Leading in the Integral Age:

Evolutionary Leadership for  the 21st C

 

Spiral Dynamics integral*, Level II,

(from 9am Tuesday to 5pm Thursday)

Delivered by Dr. Marilyn Hamilton

Dr. Hamilton is a pioneer in the research and development of  Leadership and Learning capacities using four quadrant, eight level (4Q8L) frameworks.  Founder and Author of Integral City, TDG Global Learning Connections, international speaker, Constellation Leader of Spiral Dynamics integral Canada, charter member Integral Institute and Integral Ecology, and professor Royal Roads University, the Adizes Graduate School, Justice Institute BC. She works with the Ginger Group Experiential Learning Specialists; public and online dialogue facilitators; and numerous community social enterprise organizations. Serving on the Spiral Dynamics Group Training Board with Dr. Don Beck, she delivers Trainer training based on the work of  Dr Beck, Founder of The Spiral Dynamics Group , Center for Human Emergence and the International Institute of Values and Culture; and coauthor of The Crucible: Forging South Africa's Future (1991) and Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership & Change (1996).

 

Integral Leader  in Residence: Valerie Smith.

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Leading in the Integral Age: Evolutionary Leadership for  the 21^st C

 

The focus of this workshop will be on leading self, others, organizations and systems using Spiral Dynamics’ 4 Quadrant / 8 Level competencies, capacities and contexts.

 

The objective of this workshop is to allow leaders to map, the never-ending quest of your personal leadership journey, so that you can expand your “journey to wholeness”. You will develop a personal leadership approach that aligns your intelligences, passions, priorities and potentials for effective leadership in a complex world. The course will help you understand what is important to yourself and others and why you need a range of appropriate leadership capacities. It will enable you to interpret situations with an awareness of the physical, social, cultural and psychological contexts experienced by other people. It will provide a leadership approach that aligns systematically, strategically, socially and systemically the outcomes, objectives and actions you need to accomplish. The workshop will help participants lead appropriately and know why, who and when you need to bring others on to your leadership teams. It will offer participants opportunities to examine your leadership boundaries and expand your reach beyond space, time and moral limits that contain you now. It will give participants the opportunity to practise the skills of leading within a 4 Quadrant / 8 Level spectrum of leadership options. The workshop will help participants chart leadership directions that will enable you to continue your development after you leave the course.

 Participant Activities

 Participants will be active in:

• Learning the basics of SDi Leadership so they can recognize what is important to the people that they lead
• Practising the fundamentals of leadership roles so they can gain insight at who is skilled in different leadership modes
• Learning the 8 levels and 4 integral perspectives that leaders need to expand their leadership influence in directions defined by space, time and moral span
• Appreciative leadership practises that help leaders tap the intelligences in others for discovery, visioning, designing and delivering
• Understanding how messaging and measuring contribute to intelligent leadership performance
• Selecting and developing a leadership team appropriate to the culture(s) who can get the job done
• Evaluation for continuous development of leadership capacities; using self, others, organization, community and systems feedback for effective results
• Re-storying themselves as leaders along a natural leadership trajectory
• Finding the voice of the leader who can convey the right message at the right time to different audiences
• Coaching self and others for cohort, network and meshwork development
• Gaining fluency in systems thinking so they can understand the complexities of life conditions, expand leadership imagination and move beyond strategic planning to systemic emergence

 

Main Features

In this Spiral Dynamics integral training, participants will learn the insights that Spiral Dynamic’s brings to integral leadership development and evolution. They will recognize the impact that life conditions have on effective leadership praxis.  Through evaluation, role playing, scenario challenges, and experiential engagement, participants will ground their understanding of leadership and what they need to do to develop it.

In interactive small groups, participants will experiment with discovering their own leadership v-memeplexes, through self and other assessment, reflection and peer coaching.

The role of leader will be examined through eight leadership lenses and participants will have the opportunity to assess themselves as leaders, team members and followers.

Our Leader-in-Residence will share the research of how leaders re-story themselves up and down the spiral, as well as help us explore perspectives from the four quadrants wearing integral lenses.

Dr. Hamilton’s research on learning and leadership in a self-organizing international community system will give participants new insights into the importance of making 4Q8L connections and influencing how meaning is made.

In practicums, participants will have the opportunity to practise, coach and reflect on leadership practices.

Leadership coaching will support participants to discover how to improve their effectiveness as leaders in their real life situations. 

This highly interactive workshop will engage participants with individual, small group and large group work. They will have opportunities for self, peer and expert coaching to gain integral leadership skills for the 21^st Century.

