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Program Faculty

• Dorian Baroni
• Barbara Bash
• Barbara Cecil
• Michael Chender
• Steve Clorfeine
• Glenda Eoyang
• James Gimian
• Jerry Granelli
• LeAnne Grillo
• Lanny Harrison
• Arawana Hayashi
• Yolanda Hegngi
• Adam Kahane
• Art Kleiner
• Toke Møller
• Wendy Morris
• Barry Oshry
• Karen Oshry
• Wendy Palmer
• David Sable
• Otto Scharmer
• Mary Stacey
• Bill Torbert
• Meg Wheatley
• Bob Wing

Shambhala Summer Institute 2010

The Summer Institute brings together systems-oriented tools with the values and practices of authentic leadership, creating a unique and powerful learning environment for leaders navigating through tumultuous times.

The week-long program includes skill-building modules led by world-renowned faculty, mindfulness meditation, creative process, and dialogues focused on some of the critical questions of our time. The celebratory 10th Institute will feature highlights from a decade of leadership and learning.

The Shambhala Summer Institute is a training destination and gathering place for leaders at the frontier of social innovation and organizational change. Whether you are a business leader, entrepreneur, middle manager, or front line worker in government, health, business, community or education, please join us for the 10th annual Summer Institute. Deepen your leadership practice while acquiring the skills you need to move your organization to its living, leading edge.

2010 Modules

Choose the module that best addresses your current leadership challenge and focus. These parallel modules meet for a total of 15 hours over 5 days. Register early to secure your first choice.

Action Inquiry: Transforming Leadership in the Midst of Action
with Bill Torbert & Mary Stacey

Adaptive Action, Artful Perception
with Glenda Eoyang & Wendy Morris

Building Capacity for Wise and Skillful Action
with Toke Moeller, Bob Wing & Barbara Bash

Catalyzing Organizational Change
with Art Kleiner & David Sable

Embodying Power and Love: Two Essentials for Effective Leadership
with Adam Kahane & Wendy Palmer

Leader as Shambhala Warrior
with James Gimian, Jerry Granelli & Margaret Wheatley

Solving Tough Problems: Co-creating New Realities in Complex Systems
with LeAnne Grillo

Women and Leadership: Life Cycles, Power, and Work
with Dorian Baroni, Barbara Cecil & Yolanda Hegngi

Self-Organized Option
Custom design your own learning in collaboration with other participants. Choosing this option reduces your program fee.

The core program also includes plenary presentations and dialogues, creative process and mindfulness sessions, and small-group sessions organized around special interests. Meal breaks are times for networking and conversations indoors and outside on the university patios and grounds. Wooded walking trails crisscross the university campus, and the on-site fitness center is open throughout the day. For the mid-program open evening, you have the option of exploring historic Halifax or joining a coastal kayak and barbecue outing. The evening schedule also includes a dance featuring Nova Scotian talent, a cash bar on most evenings, and a closing banquet. See the program schedule for more details.

Why this program?

The Summer Institute provides everything you need to move your leadership and your organization forward in 2010:

• An overview of some of the most impactful systems-oriented tools and resources available.
• Immersion in the approach or toolbox that best fits your current leadership needs (choose one of eight core modules).
• A chance to try out multiple practices that will support and sustain your personal leadership in challenging times (e.g., mindfulness, conscious embodiment).
• Enough time to assimilate new learning and make it your own.
• A chance to tap into the knowledge, experience, and talents of 250 thought leaders, change agents, and front line leaders from diverse settings.
• An invitation to take risks, be challenged, and share your own knowledge and experience with others.
• First-hand experience of an event design that successfully balances theory and practice, reflection and action, structure and self-organizing.
• An unforgettable experience of what is possible when 250 people come together in a spirit of genuine inquiry and committed action.

Nine years of experience has shown that the design and calibre of the ALIA learning community produces transformational results... though not always the results you expected. If you participate fully, you will return home with the insights, strategies, tools, and relationships that are exactly right for you, your leadership, and your organization or network, right now.

Location

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (see Accommodations and Travel page)

Dates

The program starts with dinner on Sunday, June 6 and ends with breakfast on Saturday, June 12

Registration Fees

All fees in Canadian dollars. Register here.

Module Track
$2700 before March 2
$2990 after March 2
A 10% discount for the module track is offered to non-profit organizations, and organizations that register teams of 3 or more participants. Teams from non-profit organizations receive a 20% discount.

Self-Organized Option
$1650 before March 2
$1750 after March 2

Collaborating Up, Down and Across: Harnessing Power in Systems
Pre-Program June 3-4
$950 before March 2
$1100 after March 2
There is a $100 discount offered to participants who register for a Core Program module.

Pathways for Authentic Leadership
June 2010 - March 2011
$4500 before March 2
$5500 after March 2

“As the challenges facing leaders grow more complex, the ALIA Institute provides one of the very few places where leaders can develop sufficient clarity and courage in their work.”

—Margaret Wheatley, author, Leadership and the New Science & others
2001-2010 program faculty