The art of connection:
Community Building Skills Training (CBST)
with Edwardem Groody
17-19.11.2023
Place: Gospodarstwo Permakulturowe pod Kuklaczem
Hosts: Joanna i Leszek Frankiewicz
Organization of training: Emilia Ślimko
Community Building (the method of Scott Peck) offers practical guidelines for, as well the lived experience of coming together as a group to a state of True Community. i.e. the state of safety and deep mutual respect.
This 3-day CBST training is a group experience for people who want to build a culture of collaboration, support and authentic communication in their community, organisation or relationship.
At the same time, this event is also an opportunity to meet and create connections between people who work with communities or want to facilitate community building processes. We invite everyone willing to network to share experiences and support each other in the mission we share!
This training provides skills and guidance for community life in difficult times of all-crisis, pandemic-related loss of social ties and the challenges we face in adapting profoundly to global change.
The lead facilitator of the training is Edward Groody, founder of Community Building International. Edward is one of the people who worked with Dr. M. Scott Peck, psychiatrist and author of the bestseller “The Road Less Traveled” and originator of the Community Building process.
This Autumn Edward is flying to Europe once again for a series of trainings - in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Netherlands, Lithuania and Hungary.
If you know someone from your community who might be interested in participating, please invite them to this event.
There is a yearning in the heart for peace.
There is a yearning for freedom to be ourselves, to be truly seen in our relationships, partnerships and connections.
How can we as individuals, create an environment of safety, trust and respect, so that we experience joy in our connections to others, effectiveness, inspiration and satisfaction in our collaborations and work?
in a time of social and environmental crisis preserving our humanity?
FACYLITATOR - Edward Groody and Team
COMMUNITY BUILDING
The process of community building was developed by Dr M. Scott Peck, in response to polarisation, loneliness and isolation in modern societies. He saw the loss of a sense of authentic community as the basis of social problems and conflict. Peck discovered 10 communication tips that restore a sense of community and create trust and safety within a group. Those who participate in community-building trainings have the opportunity to practice these tips and experience an authentic sense of community. This process is used in many intentional communities.
MORE ABOUT THE TRAINING
The purpose of this CBST training is to increase self-awareness and knowledge of key community-building skills, behaviours and ways of being that support connectedness.
The training is especially designed for community and organisational builders, those working with groups and those on a developmental path who wish to:
* learn the keys to authentic communication, connection and deeper relationships
* dissolve personal obstacles to authentic communication
* develop the ability to listen and express themselves more fully
* navigate conflict situations in communities and relationships
* get rid of hidden agendas and 'pseudo-community' in groups
* increase the involvement of individuals in the life of the organisation/community
* let go of judging others and develop acceptance and build bridges between personal differences in the group
* in a short period of time experience a connection with people very different from you
* become more aware of working with trauma in the group
* experience a sense of being seen and heard
* develop skills to be a better parent, partner, friend, leader.
The training will consist of substantive content, practical exercises in pairs and groups and the group process of Community Building according to Scott Peck, to experience the transition from PSEUDO-Community (where everyone is nice but relationships are rather shallow) to deep COMMUNITY (where you like fewer people but love more).
Edward Groody
Edward Groody (USA) is the founder of Community Building International (CBI) and Edward Groody & Associates, Inc. a consulting firm specialising in helping organisations change in ways that honour and engage people.
Edward conducts Community Building trainings and workshops for business, academic and religious communities and organisations. He is one of the few people who have been trained, and worked directly with Dr Scott Peck.
Emilia Ślimko
Emilia Ślimko is a facilitator in the training process. She is co-founder of the project OSADA.EARTH - Centre for Regenerative Living https://pl.osada.earth/ Emilia combines personal development and deep ecology in her work. She works with groups as a trainer and with individuals.
She is a graduate of, among others, psychology at the Jagiellonian University, the Mindfulness Teacher Course (MBLC) and the Compassion Course (Mindfulness Association UK).
Therapist, personal development trainer, creator of the Good Life Academy. She is currently in the process of training to be a community building process facilitator. She is the co-founder of kwadrant.org.pl and the hostess of the Permaculture Farm under Kuklacz.
On a daily basis she lives in close communion with nature, learning to understand it. She dreams of a world of intimacy for herself, for others and for the world.
Emilia Ślimko
Joanna Frankiewicz
Leszek Frankiewicz
A permaculture designer, determined to bring to permaculture the quality associated with caring for people - the second and, according to him, most important pillar of permaculture. He is currently in the process of training to be a facilitator of the community building process. He is the co-founder of kwadrant.org.co.uk and, together with his wife Joanna, runs the Permaculture Farm under Kuklacz.
PROGRAM
17/11-19/11 2023 (3 days)
* Arrival on Thursday evening
* Start of training on Friday at 9:00
* End of training on Sunday at 16:00
We will each day learning to be together and conscious communication leading to a state of community.
TRAINING FEE1650 PLN
The training fee covers facilitators' fees, organisational costs, full board and accommodation at Permaculture Farm under Kuklacz (Thursday to Sunday).
REGISTRATION
Sign up via the sign up form:
After completing the form we will send you more information.
There is the possibility to arrive early and stay longer. Let us know about it in the sign-up form!
LANGUAGE
Translation (PL/EN) will be provided.
CONTACT ABOUT TRAINING
Emilia Ślimko
Tel. 601284099
CONTACT ABOUT TRAINING
Joanna Frankiewicz
e-mail: jfrankiew@kwadrant.org.pl
tel: +48 694 459 807
Leszek Frankiewicz
e-mail: lfrankiew@kwadrant.org.pl
tel: +48 602 107 543
TRAINING ORGANISING TEAM
PLACE:
The training will take place in the Beskid Wyspowy Mountains, at the Permaculture Farm under Kuklacz in Siekierczyna near Limanowa. We will sleep in dorm rooms. We will eat local vegetarian meals (3 meals a day).