Compassionship™ Women’s Leadership Immersive Residential 2025
Leaders create the future, and are in a constant conversation with change. Leadership is the evolution of self for a future that does not yet exist.
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BUT WHEN DID YOU LAST TAKE TIME AND SPACE TO CONSIDER YOUR LEADERSHIP?
More than ever female leaders need to connect to resources and skills required to bring forward emerging positive opportunities amidst increasing uncertainty, upheaval, and relentless social change.
For much of the last 15 years we have been talking about VUCA, an acronym for the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world we live in. Today we experience exponential VUCA & the new BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear and Incomprehensible) to describe the current reality characterised by a relentless and increasing speed of change where the amount of data we generate doubles every two years. This rapidly changing world is next level uncertain. In times of uncertainty, trust is paramount; people need to feel confident in their leaders, they want to know what they stand for, what is not changing and, paradoxically, how well they can adapt. Both must be clearly known, understood and articulated.
In this new world, self-evolution and authentic credibility are key in contemporary leadership. Leaders must be self-aware, confident, adaptable sense-makers, who are able to influence outcomes in uncertainty and solve complex challenges. To this end, vertical development is required. Vertical development increases the ability to think in more complex, strategic, systemic, and interdependent ways. Horizontal development focuses on increases knowledge, skills, and competencies while vertical development focuses on transforming and evolving self for the future. To deal with the current context, effective leaders must intentionally invest time in vertical development to reflect deeply and update their mental models to keep pace with an ever-changing environment and landscape.
While women in leadership face many of the same challenges as their male counterparts, there are certain opportunities that come only from being in community with women.
As a female leader you face an additional sets of challenges, and the balance between masculine and feminine leadership is currently out of balance, as it is inside many of us.
There are specific benefits from tapping into and learning how to leverage feminine leadership capabilities in meeting today’s challenges. There are also specific benefits from sitting with other women in powerful conversation and tapping into the individual and collective wisdom. This work is about creating more compassionate connection instead of separation
STEELE’S ISLAND RETREAT
Carlton River, Tasmania
Friday 16th to Monday 19th May, 2025
The residential program is grounded both in contemporary theoretical underpinnings from neuroscience, leadership, psychology and trauma informed practice, as well as ancient traditions of storytelling, silence, reflection, community holding and women’s mysteries. You will participate in a collective enquiry with an intimate group of women
INVESTMENT
$3295 + GST
Includes all meals and twin-share accommodation
Places are limited to 14 participants
The program focuses on both individual and collective learnings as you engage multiple intelligences to explore feminine leadership, for the purpose of wholistic integration. We will incorporate contemporary theoretical underpinnings from neuroscience, psychology, trauma informed practice and leadership into the program and you will participate in a collective enquiry with an intimate group of women.
During the residential program you will explore together as you look at your collective leadership responsibility, wisdom and knowledge. Some of the work will be shared and some will be personal and inward, where you will draw on your own knowledge, harness your wisdom and learn from your own experience. Participation in this program will elevate your leadership, create space for integration and will support your authentic work in the world.
THIS PROGRAM WILL SUPPORT YOU TO:
Build confidence to manage a complex future as a leader
Find resilience and greater well-being through rest, restoration, retreat and deep nourishment,
Create space and time to re-connect to your own authority and inner strengths, wisdom and knowing
Understand how you can harness the power of the feminine for an integrated approach in your leadership
Connect with a community of like-minded women leaders to explore the challenges of our times and unleash new possibilities for the future.
YOU WILL WALK AWAY FROM THIS PROGRAM WITH:
Clarity on where to invest your leadership energy and resources to inform your leadership signature for the future
Practical skills to confidently manage yourself and lead others when faced with challenges, chaos and uncertainty.
A new awareness of your leadership to enhance your strategic thinking and, capacity to manage change, to realise outcomes and elevate the way you lead others
Active and reflective practices as well as connection in creative and outdoor activities that will support you to do your part in creating ‘Thriving Compassionate Futures’.
You will receive a certificate of completion at the end of this program that you can use for CPD points if you wish.
DURING THE PROGRAM YOU WILL:
Receive the gift of time and space to breathe in greater insights and capacity, and breathe out all that may be holding you back.
Be held and lead by experienced facilitators to deepen your individual and collective understanding of contemporary leadership
Create an intentional community of women leaders with other participants to learn from each other
Live in twin-shared accommodation to support connection to others and to be supported well
Be nourished by the restorative powers of the exquisite natural environment surrounding the intensive residential and enjoy simple delicious food together.
