Authentic Leadership
Susan Skjei, Mark Wilding, Arawana Hayashi, Micki McMillan, Julio Olalla and Mark Gerzon
A Marpa Center Program
Times of uncertainty and tumultuous change have stretched traditional leadership and managerial models beyond capacity. A new kind of leader is needed—one who can respond creatively and effectively in the midst of change and step beyond conventional approaches to planning and strategy.
Launched in 1999, Naropa’s Authentic Leadership program is a transformative leadership course that integrates ancient wisdom with effective, modern approaches to management. Onsite sessions encourage deep, personal learning and help participants assimilate and apply ideas and concepts at an accelerated pace. Online instruction enables participants to share ideas and participate in group learning from anywhere in the world.
January 16–May 5
Residential Seminars:
Jan. 29–Feb. 2 and April 9–13
Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Basic Price: $5,200. Discounts apply. Click Here for complete details
Conscious Business: A Telecourse for Coaches
Nikki Carpenter and Micki McMillan
The course is designed for experienced coaches, human resources professionals and other adult development professionals who would like to qualify to apply for the Coaching for Authentic Leadership program, and who have not taken the Authentic Leadership Certificate Program. The telecourse is based on Fred Kofman's teachings on conscious business as described in his papers and in his tape series, which are required materials for the course. The purpose of the course is to introduce participants to the fundamental language and communication methodologies taught in the Coaching for Authentic Leadership Certificate Program. This is a twelve-week course which includes six group telecall sessions. Telecalls will be held every other week over a twelve-week period with 0assigned reading and application of learning between telecall sessions.
January 25–April 5
Telelectures and discussion: 1/25, 2/8, 3/8, 3/22 and 4/5
Non-credit: $850
Transforming Your Relationship with Money: Conscious Bookkeeping
Bari Tessler
This course is for anyone who would like to transform their experience with money. In this unique process, you will playfully uncover your personal relationship with money, improve money-tracking skills and develop a deep and joyful daily, weekly and monthly financial awareness practice to keep you focused and achieving your financial goals.
On the first day, using journaling, diads and stories, you will examine the emotional or psychological level of money, looking at family of origin patterning and cultural or religious influences on your current money behaviors. You will explore how you make money, save money, give money, and loan money. The result will be increased awareness and understanding about your money story from the past and how it impacts your current life.
On the second day, you will be enchanted with fun, new ways to practice the concepts of money tracking, accounting and values-based bookkeeping. You will examine your current and practical relationship with money, using exercises that will bring clarity and knowledge to your current financial situation. Individuals, couples, small business owners and partners are welcome.
Bari Tessler, MA, earned her master’s degree in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University. She is a teacher, therapist, speaker and the founder of Conscious Bookkeeping™. After many years in the mental health field, Bari jumped careers, starting her own bookkeeping business. From there, Bari created the Conscious Bookkeeping method, a unique integration of the psycho spiritual and financial realms and a philosophy and practice that helps individuals, couples, families, sole-proprietors and organizations. Bari founded Conscious Bookkeeping in 2002 and has grown it into a wonderful organization that helps people transform their relationship with money. Bari resides in Santa Cruz, California, with her husband.
March 2-4
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat, Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Non-credit: $190, $161.50 by Feb 3
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Making Sense of Money: Aligning Money and ValuesCANCELLED
Bob Kenny
A Marpa Center Program
Money has been referred to as the last taboo—a topic not generally broached in polite company, often considered more uncomfortable to talk about than sex. Yet our relationship to money affects nearly every aspect of our lives. This workshop is for parents, grandparents, professionals and advisors. People can come who are wondering about their life choices, who are worried about out-of-control spending, or who find that work consumes them or perhaps understand that guilt drives them to give too much to their children—in short, all people who understand that money is having a big impact in their lives. We will re-evaluate personal myths and attitudes about money and the fundamental relationship between values and money. Through in-depth conversation, personal reflection and exercises, we will examine the money dilemmas we face in relationships at home and at work. We will share our experiences and solutions and address ethical questions fundamental to an increasingly affluent society, such as: What is money for? Can we transform our relationship to money into a creative force? How can we better align our money with our values and our goals? You will leave with new insights and tools, resources, and inspiration for continued change in your relationship to money.
