If you have a longing or calling to be part of a community where you have a felt sense of belonging and feel truly seen, heard, safe, and supported, then reach out and join with us.

Your individual experience is the core of the program. Everyone participates here. The purpose is to co-create and experience a new way of being together on the evolutionary edge of deep connection and authentic community. Together, we'll participate in re-membering and regenerating the authentic heart of being human.

We are better together!

You'll know if this is right for you. It may come as an inner 'knowing' or 'calling' to take this journey with us. You might notice a deep resonance with the possibility that small groups of coherent, passionate people can make a significant impact on our world. You might sense that some of your own longings may be fulfilled here. You'll know.

The Cohering Community experience is about moving from longing to landing. Instead of craving to find belonging in a world that works for the good of all, we are inviting you to step into the possibilities, and own your part in co-creating it now! Together, in support of each other, we'll live into the realization of our longings, one person and one circle at a time.

This program is NOT (yet) for you if you are lost in the problems of the world, and unwilling or unable to imagine the possibilities. While we all get lost from time to time in blaming others or playing the victim, this program is about living into the future we long for, rather than dwelling on the past, or trying to fix each other.

You are being invited into a highly interactive and experiential program. In the live sessions, you won't see much in the way of presentations or us teaching you anything. Instead, through powerful questions, connections, conversations and reflections, we will learn, integrate, inspire, and gain new insights together.

Almost everything will come in the form of an invitation. From the invitation, you get to decide your level of participation and the richness of your experience. What you get out of this program, as in life, will be what you put into it. It is yours to own. How will you plan to show up?

That said, if you accept the invitations, show up and fully engage in the conversations and opportunities to deeply connect with yourself and others, we expect you will experience a felt sense of:

• Belonging, connection, friendship and trust
• Being respected, seen and heard
• Being safe and supported
• Being stretched into new levels of awareness
• Hope, purpose and expanded possibilities
• The power and potential of conscious community
• Wanting to continue connecting with your circle after the program ends

Your experience will unfold within different contexts:

• In the live sessions, we will gather together as a large group, but most of the experience will be in smaller, more intimate breakout groups or circles.
• You'll be invited to reach out between sessions and personally get to know other participants in your circle.
• A rich online interactive community platform is provided for ongoing discussions, sharing and integration.

As a participant in this program, we will ask that you consider and agree to the following:

1. We come together to create new possibilities through having conversations we have not had before. We do not come together to negotiate interest, share our stories, or problem-solve the past or future.
2. Each agrees to attend at least 80-90% of the live sessions. There are always emergencies, and always pressing priorities, but the loss of even one person, for just one meeting, reduces the potential of what we can co-create together. Sessions will be recorded, so you can catch up if you miss one, but recordings are not intended as a substitute for your attendance.
3. Each agrees to spend a minimum of 1-3 additional hours per week reflecting, preparing, connecting and learning. To help facilitate your learning and connection, we are providing an online community platform to connect and engage with each other. This is designed to integrate your experience, deepen our connection/coherence, and expand our learning potential.
4. Each agrees to the best of their ability to uphold our shared agreements and practices for the program.

After the program, our experience has shown us that some or all of your group will want to continue meeting, interacting and co-creating to fulfill some kind of vision or purpose. To facilitate and support this, you will have access to our Cohering Community Platform for 1 year where you can continue sharing information, organize events and have online discussions. You will have access to:

• The global Cohering Community circle
• Your group circle

After one year, there may be a small per-person fee to support the community platform, but no more and the price of a coffee per month.

The primary value and investment in this program for you is your time - showing up, being present, open, and committed.

Your individual financial contribution is approximately US$150 split into 3 monthly payments. If this amount is beyond your means, please contact us and we can discuss alternative contributions.

The leadership stream is a bigger commitment with bigger rewards!

Leadership in this new paradigm is different! Our purpose here is to discover, develop and expand our capacities to effectively lead healthy, coherent, thriving circles and communities.

If you feel personally called to take a leadership role in inviting, convening, cohering, building and holding space for a transformational, generative community, then consider enrolling in the Leadership Stream. Together, we will learn and practice skills and new ways of leading groups on the emergent edge!

Are you interested in facilitating change?

