Giving you the skills to manage the challenging realities of the workplace.
Introduction.
We provide pragmatic training that is powerful yet easy to learn and adaptable to a wide range of professional and personal situations. You will explore ways to include all points of view, become adept at recognising and resolving tension and discover how to create room for creativity and innovation.
Acquire critical 21st-century skills
Recognise and manage resistant behaviour
Enable collaborative decisions
Improve communication
Understand interrelationship dynamics
Deal with tension and conflict
Harness diversity
The Conscious and Unconscious and The Resistance line
Providing you with a new lens and giving you insight into the dynamics and behaviours that interfere with the business of doing business, The Resistance Line.
The Check-in
Start each meeting powerfully and discover how to lessen the Resistance Line, encourage participation, gain awareness of different opinions, create a safe, inclusive environment, and build relationships.
Recognise when things get stuck
Quickly pick up the tell-tale signs of when things get edgy, feel strained or become stuck. Learn how to shift the dynamic and go beyond the logical and rational.
The LDD Debate
Use this simple, robust tool when things become heated or when there are different viewpoints. The Debate is an effective way to overcome issues of power and rank and reach informed inclusive decisions.
Key Statements
Acquire easy-to-learn impact statements that help prevent the Resistance Line from operating, encouraging participation and enabling decisions that have buy-in.
Understand Interpersonal and Group Dynamics
Discover a new cutting-edge way of looking at groups, interpersonal relationships, and ourselves. And recognise the potential when things become fluid.
“ShiftEQ has taught me how to have far more real conversations that feel authentic. Important conversations that are not normally given the time in the day-to-day workplace.”
- Project Manager, Sydney
Testimonials
“Concise, practical, simple information that will make a difference in my day-to-day interactions. I like the micro courses, they are concise, simple, and straightforward.”
-Nurse Manager Leadership and Culture, NSW Health
“Since the last session, I find myself constantly scanning the board room trying to figure out who is where on the Resistance Line.”
- HR Manager, Sydney
“Very valuable in terms of the work I do - lots of facilitation, engaging people with many different perspectives. The LDD Debate - will really help move groups along.”
- Consumer Engagement and Co-design Manager, NSW Health
“I got more than I bargained for. ShiftEQ has taught me how to bring humanity back (into my meetings).”
- Financial Advisor, Sydney
“Life-changing tools.”
- Director of Midwifery, Sydney
The affiliate program.
We passionately believe in teaching as many people as possible the support, tools and training to engage with different views and resolve conflicts unearthing creativity, innovation and transformation. We need your help to achieve this dream and spread the word. And we want to reward you for helping us to grow ShiftEQ. An affiliate partner is an individual or business that partners with LDD to promote ShiftED. In return, you earn a commission for each sale you send our way.
The People.
Myrna Lewis Myrna Lewis is a thought leader and practitioner in transformative leadership. Myrna and her late husband co-founded the Lewis Deep Democracy methodology. She is internationally known and respected for making critical soft skills accessible to individuals, teams, corporates, public sector sector organisations, and educational institutions, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively. She often facilitates complex issues around racism, sexism, ageism, poverty, and xenophobia globally. Myrna is the recipient of international awards and the author of Inside the No. Myrna continues her life’s passion as CEO of Deep Democracy Pty Ltd, working and consulting locally in Australia and abroad.
Belamie Peddle Belamie Peddle is a Lewis Deep Democracy instructor and practitioner with over ten years of experience helping individuals and teams grow. She thrives on assisting people in discovering how to incorporate and integrate Lewis Deep Democracy into their day-to-day lives, enabling contexts that foster connection, clarity and innovation.
