2021 Evolutionary Leader Program (ELP)

The Evolutionary Leaders Program (ELP) offers sophisticated, state-of-the-art training in heart-centered leadership. This 6-month intensive training engages people who already have leadership skills and experience (within HAI Global and/or in the world) to uplevel their ability to be potent, relevant and thriving contributors that meet the needs of their communities and our world. This highly experiential and intensive program draws upon a leadership model designed, honed and practiced for over 50 years by the Human Awareness Institute Facilitators.

This program offers the opportunity for participants to:

• Examine their existing skills and abilities to lead, and set personal and professional goals for expansion
• Develop personal commitment, understanding and tools for incorporating current principles for increasing diversity, equity and inclusion
• Build confidence in their ability to lead, work with teams, and handle difficult situations with courage and compassion
• Uplevel their skills in individual assessment, interpersonal dynamics, group facilitation and community development
• Learn with and contribute to a dynamic cohort of like-minded leaders

2021 Evolutionary Leaders Program Overview

What is the Evolutionary Leaders Program (ELP)

• Evolutionary Leaders Program is a certificated training for people with HAI- and/or life-based leadership experience who want to expand their leadership ability and facilitation skills, take HAI principles to reach a broader audience, and develop a heart-centered integrity-based leadership practice
• ELP aims to bring immediate diversity and new energy to our leadership group by training leaders to design and facilitate short (2-3 hour to 1-day) workshops that reach a broad, diverse audience, taking HAI “where HAI has not gone before”
• For those who choose the HAI facilitator track, this program will address key elements of leadership and facilitation that will support success in training to lead online programs and weekend LIS workshops.

Program Structure:

• 6-month course in leadership and facilitation with emphasis on the skills, ethics, attitudes, and ways of being required for high-level leadership and group facilitation in HAI and in the world.
• Bi-monthly training:
  • 2 Monthly 2 hour global video trainings
  • Monthly video meeting with small group cohort and advisor (1-2 hours/month)
• Self-directed learning: reading and experiential assignments prior to each monthly global call (2-4 hours/month)
• Periodic meetings/calls with training mentor and training advisors (arranged individually with mentor and advisors, especially relevant during project development and implementation)
• Project: With the support of the training program and advisors, each trainee will develop a workshop or community project designed to increase diversity/outreach in one or more targeted areas (age, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, language, geographic area or other approved expansion group)
• Outcome: successful completion = certificate of advanced facilitation/leadership, acquisition of broad-based leadership skills useful in business, volunteer organizations, personal and professional relationships. Personal and professional growth through experiential exercises and ongoing feedback.

Your Partners:

• HAI Facilitators: contribute to program content (e.g., review curriculum, lead video calls),
• HAI Regional Producers: give input to process, feedback on progress of trainee, advisor on logistics, participate in certification decision
• Training Advisors: support trainees in creation of workshops, logistics, give feedback, nurturing, encouragement, feedback to producers and global training director
• Global Training Administrator: helps with logistics, material distribution, tracking, zoom calls, data collection and accessibility
• Global Training Director and Global Training Coordinator: Your #1 ally for success! Program development, implementation, evaluation and support.

Sample Topics:

• Integrity, transparency, expectations, responsibilities of leaders
• Understanding transference
• Large Group Share processing
• Keys to designing new workshops (behind the scenes look at why our workshops work)
• Working with teams, Community building
• Giving and receiving difficult feedback
• Creating and sustaining diversity, equity and inclusion
• Marketing your work
• Dealing with difficult situations: participants, team
• Cooperative leadership, co-leading, partnership

Tuition:

This workshop is $3,500 full price. During COVID we are offering it for $2,800. If you are a HAI Team member you are eligible to register for $2,100.