Take your team to the next level.

Now that you’ve experienced Courage & Renewal programs for your own leadership growth, are you ready to cultivate an authentic, trustworthy workplace? Do you want to take your team or organization to the next level? Would you like to clarify your organization’s core values and more fully engage employee strengths?

Courage at Work is a 7-Month Leadership Intensive with 3 Retreats plus monthly Peer Learning Calls that offers an opportunity to inquire openly and innovatively around the challenges you face in your organization. You’ll develop sustainable ways to shift the culture, supported by peer colleagues through the Circle of Trust® framework.

Join us if you would like to nurture a trustworthy organizational culture that:

• Includes reflective practice as part of strategic planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Engages the unique energy, expertise and wisdom of everyone.
• Deals effectively with complexity, uncertainty and change.
• Values diverse perspectives.
• Embraces the cycles of organizational life.

What to Expect:

You’ll attend three residential retreats, three months apart, and benefit from the ongoing support of a smaller Peer Learning Circle. This series includes:

• A plan of inquiry developed at the first retreat and refined/revised at the subsequent retreats will contain your plans for experimenting with various processes in your organizations—actions that will move you towards your desired organizational culture.
• Circle of Trust® approach, including individual reflection and small and large circle sharing.
• Evening roundtables for reviewing the questions of the day and sharing resources and experiences that could be helpful upon return to your organization.
• Peer Learning Circle calls in the months between retreats will let you “check-in” with a cohort of peers and offer mutual support regarding your work-in-progress.

Your inquiry will be organized around the following questions:

Retreat #1 (three nights/four days) —Questions of Identity and Integrity

• What is our story as an organization?
• What gives meaning and purpose to our work?
• What values guide who we are as we work together?
• How do we value contributions and perspectives throughout the organization?

Retreat #2 (two nights/three days) —Questions of Influence and Interdependence

• How do we work purposefully and adapt to the ever-changing environment?
• How do we foster interdependency, shared risk taking, and synergy?
• What are the rhythms and cycles of our organization?

Retreat #3 (two nights/three days) —Questions of Integration and Meaning Making

• What do we still need to learn?
• How do we stay attuned to the larger context– both internally and externally?
• What practices do I need to put in place so our future is not just mine to hold?

Prerequisites:

1. Circle of Trust® experience in a Courage & Renewal Academy for Leaders or another local or national Courage & Renewal retreat offering.
2. An organizational context as the focus of your exploration throughout the Courage at Work program. Your organization might be a congregation, school, nonprofit, health care practice, business or another group of people who work together for common purpose.
3. Designated responsibility (whether paid or volunteer) for a group or team that allows you to introduce and practice different ways of engaging others around cultural change.

About the Venue:

Camp Allen is a modern year-round facility located one-hour northwest of Houston, Texas. The hotel and conference center are located in a beautiful pine forest with rolling hills and two lakes.

Camp Allen Conference & Retreat Center

18800 FM 362, Navasota, Texas 77868

See www.campallen.org

Register prior to February 10, 2015 for Early Bird rates!