Staying prosocial as things fall apart - VIRTUAL Pre-Conference Workshop

Staying prosocial as things fall apart

Dates and Location of this VIRTUAL 2-Day Workshop:

VIRTUAL LIVE online via Zoom

Friday, June 6, 2025 and Saturday, June 7, 2025, 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. UTC/GMT -5 (Central Daylight Time)
Contact Hours: 7.5

Register HERE! 

Workshop Description: 

We live in a time of mounting global challenges and weakening social connections, where our need to engage meaningfully with each other has never been more critical. The path forward depends on our ability to come together in effective groups that can collaborate, innovate, and implement solutions to address these interconnected crises. Through our relationships, we create the space for both personal and collective transformation – the foundation we need for meaningful action and systemic change. By developing our abilities to truly listen and find common ground, we can resist the pull toward division and isolation that feeds authoritarian thinking and tears at our social fabric.

Using ProSocial's evidence-based process, we will show you how psychological flexibility processes can be scaled to the group level to create highly functioning and unified groups (Organizations, Businesses, Community Groups, Social Movements). Drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Evolutionary Science, the Work that Reconnects, and Elinor Ostrom's work on the commons, participants will learn practical tools for building psychological flexibility and fostering connection and collaboration amid increasing social stress, fragmentation and polarization.This two-day experiential workshop will introduce processes, principles, and tools designed to inspire hope. Participants will learn that they can make a difference, even in challenging times, by focusing on actions that a) improve their local community, b) hold personal significance, and c) have the potential to create a broader collective impact. 

We have the ability to leverage the power of groups, not only to provide each other support and adaptation to the shifting environmental and social landscapes but also to address the core drivers and foster collective efforts toward protecting, healing, and regenerating the earth and our relationships.