Radical Collaboration: build your capacity to transform how we work together

Essential skills for leaders and practitioners

When working harder is no longer the answer

In a world where demand consistently outpaces capacity, traditional responses like working harder, adding resources, optimizing efficiency, reach natural limits. Radical Collaboration offers a different path: finding new and better ways of working together that unlock collective capacity.

This intensive 3-day skills training develops the personal capacity you need to help organizations and communities close the gap between what’s needed and what’s possible, whether you’re leading an executive team, consulting with organizations, or building collaborative capacity across community boundaries.

2026 Radical Collaboration Workshops:

March 10-12
June 16-18
October 13-15

What you'll learn

Five essential skills that form the foundation of effective collaboration:

Collaborative Intention

Stay non-defensive and maintain productive dialogue even when tensions rise. Recognize when you’re slipping into defensive patterns and return to collaborative engagement.

Openness

Build capacity for authentic communication. Learn to share what matters while respecting both your own and others’ comfort zones.

Self-Accountability

Move beyond blaming to recognize your role in every outcome. Focus energy on what you can influence rather than what you can’t control.

Self-Awareness

Understand your emotional triggers, conflict patterns, and communication style. Identify habitual responses that undermine collaboration and learn strategies to shift them.

Problem-Solving

Master interest-based negotiation methods that surface underlying needs. Practice reframing challenges as collaborative “How might we…” questions.

Why collaboration closes the Demand-Capacity Gap

When leaders and teams get stuck in defensive patterns, blaming, withholding information, protecting territory, they create friction that consumes energy and limits what’s possible. Collaborative approaches reduce this friction, allowing the same people and resources to accomplish more.

Collaboration enables groups to:

Surface collective intelligence no individual could generate alone
Make better decisions faster through genuine alignment
Adapt to changing conditions through shared learning
Leverage diverse perspectives as assets
Build trust-based systems that reduce coordination costs

Training design

Three days of experiential learning with interactive workshops that provide real scenarios and caste studies from diverse organizational contexts

Small Group Practice

Facilitated exercises with immediate coaching feedback

Personal Assessment

Validated instruments revealing your conflict style and collaboration patterns

Peer Learning

Build community with other leaders and practitioners

Action Planning

Develop commitments for applying skills in your context

Who should attend?

Organizational leaders building capacity to facilitate collaborative problem-solving
Consultants and facilitators developing new ways of working with clients
HR and OD professionals building collaborative infrastructure
Executive directors navigating complex stakeholder relationships
Board members and governance leaders
Community organizers and coalition builders
Anyone helping organizations find better ways of working together

Note: While individuals attend to build their own skills, greatest impact occurs when multiple people from the same organization participate together, creating shared language and practices.

What you'll leave with

Personal mastery of skills for staying collaborative under pressure
Facilitation capacity to help others navigate conflict and rebuild trust
Deeper self-awareness of patterns shaping your effectiveness
Practical tools for interest-based problem-solving
Action plans for building collaborative capacity
Peer network of committed practitioners
Confidence to lead organizational change

Ready to begin?

Building collaborative capacity starts with developing your own skills as a leader and practitioner.

Workshop information

2026 Workshop Dates: March 10-12 | June 16-18 | October 13-15

Location: Grass Valley Courtyard Suites
210 North Auburn Street, Grass Valley, CA 95945

Course Fee: $1,500 per person
Partial scholarships available—please reach out if cost is a barrier

Included: Training materials, assessment instruments, participant workbooks, afternoon meals, 30-day post-training coaching support

Accommodations: Not included. Contact Grass Valley Courtyard Suites at 530-272-7696 for corporate rates.

How to attend

Customized on-site delivery for organizations building collaborative capacity across leadership or staff. Consecutive days or spaced sessions available.

Host a Public Training

Open remaining seats to outside attendees at $1,500 per person. You receive a flat-rate fee and priority seating. Contact us to explore hosting.