REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
Where: Zoom
Intensive dates: May 14-15-16
Accompaniment dates: May 23, May 30, June 6
Join us for Reimagining Collaboration this May, a month-long, online developmental journey where we will explore and practice shaping more transformative collaborations. The program focuses on three core collaborative capacities and ways of integrating them into your work — both in the moment with groups and in the design and preparation of collaborative spaces:
Explore different ways that people relate to collaborative work, and deepen your understanding of how to work with complexity and multiple perspectives, including storytelling.
Learn to recognize and work with the intelligence of your body and all your somatic senses when working collectively — and practice creating space for others to do the same.
Explore resourceful ways of being with strong emotions, tension, and disagreement so that you can meet those moments with clarity and care.
This program has supported organizations like Greenpeace, UN Women, Fenomenal Funds and youth climate justice activists. Our approach creates a robust, meaningful, and fun creative learning environment, while also integrating reflection and feedback for your individual developmental journey. Throughout the month, you’ll spend time practicing new skills and connecting with other participants who are also working towards building better collaborations for a more just and life-sustaining world.
Develop a deeper awareness of your own habits and patterns when collaborating, including strengths and areas to work on
Practice techniques for working with multiple perspectives, storytelling, and conflict and tension in a group
Explore strategies for staying open and connected in collective spaces by recognizing your somatic responses
Build confidence recognizing and responding to what a group needs, both in the moment and through design
Apply your learning through role plays and facilitation exercises
Identify and work towards specific developmental goals with the support of a coach and a small group of peers
Connect and learn with a supportive global community that understands your context and shares similar challenges
Access a digital portfolio of resources, tools, and practices you can adapt to your unique context
Reimagining Collaboration is a month-long virtual program, starting with three half-day sessions (called the Intensive), followed by three weekly 90-minute accompaniment sessions.
Participants will also have access to all program tools and resources through Spring’s online Leadership Lab.
Join with your team to optimize impact. Together you will establish:
Start building awareness of your habitual patterns in collaborations and spend time practicing designing and holding spaces for multiple stories and perspectives.
Explore how you experience conflict, deal with common tensions that arise in collaborations, and practice new approaches for moving through disagreement and stuckness in resourceful ways.
Put everything together and work with a small peer group and a coach to identify new facilitation moves you want to try out and develop a plan for keeping momentum in your developmental journey.
With weekly online sessions and assignments, you’ll have opportunities to integrate your learnings into your daily work. Practice trying new facilitation moves, reflect further on your own patterns, and dig deeper into the different themes and topics that inspire you with continued support from your cohort and instructors.
The program dates are as follows:
Amsterdam: 11:00 - 14:30
New Delhi: 14:30 - 18:00
Jakarta: 16:00 - 19:30
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Amsterdam: 11:00 - 12:30
New Delhi: 14:30 - 16:00
Jakarta: 16:00 - 17:30
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Amis Agung Boersma is an Integral Master Coach™ and workshop facilitator with over 15 years of experience in the field of international activism and social change. She believes people tend to keep their best features hidden – sometimes even from themselves. Often passions, talents, desires, and hopes for the future get buried under the overflowing to-do lists of daily life. As a coach, workshop facilitator, and gatherer, Amis shines a light on the things that matter to people, helping them connect to others as their truest and fullest selves.
Amis is Dutch with Indonesian roots and is honored to call herself a true citizen of the world. She has lived in Amsterdam, Honolulu, Jakarta, Cartagena and Aruba.
She holds a Master's in Southeast Asian studies and loves studying languages; she speaks English, Dutch, and Indonesian and devours methods in which we humans can better and more deeply connect, such as Art of Hosting, Theory U, and Thinking Environment. She is currently based in The Netherlands and loves to sing, dance, and spend time with her loved ones – preferably over a good cappuccino or cocktails.
Budhsi is a vibrant, skilled, and passionate facilitator, trainer, and sustainable development professional with more than 20 years of experience in program development and management in several international development organizations both in Indonesia and abroad.
She is the co-founder of INSPIRASI TANPA BATAS (previously INSPIRIT INNOVATION CIRCLES), or INSPIRIT, an innovative social enterprise established in 2002 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Budhsi has extensive experience in designing and facilitating interactive learning processes for various purposes, including decision-making, conflict management, training, and program planning and evaluation.