The course will include the following:

ü  Leading Integrally

[In contrast to rigid, artificial, and one-size-fits-all leadership models]   

• The underlying patterns, principles and processes of “the integral.”  How to detect the “natural flow” within your leadership, culture, community, nation or global contexts.
• The basic characteristics of “leadership.”  What do effective leaders look like at different levels of complexity or in different life conditions? How do leaders adapt their traits, styles, experience and values for different life conditions so they can be effective?
• An assortment of “Leadership tools.”  +Deciphering vMemetic Codes   + vMEME Mapping the Leadership Territory +Walking the Quadrants  +Using Integral Visuals   +Applying Appropriate Templates   +Testing Assumptions   +Assessing People

 

ü  Leading Change Flexibly

[In contrast to linear, technical, leadership rulebooks] 

·        Conducting CultureSCAN.  How to scan the complexity of internal and external settings, to identify the dynamic patterns of vMemes at play and emerging in the leadership field. 

·      Enabling Strategic Outcomes.  Using 4Q8L lenses to discern, create, explore and adapt strategies for the 21^st century.  Formulate appropriate leadership actions, mindsets, relationships and collaborations.

·        Translating from Vision to Voice.  Developing a voice that conveys the leadership heart of the message you want to convey. 

·  Checking the Change Landscape.  How to lead appropriately in life conditions that reflect different change states – adjust your strategy to reflect the shifting states of change.

 

ü  Leading from the Second Tier

[In contrast to one-size-fits-all First Tier management, teaming, social networking] 

·     Basic Assumptions of Leadership at the Second Tier: distinguishing characteristics

·     Recalibrating archetypes and expressions of First Tier Leadership into 2^nd Tier Leadership models and exemplars

·       Emerging Second Tier leadership profiles

 ü   Addressing Diversity in Followers, Teams, Organizations

[In contrast to leading with no shades of grey, or without colour] 

• Adapting leadership performance for different people, places, priorities
• Developing leadership capacities that bridge cultures within the same team, organization, community
• How leaders connect:  memes across value systems; intentions to be conveyed; motivations to be tapped; actors to be enabled; media to be accessed; meshes to be woven; and meaning to be made.
• Essential competencies, characteristics, and dimensions of effective Spiral Leadership: how these dynamics can be identified, developed, practised, and coached.

 

ü   Evolutionary Leadership   

The SDi Leadership-Lab: Where internal Spiral Dynamics integral leaders encounter dissonance, discovery, integration and consolidation and emerge evolutionary leadership capacities

• Integral Adaptiveness: How to move beyond the blocks that prevent leaders from solving problems in new ways, appreciating the strengths in people or seeing the resources that will lead to breakthroughs.
• Integral Alignment: How to align various SDi scales of leadership engagement (individuals, teams, organizations, communities) for coherent design of systematic order, strategies, social networks and systemic flow.
• Integral Resonance: How to achieve internal and external coherence and resonance across multiple value systems, through practising appreciative inquiry that releases positive energies, potential meshes, possible futures, and natural resource flow.
• Integral Emergence: How to emerge the next natural outcome for customers, clients, stakeholders, shareholders and constituents that builds on their deep SDi codes.

 10 Reasons You Should Attend 

1. Access new research on how to lead effectively in many change states, situations and contexts.
2. Update current leadership skills by breaking out of your current limiting strategies.  
3. Gain energy, vision and connections thru recalibrating values-based leadership approaches.
4. See the importance of Four Perspectives that every leader needs to master.
5. Learn the kind of leadership needed by every values centre-of-gravity, on the evolving values spiral.
6. Discover why leaders need to use multiple lenses to determine appropriate roles.
7. Learn how to add value to any situation with your leadership contributions.
8. Give yourself practise space for trying out new leadership skills.
9. Enjoy a community of practise with other Spiral Dynamics integral leadership peers.
10. Get coaching from skilled SDi leadership and organizational development coaches.

 

Who Should Attend?

Leaders and managers from all sectors (government, NFP, private), organization developers, teachers, professors, facilitators, psychologists, therapists, coaches, counsellors, strategic planners, scenario developers, communication specialists, human resource specialists, marketers, sales people, executives, students, media

 

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TDG Global Learning Connections

Unit 24 – 4001 Old Clayburn Rd.

Abbotsford, BC, V3G 1C5

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Marilyn Hamilton, TDG Global Learning Connections

Tel:     604-855-8478

Fax:     604-855-8870

Email to: marilyn@integralcity.com

    

TDG Global Learning Connections

Thanks to Current & Past Partners:

v      The Alliance for Capitalizing on Change

v      University of Manitoba

v      Integral Manitoba

v      People Process Solutions

v    ACCORD

v     Ginger Group Collaborative, Canada

v      Erickson College, International

v      Vancouver IONS Community Group

v      Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC

v      DRISHTI centre for integral action

v      Pacific Integral Group, Seattle, WA

v      B-Coach.com

v      Integrative Learning Institute, Nelson, BC

v      GreenSeed, Vancouver, BC

v      Universarium

   

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