Intercultural Negotiation Certification & Deep Neuroscience Immersion Retreat
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Join us on the French Riviera for a unique opportunity to be certified by Dean Foster, one of the most experienced and sought-after world experts in intercultural conflict resolution and negotiations, as you learn the neuroscience behind culture, conflict, emotions, and better decision making from leading neuroanthropologist coach and Harvard certified mediator, Cynthia Milani, who is the Director of the IgD Center for Neuroleadership & Diversity. We will be hosting a 5-day course at the Center in beautiful Provence, France. You will get the certification and tools you need to resolve conflicts and mediate across cultural experts from our world-renowned experts, while enjoying the highlights of life on the Cote d’Azur.
Results Based Learning
Acquire the knowledge-based skills, tools, and strategies to bargain across borders from two masters.
Receive scores of intercultural case studies, critical incidents and real-life examples for your toolbox.
Learn the neuroscience behind cultural differences & brain+body+culture connection
Build your expertise in how the brain makes and controls emotions, makes decisions & resolves conflicts, and how to apply it to intercultural conflict resolution.
Enjoy our side trips to charming Provencal hilltop villages, dinners in nearby Nice and Antibes, and experience the incredible beauty of our training site, a 16th C. olive mill nestled among the lavender and roses in Provence, Cote d’Azur.
Learn about the secrets of our gardens from colleague Maeva Bec, to understand just how interconnected we are with nature and each other
Gourmet lunches, wine tasting among Roman ruins, side trips to lavender fields and vineyards, perfumeries & castles for the neuroscience of taste, smell, and happiness.
Your Take Away: You will become an IgD/DFA Certified mediator, with new tools for your professional toolbox, as you learn how to resolve conflict among individuals and groups among the lavender, roses and our flowing river.
The key to success in the challenging 21st century is not only to understand our cultural differences, but also to develop the leadership skills required to negotiate these differences and the conflicts that arise as a result. Conflict Resolution has become the critical determinant for success, whether working, studying, traveling or living with other cultures. This in-depth, hands-on, five-day workshop will explore the most recent research in cultural competency, negotiation and conflict resolution through brain science: a three-stage roadmap for success in the V.U.C.A. environment of volatility. uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. By the end of our journey together, you will have the insights and tools you new need to negotiate in various scenarios, honed your conflict-resolution skills, and explored the latest brain science insights to lead, live and work better,— all while having made new friends, and forged new professional relationships in the spectacular Provencal setting of IgD’s Center for Neuroleadership & Diversity.
Sample Agenda
- Conflict Resolution in a Post Global World: presentation by Dean Foster
- Bargaining Across Borders: Best techniques. Case studies, Exercises for your toolkit
- How to use neuroscience in the workplace and crossing cultures/ SCARF Model, Polyvagal Theory, and the Encultured Brain by Cynthia Milani
- The Neuroscience of Conflict: The bain+body+culture connection
- Three Conflict Resolution Models to use with our intercultural examples
- Certification
Day One:
Discover the latest cultural and science-based techniques for resolving conflict in a volatile new world order: We will focus on both the intercultural and neuroanthropological forces in the negotiation process, and introduce the latest insights and conflict resolution tools for you to start using now. Dean will spotlight specific cultures of interest and best techniques in your cultures of interest, and share his much sought after perspectives. Cynthia will introduce the brain+body+culture perspective.
Day Two:
Master the latest Strategies for Global Conflict-Resolution: Conflict-resolution and negotiation theory have also been impacted by the development of complex global forces. In today's workshop, Dean will define where negotiation and leadership theory is today, with the brain in mind, and we practice the latest "best practices” and models for conflict-resolution success in today's complex and ambiguous global world.
Day Three
Understand and Apply the Most Current Neuroscience and Deep Brain Research: Learn the neuroscience of emotions and how to control them in yourself and others and how to negotiate from your higher brain, avoid the famous amygdala highjack and other tactics that get in the way. Learn how to use the Polyvagal Theory of emotional control, the S.C.A.R.F model of neuroleadership, and the latest brain based techniques for your toolkit.
Day Four
We put it all together: Practicing Culture, Conflict-resolution and Brain Science Behaviors that Work for the 21st Century: This day will be your chance to shine, and apply all our previous three days of learning to solve the real-life global challenges that you face in your work. You will learn how the best negotiators apply neuroscience to the most difficult conflicts, and get results!
Day Five:
Optional. Guided Coaching Practicum in an award winning ancient vineyard, with wine tasting, or an insider's view of our famed flower sites, and dinner on one of our Mediterranean beaches while you role play what you have learned as coaches.
You'll leave us with elevated, immediately implementable skills, and the opportunity to have refined and practiced what is most important for you and your intercultural work as you become a neuroleader in a global world.
Our Excursions:
We blend teaching, coaching and dining during our local seaside and village excursions:
Our Typical Day & Evening Excursions:
- Grasse Nice Mougins Cannes Island Adventures Antibes Valbonne Saint Paul de Vence Tourettes Sur Loup Monaco Eze Rivier Beaches…..
- Themed lunches where we explore negotiation tactics & brain+body+culture themes in exotic settings to apply in your work and personal lives.
- Farewell dinner on the Mediterranean: beach night in Nice where we put it all together
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