EMERGENCE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Program Overview
The Emergence Leadership Academy offers organizational leaders, activists, spiritual warriors, and visionaries a unique development journey. In this 8-month intensive and experiential program, you will develop the skills and behaviors necessary to mobilize people, inspire action, and achieve results.
This program is currently closed.
Program Snapshot
Emergence Leadership Academy is offered as an 8-month program, offered in a combination of in-person intensives and synchronous online learning.
The program begins with a 4-day, 3 night immersive and intensive experience.
After the opening intensive, students will meet online on the first or second Saturday of the month for seven months.
The program concludes with another 4-day, 3-night intensive culminating in capstone presentations in which students demonstrate their personal journey and leadership development.
Due to the intensive and experiential nature of this program both residential intensives must be in person.
The monthly Saturday classes will meet via Zoom.
In this program, you will learn to harness the best of yourself and the best of the world’s wisdom traditions to apply them to real-world situations that are desperate for a new approach. You will learn how to lead from a core of presence and compassion, making you a stronger and more effective leader who is equipped to navigate complexity, inspire action, and achieve lasting results.
We provide a well-developed distance-learning component. Living worldwide, students participate actively in the ELA program through live real-time videoconference. Click here for more information about our live videoconference technology.
Students are also supported in the following ways:
Private Class Website: Student participation on the private class website allows discussion about class topics, sharing of spiritual inspiration, prayer requests and much more.
Downloadable Files: All handouts, supporting materials, and audio files from each class are also available for download from the private class website.
Curriculum
There’s often a gap with leadership development where students have an amazing experience but struggle to apply the models and concepts in the real world. ELA addresses this concern by offering numerous opportunities to practice within the classroom, ongoing support outside the classroom, and individualized action planning at each learning event.
You will be equipped with the ability to immediately apply these practices within your personal and professional life. By continuously practicing and getting feedback along the way, you will transform into an inspirational and daring leader and become a powerful agent for change.
Key Program
Explorations
Self-inquiry
Throughout the journey, students will be looking inward and consciously seeking to improve themselves and their leadership practice. By participating in activities, discussions, feedback, and contemplative exercises, students begin to better understand their strengths and how to reach their highest potential.
Leadership Best-Practices
Students will learn and explore contemporary best practices, as well as historical leadership principles. In addition, starting from day one, students will have opportunities to practice both leadership and followership, discovering and developing their own unique leadership practice.
Leadership Competencies Explored:
Communication and Feedback
Influence
Collaborative Leadership
Leading Change
Conflict Resolution
Courage
Credibility and Integrity
Decision Making
Presence
Systems and Power
Problem Solving
Risk-Taking
Working through others
And more!
Community
Leadership cannot happen without a community of followers. Strong leaders leverage community to inspire actionable results. In this program, students will learn-by-doing, using the classroom experience to cultivate a diverse learning community where all members feel valued, loved, included, and cared for. Through experiences such as establishing ground rules, practicing communication strategies, and group caretaking/caregiving, the learning community is formed and continuously strengthened. This experience allows students to practice and develop the skills necessary for fostering community at their workplace or in their personal lives.
Capstone
Students will demonstrate their learning and development by sharing a capstone presentation in front of their community.
Upon completion of the
Emergence Leadership Academy
you will receive:
A Certificate of Advanced Leadership Practice from One Spirit Learning Alliance
A toolkit of knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to motivate self, mobilize people, and achieve sustainable results
A deep personal inquiry to understand your vision, your motivations, your intrinsic needs, and how to ensure they are met and a personal look at where your leadership strengths are and what opportunities exist for you to grow.
Established personal relationships within a lasting community of leaders with the ability to continue sharing best practices and learn from one another