Cultivating Trust: An X Factor for Effectiveness
Skillful Engagement Series
Our world is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Daily we are bombarded with news and behaviors that disturb, threaten, or upset us. Or we work with others who trigger and challenge us. In the climate, fear and contraction are a natural response.
At the same time, higher levels of trust correlate to higher levels of functioning in individuals, groups, and organizations. It’s as simple as that. So how do we grow trust, and how do we restore trust when it has been broken?
In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore cultivating trust at three different levels: Self, Group, and System. Along the way, we will tap into the frameworks and wisdom of Trust Theory and Process Oriented Psychology.
We’ll also practice Groundwork, Intuitive Writing, and Flirts – three versatile inner work practices for gaining insights and responding well regardless of what life brings us. We’ll focus on embodiment as a way to deepen our learning and reflect on our own direct experiences to start the shift from fear to trust.
Come gain frameworks and in-the-moment practices for cultivating trust and showing up authentically, and build greater capacity to embrace trust as an essential guiding principle for your work and life.
2:00 p.m. (PT)
SFU Harbour Centre
Rooms 1400-1420
Segal Centre
515 West Hastings St
Skillful Engagement Series
Skillful Engagement is a community of practice for engagement practitioners. The series showcases innovative projects and speakers, provides a forum to share knowledge and challenges, and acts as a catalyst to inspire and support the growing engagement sector. This work reflects a shared understanding that improved engagement of communities, organizations and stakeholders leads to better decisions and stronger, more resilient outcomes.
Skillful Engagement is a partnership between the SFU Centre for Dialogue’s Civic Engage Program, SFU Public Square, and SFU’s Dialogue and Civic Engagement Certificate program.
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Kate Sutherland is a founding faculty member and executive coach for Simon Fraser University’s Social Innovation Certificate and THNK School of Creative Leadership.
As a consultant in community and organizational change she has worked for over 30 years with non-profits, private sector organizations and governments at all levels and on issues as diverse as food security, social inclusion, community currencies, early childhood development, liveable cities, and storytelling as a way of reporting outcomes. Her current focus is growing the capacity and nimbleness of leaders and change agents.
Sutherland studied economics at the University of Sussex in England, did postgraduate work in political economy and has worked for policy think tanks. Her latest book, We Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Our Collective Genius, makes accessible the wisdom and insights from ten key frameworks used by professional facilitators and consultants for transforming groups, systems, and self.
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