Leadership as Developmental Friendship Transformations

A coLAB supporting transformative agency in response to Eco-Social Crisis.

AR+ Members co-stewarding

Starts April 17th. 75-90 mins. Meeting each month on third Thursdays at 17.00 GMT/London time (not in July) 

Our Inquiry: Extending previous year’s themes, including last year’s being as nature, we invite curiosity about how we - individually and collectively - may better work with the unifying field which holds all. We may name this larger eco-relational context in many different ways as we ask how to bend, brake/break and/or transform today. This curiosity takes us in many directions as we consider:

• ‘Spiritual’ aspects of our work
• How to ‘ground’ ourselves in times of crisis
• How to activate ‘Purpose’
• How to explore what complexity theory (“Quantum’ ideas”) may mean for us?
• How we relate to Indigenous Wisdoms and multiple cultures?
• Whether we need to go underground, into our Mycelial Networks ?

We continue to sense the potential to deepen our practice, to honour many related threads and to take greater ownership of what and who we are becoming together. The Plane of Possibility is infinite.  There is infinite space and potential that can be worked and danced with. Let’s give ourselves permission to go there.

Our practice: We will practice nurturing capacity, our own and one another’s, in sharing power and increasing inquiry. We’ll elevate our insights and practice on how to integrate power and love on our journey as ARTists. This practice is needed for our times. Importantly, we seek this transformation through an ethos of developmental friendship, where our relationships become a source and space for our own and others transformation.

Our Style: In this coLAB we’ll cultivate a community of learning and practice to apply personal development insights to our own real-life contexts, mindful of working with our stakeholders. We draw from a number of "developmentally edgy" practices. In the spirit of a “flipped classroom,” monthly plenary is devoted primarily to practice with a concept introduced as pre-reading / video clips as desired by the designated session facilitator. In each session, expect emphasis on experimenting within a consciously “brave” protainer. Between sessions all participants are asked to join at least one smaller practice group.

Participants: Those who play a leadership role in their world - educators, change-leaders, facilitators - and are concerned with our eco-social crises. The group will be limited to around 15 participants.

Where/When: The monthly plenary is 75-90 minutes on third Thursdays. Each month expect an additional informal intersession small group meeting as a way to deepen practice and connection with rotating others.

Relational Meditation. Learning to contain natural anxieties and bring forward our “better self” despite stress or when under challenge requires individual never ending daily practice. If you do not have a regular mindfulness practice (and even if you do!) all participants registered in this coLAB are invited to join the AR+ community's weekly eco-relational meditation. Please register separately for that at the dedicated page so you’ll receive the log in information.