At the heart of authentic leadership is the courage to be fully human, to take risks, to care deeply, and to take action even in the midst of challenge and uncertainty.
Leading for Sustainable Change in our Communities, offers leaders the time and space to reflect and focus on how we can hold the tensions of our world and our leadership, and discover ways to re-engage in our work with a renewed sense of presence and compassion.
Together we will explore social justice-centered tools and resources to build personal resilience amid the challenges we navigate as leaders, and discuss pathways toward sustainable changes within our families, communities, and organizations.
The retreat is based on the Courage & Renewal approach, “intended to create communities of reflection and belonging that help people move toward personal and societal wholeness.”
The retreat will provide time and space for deep reflection, renewal, and the opportunity to:
- Learn, experience and reflect on the critical elements or “habits of the heart” that support our democracy (from Parker Palmer’s book, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create A Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit).
- Establish antiracist leadership practices and a thoughtful understanding of our leadership challenges with sustainable change (using multiple sources, including How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi and The McKinsey & Company Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2023 Report).
- Kindle our passion to lead change, resilience and resistance. (Emergent Strategy and Holding Change by adrienne maree brown; Who Do We Choose To Be, Margaret Wheatley).
- Engage with others holding similar questions for their lives, listening deeply and sharing our stories.
- Build personal and institutional self-care practices to establish and buoy the health and relational trust in our communities and organizations.
Who should attend? Courage to Lead is open to those in leadership roles from diverse fields. Leadership can be reflected in whichever way we show up in the world through our professional, family, or community life.
Joining Courage & Renewal Facilitator Dawn Montgomery in the facilitation of this retreat will be Shauna Adams, LCSW. Shauna’s career as a clinical social worker, educator, university instructor, equity leadership coach and consultant, has been committed to addressing issues of power, privilege, racism & systemic oppression.
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The Center for Courage & Renewal and its facilitators do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.
