Women's Mindful Leadership InstituteLeeds, UK September 2017 - July 2018
When the year is complete, you will re be clear about who you are, what you want and what you do well. You will be known across your network for values and strengths. You will be spending more time doing what you are good at, and less time worrying about the rest. You will have a team of brilliant and skillful women peer-coaches who are there for you at every turn. You will have cultivated coaching and mindfulness practices that allow you to navigate the most difficult situations with ease and peacefulness. You will remember the power of anchoring your leadership and relationships to the seasons. You will be powerful in your effectiveness, in your relatedness with others and in yourself. You will unleash this power into your work, and into the world.
The year-long retreat includes four in-person retreats, regular phone/Skype peer-coaching, professional training and coaching throughout; comprehensive leadership development and mindfulness curriculum.
Scroll down for detailed information about what happens at each seasonal retreat and between retreats.
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Autumn Retreat
Leadership development Objectives
Participants will deepen their awareness of their core values, personal mission and vision, and the big questions that are looming about leadership, career, and all aspects of life. Set three goals to achieve through the course of the programme and transform them into well-formed outcomes.
Mindfulness Objectives
Participants will gain an understanding of the core principles of mindfulness and will practice techniques that open up a new space at the retreat and for the entire institute. The mindfulness practices taught at the Autumn retreat will support the deepening awareness work described above, and will help participants become aware of how they typically operate (auto-pilot) so that they can make room for living and leading with intention and choice instead.
Coaching Community Objectives
The first retreat sets up participants to extract maximum value from all the coaching elements of the program. Each member will have a dedicated peer coach (a co-conspirator) each quarter, monthly group coaching called the Board of Director's Meeting (BOD) and opportunities for one to one private professional coaching and mindfulness training. The autumn retreat establishes group norms. Through a series of one to one structured conversations, members get to know each other through the lense of their values. This teaches coaching skills of reflective listening and listening for values. The participants will take part in a practice Board of Directors meeting so that they are prepared to conduct their group coaching sessions between retake treats. Finally, members will be trained on how to prepare for any coaching session to make the most of each session (including co-conspirator calls, BOD sessions and professional coaching/mindfulness coaching).
Agenda & Logistics
This retreat will take place in a meditation house with no chairs or tables! We invite you to wear your comfy clothes that allow for floor sitting, laying down and movement. Let us know if sitting on a cushion might cause you any difficulty.
Agenda
8:00 - Breakfast and quiet writing
8:30 - Welcome, introductions and overview of the agenda
9:00 - Opening meditation to create space for being present to the work and to new relationships
9:15 - Round Robin Values-Based one to one conversations
10:00- Mindfulness exercise to shift from auto-pilot to intentional living/leading
10:30 - Bubble up prioritisation of value strings
11:00- Mission meditation
11:30 - Finalising and sharing mission. Creating mission nametags.
12:00 - Break for lunch (Free choice - eat sandwhiches and cold foods provided or head to Chapel Allerton for lunch)
1:30 - Vision project (Sharing, probing, guided visualisation, creating vision portrait)
2:45 - Moving from Big questions to goals to well-formed outcomes
3:15 - Coaching foundations overview & practice co-conspirator session (peer coaching)
4:15 - Overview of a Board of Director Session practice session
5:00 - Setting up work and mindfulness practice to take place between retreats
5:30 - Reflection & Feedback
6:00 - Closing meditation
8:00 - Breakfast and quiet writing
8:30 - Welcome, introductions and overview of the agenda
9:00 - Opening meditation to create space for being present to the work and to new relationships
9:15 - Round Robin Values-Based one to one conversations
10:00- Mindfulness exercise to shift from auto-pilot to intentional living/leading
10:30 - Bubble up prioritisation of value strings
11:00- Mission meditation
11:30 - Finalising and sharing mission. Creating mission nametags.
12:00 - Break for lunch (Free choice - eat sandwhiches and cold foods provided or head to Chapel Allerton for lunch)
1:30 - Vision project (Sharing, probing, guided visualisation, creating vision portrait)
2:45 - Moving from Big questions to goals to well-formed outcomes
3:15 - Coaching foundations overview & practice co-conspirator session (peer coaching)
4:15 - Overview of a Board of Director Session practice session
5:00 - Setting up work and mindfulness practice to take place between retreats
5:30 - Reflection & Feedback
6:00 - Closing meditation
Location: We will meet at the Meditation House in Chapel Allerton, Leeds. Overlooking the beautiful Gledhow Valley Woods, and surrounded by nature, the venue is easily accessible from Leeds city centre, as well as nearby towns and cities such as York, Sheffield, Manchester, Harrogate and Wakefield. For more information on our lovely host, Zeenat Sandra Cameron, and her Meditation & Mindfulness practice in Leeds, see here.
