23rd April 2015

An Evening of Leadership

An An evening of Leadership

Ways of working to be experienced this evening

Mind Mapping Appreciative Inquiry

Mindfulness World Cafe

Personal reflection Olivier Mythodrama leadership model

Holding a question Ancient Wisdom leadership model

An An evening of Leadership

Mindfulness Moment

• Mind-emptiness…. fully in the present moment• Awareness• Attention • Intentional, accepting, non-judgemental focus• Help alleviate stress, anxiety, depression, over-whelm etc

Practice• Attention to all the senses:

– Visual focus on one point eg. candle• Soft focus/ de-focus – allowing peripheral vision

– Listening awareness to all sounds you can hear– Kinaesthetic attention to physical body – bottom on chair etc

• Attention to breathing – focused belly breathing to start• Letting go of thoughts – including no judgement of thoughts that come

An An evening of Leadership

Mindfulness Moment

Including words to help focus & letting go of thoughtseg. Thich Nhat Hanh….

• Breathing in, I feel CALM• Breathing out, I SMILE • Breathing in, I dwell in the PRESENT MOMENT• Breathing out, it is the most WONDERFUL MOMENT

An An evening of Leadership

Personal Leadership

• Reflection on personal leadership style, strengths & learning edges

• Begin holding the question “how do I want to make my mark on the world?”

• It’s not about YOU ! Shut up and Listen - a story from Ernesto Sirolli

An An evening of Leadership

Appreciating our best leadership experiencesAn appreciative Inquiry

DiscoveryDreamDesignDestiny

Discovery of the Positive Core

Dream of the desired future

Design of the ways this can be brought about

Destiny - Building the plan to

achieve this future

An Appreciative Inquiry

An An evening of Leadership

Global Futures

An World Café on Leadership

What are the leadership CHALLENGES?What’s NEEDED to address the challenges?Some key ACTIONS PBN members can take?

Global futures – what else do we SEE COMING? LOCAL & REGIONAL leadership challenges –

specifically in Powys In our own ORGANISATION – inc 1 person ones In OURSELVES

An An evening of Leadership

Leadership Ideas & models Leadership tips & skills exchange Leadership styles – Olivier Mythodrama Leadership styles & models

ancient and modern situational & time related necessary & developmental evocative vs conventional

An An evening of Leadership

Leadership Support

What is needed to support ourselves & others as leaders?

An ancient approach addressing our 8 key leadership intelligencies

An An evening of Leadership

Thank you !

Romy ShoveltonWikima & Tyddyn Retreat