March 9-11
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Sun 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Non-credit: $250, $212.50 by February 16
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors) CANCELLED
The Psychology of Money
A Professional Training Intensive for Therapists and Counselors
Bob Kenny and Deborah Bowman
The cultural milieu in which most of us operate is both materially obsessed and non-reflective. Even in psychotherapy, the subject of money is often more closely guarded than other taboos. Currently, there is little training available to professional therapists or counselors on how to approach money issues with clients. In this professional training intensive, we will look at how people relate to money and how money impacts our lives in order to effectively work with money problems in the clinical setting.
Through in-depth conversation, personal reflection and exercises, we will examine our relationships around money and discuss how they might impact your work as a therapist or counselor. This workshop is an opportunity to re-evaluate your own myths and attitudes about money and the relationship between your core values and money. We will share our experiences and solutions, and address fundamental questions such as: What is money for? What is your own money style? You will leave this workshop with specific tools and a better understanding of your own relationship to money, a new understanding of the impact of money issues on all of us, and techniques for approaching money issues with clients.
Friday, March 30
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Non-credit: $195, $165.75 by March 9
CEUs available
Dream-It-Big Boot Camp
A Mind-Bending, Pitiful-Stopping, Get-a-Better-Life Intensive
Sue Frederick
What's the dream life that makes you giggle? We're not interested in pitiful dreams here—only dreams that make you giggle. What are the steps you need to take to make them happen? In this intensive workshop, led by author Sue Frederick, you'll get clear on what your big dreams are (writing a book, changing careers, reinventing your body) and how to bring them into reality. We'll start with a weekend intensive and follow up with two one-hour evening classes to keep you moving forward. Sue will hold you accountable for taking action, creating results and getting past your negative thinking about what's possible. Whether it's writing a book, starting a non-profit, getting healthy, or changing careers, this course will make it happen for you.
Author Sue Frederick's work, described as a ‘breath of fresh air’ and an ‘enlightened new perspective,’ has been featured in Yoga Journal, Natural Health and Nexus magazines. She’s a frequent guest on radio shows and has presented workshops at venues such as The Crossings Retreat Center, EWomen Network, New Hope Natural Products Expo, World Wellness Weekend, National Hospice Association, and the Colorado Career Development Association. Her books include Dancing at Your Desk: A Metaphysical Guide to Job Happiness and BrilliantDay: 7 Solutions to Turn Your Life Around. She's also the founder of BrilliantWork, BrilliantDay Revolution Network, and the Giggle Dream Foundation.
April 13–15 and April 23
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat, Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Mon, April 23, 6:30–9 p.m.
Non-credit: $225, $191.25 before March 23
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
World Café on Conscious Capitalism
Patricia Aburdene
Part of the Conversations at the Edge Series
Join Patricia Aburdene, world-renowned speaker, author, and advocate of corporate transformation for a World Café on conscious capitalism. The evening presentation and highly interactive dialogue will explore the seven major social trends of her book, Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism: the power of spirituality, the dawn of the conscious consumer, the wave of conscious solutions, and the socially responsible investment boom.
Patricia Aburdene is one of the world’s leading social forecasters. She has helped millions of people capitalize on the power of social transformation. Co-author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Megatrends 2000, Patricia newest book, Megatrends 2010: The Rise of Conscious Capitalism, was named “Book of the Year” by the Association for Spirit at Work. Patricia was John Naisbitt’s collaborator on the publishing phenomenon, Megatrends, which topped charts in the United States, Germany and Japan. She co-wrote the best-selling Re-inventing the Corporation and Megatrends for Women. Patricia has lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia and the Pacific Rim. Clients have included Herman Miller, Harley-Davidson, IBM and the Management Institute of New Zealand. Patricia’s lifelong career in business journalism began at Forbes in 1978. As a Public Policy Fellow at Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1993 to 1996, she explored emerging leadership models.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 • 6:30-9 p.m.
