Radically Rethinking Collaboration

This workshop will turn our initital understanding of collaboration on its head and do a deep dive into the reality of conflict.  Borrowing from Adam Kahane's ground-breaking work, we will explore why, in so many of our cases with little trust and goodwill, we feel the need to abandon the expectation of a harmonious team, shared interests and values and getting on the same page.  Instead, we need to embrace and expect difference, employ both power and love, experiment our way forward and focus on what we can do rather than why "they" need to change.  We will learn the strategic use of downloading, debating, dialoguing and presencing and apply this new way to collaborate in a challenging case study.