The Body-Informed Leadership Program
About the Program
The Body-Informed Leadership Program is a 9-month intensive for leaders, facilitators, coaches, and community members. It enables participants to engage the embodied dynamics at the heart of their group cultures, to release destructive patterns, enhance collaboration, and invoke a fundamentally relational ethos of leadership from the inside-out.
Held in small cohorts with direct contact and mentoring, the BIL Program provides a well-supported, experiential environment in which to practice new ways of being, encounter personal edges and blind spots, and collectively wire up for a more just, joyful and interconnected world.
Areas of Focus
Presence
Come into contact with the embodied experience that underpins your reality. Uncover the – often unspoken – dynamics that shape your sense of self-and-other at the deepest level. Practice an embodied skillset to stay present with all that arises, and to receive the intelligence of the sensory as the place where cultures are shared, negotiated and shaped.
Connection
Engage with concepts from interpersonal neurobiology, which reveal our very nature as inherently interconnected. Explore connection as an enlivening force and a space for deep play, where we articulate our experience of being through mutual attunement. Learn to sense, feel, and hold a transformational space for challenging dynamics arising from trauma, dysregulated attachment, and historical violence: what Body-Informed Leadership calls the ‘wounds of connection’ held within our bodies and the group field.
Power
Tap into power as a flow of connection, given shape by our bodies, minds, and relationships. Develop an embodied practice of power which releases dynamics of inequality and enables the synergy of mutual benefit. Understand how embodying power differently can be a potent force for changing culture from the bottom-up in our organisations and groups — alongside structural and systemic change.
“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.”
— BIL Program ParticipantThe BIL Program Includes
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The Body-Informed Leadership program focuses on self-reflection, self-understanding, and internal skill to lay a foundation for body-informed practice
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Carefully selected readings, videos, and other resources that immerse participants in key histories as well as current research and best practice
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3 in-person retreats of 3 full days plus a half day on either side, are a forum to practice embodied skills and to connect at a deeper level as a cohort.
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Individual mentoring sessions with Madelanne, to focus on emergent challenges and learning.
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Monthly Online Sessions for group inquiry, reflections on readings, and co-mentorship.
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Co-mentoring and small-group practice with fellow participants.
