In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participants will develop:

– An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups

– New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development

– An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools

– Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms and values of each

– Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus

– Ways to value and use dissension, argument and conflict

– Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful