Margaret Wheatley

“I want us to claim this role [of warrior] for ourselves, to be warriors for the human spirit, people brave enough to refrain from adding to the fear and aggression of this time. This is no easy task, not to meet aggression with aggression, to consciously choose to stay out of fear and support others to do the same, to quell the anxiety and anger that erupts so reflexively and choose for peace. Of course it’s hard–what isn’t these days? I just want to be struggling for the right things.”

— Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, Perseverance, and So Far From Home:  Lost and Found in Our Brave New World.

• In a world of peril and promise, how can you work to renew our communities and organizations without succumbing to the fear and aggression of these times?

• How can you learn how to persevere, remain focused, and confident, sustaining yourself as you answer a vocational calling to serve the issues and people you care about?

• How can you focus not so much on making a difference, as on being a difference?

Learn, renew, and connect with one of the foremost leaders in applying living systems theory to communities, organizations, and sustainable leadership: Margaret Wheatley.

In this weekend retreat, Meg invites you to consciously choose a new role for yourself, that of a warrior for the human spirit. (The term “warrior” is used from the Tibetan tradition of “one who is brave,” brave enough to never use aggression, whose only “weapons” are compassion and insight.) As a warrior for the human spirit, you discover our right work, work that is ours to do no matter what. You engage wholeheartedly, embody values we cherish, let go of outcomes, and are vigilant with your relationships.

 This retreat is based on Meg’s most recent book, So Far From Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World (Berrett-Koehler, October 2012).

MEG WHEATLEY writes, teaches and speaks worldwide about radically new practices for organizing people, communities and corporations in chaotic times. With a doctorate from Harvard University in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, Meg Wheatley is co-founder of The Berkana Institute, a global charitable leadership foundation, and has been an organizational consultant and professor of management since 1973. Her clients include the U.S. Army, Girl Scouts, Fortune 100 corporations, government agencies, healthcare institutions, foundations, public schools, colleges, major church denominations and monasteries.

 October 11-13, 2013

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MORE ABOUT MEG:

Meg Wheatley is the co-founder and President emerita of The Berkana Institute, a global charitable foundation founded in 1991. Born and raised on the East Coast of the U.S., first in the New York City area, and then in Boston, in 1989 Meg moved west to the mountains and red rocks of Utah where she raised her two sons, five stepchildren, and now enjoys her 19 grandchildren.

A student of many different disciplines: science, history, literature, systems thinking, organizational behavior, social policy, cosmology and theology, Meg was educated at the University of Rochester and University College London and received a Master of Arts degree from New York University in systems thinking. She also completed a doctorate from Harvard’s program in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, with a focus on organizational behavior and change.

Meg is also the author of several books including: Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey Into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. (2011), co-authored with Deborah Frieze; Perseverance (2010); and Leadership and the New Science, (1992) which has been translated into 18 languages,and won many awards, including “Best Management Book of 1992” in Industry Week, Top Ten Business Books of the 1990s by CIO Magazine, and Top Ten Business books of all time by Xerox Corporation. The video of Leadership and the New Science, produced by CRM films, has also won several film awards.

Her latest book is titled, So Far From Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World and is described on her website as “An Invitation to Warriorship”. On her website, she also writes: “I wrote this book for you if you offer your work as a contribution to others, whatever your work might be. And if now you find yourself feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and despairing while also experiencing moments of joy, belonging, and increased resolve to do your work. This book describes how we can do our good work with dedication, energy, discipline and joy by consciously choosing a new role for ourselves, that of that of warriors for the human spirit.”

Her articles appear in a wide range of professional publications and magazines, and can be downloaded free from her website.

Visit Meg Wheatley’s website.