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Rather than take a leap of blind faith and hope for the best through this transition, this pathway helps educate coaches and leaders to face the Mystery with greater calm, presence, efficiency, and creativity. It will also help them cultivate their Whole IQ – the Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences, and understand the process of Intentional Transformation which offers us resources and a system that helps us to lead and land with an embodied sense of trust and faith on the other side of this evolutionary leap.
When you think of a campfire, what comes to mind? Sparks? Light? Fun? Connection? All of this – and much more! – is true and will come alive at our Campfire Connection pathway. This session pathway encourages participants to explore their ideas, beliefs, and boundaries around interdependence. When you attend, you will be inspired to bring forward ideas and tools that help others explore and realize global interdependence – and the ripple effect they can have. What better way to have fun and connect with colleagues and friends.
This workshop will show participants how to develop and practice the tools required to chart a path to their dreams. Starting with a focus on getting people present and awake to the awe and mystery of life, and then progressing to taking and maintaining inspired action, this pathway helps participants bring concrete, clear, and highly effective steps to achieve their biggest goals. You'll leave inspired, in love with life and the interconnectedness and sameness of us all.
Our premise: The world must expand in Beauty, in affirming and sustaining life, honoring both individual Spirit and Oneness with all of our relations. Through foundational teachings, this pathway will help participants expand their understanding of Earth-based wisdom systems and awaken their consciousness of Spirit/Great Mystery and ground their intentions and actions to contribute toward a Co-Active dream of global caring.
This pathway will present on overview of "elderhood," and will co-create ways to bring forward the elder that they are, or that they have within. This session will show how elderhood represents a state of consciousness that is complex, and how it corresponds to "integral consciousness." Participants will gain an understanding of how the inner elder creates space, compassion, and a calling forth for the diverse aspects of our inner lives.
This session will help participants restore hope through remembering their power to create change in their own lives. We all have a longing to be really seen by another human being for who they really are. Why not start by really seeing your own beauty? This pathway will help participants step back and look at themselves through a series of creative exercises. As a result, participants can take advantage of small opportunities to choose who they will be, and who they are becoming!
We need to go back to essence for something to be appropriately dreamed and only then can we move to the action, because then the action is right and well suited to its purpose. This follows the ideas in Presence. By not doing this there is a tendency to rush in and end up with half baked ideas. In this pathway, participants will learn, discuss, and develop different ways of accessing essence; learn how to use essence as an access to dreams; and discover how to turn dreams into actions.
Based on the elements that underpin The Leadership Circle (TLC), participants will consciously identify the childhood reactive strategy around which they have constructed their identity. We will explore how behaviours not considered part of this identity are peripheralized into the unconscious (shadow) and how we regard these disowned behaviours as undesirable. Next, participants will turn courageously towards the behaviours lurking in the shadow and claim these behaviours as vibrant parts of themselves. Then we begin to see ourselves and others composed of opposites that are not to be reconciled, but to be honored and held in tandem.
In order to be powerful leaders, we must acknowledge our fear, deeply experience our fear, and – when it serves our highest purpose – move forward in spite of fear. This can also be called getting over yourself! In this workshop, each participant engages in one or two powerful exercises that will bring them more fully into their physical sense of gentle warriorship. As a result, every participant experiences the sensation of courage so that their voices and bodies can more effectively be used in their leadership and planetary journey.
This workshop is designed to help participants create a safe creative and energetic space for them to be able to fully open up, mentally and physically, to feeling the benefits of the mind/body relationship within the coaching experience. Our powerful intent is to call on our community to see the global possibilities of creating this level of awareness within ourselves and our clients for the sake of "waking up" the world to life choices that will connect and shift humanity.
This pathway workshop presents two big-picture models that speak to changing the consciousness of the world: Ken Wilber's "Four Corners of the Kosmos" model and Don Beck's and Christopher Cowan's "Spiral Dynamics" model. Within the context of these model – and integrated with Co-activity – participants will explore their own values and coaching/leadership strategies. Participants will also expand their ability to recognize and honor clients’ thinking styles and value sets.
