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Building Capacity for Wise and Skillful Action with Circle, Brush, and Swordwith Barbara Bash, Toke Moeller & Bob WingIn this module we will practice a stance of peaceful warriorship, using Warrior of the Heart, Chaordic Path, Flow Game, and Big Brush to build our capacity for centered, skillful, and courageous action and interaction in our work and life. We will increase our individual and group capacity for staying centered and working effectively in difficult situations and challenging times. This stance and these practices can be applied to many different occasions and circumstances. Warrior of the Heart incorporates practices from Aikido and the Art of Hosting. Through gentle physical movements, often using a bokken (wooden sword), we will raise questions, inquiries, and learning which we will then host as part of our dialogue practices. Working with the brush brings us "onto the page," grounding and revealing the personal truth, bringing what is within out into the world. The alternation between the physical, the intangible, and the conversational represents a powerful and deeply holistic form of inquiry and participatory leadership which results in wiser collective choices and actions. The Chaordic Path guides us through the stages of planning, creating, and hosting new initiatives as they respond to need and adapt to a changing environment. The Flow Game provides an intuitive and conversational framework for decision making. All of these practices begin with, and cultivate, a way of being – a personal ground of sincerity, courage, wisdom and full participation. They help us develop the skill and courage needed to bring trust into environments where there has only been cynicism. They invite us to step up to the next phase of who we are, to say yes to compasionate warriorship, and to saying no to whatever is destructive in our selves and in the world. 
Toke Paludan Moeller has been pioneering the fields of sustainable entrepreneurship, participatory leadership, educational renewal, and social responsibility since the early 1970s. He is co-founder, with Monica Nissén, of InterChange, a for-more-than-profit training and process consulting company based in Denmark. Toke and Monica have worked for the Danish educational system, international NGOs, public and governmental institutions, both small and larger companies in the private sector, international networks in many countries, and villages in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Toke is the co-founder of The Art of hosting, The Flow Game, and the Warrior of the Heart dojo; former Chair of the Board of the Danish Entrepreneurs Association and long-time international professional conference organiser (PCO) and process host. For the past six years he has worked with colleagues in support of large-scale systems transformation in England, USA and Canada, as well as in the European Commission. Toke has also been on the faculty of the Shambhala Summer Institute since 2002. See Toke's profile. 
Bob Wing, M.A.. is the director of Mountain Warrior Institute, an organization dedicated to cultivating compassionate and dynamic actions in the world, and also a founder of Warrior of the Heart seminars and retreats, designed to train individuals and groups to live and work wisely and courageously in skillful leadership. Bob has studied and taught Aikido since 1977. He has worked throughout the world for many different organizations and is an active facilitator of Art of Hosting trainings. Bob is also a sculptor and painter, with a special interest in spontaneous and "in the moment" works. 
Barbara Bash has worked for many years as a calligrapher and teacher of book arts and nature journaling, and teaches Big Brush calligraphy workshops throughout the U.S. She was co-director of the book arts program at Naropa University and has collaborated over the years with musicians, storytellers, and dancers, exploring calligraphic performance art. Her study of Dharma Art with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Chinese pictograms with Ed Young contributed to her understanding of Eastern principles as applied to Western forms. She has written and illustrated many award-winning books on natural history for children and adults, including her most recent work, True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude. Barbara teaches Creative Process workshops at the ALIA Institute, has been a core faculty member since 2002, and has been collaborating with Bob Wing and Toke Moeller since 2005. See also www.barbarabash.com “It is a fierce and gentle way we are training in, to develop the courage and abilities to bring trust to where there has only been cynicism, mistrust and abuse. We practice coming back to our ground, a personal ground of sincerity, courage, wisdom and full participation in life.” Module ListAction Inquiry: Transforming Leadership in the Midst of Action Adaptive Action, Artful Perception Building Capacity for Wise and Skillful Action with Circle, Brush, and Sword Catalyzing Organizational Change Embodying Power and Love: Two Essentials for Effective Leadership Leader as Shambhala Warrior Solving Tough Problems: Co-creating New Realities in Complex Systems Women and Leadership: Life Cycles, Power, and Work |
“What I treasure most are the moments of pure connection that happen so often in the midst of all the synchronistic, informal conversations. I can recall conversations from three years ago with uncommon clarity. I sometimes describe the June session as a kind of mental nudist colony. There's no need for mental protective gear.” Sustain and integrate the learning, deepen the impact. Pathways for Authentic Leadership is a nine-month course that begins with the Summer Institute and continues in your home organization. |
