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CONTEXT OF THE NEW LICENSE AGREEMENT
The LDD team (Myrna, Belamie and Carmen) recently met in Singapore to consolidate our future strategy and goals for Lewis Deep Democracy. Prior to our meeting, we did a lot of thinking and visioning, asked others for their views and gained valuable business advice. The point of this communication is to let you know we are making changes and to give you a chance to familiarise yourself with the revisions before asking you to sign our amended annual License Agreement.
Here are the updates:
License Agreements and LDD Intellectual Property
Bundles
Pricing in Euro
Supervision
Growing the LDD Brand
Spreading LDD and the Community
LICENSE AGREEMENTS AND LDD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The nature of the license agreement and the concept of buying bundles will change. More specifically, there will be changes relating to your rights to use LDD Intellectual Property.
This new way of configuring the license agreement will protect the Intellectual Property rights of LDD. It will also address the issue of LDD Accredited Practitioners (Instructors, Elders, IKM Coaches and Advanced facilitators) delivering aspects of LDD to clients without necessarily delivering a full course. Or people adding to the LDD course and then marketing it under a different name. Shifting the focus enables us to support and encourage you to spread the word, teach and use the methodology. And we feel the amendments are fairer and will ultimately benefit the community.
BUNDLES: SIMPLER AND FAIRER
We have undertaken to make things fairer, simpler and more accessible. A single payment will cover your license to use LDD Intellectual Property and enrol participants on courses. Once you have paid your license fee, you will have access to an unlimited bundle. In other words, you can register as many participants as you want in the courses you are accredited to run.
We have made the license fee as low and fair as possible. The license amount has been calculated based on (1) the region you are operating in, (2) your use of the LDD IP, (3) the bundles you purchased in the last 12 months and (4) whether you are a recently qualified instructor or not.
Also, from the 1st of April, there will only be two pricing bands as opposed to the four that exist currently. These bands, Region A and Region B, will bring about more equability. Region A broadly includes Europe, the UK, Northern America, Australia and New Zealand. Region B broadly includes South America, South Africa and the Middle East. If you need clarification, please contact support@lewisdeepdemocracy.com.
PRICING IN EURO
Most of our LDD Accredited Practitioners reside in Europe and are unaccustomed to the Australian Dollar. In trying to accommodate the majority's needs, we decided to set LDD’s currency in Euro.
We have set up an AirWallex account for easier and less costly payments. You will receive an invoice enabling you to transact in AirWallex supported currencies.
You can choose to pay this amount upfront, quarterly or over 12 months.
We strongly encourage you to continue enrolling participants on the LDD learning platform:
To ensure participants have a valid and up-to-date learning record with LDD.
To provide participants access to the relevant learning materials, such as manuals, micro-courses and online exercises.
To enable participants to obtain an LDD certificate of attendance.
We are aware that a few LDD Accredited Practitioners question the value of the LDD certificate. On the other hand, many participants appreciate the certificate and what it represents. We understand the certificate will have more appeal if it is linked to broader international bodies. For this reason, we are actively pursuing affiliation with the International Coaching Federation. We have initiated the process of securing CCEU (Continuing Coach Education Units) for Level 1, Level 2 and CoResolve courses. We are also exploring the possibility of becoming accredited as an ICF Team Coach School, enabling participants to be recognised as Team Coaches. Through our learning platform, we are able to meet the requirements needed to be eligible for these affiliations.
SUPERVISION
We have redesigned supervision based on the following:
One of the most important reasons for supervision is to ensure that there is quality and control. Quality control is maintained and enhanced through the LDD Accredited Practitioners' continued consistent growth of their own metaskills. Anyone working with others’ growth and transformation should continue their own growth to meet the ethical and integrity requirements of their position. This is the primary reason behind redesigning our supervision structure.
Secondly, we have an amazing community of practitioners involved in different spaces and places. And we want to foster an environment that facilitates collaboration and cross-pollination as a way to build and strengthen our community.
