Trauma Informed Contemplative Leadership

Coaching Cohort:

Join a group of transformational leaders, coaches, and contemplatives for an immersive eleven-week online experience. Integrate the outer work of holding space for change, and the inner work of self leadership. This content-rich approach to our time together will include:

  • 6 cohort sessions (2 hours each) interactive teaching, where we’ll experience models, and discuss what we’re learning in small group and pair conversations ($800 value)

  • 4 personal coaching sessions (45 min each) co-create a coaching plan, in person or online, client-led space for diving deeper into applying the material of particular interest to you, includes ($875 value)

  • 12 week immersion establish daily 20 minute practice and journalling aimed to integrate learning with your work ($250 value).

  • 12 hours of curated material of homework preparation exerpts, session summary pre-videos, plus recordings/transcripts from class and additional references for going deeper ($200 value).

  • Workbook 50 pages of guiding quotes, prompts, and frameworks to reference during the course and for your continued application of the work ($100 value).

  • Continual peer-to-peer follow up: monthly community of practice with other cohort alumni to reflect on your work, and integrating learning.

What is Trauma-Informed?

There is a lot of talk about the body and trauma (big T and little t), and desire to integrate healing transformation within spirited action. While mental health and justice initiatives often operate as distinct silos, there's a vital need to bridge the gap and recognize the worthiness that underpins all aspects of our existence. This extends from the inner work of leaders navigating anxieties and biases to the outer work of fostering co-regulation in community and co-creating collective change.

Mindfulness and the Contemplative Tradition:

Within this landscape, the Contemplative Tradition emphasizes creating space for transformation without coercion or abandonment. The conditions for change rest on the capacity to access our Hidden Wholeness. To lead courageously, we embrace inner practices that foster connection to this inner leadership. At the same time, collective practices are essential for attunement and co-creating shared future within community. This wisdom for collective healing, matched with learning from neural science, can equip leaders to recognize and diffuse protective habits that impede personal and team growth. Together, we can bring healing change into the world.

Who is this for?

  • Team Leaders looking for effective ways to approach trauma and change.

  • Leaders experiencing burn out seeking brave space for transformation.

  • Coaches and Facilitators wanting to integrate mindfulness, somatic awareness, and collective change.

  • Movement Leaders, Chaplains and Clergy looking for interspiritual approaches to address collective trauma.

The Specifics

Investment: $1200

  • For information on payment plans, sliding scales, or sponsoring a community leader, please contact us.

Winter 2025 Outline

  • Introductory Practices — Week One includes journaling exercises, and readings

  • Session One, January 24 — Connection and Awareness

  • Session Two, February 7 — Mindfulness amidst Messiness

  • Session Three, February 21— Self Leadership in Relationships

  • Session Four, March 7 — The Self Energy to Face Suffering

  • Session Five, March 21 — Working with Dissent, Paradox, and Denying Force

  • Session Six, April 4 — Leading Collective Change

All classes via zoom, Fridays, 12-2pm Eastern (GMT-5)
Coaching sessions scheduled individually by participants, between 1/15/25 - 4/4/25

Required Texts:

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by adrienne marie brown

Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma―and Our World by Thomas Hübl

One-Page Course Overview

Additional Curated Texts & Podcasts:

In addition to our two assigned texts from brown and Hübl, we will learn from wisdom teachers and luminaries in transformation including: Peter Block, Cynthia Bourgeault, Brené Brown, James Finley, Ross Gay, Hafiz, Thich Nhat Hanh, Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Peter Levine, Rhonda Magee, Gabor Maté, Thomas Merton, Resmaa Menakem, Parker Palmer, Howard Thurman, Otto Scharmer, Richard Schwartz, Dan Siegle, and rev. angel Kyodo williams.

Register

The cost is $1200 for these 12 weeks: including coaching, 12 hours of class, curated materials and peer to peer support.

Early Bird Registration $950, before January 5th

Is this right for me? Consider taking a breath. This work matters in the world. Your work matters in the world. The coaching and training you invest in hold intrinsic, quantifiable, and monetary value to you and your community/clients. Take a moment to consider your leadership work, the investments you make in continuing education and your resilience. Consider how this course can meet this criteria, and the value it will bring to the measurements that matter most to you.

Still curious in learning more? Click below to book a conversation with Troy to ask more about the coaching cohort. For details on payment plans or needs-based sliding scales, please email us.

What Others are Saying about the Cohort

  • "We can't take shortcuts from awareness to action if we want to make real and lasting impact and change."

    -Facilitator, Course Participant

  • "Leaning into the wisdom of the body is refreshing-and-necessary, and foreign-and-rare. This group helped me realize how valuable it is to make space to practice holding others without losing myself!”

    -Educator, Course Participant

  • “More and more, I am seeing the super power I (can) have as a leader to help people hold difficult things, slow down, be present, and open minds and hearts and body awareness."

    -Clergy, Course Participant

  • "I am noticing that my sensitivity to rising emotion and ability to be rooted in the present is growing significantly, and am benefitting greatly from this new-found awareness."

    -DEI Leader, Course Participant