🌟 11/13 Essential Conversations—The Power of Purpose: Give & Grow
🎉 20th Anniversary of Art of Convening!
🌟 11/13 Essential Conversations—The Power of Purpose: Give & Grow 🎉 20th Anniversary of Art of Convening!
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Advanced Convening Graduate Forum
Starting May 1, 2024 - January 8, 2025
9 Live Zoom Sessions
A learning lab for those with in-depth experience with AoC to cultivate the APPLICATION of AoC. In this context, AoC is a “technology of leadership in the world” - a “recipe for relationship building” in team and organization settings.
Your Mentor and Coach
Join two CPL Certified Convening Leaders for this exceptional program.
Craig Neal, originator of the Art of Convening Trainings & co-author of The Art of Convening: Authentic Engagement in Meetings, Gatherings, and Conversations, will guide as Mentor of the program.
Kim Kristenson-Lee, ICF Certified PCC Coach specializing in Situational Leadership and post-traumatic growth; 25-Year Energy Industry talent manager, will serve as Coach for the program.
Essential Conversations: NEW! The Power of Purpose: To Grow and to Give for Life
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The Power of Purpose: Unlock Your Purpose, Grow and Give for Life
“Compassion Is the Soul of Purpose
As we work our way toward purpose, we find that helping others
is more fulfilling than indulging our own wants. We begin to
understand that compassion is at the very center of a life lived on
purpose. Compassion is the soul of purpose.”
Legendary personal coach Richard Leider, creator of the “purpose movement,” will bring new stories, new lessons, and an all-new Purpose Manifesto.
In this special Essential Conversations session, Richard launches the 4th Edition of The Power of Purpose, completely revised and updated. He will offer a practical guide to unlocking the power of purpose at any stage of life, tapping into the broader need for purpose in our post-pandemic world. We will discover:
New insights on purpose
Becoming a Purposeful Leader
The Purpose Formula which includes mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose and to live a life of meaning and fulfillment.
Your purpose gives you a reason to rise every morning, a means of actively expressing the deepest dimension of who you are, and a way to grow and give for life. Through engaging stories, proven practices, and thoughtful inquiry, this book opens the path for unlocking your purpose to live longer, better, and more meaningfully. This is the power of purpose.
Purpose is an active expression of our values and our compassion for others—it makes us want to get up in the morning and add value to the world. The Power of Purpose details a graceful, practical, and ultimately spiritual process for making it central to your life. This revitalized guide will help you integrate it into everything you do.
This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated. With a new co-author, new stories and examples and resources, it taps into the broader need for purpose in our post-pandemic world. With more than 40% new content, readers will discover new insights on purpose, a new chapter on Becoming a Purposeful Leader, and The Purpose Formula which includes mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose and to live a life of meaning and fulfillment.
Richard Leider, founder of Inventure – The Purpose Company, is one of America’s preeminent executive-life coaches. He is ranked by Forbes as one of the “Top 5” most respected executive coaches, and by the Conference Board as a “legend in coaching.”
“Why do you get up in the morning?”
Internationally bestselling author, coach, and keynote speaker, Richard has pioneered the way we answer that question. Widely viewed as a pioneer of the global purpose movement, his work is featured regularly in many media sources. His PBS Special – The Power of Purpose – was viewed by millions across the U.S. He has taken his purpose message to all 50 states, Canada, and to four continents.
Along the way, Richard has written twelve books, including three best sellers, which have sold over one million copies and have been translated into 20 languages. The Power of Purpose (4th edition) is considered a classic in the personal growth field.
Richard is the founder of Inventure – The Purpose Company, a firm created to guide individuals to live, work, and lead on purpose. He is ranked by Forbes as one of the “Top 5” most respected coaches and by the Conference Board as a “legend in coaching.” He is one of a select few coaches who have been invited to work with over 100,000 leaders from over 100 organizations such as AARP, Ameriprise, Blue Zones, Blue Spirit, Ericsson, General Mills, Habitat for Humanity, Lifespark, Mayo Clinic, Modern Elder Academy, National Football League, Outward Bound, Optum, Pfizer, United Health Group, and the U.S. Dept of State.
Richard holds a master’s degree in Counseling and is a National Certified Counselor and a National Certified Master Career Counselor. His work has been recognized with many awards including a Bush Fellowship, and the Outstanding Scholar for Creative Longevity and Wisdom award from the Fielding Institute.
Richard is a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s acclaimed Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing, and an Education Fellow with the Retirement Income Institute. Richard serves as a Purpose Ambassador for Blue Zones and Blue Spirit Costa Rica.
For over 30 years, he has led Inventure Expedition walking safaris in East Africa where he is a founder and a board member of the Dorobo Fund for Tanzania. He and his wife, Sally, live in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area.
