Engaging Ambiguity: An International Evacuation During a Global Pandemic Please join us on Wednesday, May 20th, 2020, for a free videoconference with the founders of Personal Leadership. We’re going to use Sheila's very real-world and recent lived experience as a springboard for a larger conversation about what has relevance for all of us now, the PL . . . LEARN MORE

Actualizing Your True Authority to Make A World of Difference Sheila Ramsey, Ph.D June 16-21, 2019 Omega Institute Rhinebeck, New York, U.S.A. Register here. Are you deeply moved, even feel an urgency perhaps, now more than ever to make a difference? Do you wonder what difference can really make a difference in our world . . . LEARN MORE

We are very excited to announce the first ever MID-WEST Personal Leadership Gathering taking place this September in Naperville, Illinois. Please come and renew your Personal Leadership skills, make new connections, and explore different aspects of practicing and facilitating Personal Leadership.   Dates: Friday, September 14th & Saturday September 15th, 2018.   This is a time . . . LEARN MORE

With pleasure and gratitude, we announce that operational leadership of PLSeminars is being transitioned from Sheila, Barbara, and Gordon (SBG) to Darlene, Katsuko, and Almendra (DKA). Darlene von Behrens, Katsuko Sugiyama, and Almendra Staff-Healey, three of PLSeminars Senior Facilitators, began holding deep-dive conversations in the spring of 2017 to explore what it might mean . . . LEARN MORE

In late 2012 I found myself in a seminar room in Portland, Oregon wondering if I had made a huge mistake. It was 8:30 am, my seminar with 20 new leaders was to begin at 8:30 am, and NOBODY was in the room, except me. Wrong time? Wrong day? Wrong place? YIKES! As it . . . LEARN MORE

‘Diamonds in the Soles of Her Shoes’ is the title of a Paul Simon song on his re-known Graceland Album, released in 1986. The inspiration for and reality within Graceland arose from a trip Paul took to South Africa to collaborate and co-create with musicians there. The resultant music was new. African musicians, such . . . LEARN MORE

This newsletter we are pleased to have the opportunity to interview Mary Meares, PhD, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama.  Although not a Licensed Facilitator for PL, Mary initiated the use of PL at Semester at Sea, a study abroad program literally from a ship. Mary shares her teaching philosophy, . . . LEARN MORE

The first week of March was wonderful for the coaches and facilitators alike. Learn more about the Training of Facilitators here. Think you might be interested in the 2018 ToF? Add yourself to our mailing list here and we'll let you know when the details are . . . LEARN MORE

PL was abundantly present at the 2016 Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication (SIIC).  It served as the core foundation for the Fellows program, it lay at the heart of the specialized week-long session “Leading Self While Leading Others" AND it was the focus of an evening session.       The evening session was . . . LEARN MORE