MISSION: The mission of 5G•ILAN, an international member organization, is to cause a beneficial and timely shift toward a more balanced global optical fiber wired/wireless infrastructure — one that is safe, secure, and environmentally protective, using international and national laws, legal institutions and processes, as primary instruments to effect beneficial change.
The members recognize that there are accelerating global actions taken by a complex of companies, industries and governments to build a global infrastructure dominated by wireless technologies. 5G•ILAN members believe this trend imposes risks upon millions of people and the living environment that are being recklessly ignored. 5G•ILAN seeks to restore a wise and compassionate balance.
9 Week Live Online Training Program
Meeting the 5G Network Challenge: Resilient Negotiation Training Program for Lawyers, Community Organizers, 5G Negotiators
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Program Syllabus
GOALS: In 9 weekly sessions to provide participants with a proven system of Resilient Negotiation they can use:
- To gain measurable advantage in all 5G-related matters, including advocacy, strategy, negotiation, litigation, settlements, team building, alliance/coalition architecture, dispute resolution, marketing, and fundraising.
- To learn to navigate with greater emotional balance, serenity, joy, and freedom in a world that is rapidly disintegrating around us, and reaching a point of bifurcation, while opening new possibilities for personal and societal transformation.
- To build collaborative learning communities.
Program Time Commitment (9 Weeks)
- One 1½ hour live Zoom training session per/week (recorded)
- ~1 hour preparation per session
- ~1-2 hours/week application in the field
- Online Q&A coaching either individually or with the group
Typical Session Format
- Fundamentals by Julian Gresser
- Commentary by Ben Levi
- Plenary group discussion and breakout sessions
- Coaching in system
- Each session concludes by introducing a new 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 1 Session:
Setting a 5G Learning/Innovation/Action Collaborative Baseline (Note: This first session will run 2 hours)
Program Protocols
Introduction
- 5G/AI/Internet of Things as a Global (Rogue) Strategic Industrial Policy
- 5G as a “Strategic” Instrumentality: Positive/Negative Multiplier Effects
- 5G Science and Health Impacts in a Nutshell
- Big Heart Intelligence in a Nutshell
- What is the 5G Shadow Game?
- How to Win the Inner Shadow Game
Setting a Baseline
- What are Your Greatest Negotiation Challenges? Setting a Baseline
- Resilience Defined
- What is Your “SYSTEM”?
- Integral Resilience Questionnaire
- Resilient Negotiation and Effective Decision Making
- Negotiation Strategy and Action Plan
The Resilient Negotiator Overview/Fundamentals
- Case of the Swedish Builder: The Shadow Game and How it is Played (in a nutshell)
- What is Our “System?”
- Negotiation Re-defined: Why a Simple Definition can Shape your Destiny
- Need and its Manifestations: Why to be Wary of Need
Keys to Mastery
- Practical Applications: 5G examples from the field
- Continuous Enhanced Performance Tools
- Action Logs
- Field Notes
- Online Coaching in System
- Protocols of Collaboration
Practical Applications: Case Discussion
Self-Care — 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 2 Session:
Practical Applications to 5G — The Five Rings™
The Resilient Negotiator Basics — The 5 Rings™ System
- What do we REALLY want?
- What is our Mission?
- Who are the key decision makers?
- What is their “Pain”?
- What is the Agenda?
- The Power of No Assumptions/No Expectations (Fundamental Assumptions About 5G)
- Reconnaissance
- Timing/Pacing
- Effective Presentation
- The Power of ‘No’
Practical Applications: Case Discussion
Self-Care — 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 3 Session:
Going Behind the Mask — Why Character is Destiny
Why Character is Destiny
- Provenance: Sun Tzu and Heraclitus
- Where are we strong? What is our greatest weakness?
- What about the “other”?
- How to predict attacks months in advance?
