Strength to Serve
Awaken Your Leadership Potential Through the Art of Selfless Service
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Imagine a model where your journey is not just another cog in the machine; it is the life force that sustains and propels your mission, and imbues you and others with the strength to serve.
Strength to Serve is a 5-month leadership development program that will support you to serve your teams and communities with empathy, courage, and renewed sustenance.
In addition to resource rich group sessions, guest teachers, 1:1 coaching, and a mature group of people dedicated to service, your journey will culminate in a 9-day backpacking retreat in Washington's Olympic National Park.
By the program's conclusion, you will emerge with a clear sense of purpose and empowered to serve others and integrate enduring principles into your everyday life.
By the end of this program, you will be able to:
Team Sessions (Online):
June 11th
July 2nd
July 16th
July 30th (Wilderness Prep Session)
Wilderness Journey (Olympic National Park):
August 3-11
Team Sessions Following Wilderness Journey (Online):
August 20th
September 3rd
September 17th
October 1st
October 15th (End Event)
Individual Coaching Sessions (Online):
How it works...
“As a leadership consultant and master coach with 30+ years of experience working all over the world and facilitating groups, teams, and circles, I had some trepidation about going into this training as a participant. Would the workshop challenge me? Would it hone my understanding of power relations in facilitation? Would I learn something about myself? Would I develop new and useful skills? Would it embody a truly experiential, dialogical, improvisational and exploratory ethos? Would I find the workshop leaders mature, stimulating and inspiring? The answer to each of these questions was a resounding 'YES!' Miriam and Adam held the space and danced between their different roles with clarity and grace. I found them to be honest, kind, insightful leaders who brought finesse and depth to each moment of the work. I look forward to continuing the journey together.”
Sara 'Zora' Boas, MCC, MA, RDMP, Founding Director, Boas Partners“I would recommend Open Circle's training because one can learn a creative way of providing a space with care to enter a dialogue that connects participants/trainers in personal ways of finding human commonalities that form conscious ways of challenging beliefs.”
Carolynne Abdullah, Racial Equity and Inclusion Consultant“Going into this trip, I was hoping for a life-changing experience, but I didn't know the depths of that change and what would be required to elicit it. The guides "lead without leading" and steered me up the mountain. In only 6 days, I came out with a renewed belief in myself and my capabilities. This trip definitely changed my life, and I am now putting in the work to ensure others receive value from the work that was done up there. ”
Antonio DeAscanis, Founder and CEO BlkOps Fitness“The highly skilled team members at Open Circle have a range of listening and facilitation skills that span from formal to informal, inviting to challenging, easy to highly advanced. They are clearly on a mission to humanize the workplace.”
Don Lubach, UC Santa Barbara Ombudsman“This in-person nature experience for leaders and facilitators led us to a collective environment where we were challenged to grow in ways I thought were not possible. It was an amazing experience. I describe their work as both mystical and practical, simultaneously and at once both beyond this world and functional preparation for navigating and being in it!”
Mark Funkhouser, Consultant – Coach – Trainer – FacilitatorJoin 1,400+ leaders and get fresh insights on work culture and organizational development delivered to your inbox.