Conscious Leadership Certification for Women
Expand your sense of self as a woman leader and develop your ability to actively and consciously ignite transformation for yourself, others, and the systems within which you work.
ApplyIt's Time for Feminine Leadership
Many women in leadership positions have adopted more intellect-based leadership styles. The wisdom of their heart and intuition are often sacrificed and their natural relationship-based style abandoned in the face of ridicule.
Successful organizations are recognizing the importance of feminine leadership characteristics. It’s time to broaden our sense of who we are as women leaders and confidently bring our traditionally feminine strengths to the task. Time to experiment with what’s possible when we bring our whole, conscious, integral being into leading.Â
Quick Overview
Program Overview
In this 6-month hybrid certification program you will broaden your sense of self as a woman leader and develop your ability to actively and consciously generate positive change and transformation for yourself, others, and the systems within which you work. You will tap into your personal genius and learn practical conscious leadership skills and tools that embrace the feminine, enabling you to catalyze positive change, generativity, and flourishing. This program will broaden your beliefs about what’s possible for you, your family, and your organization.
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Content-At-A-Glance
- Conscious Leadership Foundations
- Communication for Conscious Leadership
- Leading Living Systems
- Facilitating Strategic Conversations
- Leading from Wholeness
- Accessing Your Genius
- 3-Day Embodiment Retreat: Integration and Transformation, at retreat center in Ecuador
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Logistics
May 30 - November 16, 2024
Online sessions meet Thursdays at 11:00 AMÂ ET for 90-minutes to 2 1/2-hours.
Optional 1-hour monthly group coaching included. Â
Course includes all materials:
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Conversations Worth Having
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Learning to SOAR
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Breaking through Bitch
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The Big Leap
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Workbook/Journal
Full program fees include an embodiment retreat at a magical spot in America.
Your Facilitators
Cheri Torres
Author, Speaker, Ph.D. in Collaborative Learning/Educational Psychology
After more than 30 years of consulting, training, and working with thousands of leaders and teams around the world to support high performance, engagement, strategic planning, culture transformation, and organizational success, Cheri has finally found a simple way for leaders and team members to strengthen relationships, expand possibilities, and increase productivity and engagement.
The key is conscious and intentional communication combined with a living systems understanding for how organizations can function at their best.
Cheri has a passion for seeing people come alive to their own potential and for supporting positive change in the world.Â
“I believe we create our social systems through our conversations and shared meaning-making. We can create a world where every living being flourishes and it requires conscious leadership.”
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Andrea Falconi
Psychologist, NLP Master, Business - Life - Leadership Coach & Trainer
Creative Strategist - Conscious Leadership & Human Branding Specialist
In the last 8 years, Andrea has been accompanying executive leaders in discovering their potential for making decisions that are aligned with growth and contribution as key pillars. Andrea has specialized in creating spaces, experiences and programs of transformation and accompaniment to others based on authenticity, conscious leadership and personal development in order to raise the awareness and scope of those who create a positive and sustainable impact.
“I believe in consciousness as the highest form of intelligence. When we become aware of the impact of each choice we make, we transition to a real sense of responsibility and intentionality in our daily work and life. Consciousness is the vehicle to our evolution, conscious leaders are the ignition for human evolution.”
Special Guest, Diane Carazas
Certified Professional Coach and Regenerative Leadership Development Practitioner
Diane is senior level Bi-Lingual (English/Spanish) Director and management consultant/executive coach with more than twenty-five years of International and National experience in the areas of Human Resource Management, Training, Organizational Development, Performance Management, and Public Speaking. With fifteen years of experience working in the area of gender, diversity, equity, and inclusion, she inspires people to optimize their potential, stand in their strengths, and leverage their resources for innovation and partnership. Her expertise includes the positive, co-creative methodologies of Theory U and Appreciative Inquiry. Her passion is to facilitate regenerative leadership, creating systems that work for people, planet, and prosperity.Â
Program Modules
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Module 1: Conscious Leadership Foundations
May 30, 2024, 11:00-12:30 PM ET
Initiation and introduction to fundamental concepts  of conscious leadership for women.
Module 2:
Conscious Leadership Communication
June 13 and 20, 2024, 11:00 AM-1:30 PM ET
This Conversation Bootcamp shows you how to turn every interaction into a conversation worth having.
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Learn the neuroscience of conversation and experience how influential you are and can be with your words.Â
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Practice a strategy to support self-awareness and self-management, so you can consciously and intentionally choose to foster conversations worth having in any situation.
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Learn and apply two simple communication practices—asking generative questions and using positive framing—to engage others and create a generative organizational culture.
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Develop growth mindset and use the practices to encourage continuous learning by giving and receiving generative feedback and feedforward.
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Module 3:
Leading Living Systems
July 11 and 18, 2024, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM ET
Our mental models and mindset inform what's possible. This module invites you to transform your leadership mindset.
- Reflect on your mental model for the nature of organizations and explore organizations as living systems informed by hubs of conversation.
- Re-examine your role as leader from this perspective, drawing from emerging leadership concepts, including  regenerative leadership, mirror flourishing, integral theory, and stages of consciousness.
