This is the ideal workshop for anyone wanting to

experience Whole Communities Work for the first time.

This is also the perfect workshop for colleagues of

alumni who hope to foster shared language and prac-

tices to strengthen their team, organization or coalition.

Register today for the Transformational Leadership

Workshop! Go to:

www.wholecommunities.org/workshops/

W H AT I S T R A N S F O R M AT I O N A LL E A D E R S H I P ?

All of us inhabit positions of leadership of some form

in our lives, regardless of whether these expressions of

leadership readily meet traditional definitions. For

social and environmental change agents, transforma-

tional leadership is the capacity to work across sectors

and difference. The creativity and courage to reimagine

the status quo. The skills to build and nourish innova-

tive partnerships and coalitions. The humility to be

open to being changed by others. The vision to see

solutions bigger than our own capacities.

This public workshop is a rare opportunity to

experience the theories and practices of leadership

development now commonly referred to as Whole

Communities Work. This work roots leadership in the

core theories and practices that have the greatest

potential to change existing systems and transform

relationships. We equip social and environmental

change agents to more meaningfully engage in the

communities in which they live and work. What

emerges is broader awareness, shared theories of

change, stronger coaltions, renewed strength and

vision, and the desire and skills to work in innovative,

cross-cutting ways that foster deep cultural shifts.

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Introduction to Whole Communities Work

How do we become the leaders

most needed by our communities,

our coalitions, and our organizations?

L O G I S T I C S A N D C O S T F O R T H E N E X T W O R K S H O P

W H E N July 23 – 26, 2012W H E R E Center for Whole Communities at Knoll Farm in the Mad River Valley of Vermont

F A C U L T Y Peter Forbes, Samara Gaev, Enrique Salmon

C O S T $750. – $1,200.

We are committed to making all of our programs available to as many environmental and social change leaders as possible. Program tuition is determined on a sliding scale to accommodate individuals from organizations of all sizes. All of our workshop pricesinclude room and board.

Group rates and scholarships are available.

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A B O U T T H E W O R K S H O PWhole Communities work is grounded in the idea that

the complexity and interconnectedness of today’s

challenges — from climate change to water scarcity to

undoing racism — makes it impossible for any effort to

succeed in isolation. The Transformational Leadership

Workshop will explore the changing demands of lead-

ership today and how the success of one sector of work

is bound up in the success of other change efforts. The

workshop centers around core leadership practices that

we believe most affect transformation among individu-

als, across teams, organizations, and coalitions, and

within movements for change.

Shorter in length than our Whole Thinking Retreats,

this 4-day workshop offers a strong introduction to

Whole Communities theories of change. In the work-

shop, participants will learn how to:

• Begin the practices of transformational leadership,

such as awareness practice, building

relationship, creativity, dialogue, hospitality,

the power of story, working with difference,

the skills of movement-building, and more

• Create cross-cutting alliances that transcend the

very real divides of race, class, power, privilege and

ideology, which keep transformational change

from happening

• Nourish and support ourselves and other social and

environmental leaders who are accelerating

today’s movements of change

• Establish courage, creativity and compassion as

highest forms of leadership.

A b o u t C E N T E R F O R W H O L E C O M M U N I T I E S

Center for Whole Communities (CWC) fosters

inclusive communities that are strongly rooted in

place and where all people — regardless of income,

race, or background — have access to and a

healthy relationship with the natural world.

Founded in 2003, Center for Whole Communities

has earned a national reputation for encouraging

new movements for change by working directly

leader-to-leader to create the conditions, tools and

experiences to foster stronger, more innovative

change-making efforts. CWC is based at Knoll Farm,

an organic working farm and learning center that

overlooks the Mad River Valley of central Vermont.

Whole Thinking Retreats, Advanced Leadership

Workshops, and trainings are held at our learning

center, as well as nationwide.

F O R I N D I V I D U A L S :

Center for Whole Communities workshops are

offered at Knoll Farm in central Vermont and at

other locations around the country throughout

the year. For a full calendar of workshops, please

visit our website at www.wholecommunities.org.

On our website you will also find our sliding scale

of fees. Through the generous support of our fun-

ders we are able to substantially underwrite the

cost of many of our programs.

F O R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S :

Center for Whole Communities leads workshops

for organizations seeking greater effectiveness

or looking for new tools to help them catalyze

broader change. We bring our faculty and curricu-

lum to you and tailor our workshop to your

specific concerns and goals. To talk further about

how we can serve your organization through one

of our programs, please contact:

Alex Bauermeister, Senior Program Manager

Alex@wholecommunities.org

802.496.5690

“ No movement will succeed

if it cannot paint a picture

of a world people want to go to.”

D R . M A R T I N LU T H E R K I N G , J R .