2007 Transition Retreat with Peter Senge & Arawana Hayashi

March 18-20, 2007

As senior executives moving into a new phase of our career—or moving beyond a formal leadership position—we are poised to contribute our experience and expertise in new ways. What is the direction that draws on our deeply held values and sense of purpose? What is it time to let go of and what is calling us forward? Where does our personal contribution meet the larger trends and critical concerns of our time?

Join Peter Senge, Arawana Hayashi, and 20-30 other engaged leaders for reflection and peer dialogue around these and other questions. This is the second in an ongoing series of retreats intended to create networks of leaders who are striving to make a contribution in new and meaningful ways.

Click here for the program PDF brochure.

Schedule: The retreat begins with a welcoming reception and dinner at 5:30 pm on Sunday, March 18, and ends by 3:00 on Tuesday, March 20.

Venue: The Warren Center is located on 200 acres of lakefront fields and woodland about 45 minutes from Boston's Logan airport.

Who will attend: This event is for senior executives within organizations or who are moving out of a formal leadership role.

Enrollment limit: 30

Fee: $2450 CAD / $2200 USD includes meals.

About the Sponsoring Partners and Retreat Hosts

The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) is a learning community composed of organizations and individuals who are dedicated to generate knowledge about and capacity for fundamental innovation and change by engaging in collaborative projects. Peter Senge is the founding chair of SoL, a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of several books including The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization and most recently, Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, with Claus Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers. The Journal of Business Strategy (September/October 1999) named Dr. Senge as one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years.

The Shambhala Institute, the organizing host of this retreat, is known for its transformative leadership programs, change methodologies, and dialogues. The Institute's Authentic Leadership programs, which take place annually in Nova Scotia, Canada, convene people, organizations and initiatives working at the innovative edge of organizational and social change. Arawana Hayashi is a dancer and choreographer, with roots in Asian and Western arts. Arawana is also Artistic Director of the Jo Ha Kyu Performance Group in Cambridge, which presents contemporary and Japanese Bugaku dance concerts nationally. Arawana has been associated with the Shambhala Institute since its inception. She also teaches extensively within the international network of Shambhala meditation centres and is leading the development of Embodied Presence Practice in collaboration with C. Otto Scharmer (MIT) at the Presencing Institute.