Who are you now as a Leader? Purpose: To explore your current leadership style and the growth you set yourself
10:00 AM
Context In Which You Operate
• Positive and negative stressors • Expand this to a wider sphere of influence and impact • Examine the layers of intersect with influence & impact Purpose: To identify your key stressors, your levels of influence and how to harness your leadership
10:30 AM
Morning Tea Break
11:00 AM
Dilemmas, Dissonance & Incongruity?
• Where is the dissonance, incongruity & dilemmas you face? • Causal factors of distress & discomfort Purpose: To explore and understand where the ‘tension points’ are for you as a Leader that are causing you discomfort/distress in the way you are as a Leader
11:45 AM
Impact
• What is happening to you? • Examine Cognitive, Psychological, Physical & Spiritual functioning and wellbeing • Impact of long-term & concurrent high levels of distress in attempts to optimise performance during crisis • Examine cumulative and vicarious trauma & consequences of fatigue Purpose: To explore how the ‘tension points’ are impacting upon you and the consequences in the short-to-medium term.
12:30 PM
Lunch Break
1:00 PM
Reframing Resilience as Positive Adaptation
• Personal reflection • Common understandings of resilience • Misconceptions • Philosophical insights Purpose: To explore perceptions of resilience and to begin thinking about reframing resilience in the context of positive adaption using philosophy as a guide.
1:30 PM
The Heart of Position Adaptation: Compassion, Courage, Wisdom
• What is compassion? • What is courage? • What is wisdom? Purpose: To propose an ethical premise for positive adaptation that responds directly to the emotional context that has emerged from the morning’s session.
2:30 PM
Afternoon Tea Break
3:00 PM
The Hero’s Journey: A Reflection on the Art of Living
• Exploring the universal mono-myth of the hero Purpose: To help leaders reframe their lived experiences into the universal mono-myth of compassionate, courageous and wise action
3:45 PM
Reshaping (Redefining) who you are as a Leader
What changes are you making (deleting, reinforcing, adopting, expanding) for sustainable leadership to meet your environment (personally, professionally & the broader influences) What structures/supports/frameworks are you putting into place to ensure your sustainable leadership is effective and enjoyable? Reflection on your tension points from Module 3 What’s shifted now?