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June 22-28: Embodied Leadership Workshop with Wendy Palmer in Halifax, Canada |
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June 22 - 28, 2008
Embodied Leadership: A Practice for Presence, Confidence, and Compassion
The Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership
Halifax | Nova Scotia | Canada
Wendy Palmer will lead a module on Embodied Leadership, as a practice that cultivates presence, confidence, and compassion in the midst of everyday stresses and challenges. More information here on this page.
Many of us aspire to be more centered, mindful, and compassionate as leaders, but return again and again to unskillful reactions and habits, especially when stressed or when faced with organizational conflict. We are unable to embody the changes that we know we want. Conscious Embodiment draws on the traditions of Aikido and mindfulness practice to offer simple yet deep techniques that help you recognize how your mind and body habitually react to pressure, and to access more skillful and unified responses. Drawing on over 25 years of experience developing Conscious Embodiment, Wendy leads you through exercises that provide a vivid sense of what it feels like to align conceptual, emotional and embodied aspects of yourself, and of what it feels like to be out of alignment. You will learn to notice the beginnings of your patterns of reactivity, and to quickly find center in the midst of the turmoil of leadership.
Through simple physical forms, work in pairs, and group discussions, you will gain:
- insights into your personal reactive patterns and limiting assumptions
- tools and practices that help you increase your presence, confidence, compassion and sense of humor as you deal with organizational change
- a way to recover balance and clarity when faced with moral, business, and political dilemmas.
- the ability to unify the body's message with what is being said
- increased capacity to live with paradox and the tension between opposites.
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