Convergence Learning Lab
The Convergence Learning Lab is the only comprehensive program building leaders’ capacity to bring people together to break gridlock and solve critical problems across deep divisions.
OVERVIEW
In a country marred by deep conflict, leaders face a daunting challenge: how to bridge divides in their organizations and communities? The Convergence Learning Lab’s training and consultation services inspire and equip leaders to navigate conflict and build consensus. The Lab services are built on our unique and proven collaborative problem-solving process that has been successful in addressing seemingly intractable political, social, organizational, and community-based issues.
COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING MINDSET
INTRAPERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION
PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESSES
WHO WE SERVE
Collaborative problem-solving skills and processes equip leaders to navigate division and build consensus solutions. We inspire and equip leaders in:
BUSINESS
Business leaders must manage pressures and competing interests from internal and external stakeholders as they respond to divisive national social and political issues.
COMMUNITY & CIVIC SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS
Diverse community leaders are regularly called upon to respond to divisive issues that divide and disrupt communities, schools, universities and nonprofits.
GOVERNMENT
City, county, and state officials are increasingly challenged to engage diverse stakeholders to resolve contentious public policy issues.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Higher education institutions face increased challenges balancing free speech and academic freedom, fostering diverse and inclusive perspectives, and convening civil and productive public meetings focused on durable problem-solving.
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
Our services can be delivered on a one-time basis or customized as an ongoing engagement to meet the needs of your organization or community.
TRAINING
Participants will strengthen their knowledge and skillsets as follows:
- Uncovering the roots of polarization and division
- Understanding the psychology of conflict and its resolution
- Discovering effective strategies for bridging divides
- Applying collaborative problem-solving to go from conflict to solutions
CONSULTING
Our tailored interventions bolster your organization or community’s capacity to tackle contentious issues head-on.
- Discovery and Design assessment process will create a shared understanding of the challenges and opportunities and enable Convergence to recommend a set of practices, activities and resources to increase your organization’s capacity to navigate conflict and/or to address specific divisive issues
- Designing and Facilitating Collaborative Processes will engage a broad range of employees and stakeholders in problem-solving, consensus-building, and action planning. These processes will produce higher quality results and better, more inclusive, and informed decisions.
WHY CONVERGENCE?
Convergence is the leading organization bridging divides to solve critical issues through collaborative problem-solving across ideological, political, and cultural divisions.
For over a decade, we have convened leaders and doers to consistently find common ground, build trust, create consensus solutions, and move forward in unlikely alliances. It is this evidence-based approach to collaborative problem-solving, informed by continued advances in contact theory, neuroscience, and psychology and refined by 13 years of successful practice, that forms the foundation of the Learning Lab.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Our engaging, highly experiential, and customized training will equip leaders to use collaborative problem solving in their institution or community. Trainings include:
- Collaborative Problem-Solving
- Dialogue Facilitation
- Dialogue and Meeting Process Design
- Intra-Personal and Inter-Personal Skills in Conflict Resolution
FACILITATION AND CONVENING
Our extensive experience in convening and facilitating dialogues and problem-solving sessions will help your organization or community to address contentious issues and develop solutions that work for everyone involved. We will deploy our tried-and-true methods to design, convene, and facilitate dialogue between parties to build trust and develop consensus solutions and blueprints for action.
CONSULTING
Our consulting services will increase your organization or community’s capacity to address contentious issues. We work with key leaders and influencers to identify pivotal areas of concern and develop tailored interventions to address them, including training, development of customized toolkits, collaborative problem-solving, process and dialogue design, stakeholder engagement processes, working groups, conflict management coaching, identification of additional resources, and more.
CONTACT US TO LEARN MORE
To learn more about how the Convergence Learning Lab can work for you and get started on a unique program designed for your needs, contact Hannah Ollenburger,
Senior Manager of Executive Operations, by filling out our contact form.
