Embodied Leadership Courses
What Is Embodied Leadership?
The Embodied Leadership programs are designed for people who work in social and environmental justice movements, including organizers, staff, members, and activists. gs specifically encourages organizers who are a part of movements fighting for freedom from political repression and state violence (including criminalization, militarization, surveillance, policing, etc.) and those creating environmental justice (including just transition, land sovereignty, environmental racism, etc.) to apply. We also welcome politicized healers and other one-on-one practitioners who are looking to more effectively support movement leaders and organizations.
BIPOC Embodied Leadership
Online Fall 2021
In this six session online course, we will explore ways to more effectively coordinate together, take action, and ally with one another towards our individual and collective visions. As an individual, you will reflect on your own leadership, envision the kind of leader you want to be, and begin to make the moves to get there. You will explore how you historically act under pressure and learn to shift unwanted automatic reactions. You will build skills in making direct requests and declines, and increase your access to your body’s wisdom in daily life. While individual leadership development is a key focus and outcome of this course, our bigger aim is for participants to take away a greater ability to align our movement culture and strategies with our shared values.
You will learn to:
- Spot the default habits under pressure, as they show up in your leadership and relationships;
- Identify and articulate your vision and how you want to lead;
- Relax under pressure, which supports more grounded action;
- Stay more present through a wide range of emotions and experiences;
- Form more connected, mutual relationships that can more easefully coordinate towards larger goals;
- Coordinate with others more effectively through direct requests and declines;
- Embody greater authenticity and accountability in your leadership and relationships;
- Strengthen your presence with others and increase your ability to move others in beneficial directions;
- Learn to hold contradictions and complexity, while you continue to move toward your visions, and sustain your relationships;
- Compel and inspire people towards a collective vision and greater leadership risks;
- Develop a daily practice that will feed your leadership and wellbeing beyond the course.
Embodiment of somatics takes time—includes days in training, daily practice, good models, and individualized support. The Embodied Leadership course is an entry-point to this transformation, the beginning or continuation of the marathon rather than the completion of the sprint.
SESSION 1: Thursday, September 23 1pm – 3 pm PT / 4 pm – 6 pm ET (2 hours)
SESSION 2: Thursday, September 30 1pm – 3 pm PT / 4 pm – 6 pm ET (2 hours)
Coaching group: Thursday, October 7, Timing TBD (1.5 hours)
SESSION 3: Thursday, October 14 1pm – 3 pm PT / 4 pm – 6 pm ET (2 hours)
Coaching group: Thursday, October 21, Timing TBD (1.5 hours)
SESSION 4: Thursday, October 28 1pm – 3 pm PT / 4 pm – 6 pm ET (2 hours)
SESSION 5: Thursday, November 4 1pm – 3 pm PT / 4 pm – 6 pm ET (2 hours)
Coaching group: Thursday, November 11, Timing TBD (1.5 hours)
SESSION 6: Thursday, November 18 1pm – 3 pm PT / 4 pm – 6 pm ET (2 hours)
Is This Course for Me?
BIPOC EL is for you if you are interested in:
- Developing more powerful, inspiring, and authentic leadership in your movement work;
- Deepening your understanding of how life, oppression and privilege, and trauma “shape” us, and how we can heal and transform in the face of them;
- Practicing leading in a way that aligns with your values and vision for a transformed society; and
- Engaging 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.
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