Between this Retreat & the Next
Weekly co-conspirator call
1 coaching call or hypnotherapy session
2 Board of directors meetings
Mindfulness journaling & Recorded visualization /meditation
Well formed outcomes worksheet (Goal #1)
Strongest Self Exerciss & StrengthsFinders Assessment
Your own work to progress on the goals you've set out
1 coaching call or hypnotherapy session
2 Board of directors meetings
Mindfulness journaling & Recorded visualization /meditation
Well formed outcomes worksheet (Goal #1)
Strongest Self Exerciss & StrengthsFinders Assessment
Your own work to progress on the goals you've set out
Winter Retreat
Leadership Development Objectives
Participants will be able to articulate their strengths and how they would like to lead and live from these strengths. They will identify signature strengths and identify who would be complimentary with them on a leadership team. Participants will practice leading from strengths. Participants will explore practical ways to put strengths language to use for positioning oneself for opportunities (e.g. LinkedIn & in networking conversations, and in putting oneself out there as a go-to-person).
Mindfulness Objectives
Participants will practice self-compassion and uncover how to interpret their thoughts to increase self esteem. Mindful listening, relating and communication. Introduction of Non-Violent Communication. The body scan meditation will be introduced and a meditation involving dealing with difficulty. Mindful movement will be incorporated into each session.
Coaching community objectives
Members will reflect on their group dynamics and take a look at the strengths present within each group using a model that they can bring back to their own teams and families. Members will also learn to create a space for non-violent communication in teams and for seeing team members for their strengths and spotting ideal partners for collaboration. Groups will set intentions for deepening their communication in co-conspirator and BOD meetings based on the coaching and mindfulness concepts.
Agenda & Logistics
8:00 - Breakfast and strengths name-badge creation
8:30 - Welcome, re-introductions by strengths & agenda overview
9:00 - Opening movement / meditation
9:30 - Exploring vulnerability and limiting situations in which we hide our strengths; shifting these self-imposed barriers through self-compassion and self-esteem mindfulness techniques
10:30 - StrengthsFinders presentation and discussion - model for use with teams at work. Discussion of how being vulnerable and leading from strengths leads to productive team work
11:30 - Naming strenghts and leading from strengths peer-coaching; applying strengths-based leadership to real-life situations
12:00 - Break for lunch
1:00 - Winter mindfulness walk and body scan
1:30 - Reflecting on group dynamics. Revisiting norms and creating a space for non-violent communication in peer-coaching spaces and in work teams. BOD session incorporating new non-violent communication techniques and listening for strengths and values
3:30 - Identify signature strengths and create strengths portrait.
4:00 - Review CVs/LinkedIn (coach feedback and peer feedback)
4:15 - Strengths story-telling
4:30 - Positioning for spending more time working from strengths; time mastery and working from strengths
5:00 - Returning to strengths during stress; mindfulness approach
5:30 - Reflection & Feedback
6:00 - Overview of what's happening between sessions and closing exercise
8:30 - Welcome, re-introductions by strengths & agenda overview
9:00 - Opening movement / meditation
9:30 - Exploring vulnerability and limiting situations in which we hide our strengths; shifting these self-imposed barriers through self-compassion and self-esteem mindfulness techniques
10:30 - StrengthsFinders presentation and discussion - model for use with teams at work. Discussion of how being vulnerable and leading from strengths leads to productive team work
11:30 - Naming strenghts and leading from strengths peer-coaching; applying strengths-based leadership to real-life situations
12:00 - Break for lunch
1:00 - Winter mindfulness walk and body scan
1:30 - Reflecting on group dynamics. Revisiting norms and creating a space for non-violent communication in peer-coaching spaces and in work teams. BOD session incorporating new non-violent communication techniques and listening for strengths and values
3:30 - Identify signature strengths and create strengths portrait.
4:00 - Review CVs/LinkedIn (coach feedback and peer feedback)
4:15 - Strengths story-telling
4:30 - Positioning for spending more time working from strengths; time mastery and working from strengths
5:00 - Returning to strengths during stress; mindfulness approach
5:30 - Reflection & Feedback
6:00 - Overview of what's happening between sessions and closing exercise
Between this retreat & the next
6 co-conspirator (one to one peer coaching) calls in support of coaching goals
1 professional coaching call, hypnotherapy or mindfuness session
3 Board of Directors (BOD) (group peer-coaching) meetings
Mindfulness journaling & recorded visualization /meditation
Relationship Mapping
LinkedIn update and peer-review
Better-Than-Before habits tendency quiz and listen to this podcast.
