Dancing with Power: An Embodied Path to Personal Power
Build your capacity to lead from a place of resilience.
We are living in a time of deep complexity and uncertainty. Leaders are exhausted from the pandemic, handling a firehose of pressures, and navigating “us vs them” narratives, all while responding to crisis after crisis.
As a leader, you may feel wobbly, even powerless. But you can reconnect with and grow your personal power, building capacity to lead from a place of resilience. In the words of Julie Diamond, “one of the most important things we can do in a position of power is to develop our personal power. Without it, we’re at risk of misusing, or even abusing, our power."
In this program, we will come together as leaders to examine our personal power using Julie Diamond’s Power Intelligence™ Framework and Social Presencing Theatre (SPT), co-created by Arawana Hayashi. By connecting to our embodied intelligence through SPT practices, we will deepen our awareness of how we embody our leadership power, what the impact might be on others, and what shifts we need to make to grow our personal power in more nurturing, life-giving ways.
Dancing With Power creates a space to teach and play with embodied ways of learning in community with others. By examining your leadership through the lens of using power well and consciously, exploring your sense of self, defining your inner compass, and bringing awareness to who you are when you’re challenged and what keeps you grounded and focused, you will transform your experience of leadership from powerless to powerful.
This program will be offered again in the Fall.
Learning Journeys
Build your capacity to lead from a place of resilience.
See more detailsThis is for folx who:
- Are leaders in a workplace, responding to crisis after crisis.
- Want to develop their personal power.
- Are ready to play with embodied ways or learning.
- Want to learn in community with others.
"I feel transformed in my capacity to access my sense of my personal capacity, and my awareness of what it feels like in my body to really feel grounded and connected."
For White-identified leaders ready to do some inner work using theatre.
See more detailsThis is for folx who:
- Are White-identified leaders.
- Want to meaningfully engage in DEI and anti-racism work.
- Are ready to investigate what keeps them stuck.
- Want to use embodied ways of knowing.
- Want to learn with and in community.
Beyond books and training, this program invites White-identified leaders into a courageous and compassionate guided journey to access their bodies’ wisdom, drop their armor, and move beyond performative allyship – from awareness to action.
Dialogues about where we've been, where we are now, and where we're headed in relation to the work of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, particularly through the lens of race.
See more detailsThis is for folx who:
- Are in leadership roles and seek an open and honest conversation about doing DEI work.
In May of 2023, community leaders came together to be in conversation around issues related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Feedback from that morning was incredible and communicated clearly that more dialogue sessions of this nature would be welcome. So let's do it!
A six-session embodied learning journey for people in leadership who identify as women, transgender or non-binary to explore relationships to power.
See more detailsThis is for folx who:
- Identify as women, trans or non-binary and are in leadership roles.
- Feel unsure of how to step into power in helpful ways.
- Want to radically reimagine power as transformative for self, organization and systems.
- Are interested in using positional power for equity and social justice.
“It was a life-changing experience, professionally and personally. As a visible minority immigrant woman in a leadership role, I used to doubt my ability to help level the power plane and let my voice be heard. The workshop gifted me a new lens to look at power and power dynamics, and it strengthened my courage and strategy as a leader and advocate for other newcomers and immigrants.”
Get the support you need to create a healthy, inclusive, and equity-driven workplace culture. Coaching packages are highly personalized to your needs, budget, and approach.
See more detailsThis is for folx who:
- Are a White-identified leader
- Are struggling to figure out what to do when it comes to DEI
- Understand their leadership role in creating transformative change in the workplace
- Are ready to do their inner work
"I’ll help you to do the inner work required to shift your awareness, behaviours, and mindset so that you can build more connection and trust with your team and repair the power imbalances and inequities that exist in your workplace."
Trainings
A workshop designed to build your understanding of what unconscious gender bias is, how to recognize and counter it, and how gender bias intersects with age, sexual orientation and race.
See more detailsThis is for folx who:
- Want to understand how gender bias shows up at work.
- Need tools to mitigate bias due to gender or gender identity.
- Seek an open and honest conversation about gender bias – and what it means for your organization and people.
“…with the knowledge and guidance provided to us by Dr. AnnaLise Trudell and Louise Pitre, we were able to take a constructive first step along our journey towards building a more diverse and inclusive work environment.”
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I can develop a leadership workshop or learning series to suit your needs.
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