What You Can Expect from Your Participation in the Deep Dive…

• A deep insight into the nature of vertical learning and human development.

• An ability to see beyond people’s ‘personalities’ into the deeper meaning-making that governs how they are showing up

• An ability to ask questions, state observations, and offer feedback in ways that generate “disorienting dilemmas”

• A capacity to project a space of genuine acceptance and compassion that empowers emotional risk-taking in group settings.

• A greater awareness of your own meaning-making constitution, and of the inner distortions they most often generate.

• An ability to witness, understand, and work constructively with group interactions and group dynamics.

• An ability to leverage conflict as a basis for catalyzing profound insights for individuals and groups.

• An ability to create workshop and facilitated event designs that are deliberately developmental.

• A confidence in your ability to catalyze moments of transformative insight in all manner of situations in which you are leaderfully engaged.

• Upon successful completion of this course, you will earn ICAgile’s (International Consortium for Agile) CVF certification in Vertical Facilitation, a globally respected recognition of achievement.

What Your Organization Can Expect Out of Your Participation in the Deep Dive

Out of your participation in The Vertical Facilitator Deep Dive, you will help the individuals, teams and groups you work with grow their capacity for wise and effective action in the face of uncertain and complex situations and circumstances—a key advantage for any organization that must operate effectively in today’s inherently complex and unpredictable world.

Toward this end, you will help people, both individually and collectively: 

• Grow their capacity for greater personal ownership, accountability and responsibility. This translates into greater reliability and alignment with organizational purpose and direction.

• Develop better thinking and sense-making approaches to the specific kinds of complex problems they face.

• Increase their capacity for self-awareness and self-management so that they are less reactive and more constructive in their interactions with others, and in their encounters with difficult and challenging situations.

• Increase individuals’ ability to think outside the box.

• Grow their capacity to manage their emotional anxiety so that there is less fear and hesitance in their actions and decision-making processes.

• Better manage the interpersonal conflicts and interrelational dysfunctions that impede their capacity for wise and collective action and collaboration. Effective relating with others is increasingly seen as the major determinative for organizational high performance in today’s complex and ever-changing world.

• Grow their capacity for clearer and more effective communication and interaction, thus enabling and empowering greater collaboration and collective sensemaking.