The C3 experience focuses on experiential learning in a safe environment.
At C3, facilitators act more like a guide on the side than a sage on the stage. they create conditions where learners arrive at their own conclusion rather than being told how they should react. Workshop activities typically follow this model:
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Introduction: A topic is introduced either by the facilitator’s presentation or through a participant’s reflective activity.
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Discussion: The group discusses the topic together.
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Demonstration: The facilitator announces an activity and demonstrates how to proceed.
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Role-plays: The participants apply what they’ve learned mainly by practicing conversations that come from their personal experience.
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Additional activities: Participants are encouraged to take part in various innovative events to further internalize the conscious communication technique
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Feedback: Feedback plays an important role throughout the meeting. All present are invited to share theirs on several occasions with the goal of helping their peers further refine their conversational abilities.
Safe environment
C3 meetings are designed to provide members and guests with a safe learning environment in which they can develop their communication and leadership skills. To do this, participants are asked to adhere to certain rules:
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No one is allowed to blame, shame, accuse or attack others whether they are present in this meeting or not.
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Speak in terms of I, not you.
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Do not diminish another person’s problems.
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Do not try to solve another person’s problem, unless they ask.
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Members might divulge some personal information. It’s expected that what is said in the meeting does not go any further.