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Co-Resolve: Lewis Deep Democracy Foundations
a course for leaders, managers, facilitators, coaches —
all who work with relationship dynamics
all who work with relationship dynamics
For self-funded participants, incl. freelancers, self-employed professionals, and those attending independently. The fee includes VAT (19%).
Individual rate
€1150
For participants whose fees are covered by an organization or employer. The fee includes VAT (19%).
Organizational rate
€1350
If you prefer to pay via invoice, please contact us at ruslan@resense360.com.
Choose your participation rate
Core Idea
In a world marked by growing complexity and deepening polarization, we often find ourselves navigating opposing perspectives, unresolved and hidden tensions, which lead to escalating conflicts. To unlock the highest potential of organizations, teams, communities, and networks, we need to engage with the heart of the matter: the emotions, power dynamics, and unspoken concerns that directly impact collaboration, decision-making, long-term resilience and innovation.
Lewis Deep Democracy is a cutting edge facilitation, participative leadership, decision making, and conflict transformation methodology that is pragmatic, easily acquired and can be applied into a wide range of situations. The tools and methods of Lewis Deep Democracy enable every voice to be heard, valued, and taken into consideration, including the minority voice. It goes far beyond the conventional methods of participatory processes that enable the exchange of ideas, and instead surfaces emotions, values, and beliefs to inform and enrich the group’s process. Lewis Deep Democracy provides frameworks and perspectives to manage diversity and complexity.
Lewis Deep Democracy is a cutting edge facilitation, participative leadership, decision making, and conflict transformation methodology that is pragmatic, easily acquired and can be applied into a wide range of situations. The tools and methods of Lewis Deep Democracy enable every voice to be heard, valued, and taken into consideration, including the minority voice. It goes far beyond the conventional methods of participatory processes that enable the exchange of ideas, and instead surfaces emotions, values, and beliefs to inform and enrich the group’s process. Lewis Deep Democracy provides frameworks and perspectives to manage diversity and complexity.
The Origins of the Lewis Deep Democracy
The Lewis Deep Democracy was born out of a groundbreaking challenge in post-apartheid South Africa. Myrna and Greg Lewis, psychologists and change facilitators, were asked by Eskom, the country’s largest electricity provider, to address a racially divided workplace hierarchy. Tasked with fostering collaboration and equality among employees, they soon realized that the complexities of deeply rooted emotions and systemic issues couldn’t be solved by external advisors alone.
Instead, they focused on empowering employees by uncovering the emotions tied to past injustices and providing tools to navigate conflict and build trust. Over three years, they trained more than 1,000 employees, fostering a culture of understanding and cooperation.
While the term “Deep Democracy” was originally coined by physicist and Jungian analyst Arnold Mindell in 1988, the Lewis Method builds on this foundation and draws inspiration from Mindell's Process-Oriented Psychology. However, it has evolved into a distinct approach, uniquely tailored to address systemic and relational challenges.
Today, the Lewis Deep Democracy has evolved into a powerful framework used in over 30 countries across diverse sectors — including business, healthcare, politics, education, and even personal and therapeutic contexts.
Read further: https://www.lewisdeepdemocracy.com/
Who Is This Course for?
Co-Resolve: Lewis Deep Democracy Foundations is a course for leaders, managers, facilitators, coaches — everyone who works with relationship dynamics in groups, teams, organizations. It’s a good fit for professionals from all sectors — philanthropy, business, education, healthcare, non-profits, government, and community development — who want to strengthen their ability to:
Recognize and manage resistant behavior
Understand interrelationship dynamics
Address conflicts with confidence and grace
Create spaces where everyone’s voice is heard and valued
Work through tensions to find common ground
Harness diversity and wisdom of the group
Program Overview
The 3-day course provides knowledge and practical tools in the following areas:
UNDERSTANDING GROUP DYNAMICS
- Read the dynamics of a group, pick up on the early signs of resistance and emerging conflict, and act in a timely manner to reduce tension.
- Understand the obstacles to good communication and build the foundations for shared understanding.
- Observe group dynamics that exist beyond individuals, and manage them for more effective teamwork.
- Begin and end meetings with a powerful way to connect the group, and get a handle on what is happening in the room.
COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING
- Facilitate dynamic conversations which unleash engagement, creativity, and excitement.
- Harness the power of collective intelligence by enabling the most quiet participants to find their voice and express their views.
- Create safety in large or small groups for difficult conversations to take place.
- Search for the wisdom of the minority and improve decision making by incorporating this valuable information.
RESOLVING CONFLICT AND TENSION
- Recognize the underlying tensions that block a group progress, diagnose when group dynamics become polarised and rigid, and know what facilitation tools to use in such situations.
- Resolve differences of opinions, arguments and conflicts instead of allowing anger and blaming to continue.
- Learn to unleash the creative potential that lies within every conflict.
- Use tension as an opportunity for learning and as a way to improve relationships.
Dates & Times
The program will be delivered over 3 days:
- April 28–29 — two training days in Berlin
- May 23 — an online training day
+ coffee-breaks
+ lunch
+ lunch
9:30 start
17:00 end
17:00 end
Day 1 — April 28
in-person in Berlin 📍 iac Berlin
in-person in Berlin 📍 iac Berlin
+ coffee-breaks
+ lunch
+ lunch
9:30 start
17:00 end
17:00 end
Day 2 — April 29
in-person in Berlin 📍 iac Berlin
in-person in Berlin 📍 iac Berlin
9:30 start
17:00 end
17:00 end
Day 3 — May 23
online
📍 Zoom
online
📍 Zoom
Day 3 — May 23
online 📍 Zoom
online 📍 Zoom
all times are CEST
The Facilitator
Payam Yuce Isik
Lewis Deep Democracy Facilitator • Tribe - Dialogue Change Leadership
Payam Yuce Isik is an executive and team coach and a facilitator. Her work focuses on creating dialogue in the heat of conflict, facilitating change in the face of polarization and resistance, and supporting leaders to own their leadership through awareness. Prior to establishing her own company, Payam held positions in companies in the consultancy services and IT sector, and also in large conglomerates. She brings a deep understanding of how organizations — and the leaders and teams within them — function, behave, and relate to each other, how they get stuck, deal with challenges, conflict and resistance as well as how they thrive and excel.
