Please join Peter Senge and other faculty members of the global SoL community in these exciting leadership program. Whether you participate as an individual or as a team, SoL’s upcoming programs are a great opportunity to develop your ability to lead effectively within and across systems, work on specific challenges and opportunities and engage in a global learning community of ongoing support, innovation and growth.

Leading for Health, November 1-4, 2011 - Colorado Springs, CO with Sherry Immediato, Manoj Pawar, Tom Crum, and Peter Senge.  Co-sponsored with the ReThink Health Initiative of the Fannie E Rippel Foundation. Sign up by September 23rd to receive a 10% tuition discount..

Leading and Learning for Sustainability, December 7-9, 2011 - Philadelphia, PA with Peter Senge and other practitioners of Sustainability Leadership. Co-sponsored with Goodwin College of Professional Studies. Sign up by September 30th to receive a 10% tuition discount.

Foundations for Leadership, March 13-15, 2012 - Bedford, MA with Peter Senge and Robert Hanig.

Please RSVP or contact us at programs@solonline.org or at 1-617-300-9560 if you are interested in one of these programs, have questions or would like to know more about the value these programs offer.

We invite you to share this information with your colleagues and with others in your wider networks for whom you think these programs would make a real difference in their lives, their communities, their organizations and in the world. And, you may want to share this information specifically with people with whom you would like to attend one of these programs as your time together can help create momentum for the change(s) you would like to bring about. These might be people on your team, key colleagues or stakeholders, community members or others with whom you'd like to collaborate around issues that really matter.

Best regards,
Frank

Upcoming SoL Programs with Peter Senge and other leading practitioners of the global SoL community

Leading for Health
November 1-4, 2011, Colorado Springs, CO
Co-sponsored with the ReThink Health Initiative of the Fannie E Rippel Foundation.

Facilitated by Sherry Immediato, Manoj Pawar, Tom Crum, and Peter Senge.  This program will begin with a dinner session on Tuesday, November 1 and end at 3 p.m. on Friday, November 4.  Peter Senge will join us for the Friday session.

http://www.solonline.org/announcements/item?item_id=32051147

What would it mean to create health and well-being in our families, organizations and communities? When most of us talk about health, what we really are referring to is a reduction in illness. That's partly because we spend one-sixth of the US economy on health care, which is largely illness care. It seems clear that focusing on the health care delivery system may reduce health care costs, but will not fundamentally make people healthier alone. The best ways to increase health will require attention to the other 80-90% of factors that contribute to our health while developing a balanced use of resources to achieve these results. Some questions we will speak to include:

• What are our visions of health and well-being individually and collectively? How do we identify and bring together the key stakeholders to develop a shared vision for health in our communities?
• What specifically are our hypotheses about leverage points for improvement and how they can be activated? How can we respect our different agendas and still take aligned action?
• How can we effectively partner across systems to achieve better health, lower health care costs and better quality and access to care and other resources?
• How do we create health and well-being from the inside out? As system leaders and facilitators how do we embody the system conditions we are promoting?

Our goal is provide an experiential learning environment that supports you individually and collectively in connecting with your own sources of health and well-being so you can realize this potential at a system level. Our process will include short lectures, group simulations, paired exercises, personal journaling and reflection, and large group conversations.

We will share theories, tools and methods for you to further develop your vision and systemic understanding of your situation - both locally and "globally". From this you can reassess the high leverage strategies you want to pursue within and among organizations in your community.

Teams of three or more participants will receive a 10% tuition discount.

Leading and Learning for Sustainability
December 7-9, 2011, Philadelphia, PA
Co-sponsored with the Goodwin College of Professional Studies at Drexel University

Facilitated by Peter Senge and other leading practitioners of Sustainability Leadership.

http://www.solonline.org/announcements/item?item_id=21461147

Sustainability is not a problem to be solved. It is a future to be created. This workshop is for leaders and teams of all sorts who are passionate about developing sustainable strategies and practices in organizations, institutions, industries and communities across all three sectors (private, non-profit and government.) It is a synthesis of core organizational learning disciplines - systems thinking, mental model and collaborative inquiry, personal mastery and building shared vision - and the practical know-how developed within the SoL Sustainability Consortium over the past decade, much of which is captured in Peter Senge's new book The Necessary Revolution. The stories and practices described in the book are the foundation for this workshop.

The key competencies build in this workshop are:

• Excel at seeing systems: recognizing basic system phenomena such as limits to success, shifting the burden to the intervener and accidental adversaries.
• Collaborate across boundaries with ease: knowing how to get the whole system in the room and respecting different interests and perspectives of all the stakeholders, building social networks and realizing breakthrough innovations.
• Move easily from problem-solving to creating: Overcoming fear and anxiety as a motivation for action and act out of one's own aspiration and sense of possibility evoking inspiration and creativity throughout the system.

In this interactive workshop, participants have the opportunity to work on concrete challenges around social and environmental sustainability. In particular, we encourage cross-sector teams to attend this workshop as it provides a safe, human-centered space that allows for the kind of reflective, collective focus in which breakthrough results are achieved. Leading and Learning for Sustainability guides participants through the process of seeing human beings and our environment as one - a connection between nature and social systems. The workshop addresses how to engage with the systems in place so that we can create a better world for our children, look closely at the profound and growing imbalances worldwide and explore how to build healthy systems for a healthy, sustainable society.

Teams of three or more participants will receive a 10% tuition discount.

Foundations for Leadership

March 13-15, 2012, Bedford, MA

Facilitated by Peter Senge and Robert Hanig.

http://www.solonline.org/announcements/item?item_id=33247147

The purpose of this session is to explore the sources of our leadership. Leadership is both deeply personal and inherently collective. At its essence it concerns the capacity of a human community to shape its destiny and, in particular, to bring forth new realities in line with people's deepest aspirations. Based on The Fifth Disicpline by Peter Senge, participants will come away with a renewed understanding of how they can facilitate change, both within their organizations and in their personal lives. This program goes deeply into the domains of personal mastery, collaborative inquiry, and the systems perspective applied to sustaining profound change.

In particular, participants will learn to:

• Formulate a coherent picture of the results they most desire to create individually and collectively alongside a realistic assessment of the current state of their lives today.
• Understand how underlying systemic structures shape behavior and how to recognize and shift those structures.
• Expand their capacity to make strategic choices.
• Be more able to nurture mutual purpose and shared commitment.
• Explore underlying beliefs and assumptions and their impact on the capacity to lead.
• Balance and integrate intuition and rational understanding.
• Facilitate conversations that promote learning and collaboration.
• Operate from a deeper and more stable sense of purpose.

The session includes a few interactive lectures, many paired and small group exercises, a simulation game, large group dialogue and regular opportunities for personal reflection. It is appropriate both as a development experience for emerging leaders and as a renewal opportunity for seasoned veterans. Small teams are welcome to attend to develop their collective leadership.

The Foundations for Leadership workshop places a strong emphasis on the core learning competency of a creative orientation and the discipline of personal mastery. Participants spend significant time developing their personal vision as well as one they desire for their organization. Much of the learning arises through the interplay of personal and interpersonal work. The special contribution of this leadership program comes as people discover the profound connections between personal mastery and systems thinking, seeing that deep change in our social systems and in oneself are inseparable from each other.

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Frank Schneider,
Managing Director 
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