Women Leading Change Program

Conscious woman-positive leadership?

Women’s leadership has become a hot topic. All types of organizations are now seeing the “untapped resource” that we call women. However, just because it is a woman that is leading does not mean that it is better leadership. WLC supports women in becoming their personal best and understanding the insidious mechanism that keep women limited in both their leadership and their lives.

Summary of Program

Women Leading Change (WLC) is a six-month, part-time, experience-based program designed to strengthen your leadership skills so that you confidently lead from an aware and woman-positive orientation. WLC uses an integrative approach, best summarized as conscious and transformational leadership, which draws from various spiritual, psychological, and philosophical traditions, as well as progressive approaches such as Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, women’s spirituality, Rogerian Theory, Core Energetics, social psychology, crisis intervention, consciousness studies, feminism, non-linear thinking, creative thinking, and organizational development. This program is designed to help women who are dedicated to social change access and understand their personal power, provide methods for working effectively with other women, and, ultimately, turn those other women into leaders who do the same for even more women.

Purpose of Program

The purpose of Women Leading Change is to:

  1. Empower women to step into leadership roles in the social change field through providing skills and experience.
  2. Provide women with the skills and tools they need to be effective agents of change.

The Women Leading Change Leadership Model

The Women Leading Change Leadership Model is:

  • Women-positive: The WLC leadership model seeks to find new ways to support women’s ways of thinking, knowing and acting personally, interpersonally, and globally.
  • Transformational: The WLC leadership model is transformational in that it seeks to empower leaders who Larger Visions then empo wer others to be leaders themselves.
  • Conscious: The WLC leadership model emphasizes self-awareness, compassion and collaboration.

Which means that those who use the model will be able to:

  1. Communicate and listen effectively on multiple levels
  2. Validate and engage others
  3. Empower “followers” to be leaders
  4. Provide authentic, values-based leadership
  5. Develop awareness of issues of diversity and character traits
  6. Be aware of their own thinking and its effect on their leadership.

Women Leading Change Students

Women Leading Change students are insightful and powerful women, mostly between the ages of 25 and 55, who are committed to social change. Regardless of their background or learning styles, these women are lifetime learners who are eager to learn useful new skills. These women put an emphasis on action without giving up a deep connection to themselves because they are aware that violence inside and outside of themselves no longer be tolerated.

Program Application Process:

  1. Request application
  2. Send in application and set up interview
  3. Send in $300 deposit after acceptance.

Program Dates


Full day workshops:

Will be decided by program participants

Expected Start: Fall 2011


Teleconferences:

will be decided by program participants

 


 

International Internship

February 2011 in Guatemala

Women Leading Change Highlights:

Over the course of six months you will:

Learn to lead groups clearly and efficiently through learning about group dynamics, group facilitation and Core Energetics assessment.

Help women rise above the issues they face through a deeper understanding of the problems facing women and education about effective and ineffective systems of intervention and change.

Learn universal healing and helping skills such as hands-on healing and basic counseling skills.

Strengthen cultural and gender awareness with an outside diversity panel  and through your own cultural research.

Respond effectively and confidently in crisis situations with first aid and CPR certification and crisis and trauma response techniques. 

Communicate expertly with others through learning non-violent communication techniques and basic mediation skills.

Create lasting connections with peers through meeting and working closely with other inspired women.

Co-create projects with other visionary women by putting your skills into action in a local and international internship

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