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Programme facilitators:

Norton Bertram-Smith - Norton is an experienced professional leadership coach, business mentor and mindfulness teacher.

Programme length:

3 Day retreat

Dates:

Saturday 26th to Wednesday 30th May 2012
November 2012 dates and venue to be advised

Location:

Holy Isle
Lamlash Bay
Isle of Arran
Scotland

Retreat Centre Accommodation:

Standard basic single room
Vegetarian food
No en-suites

For details see: www.holyisle.org

Tuition fee:

£745 +VAT
(Including accommodation and full board.)

Cancellation policy:

An administration charge of 25% of the course fee will apply for cancellations 10 to 14 weeks prior to the course start date. Thereafter, full course fees due.


     

Mindfulness
Based Authentic Leadership

An Executive Retreat

How to use Mindfulness to Understand the Drivers Inherent within Your Leadership Style

A three-day retreat aimed at developing a mindfulness practice to help leader’s respond creatively - rather than react habitually - to change and uncertainty.

Objectives

To provide an environment for participants to develop the leadership capacity of allowing inner wisdom to emerge.

Participant Profile:

For leaders wanting to learn how to develop a mindfulness practice, enabling them to lead more consciously and take purposeful action.

During the three-day retreat you will discover:

  • The benefits and essence of being a presence-based leader.
  • How to develop stability and flexibility as a means to being open to what’s emerging and a sense of possibility.
  • How to develop genuine and caring leader-follower relationships.
  • How a mindfulness practice helps a leader identify any unconscious and inhibiting patterns of relating.
  • How mindfulness helps leaders access the Co-Presencing stage of ‘Theory U’.

Click here for more information about Mindfulness in the Workplace.

Click here for more information about Presencing and ‘Theory U’.

Client Testimonial Quotes

"A thoroughly enjoyable few days, enlightening and productive. A fresh and unusual look at management and what it means in today’s rat race." Mark Cullen, MD, Baker-RDS

"It did me a power of good. I'd recommend it to anyone who can approach it with an open mind." Peter Brand, Development Team Lead, TAQA Bratani Limited

"The course relates mindfulness to leadership roles perfectly and enables the use and practice of exercises during the course individually and in a group context. The group dialogue sessions were extremely useful for developing self-awareness and the subject matter was very relevant to our work roles, therefore learning not only from the process but also from the subject matter." John Arnold

Business Guru Quotes

“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.”
William O’Brien
(former CEO of the Hanover Insurance Company)

“Leadership is about learning how to shape the future. Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances.”
Peter Senge

 

 
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