Re-Wilding the Leader Nature Retreat
DIALOGUES IN COMPLEXITY & CHANGE FOR RESILIENT THINKING & ACTION
Frank’s Place, Little Lorraine, Cape Breton, NS, August 25-28, 2022
This is a unique opportunity to gather as a community, a diversity of minds, where we collectively cultivate capacity and capability to embrace the complexity of our world. Together we will contemplate challenges though asking a set of deep questions... and will engage in dialogue and reflexive practices guided by the holding environment of Nature. The overall purpose of the re-wilding leader’s retreat is to co-create desirable futures for communities and society into our everyday praxis that is tied to deliberation and action.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Discover Wonder, enchantment and awe...and an experience that will build new capacity and capability for leading in 21st-century. We live in a rapidly changing world of complexity that is out pacing the leader’s mindset. It is often difficult to overcome our sense of despair living in our cacophony and seemly dystopian world. How do we move forward towards desired futures? Set in the beauty of the rainforest, surrounded in the biodiversity of Nature this experiential learning gathering aims to intimately connect leaders to the social-ecological system that humanity is integrally interconnected with.
PARTICIPANTS CAN EXPECT TO:
experience a deeper inner connection to their authentic self
cultivate universal energy for everyday life
deepen listening practices for presencing
gain capacity for systems & relational thinking steeped in reciprocity
deepen relationships and interconnections
give action to desired futures
Set in pristine Nature and in a group dynamic, we explore emerging questions on local, regional, and global challenges: Where are we going?; Is this desirable?; What should be done?; and, exploring power dynamics of ‘Who gains and who loses’? This program builds resilience towards desired futures.
COMPONENTS OF THE PROGRAM FEATURE:
inner work of the leader
case-in-point study
deep inquiry as a collective to explore desired futures
bringing the theory to praxis––‘action for what’s next’
Re-wilding the LEADER’S FACILITATOR
Kent A. Williams, DSocSci
Kent is a social scientist who’s research and practice focuses on enabling resilient leadership that embraces the rapidly changing complexity of our world. His research continues to explore the lived experience of leaders through a nature retreat experience. Guided by his values of courage, empathy, integrity, levity, respect, and wisdom, his mission is to co-inspire human potential to co-create desired futures.
Presently, Kent is an assistant professor at the Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University and engages with leaders in his leadership consulting practice, Integral Dialogue Project. In his facilitation he brings a pedagogical approach where education is a practice of freedom, enabling agency––where participants are collaborators in a dialogic learning process. Kent has had a life-long connection and love of Nature and the cosmos.
ACCOMMODATION & Energy Food
This is an organic event with getting back to basics. The accommodation is tenting or one of the beds/cots in Frank’s cabin. The food is included in the retreat offering and is prepared by the amazing Hannah, who loves working with organic and plant-based locally grown food that nourishes the body and soul.
Re-Wilding the LEADER nature retreat REGISTRATION
Cost: $350-595.00*
*This is a sliding cost scale where you pay what you can. Students are suggested to pay at the lower end, and working individuals are asked to consider the upper end of the program cost scale.
Included in the cost of the retreat are all meals and transportation from Sydney, NS.