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Celebrating 4 years of Essential Conversations with a special session with Margaret Wheatley for a deep dive into her new book
Margaret Wheatley, author, Leadership and the New Science, Turning to One Another, Who Do We Choose To Be?, Restoring Sanity, The Warrior’s Songline, and more.
Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity, and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations
What Would It Be Like to Restore Sanity? What would it be like to work together again in creative and generous ways? What would it be like to be curious about who you’re with rather than judging or fearing them? What would it be like to engage together in exploring possibilities rather than withdrawing in conflict or disagreement? What would it be like to be working well together?
Meg is a best-selling author of many books that have guided CPL’s evolution, including Turning to One Another and, more recently, Who Do We Choose to Be. Meg offers us, as brave leaders and change agents, the tools to create work conditions that foster generosity, creativity, and kindness in a world of tumultuous and irreversible changes.
From fifty years of working with leaders on all continents and at all levels, Meg feels confident to say that leadership has never been more difficult. No matter our past success as caring and empowering leaders, we now face dynamics beyond our control intensifying at exponential speed.
The perfect storm is here with the coalescence of climate and human-created catastrophes, greed, and fear. People retreat in self-protection and communities have fractured. As leaders dedicated to serving the causes and people we treasure, what are we to do?
Meg's answer is that we need to restore sanity by awakening the human spirit. To achieve this, we must undertake the most challenging and meaningful work of our leader lives: Creating Islands of Sanity, places of possibility and sanctuary.
Sane leadership is the unshakable confidence that people can be generous, creative, and kind. The leader's role is to create the conditions for these innate capacities to manifest in meaningful work. This role requires both inner and outer work. Wheatley provides detailed practices for developing personal and group capacities to respond wisely and well to the challenges of this tumultuous time. Practices are organized around five major questions:
How do we create and sustain an Island of Sanity?
How do we shift from reactivity to responsiveness?
What are the practices to awaken people's generosity, creativity, and kindness?
What do we do when something goes wrong?
What do we do when the road gets hard?
Yes, leadership is increasingly difficult. And it can be noble work if we choose to be Warriors for the Human Spirit, using our power and influence to create places of possibility and sanctuary. There is no more rewarding and joyful work than awakening people's generosity, creativity, and kindness.
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MARGARET (MEG) WHEATLEY, Ed.D.
Since 1966, Margaret Wheatley has worked globally in many different roles: a speaker, teacher, community worker, consultant, advisor, formal leader. From these deep and varied experiences, she has developed the unshakable conviction that leaders must learn how to evoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity, and need for community. As this world tears us apart, sane leadership on behalf of the human spirit is the only way forward.
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She is a best-selling author of nine books, from the classic Leadership and the New Science in 1992 and Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity in June 2017. Her latest work is The Warrior’s Songline, a multi-sensory experience of the journey Warriors for the Human Spirit take to become the presence of insight and compassion–no matter what is going on around them. This new form melds together voice and sound creating an evocative and transcendent listening experience.