Deep Democracy Institute

We are raising money for the travel and lodging expensesfor our co-learners from Kenya, Iraq, Egypt, Ukraine and Russia who got full scholarships to participate in our Annual Global Leadership and Facilitation Intensive in Bangkok. Would you like to know what our learners bring and take from these Intensives? Click on READ MORE and watch amazing one minute presentations of last year’s recipients.

What is the Intensive about?
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Who are we ?
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www.deepdemocracyinstitute.org

READ MORE: 

Enjoy meeting our scholarship students describe their personal and professional learning  at past intensives:

Meet Binafsh, from Kurdistan, Iraq.  She is a university graduate in agriculture, now working as a news editor in World TV - a satellite channel in Duhok:


Binafsh: "I learned how to be courageous among people, and how to understand and accept other people as they are. Thankyou for the opportunity to speak about the ongoing genocide".


Meet Timoh Maina - comedian, businessman, and DDI student in Kenya:


Timo says: "It helped me to open up to what I feel and be more real .... now I use my real life story in my comedy."

Meet Sara Huang, working in the public sector in the Netherlands, in stakeholder engagement: 



Sara writes: "What I learned professionally is how to create and hold a safe and brave space for conflict transformation." 
 
Meet Desmond Smith, agricultural and bio-system engineering student at Kenya University, got scholarship to Cairo in 2018:



Desmond writes: "Personally, I got to meet great minds like Binafsh [featured above] who is fighting against [Yazidi] genocide in her community. Professionally,  I got first hand experience working in a large group ... process, and able to see my weaknesses and my strengths". 



And here below is Binafsh again, this time amongst fellow participants and students at a DDI seminar in Duhok, Kurdistan recently on "The Power of Facilitation":


Meet Zaida Osman. Zaida lives in Nairobi, in the Kabira community.  She has been studying with DDI since the program began in East Africa.  She is a community leader, facilitating the upliftment of local women to develop economic independence through a womens' co-operative she established. 




Meet Maryam Khamisi from Nairobi - a member of our DDI local team. Maryam entered our scholarship contest again this year. Maryam is an administrator in a Kenyan insurance firm. She is in the process of exploring her career path direction.  



Flavia Wanja is a therapist and member of the DDI co-ordinating team in Nairobi, Kenya. The interviewer is Karin Bagge, a DDI student, therapist and facilitator from Denmark. Flavia writes about herself:

"I have a B.A in Counseling Psychology and currently living in Nairobi. I intern with DDI where I help with coordinating and communication which has been an incredible experience. I am also a diploma student at DDI. Currently I am working in a hospital where I mainly focus on HIV/AIDS and psychotherapy. My clients are children, young and old. My vision is to enlighten and help more people comprehend/understand the importance of mental wellness and to brush off retrospective beliefs that are held regarding mental health especially in the rural areas."




Meet Husna Said from Kenya (below) -  DDI scholarship student, speaking of her experiences travelling out of Kenya first time, to be part of the DDI annual leadership intensive 2017 international learning community. Husna brings a new generation spirit to her leadership role in her local setting, her community organising and dream for her country. She is a member of the DDI East Africa co-ordinating team. 



The prequel to Cairo 2018 - moments from DDI intensives Kyiv, Berlin, Barcelona, Yerevan, San Francisco, Otranto..... 




Meet Emmanuel Karisa Baya, advanced DDI student, living 300 kms inland from Mombasa,  speak of his experiences from previous DDI international leadership intensive. Emmanuel is founder and CEO of a local educational and farming NGO for children living without parents. He has also run for local government! 








Annual leadership intensive in a Muslim majority country - live the dream!



19 Deep Democracy Institute students from Kenya, Thailand and Kuala Lumpur participating in our Process Work coaching skills contest to earn full/partial scholarship for travel and lodging, to attend 10 day intensive in Cairo, and study with over 100 practitioners from all continents. Lets help them get there!! 

                                                                            Discovering Our Evolution

At the Intensive:  Large Group Facilitation, Personal Development, Depth Coaching, Leader and Eldership Development, Community Building, Organizational Development and Conflict Resolution.

                                                                              
Who for:

Your gift will be allocated to a scholarship for one of our students from Africa, South East Asia or Eastern Europe, who is eligible for a full ride or partial scholarship for travel and lodging. In addition to financial eligibility, we created a fun, skill based scholarship contest for scholarship applicants to showcase their coaching awareness skills, based on a suggestion by one of our Kenyan students. 

Giving:

Every contribution counts.  We understand there are many ways of giving, and that energetically each person is in a different financial spot.  If it is right for you donate, and in the spirit of a joyous experience, here are  some suggested amounts: 

$50      $100      $200      $500       $1,000    other

Thank you!!

What you get:

Scholarship students will create a video report of the learning experience which we will send you after the intensive. 

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The Cairo intensive:

This our first Intensive in a Muslim majority country - and in Egypt, with its historical role in human evolution.

Students at the Cairo Intensive will learn and practice DDI applications in:
    *highly diverse large groups
    *startups full of vision, and lacking resources
    *complex conflicted team constellations
    *multiple stakeholder processes without agreed upon ground rules
    *regional and national conflicts
    *their inner lives
    *co-operatives and grassroots movements trying to get their act together without     compromising their egalitarian visions of collaboration.

We will discover together the natural flow of evolution hidden behind polarizations and conflicts. Learn to use your eldership, the ability to hold and facilitate hotspots and co-create natural dialogue spaces by developing a deep understanding of the processes of diverse, often highly polarized parties. Practice using your awareness to notice and frame the natural occurrence of unity present in every system, understand different phases in short- and long-term consensus forming processes, and work with a system in each of these phases.
 
