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LEADERSHIP FOR A NEW TIME: A SERIES OF REFLECTIVE LEARNING RETREATS BUILT UPON AN INNER PATH TOWARD LIVING CHANGE

Living and Leading Change is a series of two learning sessions designed to enhance your ability and confidence to face and create change that is intentional and worthwhile and to lead others through the rewards and challenges of change in organizations and communities. The sessions are complemented with learning circles and personal coaching so participants can stay connected to the work and the experience.

Living and Leading Change is for anyone who yearns for hope and purpose in the midst of dramatic changes in your personal and professional lives. Living and Leading Change is also for teams of people who are maneuvering through the rapids of organizational change in these current economic conditions. In a time of economic recession, increasing the levels of well-being and commitment among key leaders reduces conflict and stress and provides real advantage for any organization.

To accommodate different schedules and learning needs, Living and Leading Change is offered in a variety of ways: a series of three sessions (2 ˝ days each) scheduled throughout the year, a week-long session in the summer, and a tailored learning experience for a team of people from a single organization.

To further enhance skill building and practical application, individual coaching sessions are available, as well as mentoring and facilitated learning circles.

How this Experience will Help Me and My Organization or Institution

Each individual will gain new information, leadership tools, and a supportive network that can extend and sustain the benefits over time. Here’s an initial list of benefits that are likely for leaders and for their organizations:

Individual Benefits	Organization Benefits
Improved levels of optimism and reduced stress	Improved levels of employee productivity and innovation
New practices that generate sustained periods of well being and ease conflict	New ideas about strategy deployment that bring the organization to the leading edge and mobilize people’s energy and commitment
New practices to stimulate creativity and innovation	Useful tools to get the organization through especially turbulent business cycles and position it for accelerated growth
Connection to a community of emerging leaders committed to breakthroughs	Increased leadership potential and job satisfaction for participating employees
Connection to accessible life coaches	Membership in a unique learning network providing change coaching to executive staff or leaders

What You Will Learn

Every participant has something to share during the experience of Living and Leading Change. As a participant, you will encounter new concepts, practices, resources, and tools that will help you:

• Recognize and enhance personal awareness and confidence
• Improve relationships on your teams.
• Develop new patterns of thought and behavior
• Stay healthy through change cycles and turmoil
• Tap creative and problem-solving powers
• Identify ways to tap intuition and develop your own learning agenda
• Learn new approaches to visioning and hosting strategic conversations or sessions
• Understand basic systems and feedback loops
• Develop a roadmap to renew or recharge your organization.

You will be provided with a journal, a set of the Building Blocks of Change, and a short series of readings that will be examined during the retreats.

Session Content

Each session is focused on producing well-being and purpose-filled action through exploration around four elements illustrated below. The retreat will provide multiple experiences to allow for a blend of quiet, individual discovery and practice, conversation, and shared learning exchanges.

Dates and Locations

Sessions in the three-part series begin on Sunday at 3 pm and end by 2 pm Tuesday. Lodging and food are available at the learning site. Each session is designed to build on the previous ones, so you are encouraged to sign up for all three sessions OR for the week-long session this summer.

The weeklong session begins Sunday at 3 pm and ends Friday at noon.

Locations for Living and Leading Change were chosen for their natural settings, opportunities for quiet reflection and contemplation, and physical amenities. For groups of 25 or less, the sessions will be held at Ferncliff Conference Center in western Pulaski County in central Arkansas. Larger groups will meet at the Winrock Institute on Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton, Arkansas.

Fees
The projected costs for the series include materials, meals and lodging.

Sessions	Key Themes & Content	COST
Discover Your Authentic Self	The session targets your personal purpose, natural strengths and gifts, and connection to the spirit and soul that animates our daily lives, plus ways to tune into divine guidance for health and well-being.	$ 750
Tools for Personal Transformation	The session expands your personal change toolbox by helping you uncover personal experiences that shape your major relationships, your levels of health, and your sources for bringing new ideas and dreams into reality.	$ 750
Leading Transformation in Organizations and Communities	You will practice tools to produce more effective relationships: deep listening, intentional dialogue, and visioning. Participants build a set of creative competencies that help break through barriers, and create a trusting environment and a roadmap to guide positive change.	$ 750
	SAVE BY REGISTERING FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES	$2,000

Click here to view Series Brochure and Program Overview

• Leadership for a New time - Program Overview
• Leadership for a New time - Conference Brochure

You can register for the sessions and pay with a credit card online at www.ferncliff.org/Conferences. Click on the External Links button at the bottom of this page.

The fee for a learning experience tailored specifically to the needs of a team of people from your organization is negotiable. It is also possible to design a weeklong series to allow for deeper learning and exploration.

Additional learning opportunities include:

• One-on-one coaching or mentoring sessions available throughout the year for an additional fee of $200 per session.
• Annual membership in facilitated learning circles that meet quarterly for an additional fee of $500.

This unique series was dreamed and designed by three experienced professionals of social change, personal transformation, communication, and leadership development.

Ken Hubbell of Ken Hubbell and Associates specializes in leadership and strategy development, communications, and planning for foundations, government agencies, museums, heritage groups, health and educational institutions, and grassroots coalitions. We help clients imagine, learn and lead which often generates new visions, programs, collaborations, message, and products.

Michael Vinson of Healthy Space, Inc. specializes in organizational health and balance. We help organizations organize to maintain their focus in changing times by teaching organizations how to use simple tools to navigate the waters of change. We specialize in meeting facilitation using Open Space Technology and Whole Person Process Facilitation working with the spirit of organizations and focusing on holistic outcomes.

Dianne Williams, Dianne Williams Consulting, Inc. specializes in bringing together diverse perspectives for common purposes and coaching leadership for change and through change. Dianne is a certified mediator. Her practice also includes community, leadership, and organizational planning and development with an emphasis on nonprofit organizations, foundations, grassroots coalitions, and rural communities.

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