Dear colleagues,
The time for our PDW (Program Session #: 268) entitled
Enhancing Compassion Through Embodied Awareness – An Approach to Mindful Leadership and Consulting
is now 10 am-noon, Saturday, in Hochelaga 2 of the Queen Elizabeth
We moved the session an hour earlier, so it will not conflict with another PDW on mindfulness, feeling that many of the same people may wish to attend both.
This is a highly experiential session, incorporating embodied ways of developing awareness and Tibetan Buddhist-based approaches to cultivating awareness and compassion. I have used somatic methods in my teaching and consulting for over 12 years and Susan Skjei is the founder and director of Naropa University's Program in Authentic Leadership, which has already graduated over 200 managers. Both of us are also involved in research related to the topic of the session, so can address more scholarly questions as well.
We hope you'll join us! A description follows:
As humans, we can access a quality of experience that is open, wise, calm, beyond liking and disliking – simply open, embodied, and aware. However, much of the time we feel limited by self-consciousness and a mind that chatters, notices and comments on superficial details, and senses the separation between ourselves and others. It is possible to significantly shift the outcomes of management and consulting by learning to pause and invite "embodied awareness" into our work. Being able to be fully present and open to one's client, employee, or student is something that is learnable. When we as consultants, leaders and teachers have this quality of presence, we can be with clients, employees and students more completely. What is needed in the moment becomes easier to access. Whether it means facing and speaking truth to power or knowing what others need, such presence and mindfulness are the foundations for compassionate action. Recent research by Senge and Scharmer emphasizes the importance of "presence" in developing effective leaders but provides few specific practices. Spiritual traditions such as Tibetan Buddhism and somatic training offer practices in body-mind awareness and mindfulness that strengthen a leader's ability to cultivate and act from "authentic presence." The workshop presenters have extensive experience with awareness practices that build on the neuroplasticity of the mind (Feldenkrais) and spiritual traditions (Tibetan Buddhism) and have worked professionally as leadership consultants with executives in the US and abroad for over 20 years.
Participants can experience moments of embodied awareness, discuss their work in this area and use these practices when consulting with organizations.
Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, SF Campus
Alliant International University
One Beach Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94133
Phone 415/955-2143
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