Leadership Embodiment: Cultivating Clear Minds, Open Hearts, and Steady Cores for Peacebuilding

Include Others, Listen Deeply, Speak Up in a Unified way with Leadership Embodiment taught by Olivia Cheever, EdD, GCFP, Certified Leadership Coach and Elizabeth Valentine, LMT, CST, Certified Leadership Coach

Body-based awareness to be more fully ourselves

Leadership Embodiment Practices can help us notice when and how to embody more "peace-full" states--especially when we experience ourselves under pressure whether alone or with another. These states can include other qualities that also matter to us. What matters to you these days? Is there a quality, peace or another one that you would like to learn how to cultivate more often? Every day?

In this class, we will practice and learn how to notice when we are off balance, or less “peace-full" when experiencing our reactive state. In Leadership Embodiment, we call this, “Personality,” You will learn, then, how to bring yourself back to “Center. “ This practice can be done in fifty seconds or two minutes through a Centering practice.

This Centering practice focuses on shifting your posture, shifting your attention to breathing up and down your spine, smiling and pushing your "bubble" out to include everyone around you.

Our focus will be getting clear on our tendencies (patterns), then develop the skill set to shift them in our daily lives. We will practice this here in the class. We will bring up our own examples (to ourselves or, with a partner, in our Break Out rooms) in order to apply these LE tools to the real-life situations we are grappling with.

Meeting together online, as we lead you through these simulation exercises, we suggest that you either use your imagination, or invite someone in your “bubble” to join in. These exercises during the class allow you to physically experience pressure in your body or imagine it. Our goal is to start a practice here with you and have your nervous system learn how to apply it in the real world.

Through simulation exercises we will take away:

• the ability to identify our signature stress pattern or how our system reacts under pressure

• the ability to shift through our body from our reactive state to a responsive skillful state -from “Personality” to “Center”

• ways to re-engage clarity and compassion when faced with conflict or opposition or “Difficult Conversations”

• practices to synchronize the physical and energetic system with what is being said verbally

DATE: Saturday February 26, 2022 on Zoom

FEE: through February 21: $55

After February 21: $70

TIME: See Class schedule for your time zone below:

Pacific Time (PST)

8:30 am – 10:30 am with a brief 10 minute mid 1st half session break

10:30 am – 11:15am Longer Break

11:15am – 1:30pm with a brief 10 minute mid 2nd half session break

Eastern Time (EST)

11:30 am – 1:30 pm with a brief 10 minute mid 1st half session break

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Longer Break

2:15 pm – 4:30 pm with a brief 10 minute mid 2nd half session break

Central European Time (CET)

5:30pm – 7:30pm with a brief 10 minute mid 1st half session break

7:30 pm – 8:15 pm Longer Break

8:15 pm – 10:30 pm with a brief 10 minute mid 2nd half session break