'Embrace Your Emotions,
Elevate Your Leadership'
workshop
Do you want to make a difference?
Do you care deeply and feel sometimes overwhelmed,
when you see what is going in the world?
Would you like to feel more energized and empowered
to contribute to positive change?
This two-hour workshop enables you to:
Embrace your deep care as your power,
Feel energized and sustain your strength,
Get the support that you need,
To make a difference in the world, your way.
Workshop date:
31st of January 2025 (Friday)
At 19:30 – 21:30 (CET time zone)
Via Zoom
Please sign up before the 25th January, so that you have some time to think before the workshop about which topic you want to bring.
Cost:
€ 45
This two-hour workshop shows you how to strengthen and sustain your capacity to make a difference in the world. It will help you to see your deeply caring feelings as your superpower, and reconnect you with the importance of the work that you want to do for the world. By the end of the workshop, you will be more grounded, energized and learned a method that helps you to bring your leadership into the world, your way.
You will learn concepts that you can put into practice right away through exercises, self-reflection and interaction. This is a workshop for a small group of like-minded people (max. 8 participants) and offers a safe space, where you share, connect and learn together.
This workshop might be a good fit for you if:
- You already have some clarity on what you care about and where you want to make a difference. You have a topic in mind (like caring for the Earth or advocating for diversity) or a concrete project or contribution that you are bringing to the world.
- You like to learn in an open, safe, trusted environment, where you have the space to reflect.
- You want to get here:
- You embrace your deeply felt emotions, and know how you can harness their power to enable you to make a difference in the world.
- You are more energized to do your work in the world, and have more ways to take care of yourself to sustain your energy.
- You want to show up and bring your leadership into the world, your way.
What this workshop is not:
- A completely worked out, detailed map on how to turn your ideas into a project plan or an organization or another endeavour. This workshop focuses on showing you a different ways of looking, energizing you and empowering you to bring your leadership into the world.
- A setting for therapy to work through past trauma. This workshop can support you with recognizing and naming the feeling that you experience when you hear about something that you feel deeply about, such as environmental destruction. This workshop does not require you to re-live the experience. It only looks with you at what you feel and what the impact of that is, and helps you reframe it. If you have questions about this point, feel free to contact me via the Contact page to discuss.
- A place for tough love. The approach and ambiance of the workshop is that all participants are guided and supported through mutual respect and understanding, challenging and encouraging in a positive way.
- A solution to avoid and never needing to experience deep and heavy emotions again. The workshop teaches you a method to transform your thinking and experience around deep emotions, turning it into your superpower you can harness.
- A change that happens by itself. The workshop will require your commitment and willingness to show up, in a way that is right for you. You are, as each of us, a contributor to the experience, the space that we hold for each other.
Why is this topic important?
- Joanna Macy said, that ‘of all the dangers we face […] none is so great as the deadening of our response’. From huge challenges that our entire world is facing, to issues at a local level, people who care and take action are the force that makes a difference. Making a difference is not easy, especially if it is about something you really care about. It takes a lot of energy, leadership and managing your deep emotions. You need to take good care of yourself in order to keep going, find a way to show up that is sustainable for you and have people around you who support you.
- This workshop is here to honor and support those who are making a difference in the world and to help with these challenges. It is based on the work of many great thinkers and my first-hand experience on what has worked in finding sustainable ways to make an impact in the world. Acknowledging the great thinkers whose work has been a source of inspiration and insight for this course:
Elaine N. Aron, the founders of the Co-Active Coaching Model (Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Philip Sandahl, Laura Whitworth), Joanna Macy, Dr. Chris Johnstone, Thich Nhat Hahn and Barbara Sher
How the workshop will flow:
Preparation
Before the session, you will receive a few exercises and resources to reflect on the topic and / or the project you will bring to the workshop.
The session
During the session we will get to know each other and walk through a four-step method. You will do various exercises, by yourself or with a partner to look at the challenges you are facing and learn from the experience of others. By the end of the workshop, you will have more energy and clarity on your next step. You will receive a few questions and inspiring resources to deepen your learning and sustain your energy going forward.
Possibility for further support
There is a possibility to support you on your journey beyond this workshop. In April 2025 starts the course that goes deeper into the method you got to know here. You can learn more, grow further and get support from fellow participants. You can also have coaching sessions with me, where we discuss the challenges you are facing and help you grow further. If you are interested, we can discuss what would be most beneficial for you.
What you will learn:
- How to embrace your deep care for the world
- A method to gain energy to do your work in the world and to sustain it
- Practical tools for self-care
- Get to know like-minded people who can support you in your journey
If you would like to learn more about these topics, in April 2025 starts the two-months course that will go deeper into each of these.
If you are interested in the workshop, you can ask further questions or sign up here:
How can this workshop support you?
- Participants of previous events where I shared the methods and tools that we will be learning about, said that these have ‘a simple elegance’, allowing for deep work. They appreciated the ‘safe and warm space’ that I held for them, that was ‘very, very calming‘. They said that the discussions ‘made space for the emotions‘ that they were holding.
- For me, when I found one of the main methods we will be working with, it felt like coming home. It opened my eyes to the power of working together as a group and I am humbled that I can pass it on and share it with people.
- This workshop helps you to ground yourself more firmly and teaches you ways you can take care of yourself as you face this challenging task. It helps you to embrace that you care deeply and shows you how you can use that power to take steps. It opens your eyes to new possiblities on how to show up in the world and enables you to go forward with renewed energy.