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, transfor-
mational 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 innovative 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 coalitions, 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 September 3 – 6, 2013W 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 and Samara Gaev
T U I T I O N
Early Bird Discount until May 31, 2013 $695 (other offers and discounts cannot be used in conjunctionwith the Early Bird Discount)
Tuition after May 31, 2013
• Non-Profit (annual budget under $1 million) $850
• Non-Profit (annual budget $1 million and over) $1,050
• Foundation $1,350
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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
funders 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 curri-
culum 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:
Tatek Assefa, Program Coordinator
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 .