Overview : This webinar offers protocols and skillful practices that can optimize our capacity to participate with and facilitate dynamic change in the workplace. You will learn how to participate with change through the use of stories, examples, tips, guidelines, and experiential exercises. A highlight of the program is the introduction of a unique model of communication, based upon the tenets of Aikido, which, with its supporting principles, can serve as a "map" to help you navigate the difficult terrain of dynamic change. Why should you attend: Traditional peoples over the millennia have grown accustomed to dynamic change as the norm - being so closely tied and exposed to the unpredictability of Nature and its mysteries. As such, over the centuries some cultures have developed protocols and skillful practices that when facing dynamic change has allowed them to survive, some to thrive - preserving their culture and their heritage.An example of one such culture is the Moken, the sea gypsies of the Andaman Sea, who have lived for hundreds of years on the islands off the coast of Thailand and Burma. They have recited the legend of "the Seven Waves" from generation to generation around their campfires, which describes what to do when seawater acts "strangely," when it recedes from the shore in an unnatural fashion, when a tsunami is on its way. "Head for the hills," the story advises. When the deadly tsunami of 2004 hit their island, the Moken people, having seen the signs, climbed to higher ground, and were saved, untouched by the tsunami's devastation.Unfortunately, very few of us as professionals have employed in spirit the same kinds of protocols and practices that our ancestors used when dynamic change is upon us. Instead, we prefer to align ourselves with Woody Allen's humorous yet poignant comment, "I don't mind dying (i.e. experience dynamic change). I just don't want to be there when it happens."Why do we feel this way? One might be because change is unsettling; it shakes things up: there's something new on the horizon, but what that is exactly or what that will be is unknown. And for most of us, this uncertainty elicits fear, and as a result, we try to cope with this as best we can, seeking to ease our own and others' concerns. We want to feel confident and assured that everything is going to be all right, even though at the moment that's not our actual experience.Ultimately, the wisdom of our ancestors tells us that we can't manage change anymore than we can control the tides. We can, however, as professionals, learn protocols and skillful practices that can enhance our ability to participate with dynamic change consciously; so we don't merely get dragged through the changes. And when our capacity to participate with change increases, we can then more readily facilitate change for others.