More about Richard @ https://richardleider.com/
CPL Fall Retreat 2024
CPL FALL RETREAT 2024
Community Resilience*
Turning to One Another Creating “Islands of Sanity” **
Thursday, October 17 to Sunday, October 20, 2024
CPL Vision: A just, inclusive and interconnected world—a world that works for all.
What leadership is needed NOW to co-create a world that works for all?
Join us as we reconnect, engage, collaborate to consider a shared, positive future, in community.
We will again design a collaborative hybrid event with participation roles for in-person and virtual interaction.
The world continues to pivot; our lives continue to evolve. As Purposeful Leaders, holders of space, and conveners of change, it is crucial to have the opportunity to pause and gather the learnings from these past impactful months.
The next great pivot has begun:
Beyond “The Great Resignation” AND “The Great Reimagining” is the GREAT RE-ENGAGEMENT.
The Great Re-engagement: To create a future world that does work for a majority of people on the planet, we need to engage in new ways! What can we dream together? We have the opportunity to create a future vision, and then learn how to live into it. Together.
Everyday Convening: Noticing, Nurturing, and Normalizing Felt-Sensed and Spacious Listening
Wednesday, September 26, 2024 | 9:00-11:00 AM Central | Zoom-based
Co-convened by Mary Elaine Kiener and Cecily Victor
In this workshop, co-conveners Mary Elaine Kiener and Cecily Victor will invite an interactive exploration of how to bring the Art of Convening into the “real world” of everyday life. In particular, this encompasses those circumstances and environments in which convening is not an explicitly shared cultural value and/or practice.
Mary Elaine and Cecily will briefly share instances from their own lived experiences and offer a few brief exercises to illustrate the power of pausing to invite freshness in conversations with others, create space for instances of “natural” felt-sensing to emerge and invite new possibilities that may arise from spacious listening.
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Meet your Co-Conveners
Mary Elaine Kiener is a transformation midwife as a listening partner for those who are awakening to their authentic life stories. Her passion lies in exploring life’s puzzles and challenges through a process of felt-sensed listening and learning at the edges of life’s unfolding journeys. She particularly revels in those moments during which together we traverse the enriching inner aspects of convening, inviting a deeper, more authentic wisdom to emerge. She is the “ME” at ASK ME House LLC, and its Creative Energy Officer. She is a Certified Convening Leader with CPL.
Cecily Victor is an illuminator, motivated listener and artist in the field of convening. In her presence, people feel liberated to gather and converse in ways that allow their best selves to emerge and shine, so they can serve their community and acknowledge the masterpieces that they already are. She brings 25+ years of experience in teaching, community building, leadership development while inspiring people internationally throughout the USA, Canada, Singapore and India. As a CTI certified Co-Active leader and Certified Convening Leader, she loves collaborating and creating meaningful workshops with fellow convening leaders. She also serves as CPL’s Board Chair and is a board member of the Berrett-Koehler Foundation.
Essential Conversations: “You Belong Here: The Power of Being Seen, Heard, and Valued on Your Own Terms”
Kim Dabbs is a global leader in Belonging and Purpose, whose unique life story informs her passionate advocacy for inclusion and understanding. Born in Korea and adopted by American parents, Kim's journey has taken her from feeling perpetually out of place in different cultures to becoming an influential voice in creating spaces where everyone feels they belong.
As the Global Vice President of ESG and Social Innovation at Steelcase, she applies her extensive experience in social innovation, honed through roles like the Executive Director of the West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology and a residency at Stanford to foster more inclusive and equitable environments.
Everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their life—when we walk into a room and think to ourselves, “I don’t belong here.” To avoid these feelings of exclusion, many of us hide our authentic selves and allow others to define our identity.
In a world overcrowded with labels, don't allow your identity to be defined by other people. Learn how to take back your power, choose to feed the aspects of your identity that serve you, and let go of those that don't.
You Belong Here offers a new framework that allows each of us to define how we want to be seen, heard, and valued on our own terms so we feel a sense of belonging in any situation. Further, it serves as a launchpad for organizational leaders and culture builders to create safe spaces for individuals to show up as their authentic selves.
We will explore our Four Identities
Our Lived Identity is made up of the aspects of our identity we inherit when we are born into the world.
Our Learned Identity includes the parts of our identity that we’ve chosen or claimed as we make our way through the world.
Our Lingering Identity is the identity we default to when we feel like an outsider and fall back into as a survival mechanism.
Our Loved Identity is where we find our authentic selves and see ourselves through a lens of empowerment.
