A 6 MONTH JOURNEY IN 3 STEPS

° ° ° STEP 1 ° ° ° 3 half-day workshops between May and July 2016 to get first-hand experience of practices for growing empathy and care, and reflecting with other leaders on the power of your leadershipThese workshops will include, among others, methodologies, scientific insights and practices drawn from the Compassion Cultivation Training program developed at Stanford University

° ° ° STEP 2 ° ° ° Power & Care conference in Brussels (September 9-11, 2016), to be exposed to cutting-edge scientific insights, presented by 25+ world-class speakers interacting with the Dalai Lama

° ° ° STEP 3 ° ° ° 3-day leadership retreat (November 17-19, 2016), in order to integrate the learning from Steps 1 and 2, go deeper into caring leadership, and find more applications in your team and organization

Important note : The 3 half-day workshops and the Power & Care conference can be accessed separately, whereas the leadership retreat is exclusively for partici-pants enrolled in the 2 previous steps.

A 6 MONTH JOURNEY FOR LEADERS DEVELOPED AND DELIVERED BY

OLIVIER ONGHENA - ‘T HOOFT, SEBASTIEN HENRY & STEPHANIA VERHAEGEN.

THIS PROGRAM IS SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THOSE INTENDING TO

ATTEND THE POWER & CARE EVENT (SEPTEMBER 9-11, 2016 - BOZAR - BRUSSELS)

ORGANIZED BY MIND & LIFE EUROPE

AUTHENTIC POWER THROUGH

CARING LEADERSHIP

How cultivating compassion and care enhances leadership

and benefits society at large.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE

Leaders from all sectors (business, NGOs, public sector, politics …), individually or, preferably, with their team(s)

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT

- Getting a first-hand experience of concrete practices helping to cultivate more harmony and goodwill in your team and your organization- Being exposed to cutting-edge scientific information about how compassion and care can be developed and make a difference to positively influence people engagement and organizational culture- Taking a step back and reflecting with other leaders on your leadership and how you are presently managing your power

LAYING THE CONTEXT: WHY CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES MATTER

IN THE NEW ECONOMIC PARADIGM, AND HOW THEY RELATE TO POWER AND CARE.

- Caring leadership from a philosophical, spiritual and academic perspective. - The importance of a higher purpose in this new paradigm. - Introduction to mindfulness and to contemplative practices aimed at growing our natural capacity to care.- Discussions around power and how it relates to compassion and care.- First rounds of practice.

THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-COMPASSION FOR LEADERS.

- Starting with ourself: investigating our own sources of power. - Why self-compassion is an effective motivator. - Practices to grow self-compassion and self-kindness .

GROWING EMPATHY AND EXTENDING COMPASSION TO OTHERS

AS A SOURCE OF AUTHENTIC POWER.

- Scientific insights around empathy and compassion and knowing the difference between the two.- Practices aimed at cultivating empathy and compassion in the workplace.- Discussion around integrating such practices in our work as leaders, and adjusting the way we use and develop our power.

Note : To support each participant and ensure real life experiences and interactions, groups will be limited to 15 participants during practice times.

Workshop 1 :

Workshop 2 :

Workshop 3 :

3 HALF-DAY WORKSHOPS

Getting a first-hand experience of proven practices to grow empathy and care,

and thus cultivate more harmony and goodwill in your team.

° ° ° STEP 1 ° ° °

SEPTEMBER 9-11, 2016 BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Power & Care is a two and a half day Mind and Life Dialogue of leading experts with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

How can these two primal forces – power and care – be conscientiously and fruitfully allied, and engender projects and actions that promote the flourishing of living beings and our environment?

The program includes perspectives from the natural sciences, anthropology, psychol-ogy, politics, economics and the world’s contemplative traditions. A selection of ex-periential workshops will enable participants to work on the dynamics of power and care within themselves. An artistic performance will be offered on the first evening.

Speakers include, amongst others, Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE.; Prof. Sir Paul Collier;

Dr Vandana Shiva; Matthieu Ricard, Ph.D.; Prof. Dr Tania Singer; Prof. Frans

B. M. de Waal, Ph.D.; Olafur Eliasson; Roshi Joan Halifax; Frédéric Laloux;

Alaa Murabit, MD.; Dr Uwe Jean Heuser; and Prof. Dennis James Snower, Ph.D.

POWER & CARE CONFERENCEIN BRUSSELS

Be exposed to cutting-edge scientific insights, presented by 25+ world-class speakers.

° ° ° STEP 2 ° ° °

A dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama organized by Mind & Life Europe.

Mind and Life Europe hopes that this conference will be a significant catalyst for the formulation of new research ideas and for imagining societal and governance structures that will contribute towards forging a better world together.

The conference includes the following benefits for leaders enrolled in the pre-conference workshops described under Step 1:

- Guaranteed seating in the 200 seats closest to the stage.- Privileged access to the 6 workshops offered during the conferences (limited seats).- A lunch or dinner (tbd) with the speakers, including Matthieu Ricard.- Privileged moment with author Frédéric Laloux to discuss his book ‘Reinventing Organizations’.

