Seminars Around the World!
Greetings!
- Open-Space Gathering in Crestone
- East Coast Gathering
- First Ever Personal Leadership Workshop in Australia
- First PL Workshop Auf Deutsch
- Personal Leadership at Esalen
- Virtual Training of Facilitators
- Seminar Extravaganza in Portland, Oregon USA
Dear Friends,
We all know that one of the guiding principles of PL is to look for the big picture. These days we are challenged to look for the biggest picture we can imagine, one that can hold our most astonishing inspirations and fervent hopes. It is in service to such grandeur that we offer this view of the Cat's Eye nebula in our very own Milky Way galaxy, 3300 light years from our wonderful planet Earth.
Best to all,
Sheila, Barbara and Gordon
Sustaining Your 'State' of Heart, Mind and Hands: Open-Space Gathering in Crestone
A call to all PL Practitioners and Facilitators.
At the very essence of the PL practices lies the possibility of sustaining our greatest clarity, our most enlivened energy, our most expanded heart. Come to Crestone, the inspirational home of PL Seminars, for a gathering of PL practitioners. We will dive deep and fly high exploring this most joyous of possibilities of living from the inside out.
Sustaining Your 'State' of Heart, Mind, and Hands has no pre-set agenda; rather we will design the agenda together. We imagine a PL family gathering where we individually and collectively learn from some of the amazing teachers in Crestone, hike the mountain trails, walk a laybrinth, soak in the hot springs and have conversations with PL friends in the retreat house garden. AND THEN we imagine coming together at the end of a day to share our insights and questions.
We would love to have any and all PL practitioners and facilitators join us!
Where: Crestone, Colorado USA
Accomodations: Information for accomodations will be provided upon registration.
When: 5pm, March 5 to 9pm, March 8, 2012
Fee: $250 to cover site and administrative costs.
Register: via Eventbrite
We would love to have any and all PL practitioners and facilitators join us!Personal Leadership East Coast Gathering
Announcing the very first ever Personal Leadership East Coast gathering taking place in January in Baltimore, Maryland. Please come and join us for the weekend and renew your connection with Personal Leadership (PL) and other PLers, make new connections and explore different aspects of practicing and facilitating PL. By using our Open Space Technology format, we will create the agenda together based on our present moment preferences and pleasures. If you have topics you would like to propose, please bring them to the gathering.
When: 5:00pm, Friday, January 20 — 1:00pm, Sunday, January 22, 2012
Where: The Women’s Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Who: Facilitators and practitioners of Personal Leadership (anyone who has ever taken a PL seminar)
What: Informal weekend gathering including the invitation to co-create an agenda on-site, good food (we hope!) and fun times. The weekend will provide opportunities to:
- Reconnect with the principles and practices of PL
- Deepen our practice of PL including visioning and CMD
- Discuss questions and issues regarding the facilitation of PL
- Form connections with those interested in deepening their PL practice
- Continue building our PL community
- Share laughter and good meals
- To provide people interested in PL with a first taste of what PL is all about (Friday night)
How to register: Send an email to Adriana Medina. We can suggest economical places to stay and assist you with travel advice.
Cost: A small contribution towards snacks at most.
Bonus event! You are cordially invited to join us for a "Taste of PL" — a two-hour program on Friday, January 20th, 2012, 7-9pm at the Women’s Center at UMBC. You will be introduced to a brief background of why PL, an overview of the tools of the methodology and a glimpse of how it all comes together to help you live at your highest and best! Please RSVP to Adriana Medina.
See you in January!!!
The Hosting Team: Adriana Medina, Katsuko Sugiyama, and Rita Wuebbeler
First Ever Personal Leadership Workshop in Australia
Facilitating from the Inside Out. Re-Inspiring your Facilitation Practice with Personal Leadership Technologies
Led by Taruni Falconer, Associate Facilitator
When: Friday 2 - Saturday 3 December 2011
Where: Melbourne, Australia
Who will benefit: Facilitators, trainers, educators, coaches, course designers, human resource and organizational development professionals wanting to experience the rich satisfaction of deepened ways to facilitate learning for participants.
What: Held in Melbourne, Australia, the workshop will be an investigative approach among peers wanting to take their facilitation expertise to a new level of excellence. This practical workshop will take a fine-grained approach to facilitation using the interactive tools of the Personal Leadership methodology — including it's two core principles, six practices and the Criticial Moment Dialogue®. The tools learned in this workshop will give new insight into the meaning and benefits of "facilitator presence."
Regsitration Information: Contact Taruni
First PL Auf Deutsch!