Five days of habit observations
2nd well-formed outcome worksheet (Goal #2)
Your own work to progress on the goals you've set out
1 professional coaching call, hypnotherapy or mindfuness session
3 Board of Directors (BOD) (group peer-coaching) meetings
Mindfulness journaling & recorded visualization /meditation
Relationship Mapping
LinkedIn update and peer-review
Better-Than-Before habits tendency quiz and listen to this podcast.
Five days of habit observations
2nd well-formed outcome worksheet (Goal #2)
Your own work to progress on the goals you've set out
Spring Retreat
Leadership development Objectives
This quarter is focused on intentionally shifting habits and relationships to allow the most high-impact leader within each participant to emerge and to put habits to work to achieve team goals. Using material from Duhigg’s the Power of Habit and Rubin’s Better Than Before, participants will identify two keystone habit to focus on shifting between the Spring and Summer retreats. A keystone habit is one that has a ripple effect on all areas of life, including satisfaction at home and effectiveness as professionals. Participants will also identify organisational habits to influence to improve outcomes. We will shift into work on relationships; Participants will also choose from two relationship maps - an influence map or an inspiration map - to develop a plan to all of the inner work on mission, vision, strengths, and habits into action.
Mindfulness Objectives
The mindfulness work of this retreat will focus on supporting the development of positive habits and the management of negative habits. Techniques will address stress and anxiety, including practicing the STOP and CALM meditation and the Lake and Mountain Meditation. Throughout the retreat we will practice mindful eating, mindful movement and walking and deepen understanding of health and mindfulness. Habit and relationship discussions will be infused with mindfulness techniques to support the evolving habits and new relatedness.
Coaching Community Objectives
We will examine what stressor and healing habits that may be are unfolding within the BOD groups and in work teams. We'll uncover ways to make tweaks to the group to strengthen and deepen the working relationships. We will discuss how to apply these concepts to work teams.
Agenda & Logistics
8:30 - Breakfast with mindful eating approach
9:00 - Welcome, introductions by "When have you been successful shifting a habit?"
9:30 - Triads: Exploring habits & strongest selves - which habits support or detract from being our strongest selves at work? Outside of work?
10: 15 - Stress reduction meditation
10:30 - Parallel groups (By Tendency) - Habit Distinction & Strategies Group (with Jen) / Identifying mindfulness strategies to support new habits/habit elimination including practicing techniques
11:50 - Make a habit plan
12:00 - Mindful-Eating lunch
1:00 - Spring mindfulness walk and mindful-exercise
1:30 - Reflective practice - what are the habits of the BOD group? What new habits would strengthen the work of the group? What lessons can be drawn for work?
2:00 - BOD session applying newly identified habits
3:00 - Relationship mapping overview
3:20 - Relationship mapping and sharing
4:30 - But what if.... mindfulness practice to being able to speak with anyone. Overcoming barriers to execute relationship maps.
5:30 - Feedback and reflection
6:00 - Closing
9:00 - Welcome, introductions by "When have you been successful shifting a habit?"
9:30 - Triads: Exploring habits & strongest selves - which habits support or detract from being our strongest selves at work? Outside of work?
10: 15 - Stress reduction meditation
10:30 - Parallel groups (By Tendency) - Habit Distinction & Strategies Group (with Jen) / Identifying mindfulness strategies to support new habits/habit elimination including practicing techniques
11:50 - Make a habit plan
12:00 - Mindful-Eating lunch
1:00 - Spring mindfulness walk and mindful-exercise
1:30 - Reflective practice - what are the habits of the BOD group? What new habits would strengthen the work of the group? What lessons can be drawn for work?
2:00 - BOD session applying newly identified habits
3:00 - Relationship mapping overview
3:20 - Relationship mapping and sharing
4:30 - But what if.... mindfulness practice to being able to speak with anyone. Overcoming barriers to execute relationship maps.
5:30 - Feedback and reflection
6:00 - Closing
Between this Retreat & The next
6 co-conspirator (one to one peer coaching) calls in support of coaching goals
1 professional coaching call, hypnotherapy or mindfuness session
3 Board of Directors (BOD) (group peer-coaching) meetings
Mindfulness - habits-related journaling & recorded habits visualization /meditation
3rd well-formed outcome worksheet (Goal #3)
Home practice to begin to meditate without the auditory guide and to continue all the other practices.
Your own work to progress on the goals you've set out
1 professional coaching call, hypnotherapy or mindfuness session
3 Board of Directors (BOD) (group peer-coaching) meetings
Mindfulness - habits-related journaling & recorded habits visualization /meditation
3rd well-formed outcome worksheet (Goal #3)
Home practice to begin to meditate without the auditory guide and to continue all the other practices.
Your own work to progress on the goals you've set out
Summer Celebration
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Jen Walper RobertsLeadership & Career Coach
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Suzanne ShendereyHypnotherapist & Mindfulness Trainer
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