Use More than Your Mind to Get Unstuck

Use More than Your Mind to Get Unstuck 47*DURvyzblz.72 View this email in your browser Exploring Diversity Using Social Presencing Theater Our blog this week spotlights Arawana Hayashi, an acharya (senior teacher) in Shambhala, choreographer, performer and educator of collaborative improvisation. Arawana offers a fresh perspective on how to move away from tunnel vision by applying fluid and mindful techniques to improve our social and organizational communication. She focuses on moving past those preconceived notions and becoming a more compassionate leader.  Effective leaders understand the importance of a collaborative effort when working toward a successful conclusion. In order to work together as a creative team, we need to trust each other as a collective and learn to use that trust to move forward in an open and empathetic way.  Only by learning to embrace this concept will we be able to grow into a more compassionate and accepting community.  Read More Join Arwana for the ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive: Exploring Diversity Using Social Presencing Theater and use more than your mind to become "unstuck."  June 22-25, 2017  Tacoma, Washington Learn More... ARAWANA HAYASHI Arawana Hayashi is a featured presenter at the ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive, Engaging the Differences that Divide Us.  Her pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation. She co-created Social Presencing Theater for the Presencing Institute with founders Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer, also from the MIT Leadership Center. Learn More Register Today! Copyright © 2017 Naropa University - Institute, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you've attended a Naropa University event in the past or visited eNaropa.org Our mailing address is: Naropa University - Institute 2130 Arapahoe Ave Boulder, Co 80302 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Get a Free Book: Collaborating with the Enemy

Claim your free copy of "Collaborating with the Enemy" 47*DURvyzblz.72 View this email in your browser How to Collaborate with Your Enemy This week's blog post spotlights the work of Adam Kahane, a featured guest presenter at the ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive and author of Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree With or Like or Trust. "Stretch collaboration", Kahane's innovative and unconventional approach to collaboration, is a concept built on his principle that the only way to get things done with diverse groups is to give up any assumption of control and harmony and to learn to work with discord, experimentation, and genuine co-creation.  Read More Get a free copy of Adam Kahane's book! This is a special offer for the next 20 people who register for the Intensive using the promotional code ALIAAdam. You'll receive a free copy of Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree With or Like or Trust, plus your registration will also be discounted by $50. This is a one-time promotion limited to the next 20 people who register. Join Adam for the ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive: Engaging the Differences that Divide Us and learn how to better collaborate in the face of differences. June 22-25, 2017  Tacoma, Washington Learn More... SPECIAL GUEST ADAM KAHANE  Adam Kahane is a special guest presenter at the upcoming ALIA Intensive Engaging the Differences that Divide Us. He is is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social enterprise that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues. Adam is the author of Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities, Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change, Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future, and Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree With or Like or Trust. Register Today! Copyright © 2017 Naropa University - Institute, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you've attended a Naropa University event in the past or visited eNaropa.org Our mailing address is: Naropa University - Institute 2130 Arapahoe Ave Boulder, Co 80302 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

Not all Differences are Equal

Not all Differences are Equal 47*DURvyzblz.72 View this email in your browser The Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment Model This week our blog post spotlights Leticia Nieto a Professor at Saint Martin's University and a natural fit to lead a module for the ALIA Intensive Engaging the Differences that Divide Us. Leticia will share her expertise on the dynamics of differences from the perspective of clinical psychology, human development, and expressive arts. In our society, some characteristics automatically afford significant benefit while others lead to debilitating disadvantage. Our work, then, is to notice how our differences affect one another, not just individually but systemically.  Read More Join Leticia for the ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive: Engaging the Differences that Divide Us and learn how to go beyond both inclusion and empowerment. June 22-25, 2017  Tacoma, Washington  Learn More... By the way, we'd love to hear your feedback on our new information page! Leticia Nieto, Psy.D., LMFT Dr. Leticia Nieto is a psychotherapist and educator with an emphasis in clinical psychology, human development, and expressive arts. She is a Professor at Saint Martin's University in the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology program. Leticia has been an active poet, dramatist, and performer since 1978. She has been a psychotherapist and trainer in anti-oppression and expressive techniques including psychodrama, playback theatre, and theatre of the oppressed since 1980.  Register Today! Copyright © 2017 Naropa University - Institute, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you've attended a Naropa University event in the past or visited eNaropa.org Our mailing address is: Naropa University - Institute 2130 Arapahoe Ave Boulder, Co 80302 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list