Convergent Facilitation with Miki Kashtan

Imagine: finding common ground amidst conflict, helping each person's voice be heard despite power differences, creating energetic & inspiring meetings, and achieving wholehearted agreement and forward momentum. This is what Convergent Facilitation enables.

The most potent testimony of this method's capacity for enabling breakthroughs and systemic change is to understand its transformative impact on a contentious and intractable battle in the Minnesota State Legislature over child custody legislation.

http://efficientcollaboration.org/wp-content/uploads/MinnesotaCaseStudy.pdf

If Convergent Facilitation can transform political deadlock of something as fundamentally important as child custody into landmark and widely-supported legislation, imagine what it can do for your efforts to find agreement and foster systemic change among the groups you work with.  

Miki Kashtan is co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (www.baynvc.org), a prominent NVC training organization, and Lead Collaboration Consultant at the Center for Efficient Collaboration (http://efficientcollaboration.org/ ). She is the author of several books, including "Reweaving Our Human Fabric: Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future." Miki has helped hundreds of people work more effectively together in nonprofits, corporations, governments and community groups. Miki’s teaching focuses on hands-on practice and draws from participants’ real lives, so participants are prepared to apply the framework right away.

• A practical, step-by-step process for discovering breakthrough solutions to problems that seemed unsolvable
• A strategy that helps people transcend conflicts, stretch beyond their initial positions, and embrace a decision that attends to everyone’s needs
• Many ways to give groups forward progress without leaving anyone behind