Payam has had experience working with, and exposure to, different industries such as financial services, professional services, consumer goods, industrial goods, automotive, pharma and health. She is an ICF accredited Professional Certified coach (PCC), organization and relationship systems coach (ORSC), and accredited Lewis Deep Democracy facilitator and trainer with over 15 years of teaching experience.
Connect with Payam on LinkedIn.
Payam has had experience working with, and exposure to, different industries such as financial services, professional services, consumer goods, industrial goods, automotive, pharma and health. She is an ICF accredited Professional Certified coach (PCC), organization and relationship systems coach (ORSC), and accredited Lewis Deep Democracy facilitator and trainer with over 15 years of teaching experience.
Connect with Payam on LinkedIn.
What Participants Say
“Deep Democracy has changed the way I look at the world, at difference and at group dynamics. My work revolves around bringing people together around complex sustainability challenges, and designing processes to find ways of approaching these challenges that value multiple perspectives on the problem. DD has equipped me with practical tools to learn from the wisdom of the minority voice, and move forward with decisions that work for everyone, whilst reducing the risks of resistance and blockers to change over time. I’ve had the chance to apply the DD process at work, with friends and with my partner, and it’s resulted in stronger relationships in all three spheres!”
“Deep Democracy has personally helped me reflect on how I communicate, facilitate, and create safe spaces for all voices and opinions to be heard, allowing collective decisions to be made. It's been so useful to use these skills when facilitating conversations, using aspects of Deep Democracy to allow often unheard voices or opinions to be spoken, and helping people to stay engaged when they may feel a decision isn't going their way. I would highly recommend the training to anyone who come up against situations where things that are unspoken are having an impact, who want to support others to make democratic decisions where there may be conflicting opinions or thoughts between participants, and those who are trying to work in a more collaborative way.”
“My experience of using Deep Democracy has been that it works best when relationships with and or across groups have already started to be built and to use it as a way to get greater trust and insight. The training can bring our own relationship with conflict to the surface which can be uncomfortable at times and Payam’s sensitive explicit approach to addressing this in the training and all the coordination around setting up programmes is spot on. On a personal level Payam has a kind, no-nonsense approach to individual and group interactions, supporting emotional growth along with a wider acknowledgement of the systems in which people sit and interact.”
Production & Hosting
This Co-Resolve: Lewis Deep Democracy Foundations course is produced and hosted by resense360. We design and facilitate transformative learning experiences, strategy processes, and meaningful gatherings. We work with individuals, teams, organizations, networks, and ecosystems. Our fields of expertise include facilitation, change management, systems change, social innovation, community building and impact-driven networks.
ICF Accreditation
Co-Resolve: Lewis Deep Democracy Foundations is an ICF accredited training. The participants will earn a total of 13 CCE hours through participating in this course (core competency — 10 hours, resource development — 3 hours).
This course is equivalent to completing the Lewis Deep Democracy Level 1 and Level 2 courses. Participants completing the Co-Resolve course can enhance their learning in this methodology by participating in the Lewis Deep Democracy Level 3 course.
This course is equivalent to completing the Lewis Deep Democracy Level 1 and Level 2 courses. Participants completing the Co-Resolve course can enhance their learning in this methodology by participating in the Lewis Deep Democracy Level 3 course.
Course Fees
- €1350Organizational RateFor participants whose fees are covered by an organization or employer. The fee includes VAT (19%).
- €1150Individual RateFor self-funded participants, including freelancers, self-employed professionals, and those attending independently. The fee includes VAT (19%).
What’s covered by the fee:
🏡 Participation in the 2-day in-person training in Berlin
☕️ Coffee breaks and lunch on both days
📚 All necessary training materials
🖥️ Access to the Lewis Deep Democracy learning platform
🗻 Participation in the online training day to support your continued learning
🏡 Participation in the 2-day in-person training in Berlin
☕️ Coffee breaks and lunch on both days
📚 All necessary training materials
🖥️ Access to the Lewis Deep Democracy learning platform
🗻 Participation in the online training day to support your continued learning
Pay in Installments
You can divide the total fee into two/three payments. To arrange an installment plan, please contact us at ruslan@resense360.com.
You can divide the total fee into two/three payments. To arrange an installment plan, please contact us at ruslan@resense360.com.
Info Session
Please, join a 60-min information session on February 26 (Wed) 16:00–17:00 CET to learn more about the course, meet the facilitator and hosting team, and get all your questions answered.
FAQ
The course will be held in English.
Yes, all participants will receive a certificate upon completing the course. Co-Resolve: Lewis Deep Democracy Foundations is an ICF accredited training. The participants will earn a total of 13 CCE hours through participating in this training (core competency — 10 hours, resource development — 3 hours).
Yes, all participants will be provided with access to all relevant training materials.
The course is designed for a group of up to 18 participants to ensure an engaging and interactive learning experience, with ample opportunities for individual attention and group discussions.
No, prior knowledge or experience is not required. The course is designed to be accessible and valuable for participants of all levels.
The default payment method is Stripe. If you prefer to pay via invoice, please contact us at ruslan@resense360.com.
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