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Need a course shaped around your team’s schedule and context? We can run Lewis Deep Democracy Levels 1-4 for your team.
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2026 Courses open for enrollment
2026 Courses open for enrollment
Learn the foundational skills, tools, and theory of Lewis Deep Democracy and how this method can strengthen organizational health, support social movement-building, and unleash the wisdom of teams by lowering the metaphorical waterline - that is, skillfully revealing authentic needs and important truths. Sharpen your understanding of the opportunity that healthy conflict cultures offer to positive social change. Experience a powerful collective process and leave with the basic tools you need to engage with divergent perspectives and create psychological safety in social change-oriented groups.
On-line
On-line
Oct 1-9 with Kai Cheng Thom & Navida Nuraney - COURSE FULL
(option to join the waitlist by emailing: deepdemocracy@waterline.coop)
In-person
In-person
Sept 22-23 with Camille Dumond & Navida Nuraney - Vancouver
Lewis Deep Democracy Level 2: Learning to Fish
In a small group environment, refine and practice hosting meaningful conversations, analyzing group dynamics, and working with tensions and polarities. In this course, you receive a high level of personalized mentorship and feedback, enabling you to gain confidence and clarity in using the Lewis Deep Democracy method with diverse groups and complex situations.
Lewis Deep Democracy Level 2: Learning to Fish
In a small group environment, refine and practice hosting meaningful conversations, analyzing group dynamics, and working with tensions and polarities. In this course, you receive a high level of personalized mentorship and feedback, enabling you to gain confidence and clarity in using the Lewis Deep Democracy method with diverse groups and complex situations.
On-line
On-line
Sept 17 - Oct 15 with Camille Dumond COURSE FULL
Oct 6 - Nov 3 with Camille Dumond COURSE FULL
Lewis Deep Democracy Level 3: Going Deeper
Strengthen and refine your abilities as an emotionally perceptive, highly embodied facilitator and group leader. Learn how to apply the Waterline approach to Lewis Deep Democracy in emotionally charged, socially polarized environments. Acquire the tools you need to assess, engage with, and de-escalate group conflicts with curiosity, compassion, and emotional clarity. Integrate a practical approach to analyzing and working with power dynamics.
Lewis Deep Democracy Level 3: Going Deeper
Strengthen and refine your abilities as an emotionally perceptive, highly embodied facilitator and group leader. Learn how to apply the Waterline approach to Lewis Deep Democracy in emotionally charged, socially polarized environments. Acquire the tools you need to assess, engage with, and de-escalate group conflicts with curiosity, compassion, and emotional clarity. Integrate a practical approach to analyzing and working with power dynamics.
In-Person
In-Person
Enhance your impact as a leader and/or social change practitioner through an experiential process that holds a mirror to your interpersonal patterns and shows you your unique strengths and growing edges. Grow your capacity to hold strong emotions and evoke self-awareness in others by understanding your personal patterns. Clarify your personal contribution to the social change ecosystem.
In-Person
In-Person
Register for November 8-10, with Sera Thompson & Camille Dumond - Vancouver
Join the waitlist to express your intentions to attend.
Art of Hosting: Transforming Social Movements, Redreaming Collective Change
How do we create life-giving, impactful & deeply transformative social change movements for all human and non-human beings in a time of environmental and political collapse? Join us for a 3-day intensive where we will weave together the global practice of the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, Somatics (working with the body), and Lewis Deep Democracy to navigate complexity and move toward meaningful action. Full Course Description
In-Person
In-Person
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Coaching
Coaching
Using the approaches of Process Work, Lewis Deep Democracy and Somatic Healing, our facilitators will work with you on an individual basis to grow self awareness and navigate the complexity and conflict in your life. This work will help you uncover your deeper knowing about your life and work and give you tools to use ongoing as you meet with stuck places along the way.
Waterline guides will coach you one-on-one to grow self-awareness and navigate the complexity and conflict in your life. This work will help you uncover your deeper knowing about your life and work and give you tools to use ongoing as you meet with stuck places along the way.
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