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UPCE-300-F10-13009 Transformational Leadership Through Identity, Presence, and Nature-Based Coaching

$900.00
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This course introduces the "Radical Nature FrameworkLinks to an external site.," which connects a deep analysis of self-identity with practical ways to increase self-awareness. It offers actionable solutions and paths for healing to drive personal, professional, and community transformation. By integrating coaching skills with a whole-person approach, this course helps leaders develop a stronger sense of agency, confidence in their social justice contributions, and effective communication skills across all relationships.

Participants will gain a clearer understanding of the non-natural social structures that separate people from nature. Enhancing a leader's ability to collaborate with diverse individuals is a growing necessity for effective leadership. This framework draws on nature for inspiration and support, which is especially valuable during periods of political turmoil and social and economic instability.

This course should be taken as the first course to obtain the Nature-Based Transformational Leadership Certification. 

This training program will enhance a leader’s capacity to address the challenges of conflict, political division, and violent tactics by incorporating innovative and radical approaches to communication strategy, interpersonal healing, leadership development, and community-based restorative practices. This training program is holistic, trauma and oppression-informed, and emergent in its pedagogy. 

Conceptually, the topics of identity, relationship to nature, human migration and political histories, traditional healing arts and cosmologies, ecological knowledge, coaching skills, and leadership development tools prepare practitioners with the structure to apply nature-based solutions.

Embodiment of the teachings happens through practice. Live online classrooms and experiential education structures allow participants to apply concepts to real-life situations. Practice between their cohort peers becomes transferable immediately into communities in which they interact daily. 

This course introduces the "Radical Nature FrameworkLinks to an external site.," which connects a deep analysis of self-identity with practical ways to increase self-awareness. It offers actionable solutions and paths for healing to drive personal, professional, and community transformation. By integrating coaching skills with a whole-person approach, this course helps leaders develop a stronger sense of agency, confidence in their social justice contributions, and effective communication skills across all relationships.

Participants will gain a clearer understanding of the non-natural social structures that separate people from nature. Enhancing a leader's ability to collaborate with diverse individuals is a growing necessity for effective leadership. This framework draws on nature for inspiration and support, which is especially valuable during periods of political turmoil and social and economic instability.

This course should be taken as the first course to obtain the Nature-Based Transformational Leadership Certification. 

This training program will enhance a leader’s capacity to address the challenges of conflict, political division, and violent tactics by incorporating innovative and radical approaches to communication strategy, interpersonal healing, leadership development, and community-based restorative practices. This training program is holistic, trauma and oppression-informed, and emergent in its pedagogy. 

Conceptually, the topics of identity, relationship to nature, human migration and political histories, traditional healing arts and cosmologies, ecological knowledge, coaching skills, and leadership development tools prepare practitioners with the structure to apply nature-based solutions.

Embodiment of the teachings happens through practice. Live online classrooms and experiential education structures allow participants to apply concepts to real-life situations. Practice between their cohort peers becomes transferable immediately into communities in which they interact daily. 

Course Objectives

1. Analyze Intersecting Identities in Leadership

Learning Objective:
Analyze how social identity, nature identity, and spiritual/multidimensional identity influence leadership behaviors, communication patterns, and decision-making across diverse contexts.

2. Demonstrate Active and Deep Listening Skills

Learning Objective:
Demonstrate competency in active and deep listening practices by accurately reflecting content, emotions, and values during structured peer coaching interactions.

3. Apply Curiosity-Based Coaching Questions

Learning Objective:
Apply curiosity-centered, non-judgmental questioning techniques to replace evaluative responses and support perspective-taking and transformational dialogue.

4. Practice Presence-Based Awareness

Learning Objective:
Identify and name emotional, relational, and somatic cues in self and others to support present-moment awareness and ethical, trauma-informed leadership.

5. Articulate and Enact a Leadership Identity

Learning Objective:
Develop, articulate, and demonstrate a personal leadership identity that integrates social, ecological, and spiritual dimensions through a structured peer coaching practice session using a specific coaching skill.

Course Schedule
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10am-12pm
Starting 10/20, Ending 11/12