
This video explores the Four Fold Way by Angeles Arrien and how it can support leadership development and the development of meeting cultures.
The video is about 10 minutes long and we recommend making 20 minutes available for this self-study.
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Segment 6: Four Principles of Open Space Technology
Suggested Time: 20 minutes | For self-study
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 12 minutes long and we recommend making 20 minutes available for this self-study.
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Segment 7: Five Beliefs of Genuine Contact
Suggested Time: 30 minutes | For self-study
This video’s focus is on the Five Beliefs of Genuine Contact and focuses on exploring what these beliefs are and how we work with them in our work and our lives.
The video is just over 25 minutes and we recommend making 45 minutes available for this self-study.
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Segment 8: Givens
Suggested Time: 1.5 hours | For self-study
This video focuses on the important role of givens, or non-negotiables, in developing the expectation zone for both meetings and organizations. Having explicit givens (rather than implicit assumptions) and ensuring that they are the right and most minimal givens supports the development of a clear container in which creativity and innovation can soar.
The video is about 25 minutes long and we recommend making 1.5 hours available for this self-study.
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Segment 9: WPPF in Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Leadership
Suggested Time: 30 minutes | For self-study
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 30 minutes available for this self-study.
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Segment 10: Origin Story
Suggested Time: 2 hours | For self-study
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.
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Segment 11: Leadership Development through Noticing
Suggested Time: 20 minutes for learning + 15 minutes daily | For self-study
An expanded perspective results from a practice of noticing and is of great benefit to leadership. In this learning segment, we are sharing some tips for how to develop a practicing of noticing as part of your leadership development practice.
The video is 13 minutes and we recommend making 20 minutes available for this self-study and 15 minutes a day to develop the practice.
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Segment 12: How You Show Up
Suggested Time: 30 minutes | For self-study
In this learning segment, we examine the value of how you show up as a facilitator of people. More than any tool that you have in your toolkit, how you show up affects how successful you will be in this very important work. To be really good at facilitation, you’ll discover that you are required to enhance your self awareness. This requires that you do the work of learning to be consistently in genuine contact with yourself.
The video is about 15 minutes long and we recommend making 30 minutes available for this self-study.
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Segment 13: On the subject of Safe Space
Suggested Time: 1 hour | For self-study
In this learning segment, we’re address the subject of safe space, which might come as a surprise to you. If it has been your practice to create group rules or otherwise do what you can to create and co-create safe space for honesty in conversations, we ask you to think of doing this as creating safer space, and to leave behind any thoughts you have that you can create safe space. Can you be satisfied with knowing you are creating safer space?
The video is about 10 minutes long and we recommend making 20 minutes available for this self-study.
Access the learning segment here.
Segment 14: Participatory Processes
Suggested Time: 1 hour | For self-study
In the Genuine Contact way of working, we understand the benefits of tapping into collective wisdom. To make the most of collective wisdom, when facilitating meetings, we always use participatory process. In this learning segment, we orient you to what participatory process means for us and what the rights and responsibilities are for everyone involved when working this way.
The video is 27 minutes and we recommend making 1 hour available for this self-study.
Access the learning segment here.
Real-Time Learning
Segment 15: Real-Time Learning
3 Days | Facilitated Group Work Experience | July 8-10, 2024 in Berlin, Germany
This live learnshop is your opportunity to work together with others in deepening your understanding about Whole Person Process Facilitation.
Facilitation method for the workshop: Whole Person Process Facilitation, designed for the learning styles of the adult learner.
Meeting Notes
Photo documentation from your workshop.
Post-Meeting Work
Learning through Application
To benefit the most from your learning, we recommend using your learning from Whole Person Process Facilitation 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 16: Real-Time Mentoring Circle
3 hours | Facilitated Group Work Experience | Date: October 16, 2024, 9am-12pm 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 a mentoring circle with a focus on working with 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. Invitations to future mentoring circles are available via the Dalar International Consultancy or Genuine Contact newsletter.
The Mentoring Circle is happening on Wednesday, October 16, 9am - 12pm EDT (check your local time). You've been sent a Google calendar invite. You can also see the details and register to receive reminder emails here.
Additional Resources
These additional resources are intended to support your learning and work with Whole Person Process Facilitation.
The Genuine Contact Way
- Learn more about the Genuine Contact way of working
- Genuine Contact Way Developing Leadership Cards
- use the cards online for yourself and with your online meeting or workshop participants (also in: Deutsch | Español | Nederlands | Svenska)
- purchase a deck of the cards for yourself or as a gift for friends, family, workshop participants, or clients (available in Dutch, English, German, Spanish and Swedish) Order in North America | Order in Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia
- Quality Commitment for Genuine Contact Professionals
Working Resources
Samples, templates, and other materials to use when working with Whole Person Process Facilitation. These documents are a combination of Microsoft Word and PDF. You can download all of these documents for your use in 1 Zip file (A4 | Letter) or choose individual documents below.
- Sample Introductory Letter
- Sample Contract for Facilitating WPPF
- Sample Proposal for Facilitating WPPF
- Proposal to Facilitate a One-Day Planning Meeting
- Facilitation Design Table
- Logistics Checklist
- Sample Design of a WPPF Session (PPT)
Graphics & Artwork
These graphics, found in the workbook, self-study segments, and in presentations. You can download all of the graphics as 1 zip file or individually below. They are provided to you here for use in your work. You can use them both in internal documents, materials you share with your clients, and publicly. Please credit Genuine Contact when using the images.
- Service Delivery Model - Business Goal
- Service Delivery Model - Development Goal
- Storyline - Event
- Storyline - Blank
- Grief Cycle
- Organizational Lifecycle
- Deep Essence Tool
- Life Nourishing Environment
- Life Depleting Environment
- Examples of Givens
- Cycle of Transformation
- Four Fold Way by Dr. Angeles Arrien
Articles
For your further learning and for sharing with your clients or people working in your organization to support their learning about Whole Person Process Facilitation too. You can download the PDFs to use both as printed resources or to share digitally. Download all the documents for your use in 1 Zip file (A4 | Letter) or choose individual documents below.
- What is Whole Person Process Facilitation
- Introduction to Whole Person Process Facilitation
- Key Ingredients of Whole Person Process Facilitation
- What is Involved in Bringing a Whole Person Process Facilitated Meeting Into Your Organization?
- Simple Orientation to the Medicine Wheel Tool
- Grief Cycles are Healing Cycles that Enable Transformation
- Impact of Grief At Work
- Things to Consider When Determining Givens
- Brain Wave Frequency
- Additional Resource Materials for Session Two: Working with Whole Person Process Facilitation
Audio & Video
These bonus videos are included here to support your ongoing learning about Whole Person Process Facilitation.
- Whole Person Process Facilitation Doris Gottlieb interviewed by Birgitt Williams
- Evolutionary Spiral
- Service Delivery Model
- Tips for Creating Givens (Audio Recording)
- Documentation for Participatory Processes - considerations for how to document the outputs of a meeting, beyond traditional meting minutes, including what to pay attention to for supporting implementation after the meeting
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.