A Journey in Transformational Leadership
10 Week Online Course
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Experience the future of leadership
This is a 10 week online course that deeply transforms how you define yourself as a leader and how you see and interact with people and problems. Finding a voice of transformational leadership means finding a level of self awareness that gives you clarity on how you consciously impact those around you. It gives you the tools to inspire performance, commitment, self confidence, job satisfaction and loyalty in your teams.
Simplify and enhance your working life
Experiment with what leadership feels like when you are in a powerful state of physiological balance, when you find steadiness and energy. See the impact it has on you, your decision making, your listening, your creative problem solving and the culture you create in your teams.
Master the power of co-creation
Join a remarkable group of people who create the heart of the course as they experiment, share and inspire you to find your voice as a transformational leader.
What you can expect to achieve
There are three key opportunities for you to explore. How far you go on the journey of transformational leadership is up to you.
Deep Personal Insight
Self awareness as a leader is the first point on our journey. Everyone on the course uses a simple technique to understand their nervous system and explores the full impact this has on who they are as a leader.
Rejuvenation as a Leader
The inner world of how you feel, reflects the outer world we shape as leaders. Working to burnout is not sustainable. The course invites you to find calm and energy in your every day. You become expert at knowing what you need and when you need it in order to remain grounded and excel in all you do.
Find a Voice of Transformational Leadership
When you grow emotionally, mentally and embody a physiological place of safety you are able to find a voice of transformational leadership that you don't force or fake. It comes naturally. This course gives you the opportunity to reach this point.
Previous Cohort Outcomes
"Incredibly surprising. The outcome is so simple that it is amazing: I "worked" to become the best version of myself."
"I am more aware of how I influence my team and others for better or worse. My mind is focussed on others, service to others, more empathetic and therefore a real trust in them, to make the best of everyone."
"It has made me aware of the tools that I have at my fingertips and that I did not use or have stopped using. Simple but powerful tools to improve my contagious strength as a leader"
"Kim makes me think in action. This course has helped me to clear my mind. It helps me to convince myself how to do things right - a true transformational leadership - and how. All in a simple way but with real depth."
"Surprising - a path has opened up."
"[It gave me] deeper insight, self awareness and understanding. Tools to be a better and more supporting leader. "
"[I have an] enormous desire to see the brilliance in my colleagues."
"The course allowed me to exponentially expand my skills. I become and feel calmer and balanced. It helped me to self-reflect on my weaknesses and strengths, to exercise daily while helping me develop stronger leadership skills to inspire others. It helped me to better manage myself, team members, clients, suppliers way beyond my professional life. Being a leader is a long journey and thanks to the course I have better tools to reach our company's vision and mission."
"I feel less self 'shaming' and a quicker reaction to go into balance."
It gave me a great tool to maintain and increase my mental strength and resilience, as well as become a more empathetic, thoughtful, transformational leader. Kim’s individual facilitation was actually a life changer! To completely enable me to find my safe state and come back to it. I will be forever grateful for this!
"Transforming."
"There is an incredible amount of things happening with me that I was not aware of. The biggest outcome of the course was being aware of many of the mental states, learning to feel them and play with them. And in the end, by awareness to be able to see how to reach a true balance."
"I understand the importance of giving myself space to prepare my intentions by feeling the stability, aliveness, energy I want to bring to a particular situation."
"I can take more emotional distance to some events by having a better feeling of stability."
"I got a better self-understanding how one might react to a given situation based on nervous systems."
"I left with the desire for more, much more. That's probably the right thing to do, as in a meal. A very balanced course :). The path starts/continues now."
"I was surprised by the meeting with my "pair". Listening and being listened to, "how wonderful".
"I did not find the course boring nor did I see it as a burden in any moment. It is immediately applicable from the very first day. That is good and differential."
