Body-Informed Leadership Training
Body-Informed Leadership trainings bring together changemakers from third-sector, corporate, and grassroots organisations to cultivate the internal and relational skills to ‘lead by embodiment;’ to intentionally use the ways they embody, co-regulate and express themselves as a means to transform their group cultures, and to better align with a positive vision for the future.
Learning to Trust Ourselves as Relational Leaders
This programme is designed for purpose-driven leaders who know that the difference they want to make starts with themselves. They are seeking out the inner pathways by which they can better understand their relational patterns; become more skilful in their practice of self-and-co-regulation, expression, listening, and presence; turn down the noise, listen to the field, and find the flow and integrity that come from working from the centre.
We are Primed for Connection
Any theory of leadership is a theory about human nature. Body-Informed Leadership believes that as humans we are uniquely primed for connection, and innately attuned to emergent collective intelligence as a force that leads our groups and actions.
Body-Informed Leadership programmes draw from neuroscience, complexity theory and developmental psychology to provide frameworks and practical tools to help leaders identify and anchor into these capacities within themselves.
“I experienced such an organic learning experience, whereby my insights layered on each other over several months to emerge as a newly embodied worldview that completely transcends my previous knowing.”
— Body-Informed Leadership Training Participant
The Body-Informed Leadership Programme takes participants through the 3 Cultivations of Body-Informed Leadership: Safety, Embodiment, and Integration. Through experiential activities, theoretical frameworks and supported somatic practice, participants learn the importance of each Cultivation to their human neurobiology, as well as the role it plays in their relationships, leadership and teams.
Each Cultivation helps participants anchor a different quality of presence within themselves, and provides a guidepost for creating more relational, connected, complexity-ready cultures. When a leader encounters a major challenge, or wants to make a profound change in themselves or their organisation it is their whole self that needs to be worked with. We get to the heart of things and work with the personal patterns and histories that shape core behaviours and decisions.
Most importantly, the course enables participants to identify the patterns and the life histories that have shaped their own embodied collaborative ways of being. On this deep-dive, participants go on a compassionate journey through the landscape within. They learn new ways of harnessing their embodied energies in service of connection and to let go of patterns which no longer serve. It is absolutely essential work for those who seek to genuinely embody a connected, collaborative ethos, and to find deeper levels of trust for themselves and those they work with.
