Resilient Negotiation for Climate Corps Leaders
A Module in the TANDO Global Climate Leaders Program with Professor Julian Gresser
I would like to share a lifetime of discoveries, combining diverse experience and expertise as an international, environmental, public interest lawyer, Japan expert, professional negotiator, explorer, inventor, advisor to governments, corporations, and non-profit organizations, combining years of training with grandmasters of martial arts, qigong, Zen, and shaman-scientists exploring new frontiers in the science of consciousness.
“You did a really wonderful job integrating all of it into a really solid course. And I think with all the AI and data and all that it's going to be very rich, and people want to just be able to kind of break out into thinking, so congratulations on that one. No wonder your class on Japanese environmental law at Harvard blew everybody away. It was the best course I ever took at Harvard. It was it so informative, and so inspiring. And boy, was it useful later when I wrote Technopolis, because everybody said, How do you know so much about Japanese environmental law? And I said, Well, I took the course from Julian Gresser at Harvard, which they hadn’t heard of. So I told them they should read your book to learn about their own environmental law. That's how good it was.”
– Sheridan Tatsuno, City Planner, Author of The Gaiapolis Strategy, CSO Aimedis.com
We have arrived at a critical pivot point of compounding challenges, of which climate change turbulence is only the most drastic. How to adapt effectively is a central challenge for every person, organization, and community in the world. We can learn together!
The Rosetta Stone of adaptation is Integral Resilience.
By cultivating Integral Resilience and Resilient Negotiation skills individually, within organizations and communities—we have a practical way to anticipate and to respond to risks at all levels, to flow with changing conditions, and to turn “wicked” unsolvable problems into opportunities. This self-paced online course provides you with essential skills, tools, and metrics to develop integral resilience. It also offers an evolutionary path for our collective survival over the next 3 years.
Why this 30 Day Course is Unique
It is based on a proven system of Resilient Negotiation, taught by its inventor, which has consistently delivered positive measurable outcomes for hundreds of companies and governments over the past 30 years.
It is deeply practical. It enables you to apply all the principles, tactics, and tools of the course to immediate challenges you will face as a future climate adaptation leader working in government and the private sector.
It enables you to cultivate the extraordinary powers of Big Heart Intelligence, which unlock the genius of your mind and the compassion of the heart in action.
It provides ongoing personalized professional coaching for you and your cohort member during the 30 day training period via Zoom calls and in the online Collaborative Learning Forum.
It addresses the largely ignored issues of ethics and evolutionary values in an Age of Crisis and Opportunity.
It introduces Kokoro —a breakthrough in AI supported wisdom training as a core life competency for you, your organization, and community.
Basic Course Outline
Basic Course Outline: The Outline provides the basic framework. It will be substantially enhanced and become alive in weekly Evolutionary Conversations and personalized coaching with the professor drawing upon the collective wisdom of humanity, made easily accessible by Kokoro.
Case Examples: Negotiation/Leadership Challenges: The course will practically apply the Resilient Negotiation System illustrated in the following cases, viewed from the very different perspectives of a government leader, senior business executive, entrepreneur, grassroots community organizer, and legal counsel.
Tragic Versus False Choices—Transcending Zero-Sum Thinking: Assessing Wildfire Risks from Cell Towers and Powerlines of Electrical Infrastructure
Consensus Trance and Collective Blindness
Weak Horizon Signal Detection—The Power of Synchronicity and Emergence
Regenerative Economy—Negotiating Public Private Partnerships in Financing a Breakthrough Innovation Renewable Energy (Biofuels) Generation from Forest Waste
Advocating Climate Rights
Inventing the Future—Turning Catastrophe into Opportunity—The Future of Los Angeles After the 2025 Massive Wildfire
National Resilient Infrastructure Strategy—Proposed Donald Trump Presidential Executive Order Initiative
Text and Resources
- Piloting Through Chaos—The Explorers Mind
- Integral Resilience: The Art and Science of Big Heart Intelligence
- The Resilient Negotiator
- How the Leopard Changed Its Spots—Evolutionary Values for an Age in Crisis’
- Kokoro AI— From Inner Wisdom to Organizational and Community Resilience:
Target Course Audience
- University students
- Entrepreneurs and innovators
- Young professionals (25+) just starting out in building new careers
- City planners, urban innovators and bioneers
- Cultural Creatives
- 21st Century Humanists
- Women leaders
- Professional negotiators
- Grassroots advocates, participants in climate causes
Practical Course Benefits
This course is designed to deliver the following practical benefits:
To build your skills in Resilient Negotiation and be able to measure your progress
To point out practical ways to use this core competency to address climate leadership challenges and projects
To provide easy to use tools to track and measure your progress in building your resilience negotiator skills
To learn how to use a Wisdom Expert App to tap the “wisdom genome” of many of the great figures of history, ecology, science, regenerative economics, and literature, and apply this wisdom practically in developing your resilient negotiation skills
To learn some of the basics of the Art of Prompt Engineering with Chat GPT 4
To acquire an essential new working skill—Intertidal Thinking—which will enable you to transcend narrow vertical silos of knowledge, and along with Chat GPT 4—(which addresses 80% of most tasks) enables you to cultivate the remaining 20% of your highest creative and productive potential
To learn the basics of Resilient Negotiation, Resilient Teams, and Resilient Strategic Alliances.
To be introduced to the new science of complexity through the lens of a new frontier of scientific research on enchantment and meaningful coincidences, synchronicity, and serendipity.
To train along with the course creator, Julian Gresser and his close colleagues, and have the benefit of joining Evolutionary Conversations with grandmasters in many fields who will be commenting and contributing to the course.
Julian Gresser
ENDORSEMENTS
“The emphasis throughout Piloting Through Chaos is on negotiation, but the analysis and wisdom go well beyond that now available in the literature. This volume is a breakthrough in the use of words, thought processes and managing behavior responsibly.”
