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Course Inspiration
Many of us are searching for ways to make a difference, to transform our families, communities and the world we live in. And each of us can make a difference – we all have the seeds of leadership and service within us. We can nurture these seeds, learning the skills and tools we need to transform ourselves and embody our highest potential. Whether you have prior experience and training, or you have recently felt called to step onto a path of leadership for the first time, this program is a unique opportunity to deeply explore who you are, who you wish to be, and what your specific offering is to others. Through the Ecology of Leadership courses, you can learn to articulate your vision, get in deeper touch with your gifts, and develop new tools, routines, mindsets and skills to be more effective in manifesting what you see for yourself and the world.
Course Description
The process of transforming your life and bringing your leadership forward in the world is an adventure, full of opportunity, challenge, and possibility. The Ecology of Leadership provides many pathways to step into this adventure, helping you to explore the landscape within and without, supported by a powerful alliance with the natural world and a community of other leaders.
The Ecology of Leadership will allow you to experience:
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• Being engaged in a deep personal relationship with the natural world – and feeling nature's regenerative power
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• Discovering and/or focusing your true nature, passions, and vision
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• Transforming and releasing old patterns to develop new skills and ways of being
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•Developing the capacity to live a life you love
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•Creating a way of living and leading that manifests your dreams and your potential
The Journey
At its foundation, the Ecology of Leadership has three main elements: re-establishing your intimate relationship with the natural world, developing a powerful leadership tool bag, and exploring your "inner ecology" to remove blocks to your potential.
We Are Nature
Leadership Tool Bag
This element includes powerful skills, habits, mindsets, and ways of being that improve your effectiveness as a leader, including:
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•Effective communication
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•Making and honoring powerful commitments
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•Project development and stewardship
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•Moving your vision forward in the world
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•Presentation skills
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•Getting things done with grace and ease
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•Using time effectively
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•Coaching – helping others grow, transform, and develop new skills
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•Bringing all aspects of your life into balance and harmony
Inner Ecology
Our "Inner Ecology" influences how we show up as leaders. You'll discover how your thoughts, mental models, beliefs, and the stories you tell – about yourself and those around you – affect your life and your ability to make a difference in your family, community, and chosen work in the world. As you understand and transform your inner ecology, you become more effective at manifesting your dreams.
Course Testimonials
“It feels like I’ve been given license to source the regenerative power of nature. It feels so right – nature as guide/teacher/elder. I have also learned effective processes for decomposing stories that no longer serve me. I am speaking with more power. I am more open and coming from my heart rather than my head. I am also supporting others’ journeys and dreams and am bringing deep listening to my relationships. As I change, everything else in my life shifts as well.” – Mary Schriner
“I feel stronger in my conviction, clearer in my visioning and fuller in my heart. I know a complete certainty of purpose and am finding the language to help share the dream. I feel completely loved and supported in my personal process and in bringing these gifts out more fully into the world.”
–Ruth Paradise
“In my leadership I have noticed more clarity, more humor, more human-ness, and more self-acknowledgement (internally). I have noticed more of a willingness to share myself and an even greater desire to have more of a leadership role in my current job.” – Leah Smith
“I have a deeper understanding, forgiveness, and patience and new, wiser ways of seeing the world and people around me. James and Christopher led us through the class with compassion, patience, and passion.” – Brittany Richardson
“I feel more clear and confident in myself, my skills, and abilities. I feel more open and my relationships and friendships have blossomed as a result. I have more peace – and can reach more people with inner peace than inner panic!”
– Andrew Wollenberg
“If you are up for radical renewal, ready to purge your root systems of encumbrances, ready to get clear on your stake and purpose in the world in service to the environment, with a group of like-minded and like-hearted souls you can co-create community with for the rest of your life, then this is the program you've been waiting for. from 1-5, a 10 – off the charts!”
– Catherine Walker
“I learned to transform triggers by tracking their roots and then smiling at the source. Attachments to old patterns melted away. This opens my heart space to receive more authentic responses to my intentions – the world has suddenly opened up!”
– Salvatore Caruso
“The course has supported me in honoring and embodying my own personal truth. If you feel the call to embark on this journey, I absolutely invite you to say YES! To accept the knowingness within your own being to embody your potential and show up powerfully in the world. The world beckons you to share your light.” – Jennifer Riley
Ecology of Leadership
5-Month Ecology of Leadership Immersion
October 2, 2010 - February 13, 2011
Commonweal Garden, Bolinas & Santa Barbara, CA
Ecology of Leadership Courses
Ecology of Leadership Overview
5-Day Ecology of Leadership Immersion
Program Tuition
$1100 program tuition
Tuition includes camping and organic meals
Special Discounts
$975 - Early Bird Special
$875 - RDI Alumni Discount
$875 - Non-Profit Discount - Offered to current employees of a non-profit organization
$750 - Student Discount - Offered to full time students
Offered to participants and/or graduates of any RDI Permaculture Design Course or RDNA Program
Registration
Bolinas
Register for Bolinas 5-Month Ecology of Leadership online
pay on-line by credit card or check.
Information & Registration
For questions, additional information, and registration contact the Regenerative Design Institute.
phone: 415·868 9681
email: info@regenerativedesign.org
mail:
Regenerative Design Institute
P.O. Box 923
Bolinas, CA 94924
Refund Policy
Cancellations up to 2 weeks before the workshop will be refunded, excluding a $100 processing fee.
