The Deep Democracy Approach

How to be deeply inclusive by welcoming conflict. 47*DURvyzblz.72 View this email in your browser Transformation Lies in Trusting the Tension Our blog post this week features Naropa University faculty and ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive faculty Dr. Aftab Erfan sharing a leadership approach that facilitates exploration by including all voices, including tension and potential conflict. It is "democratic" because it emphasizes that every voice matters and that decisions are wisest when majority and minority voices are both valued. It is "deep" because it goes far beyond engagement with ideas and instead surfaces emotions, intuitions, attachments, and identifies issues that make a conversation more honest and real...  Read More Join Aftab for Engaging the Differences that Divide Us: ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive and deepen your skillfulness with holding tension and conflict. June 22-25, 2017  Tacoma, Washington  Learn More...   Aftab Erfan, PH.D. Aftab Erfan is a scholar-practitioner and the Director of Dialogue and Conflict Engagement at the University of British Columbia.  She lives in Vancouver, Canada as a settler and as an immigrant, originally from Iran. Aftab's PhD dissertation is based on a one of a kind action research effort that applied the method of Deep Democracy within a small conflicted First Nation community on Vancouver Island. She has published many papers and book chapters and has consulted to numerous private, public and not-for-profit organizations that are finding better ways to work across difference and use conflict as fuel for transformation. Register Today! Copyright © 2017 Naropa University - Institute, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you've attended a Naropa University event in the past or visited eNaropa.org Our mailing address is: Naropa University - Institute 2130 Arapahoe Ave Boulder, Co 80302 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list