Evolutionary Leadership for Sustainability

I. Visioning: Creating a shared vision by connecting to your interests and priorities
- What are your concerns? What do you care about?
- Making meaning around the notion of evolutionary leadership
- Creating your own definition of sustainability: connecting global sustainability challenges to your work and life
- Visions of possibility
- Your purpose as an evolutionary leader
- Declarations of leadership: from vision to action

II. Evolutionary Systems Thinking
- An interdependent planet and why we have unsustainable systems
- An extraordinary moment: our evolutionary choices
- What is a system?
- Systems thinking: analysis and synthesis
- Types of systems
- Experiencing self-organization
- From system thinking to systems being

III. Collaboration and Communication
- Relationship between leadership and language
- Speech acts: the building blocks of effective conversations
- Types of conversations: relationship, learning, possibility, action
- Narratives and the construction of our social realities
- How to facilitate collaboration (using the World Caf dialogue approach and other dialogue and collaboration approaches)
- Identifying opportunities for multi-sector (business, government and civil society) collaboration and for creating evolutionary learning communities

IV. Sustainability Strategy
- The Natural Step sustainability framework
- Sustainability cases
- Design for sustainability: learning from nature to design social and technological systems
- Creating your own definition of sustainability: connecting global sustainability challenges to your work and life
- Sustainability Strategy: From vision to current reality bridging the gap

V. Personal Mastery
- Centering and embodiment
- Somatic practices to reconnect with self, others and nature.