Reimagining Collaboration February 2024

The future is collaborative. How are you shaping what it means to work together?

How we work together matters. Our ability to collaborate effectively is fundamental to the health of our teams and communities and the impact of the work that we do together for social and climate justice. Whether you lead meetings, hold space for multi-stakeholder gatherings or movements, or participate in team or community processes, you are a part of shaping meaningful collaborations.

This program is a practical exploration of how we can enable and facilitate more transformative collaborations. We focus on deepening our self-awareness and developing the abilities to work creatively, intentionally, and whole-heartedly with the complexity of groups.

As a species, we are failing in our relationships to one another and to life on this planet. If we are to survive, thrive, and heal, we know we need to reimagine how we live and work together. We need to find our way back to better teachers, fusing the wisdom of the past, the technology of the present, and our responsibility for the future.

We are all learning. We hope you’ll join us.

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What is Reimagining Collaboration?

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What is Reimagining Collaboration?

Reimagining Collaboration is a one-month-long program that kicks off with three days in person and is followed by three virtual 90-minute group accompaniment sessions. This program has supported organizations like Greenpeace, UN Women, the Ford Foundation and youth climate justice activists to work with tension and difficult conversations in complex group settings and design gatherings that meaningfully engage and connect diverse participants.

You'll spend time learning and exchanging ideas with Spring experts and a cohort of social justice leaders from around the world to gain:

A new awareness about your habitual patterns, strengths, and areas for development when collaborating
An understanding of facilitation strategies for collective storytelling, holding multiple perspectives, and working with tension in ways that can reclaim and rehumanize collective work
Confidence practicing new moves and applying a variety of tools to help keep people meaningfully engaged, deeply connected and moving forward towards shared goals

Join with your team to benefit from a shared understanding of how you work together, a greater capacity to articulate internal tensions, and the opportunity to practice new ways of collaborating in a no-stakes environment.

Schedule & Location

The intensive will take place in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia.

Below are the in-person intensive dates:

DAY 1 | February 27: 9:00 - 17:00 Central Indonesia Time

DAY 2 | February 28: 9:00 - 17:00 Central Indonesia Time

DAY 3 | February 29: 9:00 - 17:00 Central Indonesia Time

After the 3-day intensive course, 90-minute group sessions will take place virtually during three Thursdays in March.

All registrations include post-intensive group sessions, intensive materials, lunch and morning and afternoon refreshments. Participants are responsible for accommodation, travel-related expenses and all meals outside of lunch.

Program overview

On Day 1 of the intensive course, you'll start building awareness of your habitual patterns in collaborations and spend time practicing holding space for multiple stories and perspectives.

On Day 2, we'll discuss how we experience conflict, deal with common tensions that arise in collaborations, and use new approaches to apply decision-making rules and methods to move processes forward.

On Day 3, you'll put it all together and work with a small team of participants to workshop a plan for you to re-up your facilitation practice moving forward, identify the facilitation moves that you want to try out in your next meetings, and design gathering spaces that encourage creative collaboration.

During the three days together you’ll have the opportunity to observe yourself, integrate your learnings, and build the confidence to try new moves. After the intensive, you'll dive deeper into themes of interest and developmental goals during a month-long virtual accompaniment process.

Throughout the program and the three months afterward, you'll have access to all program tools and multimedia resources via Spring's Leadership Lab to bolster your learning journey.

Note that the language of instruction will be in English.

Team

We are a global community united in our belief that personal transformation is key to meaningful and sustained change. We don’t hold all the answers — but we know you do. We walk alongside you to help you focus on what matters to you most.

The February training will be facilitated by Spring in partnership with Roemah Inspirit. Your facilitators will be:

You can learn more about Amis, Budhita and Ellen on our team page.

Sliding scale

We work to make our programs as accessible as possible and offer a sliding scale with two tiers of program payment rates. When you register below, please choose the fee based on your circumstances.

1. Redistribution Rate: US $2500

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 a yearly income of over US$70,000. Payment at this rate covers the program's costs and allows for a contribution to support the participation of organizations and individuals with less access to wealth.

2. Full Cost Rate: US $2000

This is for organizations with an annual budget above US$1-2 million. It's also designed for individuals with a yearly income of US$50,000 - US$70,000.

Don't see an affordable rate?

If the above rates are not affordable to you, please get in touch with us at [email protected] to let us know and we can discuss what might be possible. Also reach out to us to learn more about team pricing.

Reimagining Collaboration

The future is collaborative. How are you shaping what it means to work together?

1. Redistribution Rate: US $2500

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