In the journey to understand our past experiences and how society has established barriers to entry, we can design our own future, rooted in our Loved Identity. We learn to rewrite the stories that aren’t serving us and embrace the ones that do. Rather than look for a seat at someone else’s table, we find the tools to build our own. When we fully leverage this and live with authenticity and purpose, we can be seen, heard, and valued in a way that gives us a sense of belonging at home, at work, and in society.
Belonging is realized when we understand everyone is an outsider and it’s the power to create space for those differences that unite us all. Join us on August 21, 2024 to learn why You Belong Here.
More about Kim Dabbs:
Inspiring Belonging to Unite Us All
Essential Conversations: BEYOND TRAUMA: Survival, Forgiveness and Healing after the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsis
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Beyond Trauma: Survival, Forgiveness and Healing after the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsis
“They dug a hole for us, put us in it and buried us. But they didn’t know we were seeds that would grow. Rwandans became seeds, we grew and today we are standing strong. Nothing can stand in our way!”
~ Rwandan President, Paul Kagame
Please join us for a special Essential Conversations session on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 on: “Beyond Trauma: Survival, Forgiveness and Healing after the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsis”.
This is a follow-up to two sessions on “Peacemaking from a Rwandan Perspective” that were co-designed and led by Kigali-based Merveille Gakuba and Jeremy Solomons in February and March 2022.
This new session will focus more closely on Merveille’s personal journey to recovery and wholeness over the last 30 years in a virtual “Fireside Chat” Q&A format with her husband Jeremy.
Merveille will talk about how she was not only able to survive the horrors of the Genocide but how she was also able to:
Come to terms with and fully grieve the brutal murder, disappearance and loss of her father and three brothers, amongst many other relatives
Learn to forgive but not forget those who perpetrated these and other serious crimes against humanity, sometimes in face-to-face meetings with those “genocidiaires” who harmed her own family
Heal her heart to be able to love and thrive anew
We invite you to witness the stories, consider the questions and paradoxes, and discern the learnings of this powerful context for healing our global traumas.
Above image from Left to right, Jeremy, Max, Merveille, and Emma. Second image shows The Tree of Protection, which was unveiled during ceremonies for the 30th Kwibuka commemoration of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsis.
Merveille Gakuba is now completing her studies as a mental health counselor at Mount Kigali University and next year she plans to create the Kigali Women’s Centre, an independent residential, therapeutic and educational facility to treat, heal and empower Rwandan women suffering from trauma related to the Genocide and to gender-based violence.
Jeremy Solomons is an independent leadership consultant and peace activist, who co-founded the Globally Conscious Peacemakers’ virtual community - globally-conscious-peacemakers.org - which holds free monthly web calls on anything to do with making a sustainable, positive difference in the world.
Merveille and Jeremy are now raising in Kigali a young peacemaker Max, who just met his big sister Emma for the first time in Austin, Texas.
Everyday Convening: Noticing, Nurturing, and Normalizing Felt-Sensed and Spacious Listening
Thursday, July 11, 2024 | 9:00-11:00 AM Central | Zoom-based
Co-convened by Mary Elaine Kiener and Cecily Victor
In this workshop, co-conveners Mary Elaine Kiener and Cecily Victor will invite an interactive exploration of how to bring the Art of Convening into the “real world” of everyday life. In particular, this encompasses those circumstances and environments in which convening is not an explicitly shared cultural value and/or practice.
Mary Elaine and Cecily will briefly share instances from their own lived experiences and offer a few brief exercises to illustrate the power of pausing to invite freshness in conversations with others, create space for instances of “natural” felt-sensing to emerge and invite new possibilities that may arise from spacious listening.
Community Builders get free access to this event!
Sign In to RSVP to this Event
Not a Community Builder?
Two ways to register:
Pay $20 to attend the workshop or
Start your Free Trial Today!
Meet your Co-Conveners
Mary Elaine Kiener is a transformation midwife as a listening partner for those who are awakening to their authentic life stories. Her passion lies in exploring life’s puzzles and challenges through a process of felt-sensed listening and learning at the edges of life’s unfolding journeys. She particularly revels in those moments during which together we traverse the enriching inner aspects of convening, inviting a deeper, more authentic wisdom to emerge. She is the “ME” at ASK ME House LLC, and its Creative Energy Officer. She is a Certified Convening Leader with CPL.
Cecily Victor is an illuminator, motivated listener and artist in the field of convening. In her presence, people feel liberated to gather and converse in ways that allow their best selves to emerge and shine, so they can serve their community and acknowledge the masterpieces that they already are. She brings 25+ years of experience in teaching, community building, leadership development while inspiring people internationally throughout the USA, Canada, Singapore and India. As a CTI certified Co-Active leader and Certified Convening Leader, she loves collaborating and creating meaningful workshops with fellow convening leaders. She also serves as CPL’s Board Chair and is a board member of the Berrett-Koehler Foundation.
