Transformational Leadership Workshop
August 30, 3 pm -September 2, 11 am; Knoll Farm, Fayston, Vermont.
Tuition, room and board only $750
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The Transformational Leadership Workshop will help you to understand how the success of your work is bound up in the success of other efforts; how to create cross-cutting alliances that transcend the very real divides of race, class, power and ideology which keep accelerated change from happening; how to establish courage, creativity and compassion as goals of leadership; and how to nourish and support the individual leaders who are carrying today’s burdens of change.
Shorter in length than our Whole Thinking Retreat Program, this 4-day workshop offers a strong introduction to our theories of change and to the experiences and practices of our land-based learning center at Knoll Farm. The workshop will center around such core leadership practices as the power of story; the skills of movement-building and dialogue, and it explores the changing demands of leadership today.
Workshop Faculty
Peter Forbes is the co-director and co-founder of the Center for Whole Communities. He has been facilitating workshops on the process of transformational leadership for many years and brings a great deal of thinking and skill to this process.
Tom Wessels is a forest ecologist and teaches at Antioch Graduate School of New England. He has been on the Center’s faculty since our early days, and has facilitated many of our Whole Thinking fellowship retreats. He brings a great deal of knowledge of natural systems to bear on the question of how might our society move forward at this challenging moment in history.
Viveka Chen is a consultant specializing in multi-stakeholder collaboration, facilitation, and organizational development. Since 1990, she has worked with low-income communities of color and their allies using community development and community building as a means of realizing community well being and racial, social and environmental justice.
Location and Times
This workshop takes place at Whole Communities’ primary land-based learning center, Knoll Farm in central Vermont. Knoll Farm is a small, organic family farm in the heart of the Green Mountains. Our learning center occupies the beautiful timberframe barn, mountain yurt, solar bath house, hills and meadows of the farm. The workshop starts at 3 pm on August 30 and ends at 11 am on September 2.
Accommodations and Food
Meals are mostly vegetarian, hearty and extremely fresh, prepared from food grown at the farm and nearby. We can accommodate special diets and food allergies if notified in advance of your needs. You will sleep in a small personal yurt (round building) or tent cabin (platform tent with canvas walls). Each comes with a proper bed, table and chair, single or double occupancy. We have a beautiful shower house with flush toilets, solar showers and a hot tub.
Cost
Tuition is $750, with all meals and accommodation included. Register online here
Feel free to call us with any questions (Lauren Oleet, Program Manager, 802-496-5690; Lauren@wholecommunities.org).