Matrix Essentials for Professionals

This training

This virtual + in-person training introduces a framework of communication and leadership practices — the Matrix Essentials™ — that support groups to function with their full collective intelligence and heart. We dismantle our cultural assumptions of separateness and hierarchy and midwife interconnected consciousness and action that supports the wellbeing of the Whole. This training supports accelerated experiential learning and transformative professional and personal development.

The group will begin to form during the first two virtual sessions utilizing the core practices of person-to-person communication, ground-of-health and attention to the Whole. The second virtual session will focus on introducing the theoretical maps in an interactive manner. These virtual sessions yield relationships based in trust, familiarity and an enhanced readiness to meet in-person. The "gold" is a group that has the capacity to deepen and go further with "differentiation" and "transformation" during the 4, in-person days with enhanced experiential and group-interaction-focused learning. The follow-up virtual session supports integration and at-home applications.

Outcomes

Individuals and groups experience transformational development in relationship with each other and with the ‘Whole’ (team, company, community). Teams harness their full collective intelligence to innovate and adapt, make better decisions, and generate heightened engagement and long-term sustainability. Individuals begin to realize the consciousness of interconnectedness: we’re in this together. We become complex-systems thinkers and practitioners who midwife emergent collective intelligence, justice, healing and transformation.

  • Form highly collaborative, innovative and sustainable teams, organizations and communities
  • Optimize communication, engagement, collective intelligence and creativity
  • Lead through Matrix Leadership Networks™-- evolutionary living systems
  • Transform conflict into a multi-perspective Matrix Group Dialogue™
  • Create a culture of connection
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Who Should Attend

This training is designed for anyone who directs, manages, teaches, consults, coaches or facilitates in a group, organizational, health-care, educational or community context who wants to adopt a new paradigm of relationship-centered leadership and group life. It also offers a transformative approach for those who facilitate or coach personal, relationship, team or community development and healing.

Calling All

  • Culture Changers
  • Transformational Leaders, Educators, Coaches and Healthcare Providers
  • Complex Systems-Thinkers and Proponents of Self-Organization
  • Social Architects designing a functionally Interconnected World
  • Spiritual Practitioners and Social Activists creating a Culture of Allies
  • Individual and Systems Healers restoring Wholeness and Connection

Sequential Learning Components:

Matrix communication and leadership practices generate the capacity to function as an interconnected, self-organizing system.

Formation — A Strong Relational Infrastructure (Matrix)

  • Create a Matrix — relational infrastructure—founded in open, transparent, person-to-person communication in the ‘eyes and ears’ of the Whole (team or group)
  • Generate a collective ground of health (trust and resilience) in the Matrix of relationships‐a key to sustainability
  • Access holistic intelligence—Mind-Body-Heart-Spirit—establishing mindfulness, presence and heart—a gateway to emergence and creativity
  • Develop systems-responsive awareness and learn to optimize collective intelligence and emergent leadership
  • Transform feedback culture with appreciative and differentiating feedback as an investment in relationships, mission and outcomes
  • Differentiate from and Distribute the expression of typical roles, perspectives, emotions, leadership assumptions and authority

Differentiation — An Alternative to Models of Control & Conflict

  • Transform conflict and polarization with practices of engaging with differences as resources, and utilizing a multi-perspective Matrix Group Dialogue™
  • Shift from models of external, top-down authority and control to team-centric leadership that occurs through the interactions of all of the members
  • Learn processes for tracking the emergent, collective intelligence and converging into action

Transformation — Together!

  • Awaken from the paradigm of ‘separateness’. Recognize and differentiate from ‘island of me’ consciousness (competition, silos, lone-rangers) to interconnected ‘voices of the Whole’
  • Experience transformational personal, relational and leadership development in concert with evolutionary team development that occurs in connection—through relationships that generate a field of possibility, love for all beings, justice, and a spiritually-informed world