in partnership with The Institute for Conversational Leadership
⎯ PRESENT ⎯
Drinking from a Deeper Well
Collaboration, Creativity, and Courageous Conversation in the New Workplace
Tami Simon
Founder of Sounds True
David Whyte
Poet, philosopher, speaker
Tuesday, July 30, at 2 pm ET | 11 am PT
"The courageous conversation, almost by definition, is the conversation you do not want to have." —David Whyte
What are the conversations that need to stop, start, or change to make your work more meaningful? How do we become a person whose presence invites such exploration? Drawing from the language and imagery of poetry and 25 years of experience working in executive education, author and poet David Whyte joins Sounds True founder Tami Simon to explore what he calls “conversational leadership.”
In this free webinar, Tami and David will discuss how we can become a hospitable presence for the genuine and often challenging conversations that are waiting for our invitation to emerge and bring their clarifying and energizing power to our work. Topics covered include many of the elements David has developed with Invitas, his Institute for Conversational Leadership, including:
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Becoming Friends with the Unknown: suspending the need to jump to strategy, answers, and conclusions in order to welcome what is surprising and new
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Cultivating a Robust Vulnerability: how vulnerability is not a weakness but instead a connection to what we really care about
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Fire in the Voice: bringing ourselves out of hiding and engaging in courageous, soul-filled speech
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Identifying Personal Artistry in Yourself and Others: how this recognition of our individual artistry leads to enhanced teamwork and more fulfillment at work
Meet Your Hosts
Tami Simon
Founder of Sounds True and Cofounder of the Inner MBA® Program
At age 22, Tami Simon started Sounds True with a dream and a tape recorder. Though she had no business experience, Tami had her guiding principle strongly in place: disseminate spiritual wisdom. Over its 39-year history, Sounds True has produced over 3,000 titles, been nominated twice for the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies, and is North America’s leading multimedia publisher of wisdom teachings.
David Whyte
Internationally renowned poet, philosopher, and speaker
David Whyte grew up with a strong, imaginative influence from his Irish mother among the hills and valleys of his father’s Yorkshire. The author of twelve books of poetry and four books of prose, he holds a degree in marine zoology and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon, and the Himalayas. He brings this wealth of experience to his poetry, lectures, and workshops. David’s life as a poet has created a readership and listenership in three normally mutually exclusive areas: the literate world of readings that most poets inhabit, the psychological and theological worlds of philosophical inquiry, and the world of vocation, work, and organizational leadership.
“Let your vulnerabilities walking on the cracked, sliding limestone, be this time, not a weakness, but a faculty for understanding what’s about to happen.”
David Whyte
from “The Seven Streams” in River Flow: New and Selected Poems
Join us to explore the art of courageous conversations.
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