PROCESS WORK IN PROGRESS

As humans, we are hardwired to belong. Belonging is also a critical ingredient for well-being, as well as organisational performance. Psychological safe cultures happen when people feel safe to be themselves and can therefore fully engage, ask questions and make mistakes without fear of being ridiculed or shamed. This session explores how we can create psychologically safe cultures as a way of cultivating our individual and collective sense of belonging.

Errol is a Process Work Diplomate, with over 15 years experience working as a consultant, trainer and senior facilitator, and keynote speaker on the connection between leadership, culture, and high-performance. He has worked with organisations, schools, NGOs, as well as in international war zones such as Sri Lanka. Errol applies his business management experience to organisations in Australia and overseas to assist them to manage the complex and competing demands of delivering sustainable high-performance.

He’s passionate about creating a safer and more just world for all by mediating conflict, coaching ethical leadership, and facilitating transformation in individuals, elite teams, and organisations. Errol’s currently writing a book with the working title “The Antiracist Organisation: A practical guide to building an inclusive, connected, and high-performance culture.”

In Colleen’s session, a prime example of “Living/Belonging in an Unliveable World”, we will work with current events in our own Country. When you work on local issues you are not just working on yourself and your locality, but you are working on World issues. Participants are invited to take part in a modified Worldwork session, picking up the roles of the “Voices to Parliament” field exploring, unpacking and unfolding it. Using the Processwork methods of Metacommunication, Non-Consensus Reality, Processmind, Vectors, and Worldwork tools to reveal the topic’s diversity, polarities, and depths whilst calling on awareness of psychological safety as we process the emerging field. Vital work that we need to do for Australia, Aboriginal Peoples, and all Australians, so that collectively we can influence a shared future where justice, unity and inclusion prevail.

Colleen L. Clarke is a Koori woman, the only First Nations Australian to hold a qualification in Process Work. She holds a Master of Arts in Conflict Facilitation & Organisational Change (MACFOC), graduating from the Processwork Institute in Portland Oregon in 2012.

Colleen also holds a Master of Arts Degree (Ed) from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia and has an extensive background in Psychotherapy including Certificates & Diplomas in Radix Body Psychotherapy, Indigenous Therapies, and Narrative Therapy.

Colleen bestows on herself a QBE in Racism, Colonisation & Oppression.

The dynamics of othering and belonging, welcoming and rejecting, that we see in our outer world, are also present in inner world. In this session, we explore our unique inner processes of belonging and gain insight into how they are created, and in turn create, interpersonal and community processes of belonging and othering.

Liz lives in unceded Wurundjeri country and is of settler-colonial identity, her ancestors coming from the British Isles. Passionate about repairing the deep ruptures in Western Anglo-European culture that created our current global systems of separation, domination, and exploitation, Liz facilitates collaborative learning and community-building spaces designed to make seen the systems of oppression we live in, how they shape our psychology, and how community is our best hope of transforming them.

She’s worked in social change and community development for over 20 years, including care organisations, local government, public health, and third-party nonviolent intervention programs internationally. Liz is a Process Work Diplomate and holds a B.Sci (Hons), Dipl. Mgt, Adv Cert Fac, and Cert IV Adult Ed and is currently studying the Masters of Culture, Health and Medicine at ANU, with a focus on trauma, settler-colonialism, place, and belonging.