- Risk assessment
- PIPS/BHI/IRQ Analytics
- How to build winning teams with PIPS
- Tracking and Measuring Your Progress
Practical Applications: Case Discussion
Self-Care — 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 4 Session:
The Art of the Question
The Art of the Question
- The Art of the Question (in science, negotiations, and all forms of inquiry)
- Forms of Questions and their Results—Brush and Scalpel
- Questions and their Relationship to Need and Pain
- Deep Listening
- Nourishing
- Connectors
- Checkpoint (3+): Confirming discoveries
- The Reverse
- Critical Parent
- The Pendulum
- The Reverberating Question
Practical Applications: Case Discussion
Self-Care — 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 5 Session:
Building Strategic 5G Alliances and Networks
Foundations
- Building Trust—Foundation of Success
- Alliance Architecture: Best Practices and Protocols for Successful Alliances
- Mini-Agreements — Who, What, By When; How to manage broken agreements
- Strategic Alliance Mediation
Practical Applications: Case Discussion
Self-Care — 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 6 Session:
Building Effective Negotiation Teams
Foundations
- Building a Team Mission, Strategy, Action Plan
- Player’s and Coach’s Compact
- Tracking Continuous Enhanced Performance
Practical Applications: Case Discussion
Self-Care — 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 7 Session:
Resilience Multiplier Advantage — The Lawyer as an Innovator
Foundations
- Explorers Wheel, Discovery Engine, Collaborative Innovation
- Paying Forward
- Creating Your Own Luck
Practical Applications: Case Discussion
Self-Care — 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 8 Session:
Restoring Balance — Accelerating the Shift to a Global Optical Fiber Wired Infrastructure
Presentation and discussion by attorney Joe Sandri and members of the BALANCE Group
- Key insights for government policy makers
- Key insights and opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs
- Strategic points of leverage
- Case Examples, resources, databases
Practical Applications: Case Discussion
Self-Care — 5 Minutes to Resilience practice
Week 9 Session:
Final Review/Closing
- Reviewing the Journey
- Essential Takeaways
- Steps toward Mastery
- Certification
- Continuous Enhanced Performance through ILAN Training Programs
- Invitation to give plus/delta feedback
Other Important Details
Time and Date
- TBD
Complete training materials
- Piloting Through Chaos—The Explorers Mind (PDF)
- Laughing Heart: A Field Guide to Exuberant Vitality for All Ages: 10 Essential Moves
- Integral Resilience: Helping Communities Thrive
- The Art of Human-centered Lawyering (accredited in California for 3 hours MCLE credit)
- Resilient Negotiator audio and video resources
- Training tools
- Online coaching
Platform
- Zoom (All sessions will be recorded and made available to participants)
Program Leaders
Julian Gresser
Career Highlights as a Professional Negotiator
Julian Gresser is an international attorney, social entrepreneur, professional negotiator, inventor, and recognized expert on Japan. As a negotiator his most dramatic success involved helping a San Francisco-based trading company transform its $8 million after-tax branch into a $1 billion Japanese company in seven years. From 1976-1983 he was twice Visiting Mitsubishi Professor at the Harvard Law School and also taught courses as a Visiting Professor at MIT on the legal issues of strategic industries.
He has been a senior adviser to the U.S. State Department during the Carter Administration (where he established the Japan Industrial Policy Group), The World Bank, The Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, The People’s Republic of China, and the European Commission (where he trained the Commission’s Japanese negotiating teams). He is the author of eight books in English and Japanese, including most recently two online “living” books on Big Heart Intelligence and Integral Resilience.
5G Legal Actions
Julian Gresser is a member of the BALANCE Group team, which has initiated a series of administrative challenges to the FCC’s satellite program. He is also counsel to 5G Free Santa Barbara in developing a unique protective ordinance and set of protocols to empower local communities in the United States. He is currently organizing a 5G International Lawyers Action Network (5G•ILAN). MORE
Ben Levi
A solar engineer by training, Ben bought his first Macintosh computer in 1984, and turned that into a computer consulting career spanning over 35 years. Ben consults in all aspects of Apple hardware, software, training, systems design, networking, Filemaker Pro databases, and now all things internet-related. Over that time he has assisted hundreds of clients worldwide in graphic design, editing, publishing and consulting on their Apple systems as well as online conferencing platforms.
Ben has combined his hardware and software expertise with experience living in an intentional community where he explored areas of personal development, community building, problem-solving facilitation, Bohmian Dialogue, and other “wetware” technologies. In 1993 he moved from Los Angeles, CA to Boulder, CO where he continued his Apple consulting, supplementing it with further education in Environmental Leadership as well as completing an Authentic Leadership and Coaching program through Naropa Institute/University.
In 1998, with Y2K looming on the horizon as a potential major disruption, Ben fulfilled a dream of designing and contracting a 3,000 square foot self-sufficient solar home in Earthstar community in the Boulder foothills. He currently lives there with his partner of 18 years, where they practice living with solar electricity, solar hot water heating, and plug-in hybrid transportation.
In 1999, Ben worked briefly for Ken Wilber in v1.0 of his Integral Institute, and through that met Dr. Don Beck, co-creator of Spiral Dynamics, an evolutionary model of human development. Now over 20 years later, Ben has become an expert in Beck’s Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) model, and has taught SDi certification trainings with Dr. Beck since 2009, along with consulting with clients on utilizing the SDi model in individual, organizational and cultural evolution.
His various projects have included working with Aliveware, a New Zealand company working to facilitate personal change, and managing a multi-year Whole Systems Change consortium of global practitioners, consultants and integral thinkers to share wisdom on large-scale whole system change methodologies. He has assisted various entities in organizing face-to-face as well as web-based conferences and acting as rapporteur; a partial list of projects include:
- Managing the 5G Network Challenge — 2019-present
- YOUnify Summit — 2019
- Spiral Dynamics Summit on the Future — 2018
- Regenerative Future Summit — 2017
- Dialogue, Deliberation and Systemic Transformation — 2015
- The Enlightenment Conference — 2012
- The Integral Leadership Collaborative — 2011
At Earthstar, Ben and his partner organize a cooperative of four USDA certified organic farms, including their own farm, Wildcat Gardens. They also spend most winters every year in New Zealand, where they have permanent residency.
Consulting, In-house Training Engagements, and Participants in Workshops
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