Site Details: Commonweal Garden
Commonweal Garden is a 17-acre farm located in Bolinas, on the beautiful and rugged California Coast. Nestled into its own quiet valley, the site features registered organic gardens, orchards, production green house, ponds, seasonal stream, springs, goats and chickens, a yurt classroom, multiple grey water systems, and several natural building features. For more Information on the site details and what to bring see the page What to Know: Your Course at Commonweal Garden.
Regional Leadership Circles
Through the Ecology of Leadership journey, program participants naturally form a leadership circle, which can be maintained and developed after graduation. The opportunity exists for each circle to continue supporting alumni in effectively integrating the tools of the program as each leader manifests their unique vision in their community.
These alumni circles support each leader, work on joint projects, and will start gathering annually this summer to further integrate and deepen their learning, celebrate and play, set intentions for themselves and their work in the world, and broaden their connections with other powerful leaders.
If you would like to explore the possibility of creating a leadership circle in your community, please contact us to set up a free introductory workshop.
EOL Scholarship Fund
Please note that we welcome donations into our EOL Scholarship Fund, which provides financial support to young community leaders who would otherwise be unable to take part. If you would like to submit a donation, please contact our office at (415) 868 9681. We are grateful for your gift as this supports the vision we hold for this program.
Course Testimonials
It feels like I’ve been given license to source the regenerative power of nature. It feels so right – nature as guide/teacher/elder. I have also learned effective processes for decomposing stories that no longer serve me. I am speaking with more power. I am more open and coming from my heart rather than my head. I am also supporting others’ journeys and dreams and am bringing deep listening to my relationships. As I change, everything else in my life shifts as well.
Ecology of Leadership Courses
Ecology of Leadership Overview
5-Day Ecology of Leadership Immersion
Ecology of Leadership Podcast
Hear Ecology of Leadership directors James Stark and Christopher Kuntzsch talk about the Ecology of Leadership program on a Sustainable World Radio podcast.
Instructors & Facilitators
James Stark
James Stark, M.A., F.E.S., is the co-director of the Regenerative Design Institute (RDI). He co-founded and co-directs the Ecology of Leadership program and is a senior trainer in the 3-year, full-time Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness training program, preparing young global community leaders for the “Great Turning” of our era. James has committed his life to exploring how we – ourselves, our communities, and our species – might move as quickly as possible back into harmony with who we are and the natural world. He considers the programs at RDI a nursery for growing visions of the new era, and providing skills and tools to bring the visions to life. For decades, James dedicated himself to community visioning and organizing in West Marin – during which he co-founded the following organizations, among others: * West Marin Growers Group (WMGG), which was created to ensure food security in Marin County. WMGG grew into the 5013c, Marin Organic, which introduced the Marin Organic Food Label and hosts the West Marin Farmers Market.* Waste Free Now, which is committed to West Marin becoming waste free and hosts the innovative annual Recycle Circus including a "Stuff Exchange" for people to redistribute community resources.* KWMR "Watershed Radio", which is a licensed 501c3 community radio station in the tenth year of providing a voice for West Marin residences and heard around the world live through web casting. * CLAM - Community Land Trust Association of Marin, an affordable ecological housing land trust (5013c) created to provide affordable housing in the face of increasing gentrification. James’ years working with visioning led him to an interest in exploring the inner world and to earn a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Like the natural systems and patterns that guide permaculture, his work now is to help others explore the inner patterns that affect how visions become reality. He believes that creating a loving, peaceful inner world provides the soil for the seeds of our world visions to grow.
Christopher Kuntzsch
He spent many subsequent seasons serving as a wildlife biologist, naturalist, and course instructor for the University of California, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, and the Pacific Crest Outward Bound School, among others. Those formative experiences led further into studies of nature awareness, spiritual practice, tracking, and permaculture and to an integration of insights from those fields into the realms of human development and leadership.
Dedicating his service path to leadership and personal development projects for the last 7 years, he supports conscious change-makers in getting in touch with, nurturing, and germinating the seeds of possibility they hold within. Through personal coaching, consulting, and facilitation he has helped hundreds of eco-social activists and entrepreneurs, sustainability professionals, non-profit leaders, managers, C-level executives, artists, and healers get in touch with their purpose, vision, and leadership potential through a synergy of self-awareness, personal practice, skill development, and engagement with the natural world.
Christopher’s background includes dual bachelors degrees – in Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies - from the University of California, Santa Cruz, 5 years of intensive coaching and facilitation as director of coaching services at Steve Dudley Associates (http://www.stevedudleyassociates.com/), certification in permaculture design from the Regenerative Design Institute (http://www.regenerativedesign.org/), trainer certification with the Center for Leadership Studies (http://www.situational.com/), the co-active coaching fundamentals from the Coaches Training Institute (http://www.thecoaches.com/), completion of the 1-year Interchange counseling development program, the residential program at Wilderness Awareness School (http://www.wildernessawareness.org/), and studies at Tom Brown, Jr.’s Tracker School http://www.trackerschool.com/).
Recently, Christopher has been consulting with sustainability stakeholders and programs at the University of California and is excited to bring the new wave of Ecology of Leadership programs and events to the Bay Area and Southern California in 2009.
Christopher also loves living in community, tending his garden and chickens, cavorting with bobcats visiting his yard on the edge of Santa Cruz, picking his mandolin at the local barn dance, and surfing one of his favorite point breaks.
His website (http://www.christopherkuntzsch.com/) has more information if you'd like to know more or contact him.
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