RE-SOURCE
This page includes everything you need to know ahead of our gathering on 27th June. We look forward to welcoming you.
If you are unable to join afterall, we would appreciate you letting us know in advance by emailing info@leadingthroughstorms.org.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been inviting those who signed up early to reflect on three questions. This isn’t essential to do, but you may find it helpful by way of light touch preparation, and as a valuable leadership practice in itself.
You can engage with these questions in whatever ways feel good for you: quietly journaling on your own, talking with a friend, dancing it out, simply holding the questions in your awareness as you move through your week, or some other how.
You’ll have the opportunity to share what’s coming up for you at various points during our gathering.
If you don’t have time/space to take a deep dive into these questions, that’s fine; you will still be able to participate fully. Please simply make sure you bring with you on the day a small object or ‘something’ that represents your Restless Energies.
You’re welcome to arrive from 1.30pm. Snacks & hot drinks will be available. We plan to make a prompt 2pm start.
If you need to contact us on the day please do so via: info@leadingthroughstorms.org, or 07974 309 398.
St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation & Peace
78 Bishopsgate - London - EC2N 4AG
2 - 5pm
Please enter using the main door on the street, NOT the side entrance.
ARRIVING
As well as your curiosity, generosity and imagination, we simply ask you to bring:
* A notebook/something to write with
* A small object or ‘something’ that represents your Restless Energies (see below for more info on this)
WHAT TO BRING
QUESTIONS TO PONDER
What Restless Energies are stirring in you?
We have a sense that unless we can acknowledge how terrible these and coming times are - as a result of climate, nature and related crises - we won’t be able to fully imagine how to improve them. So we wanted to invite you to connect with your Restless Energies. We think of these as those thoughts, feelings and sensations that carry with them a sense of disturbance. They have an insistence about them; there’s definitely energy there but it feels like it hasn’t found its place.
How do your Restless Energies show up in your body? Pause, and notice; these energies may be subtle and operating slightly under your usual awareness.
What feelings do you associate with these energies, and what is it like to stay with them a while longer?
What thoughts and questions arise with your Restless Energies, quite possibly repeatedly?
What important information might your Restless Energies hold for you?
2. What is the future you wish to stand for?
It seems clear to us that in order to find our way towards a future we wish for, we need to richly imagine it. We aren’t thinking here about utopia. Rather, we’re inviting you to conjure in your imagination and in your heart the future you wish to stand for, given the increasingly dystopian landscape we expect to develop.
If you’d like a flavour of how we’re thinking about the future at Leading Through Storms, you might like to read this piece, More climate data?
What values define the future you wish for?
What will be possible then that doesn't feel possible now?
How will it feel in this future?
Who will be there along with you?
3. What are the qualities of Spirited Leadership that will carry us through?
When we say 'carry us through', we mean help us find our best possible ways through the complex, messy futures we face.
We are of the view that we are all, actually, leaders for much of the time and that connecting with our agency in the face of profound uncertainty is a worthwhile endeavour. So:
What can we learn from others, from elsewhere, to deepen our understanding of what, really, will help us through?
Where, today, do you already see the Spirited Leadership you long for? Perhaps very visibly in the public domain, maybe known only to you and a few others, perhaps in yourself.
If you were to call out just three vital qualities, what would they be?
