Intention of Session Three of the Genuine Contact™ Program

Dates: March 5-6, 2009
Where: Val-David, Quebec
Module 3 of the Genuine Contact Program

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Our learning intensive in Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution is the third in a series of the five learning intensives of our Genuine Contact™ program.

Session Three can be taken on its own to explore the facilitation of Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution. Or it can be taken as part of the series. We included this component to prepare facilitators for assisting persons who have identified that they wish to resolve their conflict but need assistance to do so. Often, existing conflict in an organization is brought forward during Open Space Technology and Whole Person Process Facilitated meetings. During these meetings, the people who are in conflict will often state that they no longer wish to be in the conflicted situation. An actionable outcome is often developed to work on resolving this conflict. However, following the meeting, the people involved may ask for assistance because they don’t know how to move beyond the conflict to a resolution.

This learning intensive was developed to assist facilitators to facilitate this resolution for people of all cultures and cross culturally.

People engaged in conflict are usually fixed in one perspective. They rarely ask each other genuine questions. They also tend to lose contact with their whole selves, rendering voiceless a part of themselves and are unable to participate fully and effectively in efforts to resolve the conflict. Our process works with enabling the person to look again, to make genuine contact again.

Our processes are universal, effective with all human beings.

Participants who go through Conflict Resolution work with our processes are shifted beyond going back to the re-enactment of their old fruitless conversations and their fixation on their previous perspective. This is a result even in situations where there is not resolution to the conflict. In other words, there is a shift using our processes from the old re-enactments, whether there is completion with resolution or not.