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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 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 ModulesChoose the module that best addresses your current leadership challenge and focus. These parallel modules meet for a total of 16.5 hours over 5 days. Register early to secure your first choice. Action 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 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 joining a coastal kayak and barbecue outing. The evening schedule also includes a coffee house, a dance, and a closing banquet. See the program schedule for more details. Why this program?You will leave with the perspectives, skills, and connections you need to move your leadership, your team, and your organization forward in times of complex challenge and economic constraint:
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. LocationHalifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (see Accommodations and Travel page) DatesThe core program starts with dinner on Sunday, June 6 and ends with breakfast on Saturday, June 12. A Master Class with Brian Bacon runs June 2-3; a pre-program workshop with Barry and Karen Oshry takes place June 3-4. The nine-month Pathways course begins June 4, includes the Summer Institute, and ends March 2011. See below. Registration FeesAll fees in Canadian dollars. Register here. Summer Institute Core Program Leadership Master Class with Brian Bacon Collaborating Up, Down and Across: Harnessing Power in Systems with Barry and Karen Oshry Pathways for Authentic Leadership |
“Attending the Shambhala program was a great experience as it helped me open up my mind to new possibilities and helped me understand how we create our new realities.” 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. |
