Our Approach
We affirm that each person comes into the world to contribute innate abilities and learned skills to the greater community. We partner closely with individuals, groups, communities, organizations and governmental entities that are seeking alignment between values, skills, actions, and outcomes. We work collaboratively to support the level of healing required for a more expansive sense of the courageousness required for systems change and healthier, more just outcomes.
An Integrated, Multidisciplinary Approach
The Proby Institute for Collective Wellbeing is a program of Proby & Partners LLC. Donald works with a team of partners who specialize in leadership development, conflict transformation, mediation, diversity, equity, inclusion, access, accountability, and belonging, project management, wellbeing, administrative services, professional coaching, and communications. We are comitted to inclusive excellence. Through collaborative ventures, we provide a level of deep expertise for your projects and programs that is unsurpassed.
We weave together many peacebuilding and conflict transformation frameworks to apply a versatile, more responsive approach to adult learning, mediation, facilitation, and nonviolent communication.
Some of the grounding theories that guide our work include Adaptive, Regenerative Leadership, Transformative Learning, Conflict Transformation, Social Learning, Somatics, and Embodied Learning.
In addition to many others, we are inspired and influenced by the work of John Paul Lederach, William Ury, David C. Korten, Marshall Rosenberg, Brene Brown, George Lakoff, Iain McGilchrist, Antonio Damasio, Juana Bordas, Resmaa Menakem, adrienne maree brown, Bessel A. van der Kolk, Sonya Renee Taylor, Dean Elias, Ronald Heifetz, Shakti Butler, Joy DeGruy, and John Powell. We seek to build upon and enrich their work through our multidisciplinary approach.
We respect and edify the body’s innate wisdom, seeking holistic approaches for deep listening and transformative learning. We bring a joyful energy to potentially difficult dialogues with the appropriate level of gravitas to build trust and engage appreciative individual, collective, and systemic change. Centering lifelong learning as an abiding goal, we invite client-collaborators to approach conflict transformation and leadership development with an open mind and open heart.