Training

We train professionals to do all the things we do, including counseling, community organizing, public dialogue and organizational consulting.

We start with a one-year entry-level program that builds a strong foundation for a range of collaborative practices. This program offers the following structure:

• A comprehensive curriculum that builds the theoretical ground for our core relational competencies
• An emphasis on collaboration, emotional intelligence/resilience, and community responsiveness and accountability
• Live-time, intensive, and highly focused supervision in the context of intimate small-group cohorts
• Planned community activities specifically designed to provoke challenging and complex experience while simultaneously offering coaching and teaching to support expanded awareness and skills-building
• Deliberate exposure to the pressures of emotionally challenging work as well as to the demands associated with navigating a communal system

For those who have graduated from our foundation program, we offer a two-year program of advanced studies that integrates a relational leadership development curriculum.