The Leading Collaborative Change Program
A Six-Month Action-Learning Program for Experienced Social Change Leaders
Experienced social change leaders don’t need lectures about what needs to change – you need better support in how to make that change happen, grounded in your specific context. And that comes through learning-in-practice over time alongside a community of peers, with skillful facilitation that guides you to wise action.
You’ll join a group of six leaders from across the social change landscape, learning a range of approaches to address your current challenges and fulfill your deeper aspirations – for yourself, your organization, and the people and communities you serve.
Leading change in times of heightened intensity and complexity requires both enhanced self-reflection and stronger communities of support. You’ll receive individual coaching and experience what is possible in a trusting group that can activate “collective intelligence.”
How This Will Work
The group meets in person monthly on a week-day for six months. The workshops are experiential, complemented by pre-reading and follow-up resources. There are 2-3 hours of homework a month, including personal reflection and conversations with peers.
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What You’ll Learn
You’ll learn practical methods for navigating change, including how to:
- Stay true to vision and find strategic clarity in times of complexity and uncertainty
- Map systems and identify resources that can be activated
- Transform resistance, tensions, and conflicts to free up what stalls forward movement
- Work through the unique challenges of endings, transitions, and new beginnings
- Listen in ways that people feel understood and support colleagues to find the next right step in complicated situations
- Facilitate groups so people can do their best thinking and strengthen trust and morale
Prior to the first workshop, each participant will have a one-on-one session with the facilitator to clarify your particular needs and goals, which will be used to finalize the topics and activities.
Your Guide
Beth Tener’s passion is to bring people together in ways that unlock and ignite individual and group potential. In designing and facilitating this action-learning program, she draws on over 30 years of experience as a facilitator and systems change consultant, having worked working with over 200 organizations and collaborative social change initiatives.
Quotes from Previous Participants
“The listening training alone fills a major unmet need in our society!”
“We learned how to embrace complexity, with so many transferable practices.”
“We have more weighing on us now. Being a part of such a supportive community of peer leaders left me feeling lighter and better equipped to manage whatever comes next.”
“The rules of the game are changing and this Leadership Circle gave me new tools to respond. It’s amazing to experience what is possible in collaboration. We got to practice new listening and communication skills and learn how to map systems and identify resources in our midst.”
“I felt like this group could see who I was and my gifts. I had cheerleaders who recognized the change potential of what I was doing. I could hold it with me when I was back at work.”
Location
The workshops will be held in-person at Carey Cottage, a historic home at the confluence of Sagamore Creek and the ocean in Portsmouth, NH, renovated in 2020 as a multi-use facility to support social profit initiatives.