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FORMAT & CONTENT

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This is an 8-week program based on the Seven Competencies of Evolutionary Leaders developed by Manuel Manga. The weekly sessions will include a brief introduction of relevant concepts and theories,    journaling, dialogues, and other group activities. Self-study will include reviewing required and supplemental materials and completing weekly assignments. Participants will be encouraged to form accountability triads though it is not required for completing the program.

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In the course of the program participants will explore the following questions:

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• Identify adaptive challenges: What doesn’t feel right about the human experience around me? What do I feel called to transform? What adaptive challenges does it encompass?

• Acknowledge related systems: What systemic conditions keep these challenges in place? What are my known knowns and known unknowns? What are my assumptions? What inquiries are guiding my exploration?

• Understand collective intentionality: How do language, emotions, and human natures are shaping these systems? What is independent of our beliefs and what is real only because we collectively believe it is? What material, institutional, cultural, and mental limitations can be leveraged or transformed?

• Take responsibility for your role: How are these systems shaping me and how do I participate in sustaining or evolving them?

• Engage stakeholders: Who are key ecosystem actors and how can I effectively engage them in a system-level reflection?

• Explore possibilities: What is the highest potential for the systems I'm engaging with? What alternative futures are possible?

• Design for systemic sustainability: Do these possibilities allow for environmental, human, and institutional sustainability?

• Develop your own capacity: Am I ready for this work? What can I do to further develop my capacity for systems transformation?

 

REGISTRATION FEES

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This program is funded by the Evolutionary Leadership Community (ELC). Participation is free for dues-paying ELC members. Non-members are required to pay a USD $450 registration fee that will be added to the community budget and used to fund other member-led programs and workshops. 

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If you are not an ELC member yet, you are welcome to explore the opportunity to join the community (it probably won't affect your registration fee for this program though as it takes a few weeks to become a dues-paying member). Our members pay radically flexible monthly dues (anything above zero), enjoy free access to all community-funded events, and collectively manage community funds to finance member-led educational offers and other proposals that are aligned with the mission of the community: to support members in developing the capacity to redesign worldviews, cultures, and institutions in service to a more just, sustainable, and flourishing world.