Thirdly, the Instructor community has grown. Experienced LDD Accredited Practitioners have gained their own awarenesses and developed their teaching style. We recognise your insight and experience can help others and want to create an environment where your voice and wisdom is heard too.
As a result of all these factors, you will all be invited to join a larger monthly supervision group. You will be grouped together with practitioners that have a similar level of LDD experience as you. These supervision groups will enable you to ask technical questions, deepen your personal growth, introspect, meet more people and gain support from the LDD international community. There will be 10 supervision calls over 12 months. Myrna will supervise each session and encourage others to share their wisdom (spread the expert role), empowering the community to contribute to the quality control of LDD.
We encourage you to attend as many monthly supervisions as possible. It is highly recommended that you attend a minimum of 6 sessions over a 12-month period. A register of attendance will be taken.
The cost of the supervision sessions will be:
€39 per session for Region A.
€19 per session for Region B.
NOTE: The supervision cost should not prohibit anyone from taking part. If you have financial difficulties with this amount, please contact support@lewisdeepdemocracy.com.
Instructor Trainees will be invited to the monthly supervision sessions as part of their training.
All newly qualified instructors will be required to join supervision for a year once qualified.
Elders, Advanced Elders and IKM Coaches will be required to attend supervision.
Please remember that Myrna is also available for deeper supervision or personal support. You can book a private supervision session through Myrna’s Calendy link https://calendly.com/myrna-lewis/myrna-one-on-one-60-min-session. Or you are welcome to connect with other Elders in the community for supervision.
In addition, Myrna will be delivering advanced metaskill development programmes. These programmes will take place in small groups of six. Elders and Instructors will be given the first option to attend these groups at a reduced price.
GROWING THE LDD BRAND
We want to reassert our brand presence in certain sectors.
Education
One of Myrna’s dreams has been to enable large-scale systems change by introducing LDD to learners. And in this way, ensure tomorrow’s adults can have a voice, share their views, listen to others, and resolve tension. A way to fulfilling this dream is by teaching teachers to use the basic LDD tools in classrooms as part of their teaching process. In this way, we hope learners will experience and integrate these LDD principles and tools by the time they leave school. Following our research with Charles Darwin University, we have launched a low-cost, accessible and basic course for teachers called LDD ShiftED. We firmly believe a unified brand name will help LDD to penetrate this important sector globally. For this reason, any instructor teaching LDD ShiftED must do so under the LDD brand.
Please note the introduction of ShiftED will not prevent instructors from using CoResolve or LDD in the education environment.
Professional Sector
We are launching a specialised short soft skills course under our brand and are keen to see how the market takes to this course.
SPREADING LDD and the Community
We are committed to spreading the concepts and tools of LDD in many different ways. You may be aware of our increased social media presence, mini master classes and micro-courses.
The spread of LDD in all these arenas will, we hope, positively impact your ability to market your courses and services.
This year, we have introduced open Join the Conversation sessions. We hope to have monthly online conversations that you and people from outside the community can attend. Feel free to share the word and invite people you feel may be interested and benefit from attending. And we want to involve you. Please let us know if you would like to be involved or co-host a session on a topic or issue close to your heart. Or any venture that excites you. Please reach out to us.
We also have ongoing Hang Out sessions with Belamie and the support team.
We encourage you to let us know where your interests lie and help us to collaborate to gain the gold in this community.
Thank you for taking the time to read this communication.
What do I need to do? Please read this carefully
These changes will come into being from the 1st of April 2023.
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To let us know you have read through this communication.
To ask any questions or make any comments.
Then you will be directed to the online License Agreement for you to read.
Once you are comfortable, you will be given the option to sign the License Agreement or to take more time.
If you decide to sign, you will be asked if you will want supervision.
And you will be given options on how to make the payments
Warm regards,
Myrna, Belamie & Carmen