Are you a professional already in a leadership position, dedicated to serving
humanity, and committed to moving forward with Purpose to your next level of contribution?
Are you seeking to strengthen the visions and values that exist deep within and
then model and practice transformative leadership in your personal life, in your
community, and / or your business? Programs, processes and services offered by
the Odyssey Leadership Centre are designed to provide a multi-faceted and collaborative
forum for "Leaders with Intention" to take personal next steps and to
connect with others of like mind and intent.
Leading
in Community
Q: How can you participate
in a Community of Practice of Legacy Leaders, challenging
and supporting one another to transformational levels of
leadership and mentorship?
Q: What would happen if we
supported each other in realizing our full collaborative
selves, discovering our unique life purposes, and fully
expressing our creativity in our work / world?
Q: What would happen if we
all worked together to understand and guide the evolution
of our businesses and society.
Q: What would happen if we
made this the purpose of our relationships?
The Community, whether it is the organization in which
you may work or others that are a part of your personal
life, provides a centre that holds firm, to support the
continued personal evolution of its members as well as the
greater potential contribution of the group to social change.
As an evolving leader now cultivating a high degree of
self-mastery you can increase the impact of your actions
through leading together with others.
Together we are stronger. Wouldn’t it be great not
to have to ‘do it alone’? What if, though collaborating
with the right partners all your efforts would be easier,
more fun and more fruitful?!
Would you like to learn how to participate in, and lead
from the strong core of community through ‘peer leadership’?
To learn more about how you, your organization and your
communities of interest can benefit from this powerful process
contact Brenda for a free collaborative interview here.
Click here
to learn more about co-creating with others a new story
for our world.
Programs and processes supporting effective,
community-based leadership, and practiced through the Odyssey
Leadership Centre, include:
Legacy Leadership®
A model with proven success in inspirational and collaborative
leadership, Legacy Leadership® embodies a compelling
and comprehensive set of competencies and skills. Find
out more here.
Find out about the 2 levels of certification here.
Peer Leadership Processes and
Communities of Practice
Groups whose members regularly engage in sharing and learning,
based on common interests, can improve organizational
performance. Find out more here.
Dialogue
A process that enables people from all walks of life to
talk deeply and personally about some of the major issues
and realities that divide them. Find out more here.
Mentors' Circle
This circle of practitioners offers a variety of healing,
discovery, coaching, planning and mentoring services,
each with a unique focus on some aspect of mind, body,
spirit. Find out more here.
Appreciative Inquiry
Based on a reverence for life, appreciative inquiry is
a process that draws out the factors that give life to
our lives and is a way of articulating possibilities that
can lead to a better future. Find out more here.
One Page Business Plan® Learn how to create a simple effective business
plan and have a communicating system for all the plans
in your organization. Find out more here.
Gateway to Our Conscious Evolution
is a six-month educational program, offering a developmental
path and process for self and social evolution, connecting
each participant with a living web of people, projects,
ideas, and partners now transforming the world. Find out
more here.
Co-Creating the New Story We are all part of the new story of our emerging
world. What that new story will be is up to us. Barbara
Marx Hubbard, Peter Russell, Brian Swimme and other prominent
futurists and visionaries tell us that we are at a choice
point between the old story that is destroying our world,
and the new story of co-creating the future we would love
to enjoy and leave as a legacy to our children and grand-children.
Find out more here.
As evolving leaders cultivate a high degree of self-mastery
they have confidence to sail through challenging times. They've
learned to deeply listen and respond skilfully to life and
work with a strong and clear sense of purpose. Passion for
this purpose becomes the true joy in life. Life belongs to
the whole community when leaders expand their circles of connection
and their circles of influence.
The Community provides a centre that holds firm, to support
the continued personal evolution of its members as well
as the greater potential contribution of the group to social
change. Being embedded in, and an intimate part of, this
type of community means having access to the reservoirs
of inner strength to meet life's challenges and stay tapped
into the connection with a larger web, whose very nature
is always dynamic and wired for change.
What is a Co-creative Core?
"Co-Creative Core Groups are formative units of
the emerging culture. As they connect and manifest action
through the chosen vocations of their members, they are
even now becoming organic functional elements within the
new social body - its healers and entrepreneurs, its communicators,
educators, artists, managers, and leaders of all kinds.
Even now, networks of human-scale communities composed
of such Cores are forming the basis for the cultural re-formation
of the world.