- Learn about presencing and work with Theory U as a process for collective listening and dialogue, making room for what wants to emerge in your organization.
- Explore how your role might change as you step into these new ways of thinking and being.Â
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Module 4:
Leading Strategic Conversations
August 8 and 15, 2024, 11:00 AM-1:30 PM ET
This Strategic Conversation Bootcamp develops your ability to engage in and facilitate strategic conversations at every level of your organization.
- Understand the value of encouraging all employees to engage in strategic thinking and develop the ability to foster everyday strategic conversations with colleagues.
- Experience and apply the two communication practices—generative questions and positive framing—to foster everyday strategic interactions that support organizational purpose, vision, mission, values, and strategy.
- Understand and apply the SOAR Framework (strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results) to guide daily strategic conversations, address top priorities, coach, create whole system strategic plans, foster continuous learning, and provide performance evaluations.
- Learn four of the most effective whole system processes for engaging large groups in change efforts and strategic planning (Appreciative Inquiry 5D Cycle, World Cafe, Design Thinking, and Open Space Technology).
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Module 5:
Leading from Wholeness
September 12 and 19, 2024 11:00 AM-12:30 PM ET
Dive deep into self-awareness and develop balance between masculine leadership characteristics and the energy and characteristics of feminine leadership. In this session, you will:
- Reflect on your perceptions around leadership characteristics and how you’ve come to believe those ideas. Examine ways you may be inhibiting  feminine leadership strengths for yourself and others.Â
- Unleash and enhance your feminine leadership potential (inclusion, listening, slowing down decision-making, engaging others, building relationship, caring, empathy). Explore ways  to balance masculine and feminine leadership characteristics and to nurture these for others.
- Identify and understand the loss of potential in organizations lead predominantly by masculine energy. Be able to articulate the positive impact that balanced energy has on organizational success.
- Discuss pathways for “breaking through bitch” and introducing other women and men to the importance of balanced leadership for organizational success.
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Module 6: Leading from Your Genius
October 10 and 17, 2024, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM ET
Tap into your genius: your unique and innate ability or inclination, which was present before anyone told you who you should be or how you should act. Connect with your core purpose, and access your whole, authentic self to develop your strong personal brand.Â
- Explore your “upper limit problem”: unexamined self-limiting beliefs that may keep you working in your zone of incompetence, languishing in your zone of competence, or stuck in your zone of excellence instead of breaking through to your zone of genius.Â
- Connect with your inner genius and create a plan to move into your zone of genius where your innate abilities can support your leadership.Â
- Identify your personal brand and create a personal policy manual to support you in living into conscious leadership aligned with your genius.
Embodiment Retreat:
Integration and Transformation
November 14-16, 2024, 7:00 AM day 1-8:00 PM day 3 ETÂ
Give yourself full permission to go off grid for three days to embody conscious leadership, integrating the learning and transforming your way of seeing and being in the world.
- Connect with the magic of the Andes and learn from natural systems as a reflection of your inner feminine wisdom.
- Engage in experiential activities to embody intellectual concepts.
- Access your higher consciousness and tap into heart wisdom.
- Practice yoga, breathwork, and mindfulness and eat delicious and nutritious food.
- Spend quiet time allowing yourself to let go and making room for what wants to come.
- Practice deep connection and leading from your whole, genius-informed being.
Outcomes and Benefits
You can expect a diversity of outcomes and benefits beyond just the knowledge you will gain and the expansion of your self-awareness as a woman leader. In addition to what is outlined for the program, you can expect the following.
Additional Leadership Outcomes
- Leadership competencies to enable you to dance creatively with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
- The ability to facilitate whole system engagement.
- A network of other conscious women leaders.
- The understanding and ability to articulate the unique leadership strengths you bring and why they are essential for organizational success.
- Skills to support others in developing their conscious leadership capacity.
- A strong sense of self-confidence in yourself as a woman leader.
- Option: Certification in Conscious Leadership.
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Additional Practical Benefits
- CWH Conversation Bootcamp Certificate of Completion (pre-requisite for CWH Certification).
- CWH Strategic Conversations Bootcamp Certificate of Completion (pre-requisite for CWH Dual Certification).
- Monthly Coaching to support application of all you are learning (last Thursday of every month 11:00 AM-12:00 PM ET).
- Four books and many articles to boost your knowledge and curiosity around conscious leadership and leading (re)generative organizations.
Pricing and Registration
Registration for the full Conscious Leadership Certification Program includes six leadership modules, monthly group coaching, the embodiment retreat, CWH bootcamp certificates, and all books and materials. You may also register just for the virtual part of the program, which includes everything except the retreat. Application for certification requires a reflective paper and outcomes of your practical application of conscious leadership in your personal/professional life.
Group size is limited to 14 women; we encourage you to register early if you are interested. If you register for the virtual program only and decide later you would like to attend the retreat, you must register by August 22, 2024, providing there is space available.
If you have previously taken the CWH bootcamps, there will be opportunities for you to facilitate some aspects of these  modules to reinforce your appreciative leadership skills and hone your ability to foster conversations worth having even in the most challenging of situations.
 We offer a SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE and an EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT. Be sure to use the coupon codes at check out to obtain your discount.