Non credit $25 ($10 students/seniors)
Making Sense of Money: Aligning Money and Values
Bob Kenny
A Marpa Center Program
Money has been referred to as the last taboo—a topic not generally broached in polite company, often considered more uncomfortable to talk about than sex. Yet our relationship to money affects nearly every aspect of our lives. This workshop is for parents, grandparents, professionals and advisors. People can come who are wondering about their life choices, who are worried about out-of-control spending, or who find that work consumes them or perhaps understand that guilt drives them to give too much to their children—in short, all people who understand that money is having a big impact in their lives. We will re-evaluate personal myths and attitudes about money and the fundamental relationship between values and money. Through in-depth conversation, personal reflection and exercises, we will examine the money dilemmas we face in relationships at home and at work. We will share our experiences and solutions and address ethical questions fundamental to an increasingly affluent society, such as: What is money for? Can we transform our relationship to money into a creative force? How can we better align our money with our values and our goals? You will leave with new insights and tools, resources, and inspiration for continued change in your relationship to money.
June 8-10
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Sun 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Non-credit: $250, $212.50 by May 25
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Authentic Leadership for Social Entrepreneurs: Creating Successful Nonprofits and Social Enterprises
A Marpa Center Program
Peter Goldmark, Susan Skjei, Mark Wilding, Amy Haddon, Nikki Carpenter and Sheldon Romer
The Thursday evening Conversations at the Edge titled “Non-Profits, on Your Mark: Running the Most Important Race Humans Have Ever Run.” will be given by Peter Goldmark, Director of the Climate and Air Program at Environmental Defense.
According to a recent survey of Colorado non-profit organizations , there is a great need to develop effective leadership skills among current non-profit executives, and to train a diverse group of people to serve as the next generation of leaders. The types of skills identified as essential for success—initiating and managing change, ability to build partnerships across diverse populations, avoiding burnout—are the skills that programs at Naropa’s Marpa Center are designed to cultivate. Authentic Leadership programs at Naropa’s Marpa Center integrate the best of Western management practices with the wisdom of world wisdom traditions to provide a transformative learning experience.
This weekend workshop provides an introduction to the principles and practices of Authentic Leadership. We will delve deeply into the questions that matter to us as nonprofit leaders and explore powerful practices that can foster self-awareness, presence, compassionate communication and effective action. The workshop will introduce important issues of succession planning, change management, life and work balance, skillful communication, and emotional intelligence.
The program will include professional coaching from Marpa Center faculty.
Peter Goldmark, Jr. — Peter Goldmark is Director of the Climate and Air Program at Environmental Defense since August 2003. He directs programs concerned with scientific, policy and international dimensions of the challenge of global warming. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the International Herald Tribune from March 1998, and left the paper in January, 2003. From June 1988 to December 1997, he was the eleventh President of The Rockefeller Foundation based in New fork City. Prior to this appointment, he was Senior Vice President for Eastern Newspapers for the Los Angeles-based Times Mirror Company. Before joining the Times Mirror Company in 1985, Mr. Goldmark served for eight years as Executive Director of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. From 1975 to 1977, he was Director of the Budget for the State of New York and for four years prior to that, served as Secretary of Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Goldmark also served in the budget office of New York City for four years, and was Assistant Budget Director for Program Planning and Analysis before becoming Executive Assistant to the Mayor in 1970. Earlier in his career, he was on the staff of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, and taught history at the Putney School in Vermont. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Lend Lease Corporation and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. For the Spring 2007 semester, he returns to Princeton University as a Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School.
June 14 –17
Thurs 7-9 p.m. • Fri 7–9 p.m.
Sat 10 a.m.–5 p.m. • Sun 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Non-credit: $195, $165.75 by May 25
Thursday and/or Friday night only: $15 each ($10 students /seniors)
