River Story Leadership Institute
River Story
Leadership Institute for Personal and Global Transformation
A Year-Long Intensive August 2012 -- August 2013
with Sara Schley, Linda Booth Sweeney and Faculty
River Story features: Sustainability Inside and Out
Outer Work: Strategies for Sustained Local and Global Transformation
- Sustainability conceptual frameworks and principles
- Applied Living Systems Thinking: concepts, tools, skill-building
- Leading whole systems change: engaging diverse stakeholders
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Inner Work: Strategies for personal and professional sustainability
- Soul work: transform habitual patterns of doing, feeling, knowing and being
- Life-renewal: a full experience of being “unplugged”
- Sacred encounters with the wilderness: solo time in the outdoor
Outcomes:
By August 2013 you will have gained:
- A clear vision of sustainability, inside and out, and support of your River Story colleagues to follow through on it.
- A solid actionable grasp of the Earth’s non negotiable “Living Systems Principles.”
- Applied systems thinking skills to accelerate your progress in all your work.
- A strategic plan that you are implementing including multiple stakeholder engagement strategies for your major initiative.
- Personal renewal disciplines.
- Emotional resilience to flow with the ever-increasing global challenges we face.
- A relationship with the land gaining sustenance and wisdom from time spent outdoors.
- An increased capacity to give this work to others – to coach other individuals and organizations to achieve their aspirations for a world where all life thrives.
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"The [Systems Thinking, Organizational Learning, Sustainability] work that Seed Systems did with Nike helped set us on a journey of sustainability from which there is no return. A decade later the impacts of the program still resonate deeply within the organization and within the individuals who became true agents of change. The result of this intensive work helped transform Nike's approach to sustainability, created 100 internal champions who launched dozens of landmark projects that continue to deliver against our then stated 2020 goals and influence the work around the world. It's amazing how powerful the legacy has been."
-- Sarah Severn and Darcy Winslow, Nike