First Prototype 2023-2024

Becoming an emergent dialogue Catalyst is all about transformation. The transformation starts in the first encounter with emergent dialogue where the living field of connection comes alive within you and between us all. Not only does this practice transform you, it enables you to create spaces that open doors to transformation for everyone involved. True transformation is emergent—bringing the diversity and complexity of the known into a new synergistic whole.

Being a Catalyst is not the same as being a group facilitator. Or a space holder. It is a leap beyond to another way of being human together.

‍emergent dialogue is a practice, not a technique. More an art than a science. As a practice, developing the awareness and capacity to work at the edge of what wants to emerge unfolds with ongoing engagement. The Level 1 emergent dialogue Catalyst Certification can give you the space and time to develop enough of this awareness and capacity to become an agent of the emergent future.

Being a Catalyst means that you develop the capacity to awaken the subtle dimension of interbeing in a collective and to spark a group to new potentials for creative synergy and shared sense-making. You learn to align with the creative impulse that arises from the whole and develop an intuition for synergizing diversity. You will learn to work both implicitly and explicitly with the potential of interbeing—both with groups where speaking of “interbeing” would be uncomfortable and with those that are keen to dive into its potential and explore.

Ideally, the candidate for Catalyst certification would be an experienced facilitator who has successfully completed the Core Modules (or taken the emergent dialogue 6-month Intensive Practice Program offered in 2021-2023). Experienced facilitators are also welcome to join the Summer Training Intensive first, and then take the Core Modules, before committing to the Catalyst Certification Training.