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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260129T110000
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URL:https://iaf-world.org/events/facilitating-through-tension-to-awareness
 -and-creativity-online/
SUMMARY:Facilitating through Tension to Awareness and Creativity (Online)
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to stay in dialogue around emotionally-charged t
 opics in ways that energize groups\, create shifts in consciousness\, and 
 evoke new ideas for action? This is what we will explore in this highly in
 teractive session. Join us if you are interested.\nParticipants will:\n\n 
 	Gain new awareness about themselves around conflict\n 	Experience the par
 adoxical positive impact of polarizing further by strongly holding the sid
 es so fluidity and wisdom can emerge.\n 	Realize the potential the polarit
 ies hold to create a much deeper understanding of ourselves and our needs.
 \n 	Learn a new approach that they can incorporate into their practices.\n
 \nIpek Utun’s passion is to contribute to a world where people dare and 
 commit to live and lead with their full potential\, with purpose and commi
 tment. Ipek is an ICF-certified PCC level Coach\, ORSCC Accredited Relatio
 nship and Systems Coach\, Certified Shadow Work Group Facilitator and Pers
 onal Coach\, and Certified Deep Democracy Facilitator\, Trainer\, and Elde
 r. She has extensive experience in coaching and training C-level executive
 s\, senior leadership teams\, women’s leadership groups as well as facil
 itating small to big group conflicts\, which hold an emotional charge\, po
 larization\, and divisiveness.  Unilever\, Siemens\, Mercedes-Benz\, Baye
 r\, Novo Nordisk\, Johnson Electric are some her clients. She is affiliate
 d with Yale University SOM as their Leadership Coach.  Ipek’s different
 iating edge is her capacity to work with deep limiting patterns driving co
 mplex situations and enabling personal or systemic transformation.\n\nMaya
  Townsend develops human-centered\, conflict-positive organizations that b
 ring out the best in people and allow them to collaborate productively acr
 oss differences. She works with corporations\, nonprofits\, and coalitions
  to identify strategies\, develop partnerships\, navigate change\, and res
 olve conflict. Co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR (AMACOM)\, her writ
 ing on networks\, change leadership\, and business ecosystems has appeared
  in strategy+business\, People &amp\; Strategy\, Nonprofit Quarterly\, Hu
 manistic Management\, and other publications. Past clients include the Au
 stin Healthy Adolescent Initiative\, Bayer\, Biogen\, Cambridge Community 
 Development\, Fidelity\, Hanover Insurance\, Headspace\, and Open Sky Comm
 unity Services. She holds an MSOD from American University and is pursuing
  a Ph.D. in Leadership &amp\; Change through Antioch University.\n\nRegion
 : North America\nDate: Thursday\, 29  January\, 2026 | 11AM – 12:30PM E
 ST Toronto/New York City [8:00–9:30 AM PST (Los Angeles) | 4:00–5:30 
 PM GMT (London) | 7:00–8:30 PM EAT (Nairobi) | 9:30–11:00 PM IST (Mumb
 ai) | 12:00–1:30 AM SGT (Singapore) | 3:00–4:30 AM AEDT (Sydney)\nThis
  event will be taking place on Zoom – please register here!
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CATEGORIES:NA Region,Online
LOCATION:https://iaf-world.zoom.us/meeting/register/a6BjPfn5S8GtToEaFpmSNQ
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