Are you a leader who manages change? What does that even mean? As a leader of social change, what are the specific changes you hope to see? What will it take to get there?

This webinar will invite you into a deeper understanding of how the most impactful leaders understand change and support processes of transition and learning. Offering a few essential tips, targeted reflection questions, and key leadership practices, you're sure to come away with both something to ponder and something to practice. 

What matters most to you? If all the distractions of everyday were to fall away, what would keep you grounded? What would guide you in making choices about how to live? 

All of these questions point to the need to get clear on our values, our moral compass, the principles or guideposts that can support us in responding to the questions: "How will I live today?"

If you've never thought to ask that question, culture asks and answers it for you. If you haven't gotten clear on your values and how to put them into action, culture has given you values to act on whether you know it or not. Culture is built on beliefs and values and communicated through structures and behaviors; it is inevitable we are shaped and formed by the culture or cultures we are immersed in, whether family, community, or nation. At this time of cultural reckoning in the United States, one of the most caring and potentially transformative things that social change leaders can do for themselves and others is to get clear on their principles: the core values that guide their action. 

In this month's workshop, Perry will invite Hub members to get clear on their core values, to do the work of turning those values into leadership principles that can be expressed through behavior and action, and to contemplate the relationship between one's core values and the core values of the dominant cultures in our homes, communities, and workplaces.

Author Annie Dillard is famous for having communicated this profoundly sensible wisdom: “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.”

As 2021 comes to an end, this workshop invites you to consider the power of daily choices related to how you lead you life. How does what gets on your calendar reflect your priorities? How might ritualized practices of beginning and ending your day or your meetings demonstrate your values in action? By reflecting upon practices of connection and ritual, we will examine together the possibility of what intentional, regular practices of reflection, connection, inspiration, and spaciousness could bring to your life and leadership.

Many of us have been trained to link accountability with punishment for not getting sh*t done. The world has in some way taught us that we need "carrots and sticks" (rewards and consequences) to be accountable. Because of this, we hear often that supporting resilience will make people less accountable. And yet, our lived experience with clients suggests that resilience and accountability are  inextricably linked: it is hard to sustain one without the other.

This webinar will support you in reframing what it means to unlock a virtuous cycle of resilience and accountability in your life, your team, and your organization. We will share tips and practices to support you in building a culture of accountability that embraces resilience practices and in nurturing resilience as a pathway to accountability. 

We will invite you to ask the hard question: "Accountable to what?" and to dig deeply into the ways that an overly individualistic mindset has too often set us up for burnout and betrayal. If you want to explore what values in action might guide you in developing and sustaining everyday practices that build resilience and accountability, this masterclass is for you! 

Most of us think we’re pretty good at listening because so much of our work requires us to be in conversation. As social change leaders, most of us also believe that we are profoundly empathetic: after all, we’ve chosen a profession that cares about healing and transforming the ways people or the planet experience harm. 

The trouble for many of us is that we forget that listening and empathy are needed in the small everyday moments, not just the major moments of challenge, tension, or disagreement. This workshop will focus on ensuring that your listening and empathy practices don’t become “too little, too late” for those with whom we work. We’ll focus on the small everyday thoughts, words, and actions that support creating connection through listening and empathy. We’ll help you develop the awareness of what gets in the way of leading with an empathic listening presence and what practices can remind us to return to presence. 

Most of us inherit our ideas about leadership from the cultures we are immersed in growing up. This means that one of the most radical ways of practicing inside out leadership is to name for ourselves what we mean by leadership and what we value in the act of leading. This defining activity can support us in breaking free of the beliefs and assumptions about leadership that might be holding us back from owning our greatness, living our values, and pursuing transformative work.