She is committed to social and environmental justice and a firm believer in the power of individuals and communities to create and inspire sustainable change. In support of this philosophy, she ensures that vibrant communication, asset-based thinking, and appreciative inquiry are internalized and applied both on a personal and professional level. Budhsi is based in Bekasi, Indonesia.
Remko is a strategist, Certified Integral Facilitator™ and Integral Master Coach™ with over two decades of experience working with civil society. He brings lightness and common sense to high-stakes settings. Remko’s professional journey has taken him from his native city of Rotterdam to Bangladesh, India and Mozambique, working in various advisory and leadership positions for international NGOs and their networks of partners. He has also ventured out into the field of academia and innovation labs working on strategies for social and environmental justice.
Now based in Lannach, Austria, Remko has an insatiable curiosity about the mystery and potential of developmental work. When not at work, he loves to play in nature, is a people power believer, a fly fishing addict, and father of three lively little men. He speaks Portuguese, English, Dutch and German.
Lucas is a writer, facilitator, researcher, and lover of poetry—all of which he brings to the creative work of social change and his role at Spring as Collaborations Lead. Originally from northern Wisconsin (United States), Lucas lived for several years in Colombia, where he designed and led creative experiences for human rights practitioners as a part of the team at JustLabs. (For more on this work, see his publication, Narrative Spices: An invitational guide).
He has also worked on the editorial team of OpenGlobalRights, as a fellow with the action-research center Dejusticia (Colombia), as a teacher with the Fulbright Program (Colombia), and as a volunteer at the Corrymeela peace-building community (Northern Ireland). Lucas is happiest petting dogs, sitting by trees, reading poetry, attempting to write it, canoeing, and enthusiastically but mediocrely dancing salsa. His favorite way to give is by washing other people’s dishes.
We work to make our programs as accessible as we can and offer a sliding scale with three tiers of program payment rates.
When you register below, please choose the fee based on your circumstances.
This is for organizations based in the Global North or with an annual budget above US$2 million. It’s also designed for individuals with access to wealth or with an annual income over US$70,000. Payment at this rate covers the costs of the program and allows for a contribution to support the participation of organizations and individuals with less access to wealth.
This is for organizations with an annual budget above US$1-2 million. It’s also designed for individuals with an annual income of US$50,000 - US$70,000.
This is for organizations with an annual budget of under US$1 million. It’s also designed for individuals with an annual income of under US$50,000. Payment at this rate covers 50% of total costs.
If the Solidarity Rate is not affordable to you, please get in touch with us to let us know and we can discuss what might be possible. Please click here for more details on Spring's sliding scale.
Click on our most frequently asked questions to learn more about who this program is for, whether you should join with your team, and program costs.
Throughout the year we offer both in-person and virtual versions of Reimagining Collaboration. This program will be held entirely online. For our other program offerings throughout the year, please go to our events page.
Part of the reason we have focused this program on “collaboration” is because we believe that collaborating well involves everyone in the room, not just the person who is leading, structuring, or facilitating the space. This program is all about building self-awareness, practicing new skills, and working towards personal developmental goals related to group work. Even if you have never led a meeting before, this program will equip you with new skills and confidence engaging more meaningfully in collaboration.
The more experience working with groups that you bring to your cohort, the deeper our conversations can be. Our program does integrate practical tools and approaches that may or may not be familiar to you; however, our approach to the training is centered around both peer learning and personal development. So even if you are an experienced facilitator, this program will still support you in identifying specific developmental areas for you to strengthen and deepen your practice.
This program is great for individuals, but joining with other members of your team can deepen your understanding of how you work together. This program is particularly helpful in offering shared language and concepts that will enable you to discuss how you collaborate as a team, articulate internal tensions, and practice new ways of working together in a no-stakes environment.
We frequently offer discounts for teams of 3 or more participants joining. If you are interested, please reach out to facilitation@springstrategies.org.
The program fee covers the cost of all program materials and sessions, including: the three-day Intensive, online accompaniment, and access to the online Learning Lab.
We offer sliding scale rates for all our programs. If the full cost rate is inaccessible to you, please reach out to facilitation@springstrategies.org and we will discuss what might be possible.
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