Have you dreamed about something but never did it? Whether it is sharing passions and dreams, creating excitement with others, or declaring it to others to create energy of powerful beginnings and triggers the belief of "yes I can," now is your chance. In this interactive session using Jenga blocks, participants will learn how to move their passions, support others, and work in teams to transform their passions to "yes I will."
In an increasingly complex world, more complex (higher order) leadership is required. In this pathway, participants will distinguish between "Adaptive" challenges (which require the transformation of the individual and/or organization) and the "Technical" challenges (which can be addressed by learning new techniques). As a result, they will better understand how to help clients identify and frame Adaptive challenges that are critical for their growth.
Participants will walk away from Midlife Women with a profound appreciation for the challenges, fullness, and potential of midlife. They will also understand how Co-active Coaches and leaders play a key role in elevating midlife women through self-initiation and into a leadership role in the collective global care, action, and creation. You will truly understand what's possible when midlife women are brought together, pointed, and unleashed!
Difference, intolerance (even on small levels) are part of our make-up from early on. Even those of us who have done years of personal work still have shreds of cultural misconceptions that we are not always conscious of. This pathway will show you how changing is all in our perceptions, our thinking and feeling about those messages. We can change, and change has both an impact on us and how we live our lives. Changes in our personal interactions with people who are different has a ripple effect that will change the world.
Painting Outside the Lines (POtL) is a "benevolent virus" in workshop form, designed to break people out of their habitual way of being and flaccid emotional presence. Being emotionless and unresponsive might be a great poker tactic, but living your life this way sucks... the life right out of you. Compelling, enrolling leadership demands that we reach inside ourselves and pull from our deepest, most magnificent inner being. It means divining new paths, seeing unlimited possibilities and making meaningful connections.
If we want to have a deep and lasting impact on the world and help to bring about the "evolutionary leap," we must find a way to bring empowerment and intention to families so that children learn new modes of thinking, doing, and being. Parentology is a workshop and a philosophy that is based on Co-active principles applied to the family environment. Participants will undergo a shift in their thinking about how they can interact and communicate with their children and spouses.
The purpose of this class is to shift participants from a "play-not-to-lose" mentality to a "play-to-win" strategy. This workshop takes the concept of the principle of balance to a new level. It uncovers the hidden underlying "play-not-to-lose" assumptions that affect the sustainability and good intentions of our perspective shifts. This workshop also highlights how collapsing the concepts of "wanting" and "choosing" impact achieving the desired outcome. It also directs participants inwards to harnessing the power of their authentic emotions as an essential creative element.
In this pathway, participants will recognize the personal nature of this global shift. Discover how what you individually embody can either contribute to holding an existing collective stage of development in place, or liberating a new one. Experiment with the very nature of habits, attachments, and aversions. Experience authentic conversations and somatic partner practices that bring a new consciousness alive within us in the present moment. And, discover the felt sense of embodying a personal commitment consistent with the new, emerging consciousness of global interdependence.
When people are given the chance to express their dreams in a safe, supportive, and action-oriented environment, it compels them to make their dreams come true. This pathway will help participants really clarify their "it" and/or dream. Participants will leave the pathway on fire about the "thing" they want to bring into their lives and into the world, and they will have already experienced taking action towards achieving their dream within the program.
This session will help participants see that we are all designers of our reality and we dream our reality into existence through our feelings and thoughts both as images and in our words. We are all being called forth as co-creators of a new mythos for the sake of a thriving humanity and all of the beings that we share this living earth with. This workshop will help participants create a sense of urgency around our current reality, engage participants into regenerative living, and invite them to step into regenerative leadership.
This pathway will help people in the “Middle Layer of Adulthood” become more aware and grateful for their ability to apply their vulnerability into high-performance aging. Vulnerability is how we evolve and midlife is more satisfying when we know how to grow through this vulnerability. This pathway will help participants learn to recognize the ideas they and their clients have about vulnerability and midlife, so that midlife vulnerability becomes an asset, and participants can learn techniques for using personal vulnerability to evolve.
