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A new CF live coaching offering is launching in May 2025, to support dedicated practitioners, with real-life examples focused on facilitating across polarization.

Join Julia (host) in conversation with Menaka, the facilitator at the heart of this process, to explore key learnings and challenges of applying CF in community. Bring your questions!

Using Convergent Facilitation Menaka helps neighbors transform tensions over stray cats through a collaborative process that fosters empathy, trust, and workable solutions for both cats and humans.

Join Aimee and Sabine (host) to hear and ask anything you want about how Aimee applied Convergent Facilitation to work with diverse stakeholders to transform pest management in California.

Starting 7 Nov 2024, Paul Kahawatte and Verene Nicolas will offer a practice-focused online introductory course to Convergent Facilitation, leaning on recordings from their March 24 course for the delivery of the theoretical aspects paired with live Q&A and guided practice exercises. The course will start with a live Demo by Paul and also feature a live Q&A session with Aimee Ryan who facilitated a major CF process in the area of pest management in California in 2021-2022.

Get a sense of the potency and particular strengths of Convergent Facilitation by observing a full end-to-end Convergent Facilitation process facilitated by Paul Kahawatte. We will use a role-play based scenario touching into the global polarization we see unfolding in the world.

California state agriculture sector called for a collaborative approach to transforming pest management

Wendy Haynes reflects on a specific occasion where applying Convergent Faciltation principles supported her work with a grieving family.

Parents, staff and board of Amares, a successful preschool in Cologne, Germany, changed the organisation’s legal structures, while maintaining the integrity of its values and pedagogical approach, involving parents as much as they wish and as little as is necessary, reducing costs for all families and making it more accessible for families on lower income.

In just three days, a team of Convergent Facilitators helped transform a situation among groups of people working on this issue, at loggerheads with each other for decades.

Aya Caspi used the Convergent Facilitation process at Ghidotti High School in California to change their tardiness policy into one that reflects care for everyone affected by it. Tardiness rates in the school decreased significantly.

Duncan Autrey from the Omni-Win Project explores together with mediator and facilitator Paul Kahawatte what makes Convergent Facilitation so powerful.

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In The Highest Common Denominator — Using Convergent Facilitation to Reach Breakthrough Collaborative Decisions, Miki introduces a novel decision-making process called Convergent Facilitation that builds trust from the beginning, surfaces concerns and addresses them, and turns conflicts into creative dilemmas that groups feel energized to solve together.

When statehouse adversaries began working together with a facilitator from the Nonviolent Global Liberation Community, a gridlocked political debate gave way to a remarkable shared win.