Integral Development: A Systemic Path for Unfolding Leadership in Ourselves and Others

with Sarita Chawla and James Flaherty

In these complex and fragmented times, there is a call to unify our personal and professional lives as leaders. Our level of development determines how well we can lead, work with unpredictable change, as well as be fulfilled in our work and personal life.

In this experiential, participatory workshop, we will study the most germane approaches for deepening our own development as leaders and developing more effective leadership skills and competencies in others. We will explore Integral Coaching methodologies for uncovering impediments and engage in customized practices that catalyze our development.

As leaders we each bring a uniqueness to our work. Therefore, in this module you will discover what works best for you and your organization, and how best to coach and support others as they explore the depth and complexity of their lives. You will come away with your own plan for moving forward and greater skill in fostering the development of others.

Participation in this module satisfies the continuing education requirement for Integral Coach recertification for New Ventures West.

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Sarita Chawla, MCC, is a senior faculty for New Ventures West, where she leads year-long professional coaching courses and master classes. For the last 15 years Sarita has focused on integral coaching, women's circles, capacity building, and dialogue. Her clients include ATT, Amoco, CSAA, Fetzer Institute, Hindustan Motors, Honeywell, Levi Strauss, Morris Electronics, The Gap, Motorola, Pacific Bell, Planned Parenthood, PBS' Television Race Initiative, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, Equal Rights Advocates, and Shell Oil. She also leads Women's Circles of Development in San Francisco, Boston, and Hawaii, bringing together women from all fronts of life in a nine-month individual and collective development program.

Sarita has a Masters degree in Anthropology from Delhi University, has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Elmwood Institute founded by Fritjof Capra, and as a founding Council Member of the Society of Organizational Learning. She is also a founding partner of Demeter Matrix Alliance. She has also held a key role in initiating, participating, and designing various women's dialogues, both within the U.S. and internationally. She is the co-editor of the best-selling 1995 anthology Learning Organizations: Creating Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace. She has co-authored Emergence of Wise Women: A Learning Chronicle and is the executive co-producer of the documentary video project BeComing: Women's Circles, Women's Lives.

James Flaherty, MCC, is the founder of New Ventures West, co-founder of Integral Leadership, and the author of Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, which Peter Senge claimed "will come to stand out as a definitive work" in the field. He has coached top executives at many Fortune 500 companies, and is a highly sought speaker at meetings and conferences.

Over the past two decades, James has led coaching and leadership courses involving thousands of people. He has developed New Ventures West's approach to coaching by integrating recent discoveries in linguistics, developmental psychology, twentieth-century philosophy, and biology into the practical and customized methodology known as Integral Coaching. James was educated at the University of California in psychology and literature. He is currently writing a second book entitled Integral Coaching.

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