Learning Objectives The goal of the Whole Thinking program is to nurture and enhance leadership, and strengthen communities in this country by integrating the environmental and social change movements. By participating in our whole thinking program, you can expect to: • Experience our core teachings on Story, Dialogue, Reflective Leadership, Personal Creativity and Courage, Movement Building, Cultural Competency, and Emotional Intelligence • Understand new definitions and measures of success for your work- measures that embrace a broader agenda • Deepen your awareness of the many allied professional sectors that can be united across the environmental and social change movement spectrum. • Receive tools that help you stretch across sectors and build new relationships with people very different than yourself • See your edges and blind spots; and challenge assumptions • Awaken or reinvigorate your capacity as a leader • Re-think your work in terms of whole systems, considering root causes rather than symptoms • Examine your personal relationship to race, power and privilege; and talk openly about how forces of oppression in our society affect or limit us and our work • Participate in a collaborative group process; and sit with fellow participants as a community, regardless of what surfaces • Use your hands and explore your personal creativity • Experience living on a piece of land where you will take in the changes in the weather, landscape, day and night, sky and stars, and your own physical comfort and discomfort. • Rejuvenate your strength and wisdom through nurturing, reflective and creative practices that open the door for more authentic relationships, deeper dialogue and new ways of leading.
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