Whether your organization is seeking to meet a particular challenge, initiate a change process or improve its general ability to continually learn and improve, your own people are your key resource to facilitate the process, we at Amauta International, LLC can help you to help them unlock their potential.  

We train and mentor facilitators, leaders and  executive teams that want to create and support the processes with which groups, organizations and communities can define and achieve their goals and realize their dreams.  Group mentorship, as we have developed it, is an ongoing, facilitative accompaniment of an organizational or  community team that wants to increase its effectiveness through a dynamic and integral process of group, personal and professional development.  We creatively combine the most effective methods of face-to-face  group mentoring  and facilitation, with the most modern technologies of Internet, intranet and virtual online mentoring. 

We have ample experience with many different organizational and ethnic cultures and appreciate the uniqueness of every client, approaching each one's needs with a systemic and holistic perspective, backed by expertise in facilitation of organizational and community development and change. Our facilitators are accredited by and/or members of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and are active in its global leadership.

Amauta International can help your organization or community to prepare its own leaders and internal facilitators with the necessary competencies for effective intervention in:

Ø      change management

Ø      team building,

Ø      process restructuring,

Ø      crisis intervention,

Ø      organizational cultural transformation,

Ø      community building,

Ø      conflict resolution,

Ø      transformational leadership,

Ø      competency development.

Finally, we provide continuity through effective follow-up monitoring sessions and virtual support (virtual conferences, WBT,  bibliographic support, e-lists, etc.).  Our approach of  training and mentoring your own in-house talent, is not only a more effective way to facilitate organizational transformation, but also much more economical than contracting outside trainers and facilitators.  Let us show you how a program of facilitator mentorship can increase the productivity and success of your organization.

THE STORY OF OUR NAME

Eight centuries ago, the first Incas came down from the mountain tops and began to organize the scattered lowland tribes.  With their highly developed organizational, political, social and technical skills, they created, in less than one hundred years, a vast Empire of twelve million people spread along the thirteen thousand miles of South America's Andean Mountain Range.  Many historians attribute the success of the Inca Empire to a special group of mentors --the Amauta--who effectively prepared leaders to facilitate group synergy and intergroup conciliation. The Amauta were trusted advisors that continually developed new and creative ways to facilitate learning and social change processes in the communities and greater efficiency in agricultural work teams. Similar experiences have been reported as early as 3000 B. C. en Africa and during the dawn of the Greek Empire.

We are finally beginning to understand the Amauta approach, thanks to the pioneering work of social scientists in the development of what has come to be called the New Sciences.  Practitioners such as Senge, Wheatley, Maturana, Capra, Max-Neef, Freire and others are the new Amauta that have created dynamic visions and practices of group, organizational and community learning and development.  Meanwhile, facilitation, and its subspecialty of mentoring, have evolved from being merely a technique or a competency, to a recognized profession. In executive boardrooms,  in communities, with project teams, in disaster zones or in workshops around the world, facilitators and mentors are helping groups create spaces and processes for their own self-development and social transformation.