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The CCDF Facilitation Process

In a “Co-Creating Desired Futures” Gathering, a diverse group of community members are imagining, exploring, and working towards a preferred future scenario. Discovering a common purpose is often the first step in the process! This approach emphasizes creativity, imagination, and an inclusive focus on thinking, feeling, dreaming, and taking action toward desired outcomes. We move beyond avoiding or fearing the future to actively shaping something together, as we learn, grow, and develop a sense of “we”. ​​​​​

Through effective and joyful

co-creation, people,

organizations, and communities can move beyond passively accepting the future to actively shaping it, leading to more desirable, sustainable, and equitable outcomes. 

Co-Creating Desired Futures Facilitation Intensive

In this 5-session online learning journey, you’ll experience some of the basic elements of CCDF facilitation. You'll start by engaging in the process as a participant, and then you'll have opportunities to practice facilitating and co-facilitating with coaching and appreciative feedback. ​

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 Five session course starting September 26th

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 "​In times of democratic peril, listening may seem too soft a tool to meet the hard edges of political crises. Indeed, many tools are needed. Yet in the practice of democratic innovations, it is often the inner discipline of facilitators—their capacity to withhold, to attune, to reflect—that helps understanding to grow and coherence to emerge." 

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LISTENING ACROSS DIFFERENCES 

research paper by Rosa Zubizarreta-Ada

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More about the CCDF Facilitation Process

The Co-Creating Desired Futures (CCDF) facilitation process draws from several tried-and-tested models of group facilitation and communication. Empathy Circles help us learn to listen deeply, so others feel heard and differences can be explored in constructive ways. Nonviolent Communication helps us learn to honor the underlying human needs that we all share, even when these needs are expressed unskillfully. Dynamic Facilitation helps groups enter and stay in a creative flow, by making room for creative tension in ways that feel emotionally safe. 

 

You can learn more about various group processes and organizing tools on the website from our friends at the Co-intelligence Institute. In addition, you’ll find real world examples of initiatives oriented towards wholeness, co-intelligence and wise democracy.

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