This pathway will create a context for intention, choice, and practice for inviting each individual to express themselves as part of the unfolding mystery that is our privilege to participate in. After all, it is about the Sacred Dance and Sacred Expression of the ECO/Whole System. This pathway will also extend a specific invitation for each participant to make one choice to enhance their own Co-active practice.
Beginning with a brief discussion of collaborative theory, So You Think You Can Collaborate? focuses on what it means to collaborate, what gets in the way of collaboration, current experiences around collaboration, and more. By sharing current visions – by all members of the group – and engaging in exercises, participants will be able to create new “collective” vision out of their individual visions.
In this pathway, participants will be invited to write three versions of their life story: a small story (the victim's story or stage 1), the overcoming story (stage 2 – solving problems), and the great story (the story written from your Soul's perspective). We will also lead participants through an experience of becoming more intimate with their Great Story, and living life from that perspective. This is an opportunity for participants to take the details of their own life and merge their personal path with the global path into which we are all evolving.
People who work in humane workplaces and bring their entire selves to work collectively achieve astonishing results. Agile and design thinking call for people to bring their whole selves to work offering a pathway to the astonishing results the world needs. This pathway will help participants learn how to recognize agile and design thinking when they encounter it and will give them a sampling of resources to help them bring agile and design thinking to their clients to start to achieve significant results.
In Co-Active Coach training we learn to intrude upon stories. But this does not have to be a hard and fast rule. Stories can be a rich source of growth and learning for us and for our clients. In this session, participants will discover techniques for exploring and crafting stories as tools for transformation. We will discuss when to intrude and when to shut up and listen. We will also work with stories as pathways to reshape our world and our place in it.
Strength's Strategy serves to begin a more intentional, world-wide conversation about leveraging the individual and collective strengths of caring, committed leaders in service of bringing impactful and lasting transformation to the world. Working from the Strength's Maturity Model, participants will understand that true interdependence requires confidently recognizing, reporting, relating, and intentionally releasing strengths in ways that complement and increase the strengths of others.
Ever think something like, "Yikes, I've got a lump in my throat the size of a bowling ball?" Your chest feels heavy and tight, you haven’t taken a deep, oxygenating breath in... days? It's that feeling you get when you're a bit anxious about taking a risk, facing a saboteur, stepping out, trying something new or challenging like pushing a "growth edge." In this pathway, we'll show you how "ball busters" – a combination of conversations, story-writing, visualizations, playful exercise, and powerful rituals – all help banish the bowling ball terror and tap into your untapped potential.
This session will help participants identify their destiny within the evolving global mystery – for themselves, their clients, and the organizations they lead. Participants will cognitively and intuitively sense the Akashic and Shamanic approaches to a global mystery and seek their destiny in response to this mystery. Then with Akashic and Shamanic support, they will evolve ways to integrate that destiny into their lives, their coaching, and their leadership.
The Symposium is a transformative educational experience whose purpose is to "bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially-just human presence on this planet." Combining video modules with group processes, the Symposium wakes people up to the realities of our current global crisis and deepens their understanding of how we got here so that they are able to see new possibilities and begin to take action in their lives.
This pathway will help us each realize that we are not going crazy, but we are awakening and what that truly means for the individual – as well as the collective. In this session, participants will develop a deeper connection with their soul, understand the signs of Awakening and how to cope with them, and learn more about the Stages of Awakening.
Learn more about the "DeepMiddle," a portal through which we believe human beings pass on their way to deep transitional connection. It lies within the heart and soul of leadership, and is an exploration deep into the heart of humanity. Experience how the DeepMiddle allows us both to be with challenges, negativity, discomfort, and stay connected to one’s essence (of love), to self, and to each other.
In this pathway, participants get intimate with the landscape of each of the four evolutionary perspectives as outlined in Brian Hall’s work, with special emphasis on stages 3 and 4 (life as a creative project; life as a global mystery). They also examine and experience the beliefs and attitudes, thoughts and feelings, and choices and decisions that surround each perspective, and use movement to embody each of these stages.
Leaders have a life-transforming choice to make – the choice to become who they truly know they're created to be. The Greatness Choice is a workshop designed with this very purpose in mind. With gentleness, humor, poignancy, and intention, it clears a transformative space, where people shift from "Who I have become is not who I am" to "Who I am" is sourced from my Greatness. Unique in its design, The Greatness Choice brings participants into relationship with their greatness, helping to reawaken individuals to who they really are.
