KYIV-MOSCOW LIVE. MARCH 2014
New wisdom often lies behind conflict. Conflicts are inevitable, but how we live through them is a matter of choice and of art. Psychologists say that communities going through heated times can find greater closeness and new meaning. In making films about social conflicts and divisions, we hope for greater understanding — and that facilitation skills will move out of training rooms into everyday life, becoming available to ordinary people, groups, organizations and national leaders.
This Skype linkup between Russian and Ukrainian colleagues was filmed at the very start of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. Political events had caught many old friends by surprise, dividing them and paving the way for growing misunderstanding. Despite this rift, our colleagues found a bridge to understanding one another and organized this linkup.
The linkup was facilitated by Drs. Max and Ellen Schupbach (Switzerland/USA): Ellen from Kyiv, Max from Moscow.
This Skype linkup between Russian and Ukrainian colleagues was filmed at the very start of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. Political events had caught many old friends by surprise, dividing them and paving the way for growing misunderstanding. Despite this rift, our colleagues found a bridge to understanding one another and organized this linkup.
The linkup was facilitated by Drs. Max and Ellen Schupbach (Switzerland/USA): Ellen from Kyiv, Max from Moscow.
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Facilitation can be used as a psychological tool for community building, conflict resolution, decision-making and other group tasks. A facilitator makes the process easier by helping group members become aware of the feelings they hold for one another and by helping the group think deeply about its assumptions, beliefs and values, and about its own dynamics. The facilitator can also help a group of people become a collaborative team, supporting consensus and using a range of processes so the group can accomplish its tasks.
Worldwork is a group facilitation method developed by Dr. Arnold Mindell and colleagues. It helps resolve problems and enrich the experience of community. Worldwork facilitators listen to the land, do inner work, and practice communication skills that involve awareness of roles, signals and rank. Worldwork has been applied successfully with multicultural and multilevel groups, Aboriginal communities, universities, small and large international organizations, city hot spots, corporations and conflict zones around the world.
Open Forums are public gatherings that aim to foster public dialogue, address polarizing issues, and bring together different people and points of view. This space is created for listening, agreeing and disagreeing, and supporting direct, nonviolent interaction. Open Forums highlight the need for relationships between people on opposing sides of an issue: by understanding one another’s experience, we can reduce hostility. The methodology of Open Forums was developed in detail by the American psychologist Arnold Mindell, PhD. The facilitator’s main focus is to help the world know itself better, not to push for change.
Open Forums are among the most powerful and ancient forms of dialogue. They are a free space between “true” and “false,” “right” and “wrong,” “bad” and “good,” “us” and “the enemy,” where everyone involved can share their thoughts and emotions — pain, aggression, depression, joy, anger and gratitude. This allows the group to bring out different voices and opinions, find hot spots and polarities, go through conflicts, grow closer and move on. Open Forums are inner work for groups, and facilitating one takes real mastery.
To learn more about running Open Forums, read Arnold Mindell’s book The Deep Democracy of Open Forums.
Worldwork is a group facilitation method developed by Dr. Arnold Mindell and colleagues. It helps resolve problems and enrich the experience of community. Worldwork facilitators listen to the land, do inner work, and practice communication skills that involve awareness of roles, signals and rank. Worldwork has been applied successfully with multicultural and multilevel groups, Aboriginal communities, universities, small and large international organizations, city hot spots, corporations and conflict zones around the world.
Open Forums are public gatherings that aim to foster public dialogue, address polarizing issues, and bring together different people and points of view. This space is created for listening, agreeing and disagreeing, and supporting direct, nonviolent interaction. Open Forums highlight the need for relationships between people on opposing sides of an issue: by understanding one another’s experience, we can reduce hostility. The methodology of Open Forums was developed in detail by the American psychologist Arnold Mindell, PhD. The facilitator’s main focus is to help the world know itself better, not to push for change.
Open Forums are among the most powerful and ancient forms of dialogue. They are a free space between “true” and “false,” “right” and “wrong,” “bad” and “good,” “us” and “the enemy,” where everyone involved can share their thoughts and emotions — pain, aggression, depression, joy, anger and gratitude. This allows the group to bring out different voices and opinions, find hot spots and polarities, go through conflicts, grow closer and move on. Open Forums are inner work for groups, and facilitating one takes real mastery.
To learn more about running Open Forums, read Arnold Mindell’s book The Deep Democracy of Open Forums.
Kyiv-Moscow Live. March 2014 Group process facilitated by Drs. Max and Ellen Schupbach.
Interview with Dr. Max Schupbach.
29 min. March 2014.
29 min. March 2014.
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