The personal development of the facilitator receives the same amount of focus as does the practice of group facilitation. Fluidity in your inner work and accuracy in your group work are closely connected prerequisites for impactful facilitation and leadership. Eldership, your personal development in relationship to the whole, and deep democracy practices, the discovery and facilitation of hidden force lines that organize communities - and conflicts - can be learned as a standalone approach for coaching, facilitation and leadership, or as an addition and enhancement to your own facilitation and leadership approach.


Thank you for your interest and support, to help our students in Kenya, South East Asia and Eastern Europe to attend 

More about DDI:

The international Deep Democracy Institute is a leadership, coaching and training organization. Our students from over 25 countries are local leaders, facilitators, conflict resolvers, professionals in diverse fields, artists, researchers, community developers and activists.  

DDI is active in Europe, South East Asia, Russia, Ukraine, East Africa, Middle East and USA. DDI  facilitates public open forums in conflict zones, as well as large group work in corporations and grassroots movements. DDI is an evolving organisation, founded by Drs. Ellen and Max Schupbach who collaborate with DDI's international faculty and teams around the world. 

DDI applications and innovations use a Process Work paradigm pioneered by Arnold Mindell. DDI brings together current global, regional, team and personal growth areas in one inter-related approach.  

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Photo by Gaurav Jain on Unsplash

About our fundraiser

Our aim is to generate 15 scholarships for Deep Democracy Institute (DDI) Global South and Ukraine students. Your donation goes 100% to flight tickets and lodging costs.  

This fundraiser is to guarantee that DDI students studying in our programs in the global south – East Africa, South East Asia and Middle East – as well as Ukrainian students in the midst of war and displacement, can participate in and contribute to our high diversity learning space. Many DDI students spread across the globe are joining this hybrid Intensive event remotely via video or audio. While hybrid delivery provides an additional accessibility point, it does not replace having a mix of participants at the hands-on event from diverse global and economic geo-political regions. These face-to-face human encounters create dynamic interactions that those present and those remotely can learn from. This mix is a high impact speciality of our training program. 


About the DDI global intensive  

Our annual face to face Intensive is attended by over 100 students from the global south and north; some of us are living in the midst of relative economic and social privilege and others in disadvantaged economies, war zones and regional unrest. The mix of students and experiences creates an intensive learning environment for transforming inner and outer worlds in the here and now. 

Our 2022 full immersion intensive is focused on a core specialization and awareness discipline of Deep Democracy Facilitation: Process Work Unfolding. This skill-set activates an inner source of enhanced creativity at individual, team and community levels. Our Unfolding focus this year is Unfolding Edges and HotSpots in your Inner Work, Relationships, Teams and Organizations. 

For us and our students, this capability is crucial in navigating personal, organizational and community complications we find ourselves in. We are visitors on our earth. We CAN and MUST learn to collaborate. Learning how to co-create and co-facilitate this process is challenging. It forces us into an inner learning journey and transformation. Students will learn the theory and practice of Process-oriented Inner Work and defined group interventions that require a high degree of precision. 

Participants gain a theoretical and practical foundation to work on their unique vision and get to know and practice applying their style and talents. The fruits can be applied directly and creatively by every person in their own roles and projects back home. (See below “About our DDI Learning Community” for examples of DDI student contexts)

Find out more about our Leadership Intensive this year on eventbrite:  OneFlatRoundWorld October 2022 


About our donors 

For the past 10 years, participation at our annual intensives for students from the global south and regional conflict zones has been possible thanks to many donors; mainly from the global north. Until now, most donors are also students in our program highly motivated to contribute to the participation of fellow learners. While we have many opportunities for online peer learning, coaching, supervision, seminars and tutorials, our DDI donors tell us that human encounters, and studying together at the face-to-face intensive with peers from the global south is a transformational highlight of our program. Many of us from the global north have developed lasting human relationships, enhanced awareness of rank and privilege dynamics, and enjoy practical partnerships that last the test of time. 

You likely have your own networks and pressing needs that you already contribute to. If so, please feel welcome to enjoy knowing we exist, and if you feel the urge, we would appreciate your support by letting people in your network – family, colleagues, relevant organizations etc. know about us. If you are moved to support the rigorous education of deep democracy facilitators around the globe as a matter of urgency in our times, then this fundraiser is a concrete way to have an impact.  


About Deep Democracy 

Deep Democracy is a practice, an attitude and the philosophy at the core of Process Work founded by Arnold Mindell and developed since the 1980s with Amy Mindell and collaborators around the world. Deep Democracy Facilitation is meant to show the multi-dimensionality of individual and community life, by making space for all voices and unfold polarized sides to their essence. The Intensive provides a collaborative learning environment on your path, for spontaneous human warmth between participants in the midst of navigating differences, and discover unlikely connections across divisions and borders in the here and now. DDI was founded from this inspiration in 2006 by Ellen and Max Schupbach. Additionally, Max has co-pioneered Process Work Institutes around the world. 

About the DDI Learning Community

We are co-learners from over 30 countries from Africa, South East Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the Americas. We are an informal and ever-changing network of individuals who live and work in: slums as community activists, hospitals as doctors and nurses, families and extended families as caretakers and team leaders, rural areas as farmers, and in business, non-profits, and corporate environments as owners, leaders, or team-members. We are in universities as first year college students and as professors in various disciplines, we are artists, ordained or non-ordained elders (in many of the world’s religions), government officials, psychologists and consultants. Our group is composed of introverts who identify as being awkward in social settings, extroverts who feel they thrive in groups, and the entire spectrum in between.

Thank you for taking time to read this, for your inner support, and for those who want to and can, for your financial contribution. 
Your DDI fundraiser team