• In laying new foundations to rebuild a more cohesive, inclusive society? 
• Initiating your own transformative community circles, in-person or online?
• Developing your own skills and capacities to build vibrant communities?
• Learning about powerful conversations that engage community members?
• Experiencing the possibilities that unfold within authentic connection?
• Belonging to an ongoing, supportive movement and community of practice?

If you are attracted to the Leadership program, you'll not only have a 'knowing' that your personal longings and desires can be fulfilled by taking part as an individual, but you will also have a deep desire to bring the experience of deep connection and community to others. You will feel 'called' to expand your leadership capacities in service to your team, community or humanity in these times of great change. You'll feel called lead 'circles' that make an impact, practicing respect, open dialogue, deep listening, compassion and non-judgment.

This program is ideal for existing facilitators, coaches, team leaders and community leaders or those desiring to build the skills and capacities to play a leadership role in cohering transformational circles and communities with high levels of trust.

If you sign up for the Leadership experience, you'll learn about and develop circle facilitation capacities, practicing these skills and ways of leading in your assigned group/circle. Essentially, you'll have the opportunity to practice circle leadership within this program as you learn. As a leader, in addition to experiencing the program as an individual, you will:

• Learn and develop circle/group facilitation methods and skills. The methods and tools you will experience and learn about are based on the Genuine Contact Program™, Peter Block community conversations, Bohm Dialogue, circle practices, and other facilitation practices.
• Participate in a synchronized, self-paced online course delivering background content and training that will help you prepare for sessions and understand the power of circle, inquiry and open dialogue for cohering community in the new paradigm.
• Lead and practice circle facilitation; hosting your group within the program.
• Be part of a 14+ week Leadership Circle - a Mastermind to learn and integrate circle-practices, core conversations, community building, and Dialogue; supporting each other in this important work.

In the Leadership Stream, you are committing to additional responsibilities within the program beyond the Individual Stream. You will be committing to develop your capacity to lead circles and to support this program by practicing leadership within the group you are assigned to. Your group is your playground for leadership practice and development. 

As a member of the leadership team, you are committing to attend 80-90% of the live Leaders Circle sessions and keep up with the leadership e-course material in the Learning Management System. For the full experience, you are also invited to take a leading role and engage with others on the community platform as you have time and energy for this. 

After the program, leaders will be given the opportunity to participate in a month-to-month facilitated circle of practice and MasterMind for a monthly fee. Your leadership group may alternatively choose to self-organize and continue meeting on your own.

To facilitate and support this, you will have access to continue the Cohering Community Platform 'Leadership Circle' for up to 1 year.

This is a 4-month intensive leadership development and facilitation course. You will come away with skills and materials that could help you earn income or greatly benefit your organization, community or team.

The financial contribution for the leadership program is approximately US$1,600 split into 4 monthly payments. If this amount is beyond your means, we are open to discuss alternative pricing on a 'sliding-scale', priced according to your financial means.

If you are already a member of a group or team and wish to bring that team into deeper connection, coherence and capacity to effectively collaborate, then consider bringing your whole team into this program. In going through the program, your team will experience 'cultural shifts,' that build trust, deepen resilience and expand creativity.

NOTE: Every individual in the program will participate as a member of a specific group or circle. For example, if there are 80 individuals in the cohort, this larger cohort would be divided into about 6-9 separate groups. The difference in the Group Stream is that you decide who the members of your circle are, register as a group and receive greater value. 

Do you have a group or team that is already formed but want to take it to the next level, releasing its full potential? Do you want to bring more coherence and inspire more engagement in a movement that you are part of? Alternatively, are you planning on pulling together a new group or circle of people for some purpose you are passionate about?

If so, this offering may be right for you and your group. By registering as a group, you have an opportunity to deepen your connection, coherence and engagement with each other. It will shift how you interact and communicate with each other. Your group will naturally become more powerful, resilient, effective and creative.

When you sign up as a pre-formed group, each member of your group will experience the program as an individual and 2 members will be part of the Leadership experience. 

As a pre-formed group, you may have different opportunities and challenges than other participants because you may already know each other and have a culture that is already in place. Your group may have a defined purpose, a vision and goals for what you wish to achieve. For your group, the cohering community experience will:

• Invite you into deeper connection, acceptance and trust in each other.
• Bring more coherence to your group and how you work together.
• Create a felt sense of belonging.
• Increase communication skills
• Increase engagement and participation
• Promote diversity and inclusion
• Expand individual responsibility and commitment to your purpose
• Surface patterns and behaviors that limit your group.
• Increase your capacity to work through conflict and solve problems.
• Expand your capacity to cooperate, innovate and collaborate.
• Elevate your culture to where it can thrive with change.

