MAY 3-5, 2013
LEADERSHIP CALLING: A WEEKEND RETREAT
FOR WOMEN TO FIND THEIR VOICES
AS LEADERS
Hummingbird Eco Retreat and Conference Centre
Red Hill, Victoria
Australia
What would it take to claim a new role for yourself as a warrior of the human spirit?
On 3-5 May 2013,a group of 30 women will gather to explore our "warrior" roles, adopting two new tools, "compassion and Insight", to traverse the challenges of life, family and work.
This event is about women’s voices as leaders, shaping and influencing our families, workplaces, communities and world.
Through teachings, meditation and a variety of practices we will learn to notice our triggers and habitual responses, and develop the capacity to skillfully apply new warrior skills.
This retreat offers time to reflect, contemplate, and re-engage our brains so we can discover meaning and purpose once again.
Our aim is for participants to leave renewed, relaxed and recommitted to the work that is theirs to do.
How can you best contribute in these challenging times?
This retreat is based on Meg's most recent book, So Far From Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World (Berrett-Koehler, October 2012), which describes how we ended up in a world no one wants, a harsh, destructive world that's emerged in spite of our best efforts to change it. And it invites us to take on a new role for ourselves, as warriors for the human spirit.
For additional info and to register, visit www.megwheatleydownunder.net
AUGUST 20-25, 2013
WARRIORS FOR THE HUMAN SPIRIT:
FINDING OUR WAY IN THIS BRAVE NEW WORLD
A Retreat with Jerry Granelli and Meg Wheatley
Truro, Nova Scotia
Canada
What does it take to be an effective leader for these times, one who refrains from using aggression or fear to accomplish their purposes? Is it possible to transform our exhaustion, overwhelm and frustration into capacity and meaning, so that we again can lead wholeheartedly?
This retreat offers clear and concise practices for leaders who choose the role of warrior for the human spirit, people practicing the values and processes that rely on human goodness, and that know how to elicit strong community, commitment to the work, and the capacity to persevere. Such warriors are able to create “islands of sanity” in the midst of difficult circumstances and bureaucratic organizations.
Each day will be composed of teachings, mindfulness practices, sensory exercises and practical applications. Among the skills we will develop are:
--learning to perceive more fully, using all sense perceptions;
--solving seemingly intractable problems by opening to more information;
--identifying when we are ‘lost’ and processes for becoming unlost;
--working with conflict as an inevitable consequence of being interconnected;
--transforming time by engaging in regular practices of reflection
As warriors for the human spirit, we discover our right work, work that we know is ours to do no matter what. We engage wholeheartedly, embody values we cherish, let go of outcomes, and carefully attend to relationships. We serve those issues and people we care about, focused not so much on making a difference as on being a difference.
Jerry Granelli is a master of free jazz. He has been playing drums, or anything he can make musical sounds with, nonstop since the 1940s. Of his process, he says, "Let go of what you want it to be. let go of how you think it should be. even let go of your vision."
For more information and to register, visit http://dorjedenmaling.org/program-details/?id=126625
OCTOBER 11-13, 2013
AN INVITATION TO WARRIORSHIP
Nalanda West
Seattle, Washington USA
What would it mean to claim a new role for ourselves in this darkening time, that of warriors for the human spirit? Most cultures have the tradition of warriors, those few people entrusted with defending the faith, the culture or the kingdom. In Tibetan, "warrior" means one who is brave enough to never use aggression. An ancient Tibetan prophecy states: "There comes a time when all life on Earth is in danger. Great barbarian powers have arisen. Although these powers spend their wealth in preparations to annihilate one another, they have much in common: weapons of unfathomable destructive power, and technologies that lay waste our world. In this era, when the future of sentient life hangs by the frailest of threads, the warriors emerge."
As warriors we look like normal people doing regular jobs. However, we are extremely well-armed with two "weapons" -- compassion and insight. Well-trained in their use, we go into the corridors of power to dismantle the beliefs and behaviors that are destroying life. As warriors, we do not succumb to aggression or become paralyzed by fear. We know where best to offer the skillful means of compassion and insight.
What does it mean for us to consciously choose the warrior role, to take our seat so that we may serve well in this destructive time?
This retreat is based on Meg's most recent book, So Far From Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World (Berrett-Koehler, October 2012), which describes how we ended up in a world no one wants, a harsh, destructive world that's emerged in spite of our best efforts to change it. And it invites us to take on a new role for ourselves, as warriors for the human spirit.
For more information and to register, visit: http://www.nalandawest.org/events/meg-wheatley/
