Courses

Have you ever left a conversation and felt uneasy, wondering what the other person is really thinking or feeling, or telling yourself ‘I really messed that up?’

Have you avoided conversations because it felt too difficult to take them on – conversations like giving feedback, dealing with conflict in a close relationship, or addressing sensitive workplace issues?

Grounded in science related to our sense-making process, our emotional ‘survival’ systems and the power of stories, this program gives you the knowledge, skills and practical frameworks to transform ‘difficult’ conversations into ‘relationship-building’ conversations.

The Emergent Leadership Lab is a powerful space for learning, connecting, and experimenting in the unknown. You’ll connect with other young people with a shared passion for development, and embark on a journey of personal and collective learning – trying the same practices, frameworks and mindsets that Cultivating Leadership teaches to leaders of global firms and not-for-profits.

We are bringing the best that Cultivating Leadership has to offer and sharing it with young people around the world. Our goal is to understand how we might best support the next generation of leaders to create better communities, organizations, and set them on a path for powerful lifelong learning.

A six-session introduction and practicum to learn mindful self-compassion (MSC) both for yourself and your clients. MSC is an evidence-based curriculum developed by Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Chris Germer to address shame, inner critic, impostor syndrome, and other forms of destructive self-talk. Peer-reviewed research finds that program participants report lower levels of stress and anxiety and greater emotional resilience.

The series will introduce some of the neuroscience underlying our tendency toward negative self-talk and rumination, and will explore more than a dozen meditative and contemplative practices that have been shown to make a difference.

You know those conversations that open up entirely new possibilities? Where a question opens up a whole new vista of potential choices? In this workshop we offer a new form of listening and questioning that will open up a new kind of curiosity for you as you have conversations with your clients (your partner, your kids, etc.). Learn the difference between the content of someone’s thinking and the structure of someone’s meaning making. We slow down the process of conversations – reading interviews, engaging in deep conversations together, and feeling what it’s like to be at our growing edge. And because meaning making is more than a cognitive experience, we use our whole bodies as we explore, paying attention to our thinking, our feelings and our sensations.

The Leading Inclusively Lab is a highly experiential, full immersion experience where you will learn to foster psychologically safe and developmentally appropriate spaces for people across multiple social identity and cultural differences. We need these capacities now more than ever. All across the world, we are seeing that understanding and engaging skillfully across differences is critical and complex. As humans, we’re wired to label each other and construct reasons to elevate our group over other groups. We are seeing more and more the limitations of this wiring, especially when we commit microaggressions against individuals and groups and our unconscious biases get us in all kinds of trouble. Society and our organizations demand that we become more self-aware and inclusive. This demand challenges our identity, simple stories, and the need for control. Sometimes when we try, we get it wrong and this unsettles us. This experiential program is designed to help us bring our most expansive selves to leading in more inclusive ways.