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A Leaderful Life: Moving Toward Effective Leadership
An Integrated Program
with Certified CNVC Trainer Kathleen Macferran

Date: January through May, 2008
1 Saturday (10 AM-5 PM) and
1 Friday morning (10 AM-1 PM) each month

Location: 187 Parfitt Way SW, Suite G100
Bainbridge Is., WA
(8:45 AM ferry from Seattle)

This 5-month program is designed to help you integrate Nonviolent Communication into your leadership style to maximize your effectiveness.

Inner-outer congruence is key to being an effective leader. When your vision emerges from a place of deep presence and purpose, and strategies are in alignment with values, then trust is built and power is created with other people. Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can support the development of inner-outer congruence.

Much more than a communication model, NVC is an integration of consciousness, language, thought, communication and strategies of influence. When understood at all these levels, NVC gives rise to power and possibility that can transform our effectiveness in the world.

This program will move you toward greater effectiveness in influencing and leading those you work with whether it be in families, community organizations, educational institutions, political entities or large corporations.

The first class of each month will focus on learning and applying NVC at the levels of:

• Consciousness/intention - the motivation behind the mechanics

• Language - software for our thoughts

• Thinking - core beliefs we hold about the world

• Communication - choices and ways our message is sent without language

• Strategies of Influence - how we influence others in alignment with our values

The second class each month will include discussion on a book from the following list:

• Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society- Peter Senge, C.Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers

• Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership - Joseph Jaworski

• Leadership and the New Science - Margaret Wheatley

• Practicing Servant Leadership: Succeeding through Trust, Bravery and Forgiveness - Larry Spears and Michele Lawrence, editors

• Theory U: Leading From the Future as It Emerges - C. Otto Scharmer

Participants are asked to purchase books on their own.

Recommended prerequisite:
• Six hours or more of NVC training with a certified trainer, or
• Read Nonviolent Communication: Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg, or
• Complete Foundations of NVC Online Course through the NVC Academy

Class Meeting Days:
Participants will meet Saturdays (10 AM-5 PM) and Fridays (10 AM-1 PM) for ten sessions:

• January 12
• January 25
• February 9
• February 22
• March 8
• March 21
• April 11
• April 26
• May 16
• May 31
  

Course outline:
January:

Consciousness/intention- Truly the heart and core of NVC, explore how the consciousness of interdependence, compassion, and partnership shapes our involvement in living systems (personal and social), creating choices supporting health of the whole planet. Book: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society- Peter Senge, C.Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers

February:

Language- As software for our thoughts, language plays an important role in shaping our intentions and expressing our deepest values to others. Explore language that’s congruent with your values and likely to connect with the values held by others. Book: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership- Joseph Jaworski

March:

Thinking- Take a look at core beliefs we hold about the world, the key role thoughts play in our reactions and responses, and the outcomes of the assumptions and frameworks that create our paradigms. Consider shifts in thinking that may be more congruent with your intentions. Book: Leadership and the New Science- Margaret Wheatley

April:

Communication- Exploration of the ways our messages are sent without language. The role “choice” plays in our communication will be an emphasis as well as the ways consciousness is displayed beyond the words we use. Book: Practicing Servant Leadership: Succeeding through Trust, Bravery and Forgiveness- Larry Spears and Michele Lawrence, editors

May:

Strategies of Influence- This area is critical to realizing our visions. How do we influence others in alignment with our values? How can we inspire others to join us in creating a world that restores health and wholeness to the planet? Book: Theory U: Leading From the Future as It Emerges- C. Otto Scharmer

Fee: $100.00 per month for 5 months. Enrollment is limited to maximize opportunity for individual participation (class size 10-25). Please sign-up early to ensure your place in this course.

Register now and pay for the 1st month:

Questions? Contact Kathleen Macferran at (206) 780-1021
or by e-mail at Kathleen@StrengthofConnection.com.