Discover Nia and all that it can do for you. Nia is a body-mind-spirit program that draws on nine different disciplines from three main movement forms: martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts. Participants can expect to increase their awareness of physical intelligence, feel energized, and connect in new ways. As a result, participants can come to embody these elements of awareness, choice, and being alive – all which help expand their coaching and leadership toolkit.
Using the principles of the No-Name Initiative, a pro bono initiative designed to promote dialogue in South Africa, this workshop will help participants experience the different stakeholders and voices of an important topic. Participants will also experience stepping out of their personal opinion and motivation of important issues into a bigger picture of the world and how everything is inter-related.
Solo pursuits can be Co-Active when we find value in the little contributions along the way – everything from life and from others. Participants will learn to see Co-active opportunities in their solo pursuits and find unrealized value in their lives and the way they already promote interdependence and care for life’s mystery on a global level. As a result, you will be able to see the abundance of interdependence you may have been overlooking.
In order to evolve beyond Stages 1 and 2 as outlined in Brian Hall's work (no control over life; life as a problem to be solved), we need to need to embrace our feminine energies, regardless of our gender. Energies of the feminine are: emotions, creating and imagination, being, and receiving. In stage 3 (life as a creative project) we create life and manifest our reality. In stage 4 we co-create in full partnership with the Mystery. This pathway shows how co-creation calls us forth to have a new relationship with Self, with chaos, with the unknown and with our willingness and ability to receive for no reason. This gives access to the lens of Soul, a deeply healing and inspiring perspective.
When we learn to consciously and skillfully engage both "sides" of a polarity as a whole, without trying to resolve the creative tension that ensues, we begin to engage the mystery and unleash a force that propels a transformative leap to a new level. In this pathway, you will gain a visceral sense of how the wholeness inherent in opposites is at the core of the creation process in every aspect of life, so you can better appreciate the extent of which this potential has been untapped.
Here is your chance to learn how to work and co-create with like-minded people who bring different perspectives, insight, and experiences to the conversation. This pathway will help participants learn how to co-create a new and unique space and energy for coaches and leaders to explore what global co-activity looks, feels, tastes, sounds, and moves like. As a result, participants can better understand their values and beliefs relative to where they come from (foundation), where they are focusing now (focus), and where there are looking to (vision).
This pathway will take participants on a learning journey to develop self-awareness, relationship skill-building, and cultural intelligence. Through a series of experiential exercises that build from one to the next, participants will discover the opportunity and ease with which they are able to connect authentically at a deeper level that transcends surface level difference. They will take part in a conversation that facilitates connection across difference by honoring individuality while discovering points of similarity.
In order to step into their value, their access to innovation and intimacy, leaders have to let go of what they know and step into being authentically present, aware, and awake in any situation and use that in service of transforming themselves and in turn the world around them. In this vigorously inspiring and invigorating experience, participants will gain a sense of “AHA!” around their value and the power of authentic presence, and they will feel a sense of responsibility for creating the life they want and experience that responsibility as freedom.
The transition from Creative Self to Integral Self includes cultivating the shadow and facing the "dark side". In this session, participants will become aware of and fully claim their shadow in order to acknowledge, accept, and love ALL that they are. This will help them turn challenges into transformative gifts, reconnect with what has become disconnected, and gain a treasure box of tools, techniques, and tips to support their transition.
This pathway is carefully designed to help coaches understand and be able to effectively use with their clients the latest research-based information about the brain, heart, body and energetic fields of consciousness. In addition, they will learn new tools for identifying and working with more challenging and ineffective energy fields (such as anger, fear, shame, guilt, and apathy) that their coaching clients may be experiencing and well as practical, easy processes for helping clients experience and move through old, stuck beliefs, stories and wounds, leading to real, lasting transformation.
800-691-6008 (option 3)
or 415-451-6000 (option 3)
coactivesummit@thecoaches.com
In the UK: +44 (0) 845 299 8199