Essential Leadership
(prerequisite: Essential Partnership I)

Having experienced Essential Partnership/Women & Men, people may wish to take what they have learned into their own groups, communities, or workplaces. In keeping with the original vision of this work, we offer Essential Leadership, a 3-day training that prepares participants to co-facilitate a one-day (8-hour) workshop in home, community, or corporate settings.

Facilitator skills emphasized are:

• Sharing leadership with a co-facilitator of the opposite gender

• Developing ease with collaborative communication

• Facilitating group conflict effectively

• Demonstrating a comfortable balance between power and vulnerability

• Deepening of EP/W&M principles and ability to communicate them to a group

Learning segments of the weekend include:

• Exploring personal experience of power and vulnerability

• Working in small groups to develop capacity for embracing both power and vulnerability as a leader/co-facilitator

• Practicing leading segments of a one-day workshop

• Role-playing to practice co-facilitating in difficult situations

• Spending time with one's own gender group to explore concerns around co-leadership

• Engaging in dialogue between gender groups; speaking honestly and collaboratively

• Offering one another support in going forward with commitment

Become part of a global network!

Essential Leadership offers an additonal bonus: membership in the Essential Peacemaking/ Women & Men international network of facilitators. Upon completion of this 3-day training, participants can apply for facilitator accreditation. If you do so, you will join men and women from 30 different countries who have been trained in the same principles of collaborative communication and co-leadership between the genders.

The founders and members of this network base their work on three fundamental principles:

• All real change happens from the bottom up, from grassroots folks who work among themselves to bring about new ways of partnering.

• Healing among and between the genders is the key to sustained positive change in other areas of conflict throughout the world.

• Each man and each woman has a role to play and can make a difference in their partnerships, their families, their communities, and their world.

While some facilitators of the one-day workshop are training professionals, most are not, and the network is built on the idea that ordinary folks can make an extraordinary difference on a local level. By tapping into this network, you can connect and work with co-facilitators from many backgrounds. Some of our greatest learning experiences as trainers have come from co-facilitating with these wonderful folks from so many different cultures.

We invite you to join us in this growing global network!

Note: A percentage of the profits generated by Mandorla Resources' Essential Partnership workshops goes to the non-profit Earthstewards Network to support grassroots international gender reconciliation efforts.

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