	Everything in the Individual Stream for each member(up to 14)
	Everything in the Leadership Stream for 2 members of your group
	Private, dedicated online circle for group sharing and discussions
	Additional 2 hours of private group consultation
	Optional additional group consultations(extra cost)

Interested in doing a custom pilot program in your organization? Contact us!

There are no additional commitments to join this program as a group. As a group, we invite you to meet outside the formal program to reflect on, discuss and integrate your group experience. What elements and practices from the program will you practice or formalize going forward?

To facilitate and support your group connection and collaboration after the program, you will have access to our Cohering Community Platform for 1 year where you can continue sharing information, organize events and have online discussions. You will have access to:

• The global Cohering Community circle
• Your group circle

After one year, there may be a small per-person fee to support the community platform, but no more and the price of a coffee per month.

Signing up as a group with 8-14 participants is the best overall value as two of your group will be also be registered in the Leadership program(priced at US$1,600 each) as part of the group price.

The financial contribution for each group is approximately US$3,300 split into 3 monthly payments. If this amount is beyond your group's means, we are open to discussing alternative pricing on a 'sliding-scale', priced according to your group's financial means. We can discuss this during your application process.

In this program, you will experience many conversations designed to deepen our coherence and connection with ourselves and others. These core conversations include 6 tried and proven conversations from Peter Block's book, "Community - The Structure of Belonging".

People become powerful when they choose to shift the context within which they act in the world. Communities are human systems given form by conversations that build relatedness. The conversations that build relatedness most often occur through associational life, where people show up by choice.

Each of these conversations will be experienced through inquiry with powerful questions. The power is in the inquiry, not the answers. The Peter Block conversations that are included in the program are:

• The Invitation Conversation
  "Invitation is the means through which hospitality is created. Invitation counters the conventional belief that change requires a mandate or persuasion. Invitation honors the importance of choice, the necessary condition for accountability." - Peter Block
• The Possibility Conversation
  The distinction is between possibility and problem-solving. Possibility is a future beyond our reach. The possibility conversation works on us and evolves from a discussion of personal crossroads. It takes the form of a declaration, best made publicly.
• The Ownership Conversation
  It asks people to act as if they are creating what exists in the world. The distinction is between ownership and blame.
• The Dissent Conversation
  The dissent conversation creates an opening for commitment. When dissent is expressed, just listen. Don't solve it, defend against it, or explain anything. The primary distinction is between dissent and lip service. A second distinction is between dissent and denial, rebellion, or resignation.
• The Commitment Conversation
  The commitment conversation is a promise with no expectation of return. Commitment is distinguished from barter. The enemy of commitment is lip service, not dissent or opposition.
  The commitments that count the most are ones made to peers and other citizens/members. We have to explicitly provide support for members/citizens to declare that there is no promise they are willing to make at this time. Refusal to promise does not cost us our membership or seat at the table. We only lose our seat when we do not honor our word.
• The Gifts Conversation
  The leadership and citizen/member task is to bring the gifts of those on the margin into the center. The distinction is between gifts and deficiencies or needs. We are not defined by deficiencies or what is missing. We are defined by our gifts and what is present. We choose our destiny when we have the courage to acknowledge our own gifts and choose to bring them into the world. A gift is not a gift until it is offered.

In the Cohering Community circle-based practices, participants can develop a range of powerful skills and capacities, including:

