School of Embodied Leadership
School of Embodied Leadership (SOEL)
This 6-day course is about love and rigor. It is a fight for your dignity, and the ability to inspire the dignity of others. It is a course focused on purpose, team, longing, and action. You will learn to value, motivate, and bring out the best in yourself and the people you work and live with. It is an intensive that will increase your endurance, strength, and flexibility–physically, mentally, emotionally and in your leadership. SOEL focuses on you and your leadership development, and has a strong team componentit’s practicing leadership in a live (and pressured) environment! It will strengthen your ability to stay focused and committed to your goals in the midst of complexity and chaos, and explore questions such as the following: How do you collaborate under pressure? Stay aligned with your values and commitments? Embody leadership you and others find compelling? Deepen trust and relationship, amidst complexity?
About This Course
You will learn to:
- Develop powerful leadership and team purpose;
- Take effective action in high-stress and emotionally charged environments; build trust with yourself and others to have honest and courageous conversations;
- Address breakdowns with grace and transparency;
- Give and receive real-time assessments that support change in yourself or others, aligned with your leadership goals;
- Enhance the integration/alignment of your mind, body, spirit with your vision and action;
- Become more accountable to yourself, your longings, and to others, while you support the accountability and longings of others;
- Embody love and rigor.
In SOEL, we encourage organizers and activists who have been working closely on coalition campaigns and/or strategic alliances, to attend this course together. We believe that building multi-racial and cross-sectoral movements is critical to achieving liberation. gs hopes it can make an impactful contribution by deepening existing movement relationships and supporting generative movement building strategies.
To be effective in our work for liberation, it requires rigor, endurance, agility, balance, deep love and coordination. This course has a strong focus on rigor (being able to concentrate, generate positive and productive moods, remain open to possibilities, think through complex situations, and take action effectively); endurance and physical fitness (possessing strength, balance, agility, flexibility, coordination and perseverance); and spirit and connection to what’s bigger (knowing the values and calling on which you are willing to stake your life). Physical training is used in addition to the gscore methodology (somatic awareness, practice and opening) to support your transformation.
Is This Course for Me?
School of Embodied Leadership (SOEL) is for you, if you are interested to:
- Develop more powerful, inspiring, and authentic leadership in your movement work;
- Deepen your understanding of how life, oppression and privilege, and trauma “shape” us, and how we can heal and transform in the face of them;
- Practice leading in a way that aligns with your values and vision for a transformed society;and Engage in transformative organizing that weaves together personal and collective transformation as part of dismantling the intersecting systems of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, global capitalism, ableism, and Christian hegemony
Course Details
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Although there are no requirements for candidates to have participated in gs courses before applying to SOEL, it is preferred that you’ve participated in one of our programs; either through one of our courses or through a Movement Partnership.
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This course is currently not active.
Be the first to know when the course and application are available again by signing up for our e-news. Contact development@staging.gs-dev.mysites.io
We are committed to making sure that money is not a barrier to participation. We are committed to economic justice and to challenging white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and all systems of oppression in every aspect of our work. As part of that, we have a commitment to making our programs accessible and affordable to poor and working class people and people of color who are on the frontlines of social and environmental justice movements.
Thank you for your interest and for all the ways you support us!
Please consider making a donation to us for the sake of making our programs accessible to innovative movement leaders, to poor and working class communities, and communities of color. All donations go a long way for us and no amount is too small to have an impact.
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