Dare to Lead™ builds empathy and activates change. Thousands of professionals are using this curriculum to cultivate authentic and innovative teams. The only requirement is a willingness to commit. Learn four skill sets to build daring leadership:–Rumbling with Vulnerability: Build a culture of empathy, including a shared language, meaningful feedback and the ability to have hard conversations. —Living into Your Values: Get clear on your values, so you can move from belief to behavior, then address both accountability and measurement.–Braving Trust: Examine what impacts trust in your system. The shift from back-channeling, bullying and power dynamics to collaboration, communication and transparency. —Learning to Rise: Creating space to fail. Getting through the discomfort, risk, and emotional exposure of vulnerability, then reaping the innovation and creativity which emerges.

Dates:
Our current cohort is full. Please email Kara for information on upcoming cohorts.

Investment:
Standard Registration and 
Nonprofit Registration rates are available.

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Contact Kara: kara@positivechange.org to co-create the Dare to Lead™ experience that meets the needs of your team.

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Please contact Kara to co-create a Dare to Lead™  experience that meets the needs of your team.

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: Theory and Practice
Learn the AI process from start to finish! You’ll discover how to build energy, focus and momentum in your organization or community. Bring a project and leave with a plan. The result will be lasting positive change.
Length: 4 days
Cost: $1500 to $1850
Date: TBD
Location: TBD

These five one-day modules (available together or stand-alone) begin with an Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry and then move on to each of the 4D’s – Discovery, Dream, Design and Destiny – in the Appreciative Inquiry methodology.

• Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Process for Challenge and Change – Learn how AI inspires high engagement, innovation and action by focusing on what works.
• Wisdom of Inquiry: Discovery – Hone your skills in crafting powerful, positive questions to ignite powerful, positive change.
• Unleashing Collective Potential: Dream – Discover how to unleash creativity to generate a clear and compelling shared vision–the foundation for organizational success.
• Organizing for Optimal Results: AI Design – Collaboratively recreate systems, structures and processes and realize your organization’s vision and values through the 5-step appreciative design process.
• Collaborative Action and Commitment: Destiny – Learn to mobilize your organization toward accelerated innovation, aligned vision and sustainable action for a plan that not only succeeds, but also lasts.

From the comfort of your own home or office, you’ll learn how to bring people together in an Appreciative Inquiry Summit for accelerated, whole system results. You, too, can convene 50 to 500 people to produce powerful and sustained results in just 2 to 5 days.
Length: Eight 2.5 hour online sessions
Cost: $1150 – 1450

What if you could connect people, ignite fresh thinking and create shared ownership for results? In this four-hour workshop, you’ll discover practical strategies to build lasting relationships, group activities to align expectations, and tips on creating a culture that celebrates and builds on success.
Length: 3 hours
This is currently an internal workshop, please contact us for more information. We will work on details, including cost, based on number of people in attendance.

Are you ready to grow your leadership potential? Explore and build your own leadership skills in this personal growth retreat. Mobilize your creative potential and gain insights, skills and confidence to unleash positive power in your work and life.
Length: 4 days
Cost: $1850

Forget the printed strategic plan in that three-ring binder. What if your people could think and act strategically on a daily basis? This interactive and possibility-focused planning process delivers results and increases workforce and board engagement to ensure success over time.
Length: One day
Cost: $475

This workshop is an Appreciative Inquiry-based exploration of resilience.  Beginning with an exploration of their personal experiences, participants will identify “root causes” of success that can inform how they and others might respond to future challenges.

Take-aways:

1. Learn how and why to “flip” problems into possibilities, to amplify and imprint personal and organizational strengths and successes.
2. Share, hear and learn from stories of resilience in the face of challenge and disruption.  
3. Identify the “root causes” of resilience: the inner and outer conditions that enable people to move from reactivity to resilience. 

Length: 3 hours

This is currently an internal workshop, please contact us for more information. We will work on details, including cost, based on number of people in attendance. This workshop may be made a public offering in the future.