Leadership in Action
This is not a theoretical course. It asks you to experience life as a leader using different exercises to shape your physical and emotional state as you go about your day. To get deep impact from the course you will need curiosity in using the following practices:
Neuroscience
The latest research allows us to understand our nervous systems and how they function on entirely new levels. We use journalling, pairs reflections and surveys to notice how these systems impact on our leadership.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is our ability to be fully present and aware of where we are, what we are doing, how we are feeling. It offers us choice in how we react and respond to situations. We use a wide range of techniques to increase your awareness and clear thinking in leadership, including guided meditation and breath work.
Embodiment
Your body and how you relate to it is the gateway to communicating differently as a leader. We will learn to pay attention to it with focus exercises, learn from it and code it for transformational leadership.
The Insight Weeks
The Neuroscience
- Welcome plenary session. 120 minutes to meet the intimate group you will be journeying with and settle in to this very different style of learning.
- Bite size video and mixed media content made available to you introducing the core concepts in neuroscience that broaden your experience of being human, expand your window of tolerance and deepen your wisdom as a leader.
- 30 minute 1:1 session with course leaders.
- Pairs reflections begin.
Becoming the Observer
- Mastering this approach to leadership requires skilfully becoming aware of your focus and attention.
- Learn how to receive insight from your world without judgement and personal criticism
- Deeply understand connection and disconnection in your leadership and the organisation.
- Meet the full impact of your nervous system
- Video/lecture notes ~ 20 minutes
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
- Check in with course leader
How to Evolve
- You are wired to evolve, but unless you know how to develop a powerful relationship with the events you navigate as a leader, growth will escape you. This week you meet the theory to move past resistance to your reality and find flow and the wisdom of your intuition.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
- Check in with course leader
The Growth Weeks
Finding Stability in Your Leadership
- Now that you are mastering the skill of Observing your nervous system you can begin to consciously navigate it. In the next two weeks you explore techniques that deepen your connection to your intuition and elevate you to your full potential as a leader in a Ventral State.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- 1 minute, daily, group share
- Exercises to use as you work
Finding Energy in Your Leadership
- Your play with techniques continues so that you not only get deeply familiar with your Ventral State but you experiment with new ways to get there that really work for you. You also put in place boundaries of care for you and your colleagues.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 30 mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- 1 minute, daily, group share
- Exercises to use as you work
Consciously Creating Connection
- You begin two weeks of powerful play in self development. Here you consciously and actively expand your resilience, your presence, your strategic thinking, quality of decision making, creativity and inclusivity by clearing the emotional blocks you have built up.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- 30 minutes 1:1 coaching with course leader
- Exercises to use as you work
Consciously Evolving
- Deepen your skill this week in using the Split Focus technique that originated from this course and allows you to access the skills of transformational leadership.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- 30 minutes 1:1 coaching with course leader
- Exercises to use as you work
The Embodiment Weeks
Playing with Unconditional Leadership
- Now that you have spent 4 weeks playing with transforming your physiological state and finding your innate wisdom, presence and flow, you can begin to work on how you guide your teams to their own growth as an unconditional leader. Learn how to consciously sense the nervous system of others and build belonging and growth in relationship with each of them.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 10 mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Check in with course leader
- Exercises to use as you work
Inspiring Brilliance
- It is not just people who are governed by nervous systems. Workplace cultures are entirely shaped by how people are feeling. This week you have a chance to positively regulate the culture of your workplace with what you have learnt. Inspire your organisation and prove to the world around us that workplaces can - not just transform - but be transformational.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- 30 mins 1:1 coaching with course leader
- Exercises to use as you work
Your Journey
- In our last couse week, we take a moment to pause. Reflect. And revisit the journey you have been on as a leader. We also pause to look forward and sense what is emerging from your future as a leader and what wisdom we can offer each other as the journey forward continues.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 10 minutes
- Pairs reflection
- Closing plenary session 120 minutes
Your Course Leaders
Kim van Niekerk
Kim has been teaching, coaching and speaking on mindsets and communication for 20 years, working with executives from every sector.
" Kim is a brilliant facilitator, gets the best out of people, and is so open, so incredibly transparent, that I wish I could do this for ever. " - Jenny Romano, CEO, The NewsRoom
Ann de Passos
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Ann is an organisational development consultant, trained in resilience and transformational coaching. |
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