• Active Listening: Participants learn to listen attentively to others without interrupting, judging, or formulating responses prematurely. Active listening promotes understanding, empathy, and respectful communication within the group.
• Empathy and Compassion: Engaging in group circle practices encourages individuals to understand and empathize with the perspectives, experiences, and emotions of others. Developing empathy and compassion fosters deeper connections and promotes a sense of belonging within the group.
• Effective Communication: Participants practice expressing their thoughts, feelings, and needs in a clear, honest, and respectful manner. Effective communication skills such as speaking assertively, asking open-ended questions, and giving constructive feedback are essential for productive dialogue within groups.
• Conflict Resolution: Group circle practices provide a safe and supportive space for addressing conflicts and disagreements constructively. Participants learn to navigate conflicts through active listening, empathy, and collaborative problem-solving, leading to mutually satisfactory resolutions.
• Building Trust and Connection: By sharing personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings within the group, participants develop trust and deepen connections with one another. Building trust is essential for creating a supportive and cohesive group environment.
• Reflective Practice: Group circle practices often incorporate opportunities for reflection and self-awareness. Participants are encouraged to explore their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, leading to greater self-understanding and personal growth.
• Facilitation Skills: Individuals who facilitate group circle practices develop skills in guiding discussions, managing group dynamics, and creating a safe and inclusive space for all participants. Effective facilitation promotes meaningful engagement and ensures that everyone's voice is heard.
• Cultural Competence and Diversity Awareness: Engaging in group circle practices allows participants to explore diverse perspectives, experiences, and cultural backgrounds. Developing cultural competence and diversity awareness fosters inclusivity, respect, and appreciation for differences within the group.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Group circle practices emphasize the importance of collaboration and teamwork in achieving common goals and objectives. Participants learn to work together, support one another, and leverage collective strengths to address challenges and create positive change.
• Mindfulness and Presence: Engaging in group circle practices involves cultivating mindfulness and present-moment awareness. Participants learn to be fully present, attentive, and nonjudgmental, enhancing their ability to connect with others and engage authentically in the group process.

Overall, our group circle practices offer a valuable opportunity for you to develop interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and relational capacities that are essential for building healthy, resilient communities and organizations.

A truly safe group environment provides the basis for powerful transformation, empowering exploration, inspired collaboration and vibrant living. We co-create this space by the way we participate. Here are some ways you can help in co-creating a shared, held, safe space for connection and contemplation.

The primary underlying principle of these agreements is acceptance. Accept that everyone is doing their best to learn and grow, by respecting and following these standards. Self-acceptance is particularly beneficial to experience a safe, empowering environment to learn, create, communicate and celebrate.

In signing up for a Cohering Community experience, I agree to practice these standards to the best of my ability:

1. It is my intention to maintain confidentiality. 

• What I see and hear that is personal or specific to another within the group will stay here.
• When sharing the essence of someone else's story, without the names and specific details, I agree to share in an honoring manner that celebrates the original person’s magnificence.

2. It is my intention to have an open and innocent mind and heart.

• I release evaluating or comparing what I am learning.
• I allow myself to “try on” and wear the information for a while, as it stands.

3. It is my intention to practice a positive focus.

• I focus on what is working and what is magnificent.
• I fill my tank with the power of positivity.
• What I perceive in others I strengthen in myself.
• What I focus on expands.

4. It is my intention to connect at a heart level.

• I practice opening my heart to the essence of what is being conveyed.
• I release the need to evaluate and judge, at least for now, in the moment.

5. It is my intention to claim my experience as my own.

• I speak in “I” statements so I can claim my own experience.
• I release telling others what they should do, feel, believe, or act.

6. It is my intention to listen deeply and with honor.

• I am 100% engaged and my positive attention is on the person sharing.
• I release anticipating what the person is going to share.
• I re-spect, and look again with new eyes.
• I look for the gifts being shared – their courage, authenticity, brilliance, etc.
• I allow the person sharing to indicate that he or she is complete.

7. It is my intention to give authentic acknowledgment and support.

• I am authentic while giving feedback.
• I keep it simple and speak to the essence of what I experienced.
• I maintain heart contact with the person to whom I am giving support.
• I allow a session to stand on its own, and I release the need to compare.
• I notice when I want to give unsolicited advice, criticism, counseling or consulting, and then release it without sharing it!

8. It is my intention to fully receive acknowledgment and support.

• I am open to receiving acknowledgment – as the gift it is – and let it sink in.
• I maintain heart contact with the person acknowledging me.

9. It is my intention to practice self-care and self-responsibility, and allow others to do the same.

• I maintain a safe space for myself. I take care of and honor the wisdom of my body, heart, mind, and source of inspiration, allowing them to guide me.
• When something feels like a judgment or advice, I can simply ask within, that it be reframed.
• When I have a judgment, I say “Thank you for sharing,” to that voice within me, and I choose a more resourceful thought and focus.

10. It is my intention to be fully present.

• I maintain these agreements in and out of the learning space.
• I am here on time to start live group sessions.
• I come to sessions rested and in a resourceful state.