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WHAT WE DO

Self-Organizing Leadership

 

As a community of learning and practice (connected by C-SOL), we view organizations and communities as if they are living systems having the inherent capacity to consciously co-create their own futures. When the people in the organizations engage in open and honest conversations and are led with this as an overt intention, they experience a release of energy, creativity, meaning and capability that is not available through other means. Our task in C-SOL is to create the conditions and hold the space open for honest conversation to take place; and to guide and support people in finding, recognizing, forming and reforming the inherent Leadership capabilities that people within organizations and communities require today to thrive and become more sustainable.

More and more people are coming to realize that the most effective leaders are those who are able to create the conditions and hold the space open, guiding conversations in their organizations, releasing the creativity and energy of the people they work with. These are leaders who believe in the inherent creativity and vitality of people; and, who have come to understand how to apply these consciously-lifted-up leadership processes. We call this Self-Organizing Leadership™.

Through the Center for Self-Organizing Leadership. we...

* Hold learning events/gatherings: To foster and encourage the exchange of ideas among leaders of business, civic, volunteer and other organizations in the field of Self-Organizing Leadership. We provide forums for the open exchange of ideas involving self-organizing leadership via gatherings, conferences and symposia.

* Hold instructional/modeling sessions: For grounding interested persons in the basics of Self-Organizing Leadership; The use of the Process Enneagram(c) as a tool for the emergence of Self-Organizing Leadership (and application); and Introductory Systematics--all in an effort to promote the self-organizing leadership model as an effective organizational tool.

* Provide a publishing vehicle: For encouraging the writing of, publishing of, and access to  articles, books relating to the subject of self-organizing leadership.

 

Wealth of Experience & Application:

Self-Organizing Leadership can be applied to any organization - regardless of the work of that organization.

 

We have applied Self-Organizing Leadership processes in working with...

Public &
Private Sectors:
              
City Government, School Boards, Accounting firms,
Chamber of Commerce;

Construction & Manufacturing:
Concrete Manufacturing, Quarries, Sugar Mills, Machine Tooling;

Social Services & Healthcare:
Agency providing Advocacy/Shelter for the Homeless
Agency for providing Work-Life Benefits

 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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