NATURE’S WISDOM
Connecting your Leadership with Nature
Are you a visionary leader whose decisions have an impact on the environment and climate? Then the time has come to connect with nature and become a nature-conscious leader.
This is a course for managers based on our ancestors' world and nature connection and evidence-based research. The course is not about lectures, KPIs and smart buzzwords; it is a wholehearted and hands-on experience in the heart of Mother Nature.
Experience what a deep and authentic earth connection can do to your sustainability leadership and gain the skills and confidence to implement Earth-based decisions in your organization.
What does the time we live in call for from us a leaders?
For over 100 years, management of organizations has been characterized by a paradigm that has led humanity to a planetary and humanitarian crisis. Indigenous peoples' connection to the natural world and sustainable livelihoods have been overshadowed by economic priorities based on a view of nature as a resource and source of mass consumption.
The management method has, on the one hand, created well-being, prosperity and technological progress never seen before, and on the other hand, nature and the ecosystems that are the basis for man's walk on earth have never been under more pressure and the number of people with stress and mental challenges is increasing and higher.
Nature carries all the answers and solutions that are needed, we just live in a way where we no longer have sight and hearing for these.
It is therefore time for leadership based on a balanced approach to the natural world. We have the opportunities and abilities to change our leadership and therefore you are invited to the course Wisdom of Nature!
WHO ARE YOU?
Climate or Environment consultant
Founder/Entrepreneur
Self employed business owner
Minimum +5 years of experience
You have decisive influence or decision-making power in relation to material selection and consumption, supplier selection, production methods, production and distribution of raw materials and finished goods and product after-life cycles. In other words; your decisions have an impact the wellbeing of people and the planet.
You have the courage and will power to make critical decisions that are in line with the wellbeing of people and the planet
You are curious about yourself and the natural world
WHY SHOULD YOU PARTICIPATE?
🌱 Improve your leadership skills: Develop the qualities needed to lead in a climate- and environmentally conscious world where your decisions can drive change.
🍃 Empathy: Cultivate a deep connection with other humans, living systems and nature that will inspire you to protect and preserve it.
🌿 Sustainable solutions and change: Get tools and insight to make climate- and environment-friendly decisions in your professional and personal life and to create the necessary changes.
🌱 Understand change and build resilience: Experience and understand the cycles of transformation in the natural world and grow the necessary skills to make organizational changes happen for ecological transformation.
Program structure
DAY 1 - Nature as an environment for calmness, clarity and authenticity
Arriving
Experience methods to find peace, clarity and authenticity together with nature
Starting to listen and experience the sensations, ambiences and rhythms of the Earth
Starting to listen to yourself and your calling for sustainability
Bonfire and Sharing Circles according to the 4 intentions
Evening meditation with nature
DAY 2 - The authentic encounter in the relationship between human and the rest of nature
Experiencing the nature connection of Native people
The teaching of the Wise Oak tree and how language shapes our experience of and being in nature and the way we make decisions
The making of the modern human - how did we become, what we’ve become?
Reclaiming our old habitat - nature connection and ecocentrism as a decision framework for sustainability
Work with a practical cases and Bonfire and Sharing Circles based on the 4 intentions
DAY 3 - Create change in your leadership and your organization
Experience the concept of Nature as creative emergence
Panarch theory - nature's resilience as a framework for change management
Applying your experiences to your practical case
Craft an action plan lay out what nature-inspired leadership capabilities are needed for success
Next steps and departure
On-line follow-up (progress and impact)
3 hour follow-up seminar after 4 months
Half yearly on-line gatherings of the "Council for Planetary, Human and Financial Harmony"
Further information on preparation will follow no later than 3 weeks before the start of the program.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Inspiration to make crucial decisions in harmony with nature
Specific tools to stand grounded in difficult decisions with experienced inspiration from nature's ancient forces of survival and adaptation (resilience)
Empathy and Compassion: Cultivate a deep connection to nature that will inspire you to protect and preserve it
Experiencing and understanding Ecocentric systems, Panarch theory and Systemic Reciprocity and how to integrate these into your decision making framework
Craft and Earth-based action plan for climate and environmental footprint adaptation
Sustainable solutions and change: Get tools and insights to make climate and eco-friendly decisions in your professional and personal life, as well as to create the necessary changes.
Lift and shift you your own role and mandate in the "larger system"
Become a members of the "Council for Planetary, Human and Financial Harmony"
IMPACT COMMUNITY
After participating in the program, you become part of the leadership community "Council for Planetary, Human and Financial Harmony"
The program is based on evolutionary and ecopsychology, which is based on the original ability of humans to live in cohesion with the natural world as well as concrete ways of life, practices and rituals from the indigenous people.
Part of this way living is to grow and share wisdom and make decisions in community or councils. The council is your support group along your way, for inspiration, wisdom, emotional support and resilience.
Through the program, you work with a specific sustainability challenge from your organization. The challenge is put into perspective by the purpose of the program and the nature-based experiences and tools that we bring into play on the program.
Join us on this extraordinary journey where leaders come together to redefine their connection with Earth and pave the way for a more sustainable and harmonious future.
Help lead the change to a harmonious future!