Co-Creative Core Groups practicing the Circles of Co-Creation
are a home base for pioneering souls who are called to
make the transition in our own lives, families, work,
and communities. By modelling this change personally and
socially, at whatever level we are capable of, we are
seeding the chaotic culture around us with islands of
coherence and alignment with a deeper tendency to evolution
of higher consciousness and greater freedom through more
synergistic order. We are making the quantum leap ourselves.
When we are resonating together in this mode, we are living
in this very moment in a new heaven and a new Earth. (the
New Story). Wherever two or more are gathered in this
way of being, the future is present. Now. In this way,
we bring the future into the present. We realize the dream
and fulfill the promise of all the great mystics of the
world." Barbara Marx Hubbard
Excerpted from The
Co-Creator's Handbook
The Circles of Co-Creation
There is an organic developmental process in the cultivation
of co-creative relationships and groups.
Each step seems to unfold naturally, building on the one
before, leading from the evolving person to the co-creative
society and the next stage of human evolution.
In the Co-creator's
Handbook there are ten circles, each a step in the unfolding
process.
The first five circles express the main focus and practice
of the Resonant Core:
Circle 1: Awakening the
Co-creative Self - Personal Emergence
Co-creative Relationships all begin with the person
Circle 2: Connecting at
the Heart - Creating Resonance
It is this resonant field that gives birth to the co-creative
process.
Circle 3: Overcoming the
Illusion of Separation - Learning New Skills
While resonance is rather like the first attraction of
two lovers, overcoming the illusion of separation, learning
to forgive, and not judge, is more like marriage itself.
In the Resonant Core we extend our inner authority outward
to heal our reactive relational patterns.
Circle 4: Accessing Our
Collective Wisdom - Inspired Insights
As our intuitive mind works in concert with our critical
analytical intellect, a new synthesis-co-creative intelligence-is
born. When we collectively practice deep listening, we
gain access to inspired insights and receive guidance
regarding our actions as individuals and as members of
a group
Circle 5: Honoring the
Sacred - Ceremony, Ritual, & Celebration
We develop ceremonies and rituals to help anchor and actualize
the state of resonance and oneness-retreats, rites of
passage, silence.
These first five circles are the foundation of the Resonant
Core process. The Co-creator's Handbook offers practices,
tools, and meditations to assist, guide and support you
in this unfolding process. "Co-Creative Cores"
evolve from Resonant Core Groups.
Once a field of resonance is created and we have learned
to relate to each other essence to essence, we can then
come together around a shared purpose that actualizes
the gifts of all members and contributes these gifts to
the betterment of society.
Circles 6-10 take you
through the discovery of vocation and the manifestation
of our life purpose in the world. This is where the transition
into the Co-creative Core begins.
Circle 6: Expressing Our
Soul's Purpose
In a field of love, our soul's purpose is drawn forth
into fuller expression.
Circle 7: Discovering
Our Shared Destiny
We are called inwardly to rendezvous with our resonant
partners to discover our shared destiny.
Circle 8: Attuning to
the Design of Creation
We move beyond consensus decision making into whole-systems
knowing and a new form of governance emerges: Self-governance.
Circle 9: Giving Back
to the Whole
It is the nature of life to give back to the whole by
creating sustainable enterprises and sharing our gifts
in service to others.
Circle 10: Birthing a
Co-creative Culture
With ease and grace, Core Groups naturally converge with
one another, giving birth to the new world a co-creative
society.
Critical to the success of co-creative core groups is
establishing a common field of agreement as the group
forms. These become guidelines for participation, and
anchors when communication breaks down.
The Co-creators Agreements
ask for commitment and the self-responsibility of each and
every member, and set a space for respectful and creative
group energy. Read these agreements here.
Take a moment of reflection.....THEY'RE
PLAYING YOUR SONG. Read this reflection here.
Other Organizations offering Co-Creative
process, Core Groups and Synergistic Circles:
Is your ‘net’
weaving? What does this mean? Click here
to learn more.
Time away from the office for business
and strategic planning is of the essence. Our leadership facilitators
can ensure that you get the most from your meetings, retreats
and brainstorming sessions. Find out more here.
Our programs and services can
be facilitated by one or more of our associates. Learn about the
power of co-facilitation here.
Learn more about the services of
our collaborative colleagues and mentors
here.
A little inspiration is always
a good thing. Read our favorite poems here.
"It is not the easy or
convenient life that I seek, but life lived to the edge of all
my possibility." M.A. Radmacher-Hersey