About Mind & Life Europe

Mind and Life Europe (MLE) is a non-profit organization that supports pathways for knowledge that provide the basis to increase human well-being, ethical respon-sibility and compassion in order to more effectively confront global problems. MLE is dedicated to bridging contemplative wisdom and practices with western scholarship in the arts and sciences and modern research capabilities, in order to generate, disseminate and translate that knowledge, with a particular focus on how the mind can cause or alleviate suffering. MLE was established in 2008 to expand related activities in Europe of the Mind and Life Institute, USA.

POWER & CARE CONFERENCEIN BRUSSELS

A dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama organized by Mind & Life Europe.

CONTENT

- Making the most out of the Power & Care conference: digesting and integrating the wealth of information.- Deepening the contemplative practices covered during the pre-conference workshops.- Finding ways to guide our teams and organization towards caring leadership in the future.- Thinking about how to change (the culture of ) organizations, using the insights from the workshops and the conference.- Linking theory and practice. - Relating personal power to organizational excellence and effectiveness.- Practicing ‘power in service of people and teams’ (instead of ‘power over people and teams’).- Understanding what organizational culture is and how it impacts effectiveness and excellence.

Important note : This leadership retreat (Thursday morning to Saturday after lunch) is exclusively open to participants enrolled in both the pre-conference workshops and the Power & Care conference.

Integrating the insights from Steps 1 and 2, going deeper into caring leadership,

and achieving organizational impact

3-DAY LEADERSHIP

RETREAT

In the presence of Matthieu Ricard(to be confirmed)

° ° ° STEP 3 ° ° °

Sébastien Henry, a graduate of ESSEC Business School with additional degrees in psychology and philosophy, focuses on building a bridge between wisdom and busi-ness in order to find more meaning and to find innovative answers to better address the challenges of extreme pov-

erty and environmental degradation. His expertise lies in helping senior leadership teams integrate contemplative practices into their work in order for them to access to new resources. He has worked with executive teams at Sodexo, Bayer, MAIF, L’Oreal, BCG and many other companies. He has led a company in Asia for about 10 years, has been practicing daily meditation for about 15 years, and is the author of 4 books. He speaks 6 languages including Mandarin and Japanese.

Stephania Verhaegen is a Compassion Cultivation Training(CCT) teacher certified by the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University. She earned degrees in law and philosophy from Univer-sité catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Upon graduation in

2007, she joined the Banking and Finance department of one of Europe’s top law firms where she gained strong experience in professional services. At that time, she was introduced to breath-focused meditation and became increasingly interested in meditation techniques. She has taught CCT in the U.S. and in Belgium. Her goal is to introduce CCT to business and non-profit organizations and to inspire them to lead with compassion.

Designers and lead facilitators for the 3 Workshops and the Retreat.

Olivier Onghena -‘t Hooft, who survived a violent kidnapping in Bogota in 1994, uses this transforma-tional experience to inspire leaders to create beauty, har-mony and happiness for the progress and wellbeing of Man(kind), Society and the World. He helps them make

the link between strategy, leadership and culture on the one hand, and higher pur-pose on the other hand. He believes that organizations are the best context for in-dividuals to become all that they are through their contribution to the higher pur-pose the organization stands for. Olivier founded the Global Inspiration & Noble Purpose Institute and Wisdom Encounters, and is the vice-chairman of LEAD-IN. He left the corporate world, where he hold several senior positions, to become ad-visor of the leadership of organizations such as ArcelorMittal, Air Liquide, Bosch-Siemens Home appliances, Brussels Airlines, Febelfin, La Monnaie, ING, Maersk, PSA, Straumann, TNT. He has a daily meditation and yoga practice, and incorpo-rates spirituality and meditation in most of his work with clients.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

FEES

STEP 1 : Pre-conference workshops : € 2.500 (excl VAT)STEP 2 : Power&Care conference : Registrations must be made directly through www.powerandcare.org, which is the only sales channel. We invite you to select the “PREMIUM TICKET: CORPORATE FRIEND” option to enjoy the benefits listed on page 4

STEP 3 : Leadership Retreat: € 3.750 (+ accommodation & meals) (excl VAT)

Note : 15% of the proceeds (minus costs for logistics, accommodation & transportation) will be offered to the Mind & Life Institute Europe to support their research programs.

LOCATIONS & DATES

• STEP 1 (PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS)

Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3

13:30 – 19:00 15:00 – 19:00 15:00 – 19:00

Brussels: May 10 May 31 July 5 Paris: May 12 June 1 June 29 Geneva: May 26 June 21 July 7 London: May 30 June 24 July 11 Zurich: June 02 June 23 July 6 Copenhagen: June 6 June 28 July 13

Exact locations will be communicated after registration

• STEP 3 (LEADERSHIP RETREAT)

In the Swiss Alps Nov 17-19

FOR INFO & REGISTRATION

Ann Lanens ann@koisinvest.com+32 2 534 36 76

Responsible editors : Olivier Onghena-‘t Hooft @ Global Inspiration & Noble Purpose Institute & Sébastien Henry