MARCH 23-25, 2012
IGNITING THE HEART IN THE MIDST OF UNCERTAINTY

The Sophia Institute
Charleston, South Carolina

Perseverance is the capacity to keep going long after the passion for our work has dissipated. It is a continuous and conscious choice not to give up, no matter how difficult the circumstances. The Chinese character for perseverance is a knife over a human heart. Can we allow our hearts to be cut open by setbacks, criticism and loss? Can compassion arise even in the harshest settings? Drawing on the wisdom of the spiritual warrior tradition, we explore how to confront the dominant energies of our time - aggression, anxiety, and fear - in a way that allows us to do good work, serve others, and care for ourselves, even when exhausted and overwhelmed.

To learn more or to register visit: http://www.thesophiainstitute.org/events/margaret-wheatley

MAY 28 - JUNE 1, 2012
FEARLESSNESS IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY

Schumacher College
Dartington, Devon
United Kingdom

The whole globe is shook up, so what are you going to do when things are falling apart? You’re either going to become more fundamentalist and try to hold things together, or you’re going to forsake the old ambitions and goals and live life as an experiment, making it up as you go along. Pema Chödrön

Meg Wheatley returns to Schumacher College to develop her work on the challenges of leadership in a chaotic age.

For more information or to register, visit
http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/fearlessness-in-the-face-of-uncertainty

JUNE 18-23, 2012
LEADER AS SPIRITUAL WARRIOR: TRANSFORMING DIFFICULTY INTO THE WAY OF GENEROSITY AND POWER
with Jerry Granelli & Margaret Wheatley

ALIA Summer Institute
Mount Saint Vincent University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In this module, part of ALIA Institute's Leadership Intensive,you are invited to practice the way of spiritual warriorship. Each session will be a mixture of teachings, applied practices, and  creative experiences. We will use personal work-life challenges to apply and test out these new skills and insights.  Together, we will create space that both supports and challenges each of us to develop deeper self-awareness and greater confidence in how we claim our power and generosity as leaders for this time.

Learn more and register: http://aliainstitute.org/blog/track/leader-as-spiritual-warrior/

Watch the video introduction to ALIA's 2012 Summer Institute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_7Oc6AEk0

Download a full event brochure: http://bit.ly/s9kJmZ

AUGUST 6-10, 2012
LEADERSHIP AND THE NEW SCIENCE TWENTY YEARS ON

33rd Cape Cod Institute
Nauset Regional School
Eastham, MA

The 20th anniversary edition of Leadership and the New Science will be published fall of 2012. Meg has substantially rewritten and updated the content, describing both changes in science and, as importantly, changes in society. Where is the worldview of new science evident: intimate interconnections, self-organization, adaptation, and constant change? Where is the old paradigm of hierarchy, control and mechanistic thinking still dominant, and why? How are relationships, work and politics changing in response to technology, instantaneous communication and globalization? Where are we using the new sciences to help us cope and create in this era of chaos, disruption and new possibilities?

Meg returns once again to Cape Cod Institute to explore this conversation for five stimulating days. Each day we will explore a core question from the worldview of new science, and inquire how that changing perspective is and is not visible in how we think and act personally, in organizations and in societies.

For more information and registration: http://cape.org/2012/meg_wheatley.html