PL goes North! Northern Germany, to be precise! Senior Facilitator Rita Wuebbeler and Associate Facilitator Arvid John, both native German speakers, will offer a weekend workshop on Personal Leadership ("Personal Leadership: Eine Methodik zum Umgang mit Unterschieden oder Binnen und Buten - eine Reise nach Innen und Aussen") in Osterstedt, Schleswig-Holstein (near Hamburg) February 24 - 26, 2012. Registration and further details available here (pdf).
Living Personal Leadership at Esalen
Want to have 24/7 access to hot springs on the edge, literally, of the Pacific Ocean? Want to have talented chefs cook you three vegetarian meals a day? Want to live, to embody, the Personal Leadership principles, practices and CMD as you walk around the gardens, hike the trails, receive the famed 'Esalen massage' and sit in the vistas of the Big Sur, California coastline ... and live that way for an ENTIRE MONTH?
If you are ready to give yourself this amazing gift, consider joining the Esalen Institute Work-Study Program from January 22-Febuary 19, 2012. "Getting Clear, Staying Clear: Engaging the Esalen Experience with Wisdom and Inspiration" is designed to help people stay connected to their wisdom and creativity and to discern right action at all times, especially when faced with change, the unfamiliar, and in times of personal/professional transition.
"The Work Study Program is a twenty-eight day immersion in Esalen's integrative approach to personal and social development. The program
combines a rigorous course of study in one area of transformative practice with the opportunity for deep relationship with the Esalen land and community. Work Study is a rich and challenging way to 
embody the idea that mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and social dimensions of the self are inextricably connected." (Excerpt from the Esalen catalogue)
PL Founder Sheila Ramsey and PL Facilitator Nina Merrens will be offering PL as the 'transformative practice' at the foundation of this program. Consider joining this grand experiment to see what unfolds!!
Learn more and register at Esalen Institute.
Virtual Training-of-Facilitators Seminar: Winter 2012
- Want to strengthen your use of Personal Leadership (PL) with your clients, your students, or your colleagues?
- Want to join the Facilitator Community of Practice (CoP)?
- Want to enjoy the collaborative support of PL facilitators working worldwide, with diverse sectors and in diverse contexts?
- Want to take your first Training of Facilitators seminar?
- Been constrained by travel and time from participating in as many in-person ToF seminars as you would like?
If you said "Yes" to any of these questions, here is your opportunity to participate in PLSeminars' upcoming virtual ToF seminar, starts in January 2012 and continues through March 2012. We will take a blended learning approach that integrates individual reading and reflection, partner discussion and project work, and five 2-hour synchronous online meetings over approximately fifteen weeks. The Seminar will be co-facilitated by Barbara Schaetti and Rita Wuebbeler. Stay tuned for an eFlash in early December announcing the dates of those online meetings, or contact us now for more information or to indicate your interest.
For more information about the purpose and possibility of ToF seminars in general, please review information about our in-person events.
Fees:
- Current members of the CoP: $2000*
- Incoming members of the CoP: $2500*
*Please note that the registration fee for incoming members includes 2012 membership dues in the PLSeminars Facilitator CoP.
We would be remiss if we didn't recognize that there is inevitably a magic that happens when we meet together in person. We recommend this virtual ToF only for those who cannot attend an in-person seminar.
A Seminar Extravaganza (Foundations and Training-of-Facilitators) Set in Portland, Oregon USA in May 2012.
PL Seminars is offering a FIRST, both a Foundations and a Facilitator Training seminar outside of Crestone, CO USA. PLSeminars' Founders, Sheila Ramsey, Barbara F. Schaetti, and Gordon Watanabe will unite in Portland to present the seminar extravaganza hosted by the Intercultural Communication Institute.
Foundations | May 21-23, 2012
Today's realities demand that more of us learn to interact effectively with difference of all kinds. From personal relationships, to positive and effective work associations, to leading and harnessing the inherent innovation and creativity of differing ideas all are essential skills for successful global navigation. Leadership across difference is a critical skill for us all. [read more]
Training-of-Facilitators | May 18-25, 2012
As a practitioner of the Personal Leadership methodology, the Training-of-Facilitators (ToF) is the vehicle to learn to adapt PL to your individual professional/leading contexts, design applicable activities for your constituency, and confidently illustrate use of the two principles and six practices within contexts of leadership and whole-person development as well as conflict transformation, intercultural communications, and positive psychology. The skills and tools are taught in real-time situations in conjunction with and during the Foundations seminar. [read more]
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