eBridge - September 2007

Article: From Inner Work to Community Transformation
By Mary Garland

My life has been transformed over the last several years. Bill asked me to speak because this change really began with the Inner Work in Leadership Wyoming. From the Inner Work of the Leader workbook, "I have learned that the telling of my story is not merely repeating the past, it is bringing the past to the present for the sake of the future." (Carl Dudley)

Read the complete article to find out how the Inner Work changed Mary's life.

Upcoming Workshop: The Integrated Work of Leadership©

If you want to enhance your ability to lead with authenticity and integrity this one of a kind, two day workshop is designed for you!

By engaging in a process of self-assessment, reflection and discovery you will define your key leadership styles, areas of true competency, sources of power and authority and refine your capacity to lead.

Through presentations, facilitated discussion and experiential activities you will learn ten disciplines for an integrated approach to leadership and gain clarity about the ways your leadership style shapes the culture within your organization.

Katherine Tyler Scott and Joanna Murray bring a combined fifty years experience in leadership development and formation to their role as guides and facilitators. The Integrated Work of Leadership helps leaders to know themselves, understand others, and read a larger reality truthfully.

This depth learning process will tap both your spirit and intellect and challenge you to practice reflective and adaptive skills. These competencies are the basis for leading with integrity and authenticity.

Beautiful Colorado offers the ideal backdrop to this experience. The workshop will take place in the foothills west of Denver in an idyllic setting for furthering your understanding of self and enhancing your capacity for emotional intelligence and balanced leadership.

Date: November 8 & 9
Location: Denver, CO
Tuition:

$875
Two Registrants: $750 each
Three or more Registrants: $699 each
Materials and meals included

Registration: Register online or call 317-822-8205.

Article: Leadership Wyoming: Civic Trustee Alignment
By Bill Schilling

When Leadership Wyoming began we didn't realize how empowering the experience would be. The alignments between individual voluntary activity and The Inner Work of the Leader© has been impressive.

Our initial exposure to this work and the concepts of community trusteeship and stewardship took place at the National Community Leadership Association conference in Indianapolis in June of 1999, the same year Leadership Wyoming was organized.

Read the complete article to find out more about the empowering formation of Leadership Wyoming.

Quotable Quotes

"We journey inward to know ourselves so we may take a better charge of our lives, act more consciously, and be less motivated and driven by unconscious needs, desires, and powers."

- William A. Miller

"The first and paramount responsibility of anyone who purports to manage is to manage self: one's own integrity, character, ethics, knowledge, wisdom, temperament, words and acts."

- Dee Hock

"To know ourselves is finally to look inside - finally to explore the inner world instead of allowing ourselves to be continually inundated by the outer world. And in the process we will indeed make amazing stories."

- William A. Miller

Suggested Readings

Let Your Life Speak, Listening for the Voice of Vocation,
Parker J. Palmer, Jossey-Bass Inc., 2000

Leadership Can Be Taught,
Sharon Daloz Parks, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, 2005

Article: Leadership Learnings
By Katherine Tyler Scott

The lead story in this fall issue of Ebridge is profoundly moving. The author has made a tremendous difference in public education, the quality of teaching and in the formation of thousands of children.

This level of transformation occurred because she dared to engage in the Inner Work and the Integrated Work of Leadership and connected the self development to the obligation to achieve something greater for the good of others.

Read the complete article to find out more about the Inner Work and the Integrated Work of Leadership.

Upcoming Open Enrollment Events

$875 for each two-day session
Two Registrants: $750 each
Three or more Registrants: $699 each
Materials and meals included

Registration: Register online or call 317-822-8205.

Here's What You Will Find in the Next Issue of eBridge

Managing Complex Negotiations is the theme for the November issue of E-Bridge. It can be challenging enough to negotiate with one other person, but it can be overwhelming when dealing with a group in which there are many different perceptions and opinions. Join us for a lively discussion of ways to remain competent and professionally-skilled when faced with multi-party problems and decision making.

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