– Oliver Oldman, Learned Hand Professor (Emeritus), Harvard Law School
“Julian Gresser assesses some of the fundamental aspects of human behavior. Any negotiator, however experienced, will find new insights in this book.”
– Peter Price, Honorary Member of the European Parliament
"One portfolio company had been mired in negotiations with a foreign company for over a year. In one day’s training, they put together a new plan and team, and three months later closed an OEM agreement worth millions.”
– Dr. Chuck K. Chan, General Partner, Alpine Technology Ventures
"IPOs in China and Japan, inventions in clean energy, decoding Japanese negotiation strategies, incubators for creativity and innovation, the role of beauty in discovery and bringing ideas to market—Julian Gresser is a Renaissance man with an amazing array of achievements and gifts."
– John Tarrant, Zen master, author, Bring Me the Rhinoceros and other works
"Gresser is an international attorney, but also a 21st Century Renaissance Man, with a lifetime of experience in business, music, martial arts, invention, and meditation."
– Kenneth Cohen, author of The Way of Qigong and Honoring the Medicine
"Julian Gresser’s work shows with insight, style and imagination how integrity, that most fundamental of human virtues, continues to be vital to success, and even survival, in the ongoing negotiation of life in our rapidly changing world. The added value in Piloting Through Chaos is the author’s suggestions on how integrity can be cultivated by conscious thought and action, and on how core integrity can affect outcomes in a variety of contexts."
– Peter L. Murray, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
“The market is flooded with books and tapes about negotiating, but no one, until now, offers insight into the underlying essence of our interpersonal abilities. This fresh approach, if followed, can be transforming for us as individuals, and as a nation.”
– Claudine Schneider, Former U.S. Congresswoman
“Julian is 100% invested in teaching; an active listener; dedicated to ensuring that the class learns; he is high in energy and empathetic. What would my comments be to future participants? Exciting; out-of-the-box; has life application; fundamental to all relationships.”
– Bobbie Busha, Manager, BellSouth
“We need a cultural revolution as transformative as were the scientific and industrial revolutions. If human culture is to survive without unacceptable impacts on the planetary environment, we must live differently as a culture. This means that the arts and humanities are on the front lines of collaborating with scientists and engineers, we need a 'second renaissance.' Julian Gresser, in the second edition of “Piloting through Chaos,” presents a sharply focused methodology for attacking some of the urgent problems and seizing the new opportunities.”
– Roger Malina, Editor, Leonardo
“Julian Gresser is one of those rarest of teachers. He embodies the wisdom that he shares. His pioneering work in negotiation is a quantum leap in human understanding and will move people to their highest level of truth and accomplishment. The value is incalculable, not only to individuals, but to our society.”
– Michael Fitzgerald, Former Director, Washington State Department of Trade & Economic Development
“There is widespread agreement that leadership at any level and in any area requires integrity in the person, the practice, and the profession. It is also clear that this is no easy, simple task, nor can it remain at the mercy of luck, sentimental or institutional formation. Julian Gresser - lawyer, scholar, martial artist, and street-smart practitioner - now makes available the teaching and achievement of integrity in its integral form. As a foundation president, former commissioner, ambassador, and university president, I have had occasion to enlist Julian’s remarkable system and energies. He/it is a godsend for our troubled times and leaders.”
– Dr. Glen A. Olds, U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO
Julian Gresser
CLIENTS
WELCOME!
I am Julian Gresser
In an increasingly chaotic world—as we are seeing in the August 2023 Maui wildfire– random tragedy can happen instantly and without warning. We must therefore pay closer attention to fortifying our local community’s resilience and interdependence. These two qualities—resilience and interdependence–can become our eyes and ears to anticipate and to respond to catastrophe, as well as to discover new things about the world. They reinforce one another. You can strengthen your personal resilience by helping your community to increase its interdependence.
As a practicing environmental public interest lawyer I deal with such issues daily in challenging the overreach of the wireless industry, and compliant, if not captive, federal, state, and local agencies. I can tell you plainly that Congressional legislators and governmental policy makers in the U.S. are actively working to undermine state and local resilience and interdependence.
We are faced with an unprecedented attack on civil liberties where the very integrity and Constitutional balance between the federal government, states, and local governments is in jeopardy. There is today a blizzard of 50+ bills before the U.S. Congress that together are intended to fatally disempower and strip away the Constitutional rights and prerogatives of local communities to protect and secure their health, safety, environment, privacy and basic wellbeing–essentially, to cripple local resilience and interdependence.
Resilience and interdependence are thus not luxuries but core life-preserving competencies over which we have a far greater control than we imagine. I understand that many people today are feeling helpless, burned out, and despairing. For this reason I am planning to offer a twelve week course beginning in January 2024 to provide a practical basis for hope and proven tools to help you reclaim control. By focusing on restoring and building our personal resilience and our community’s interdependence, we become the makers of our destinies.
You can track and measure your progress in developing these basic core competencies. And the great wonder is to look and to see what can happen beneficially in the “outer” or “external” world, when we and our community cultivate these “inner” powers. In this sense the cultivation of resilience resembles an “inner” martial art.
The old and tired ways of thinking and acting are obviously not serving us well in meeting today’s challenges. We still have time to learn from the past, to cultivate evolutionary values, and most importantly, to befriend Nature as our primary source of beauty, wisdom, and vitality in helping us to chart the path ahead.
We have together, collectively as a species, a choice to transcend. And it can begin in the most tangible and practical ways, in reclaiming balance in our daily lives and strengthening the resilience of our communities. Whether and how we choose to evolve is our responsibility… and our great adventure.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
International Attorney, Professional Negotiator, Social Innovator, Explorer