October 21-24, 2010
6:00 pm Thursday until noon Sunday
Cost: $750 per Person
Room, Board & Supplies Provided
This workshop is an opportunity for women to discover fresh ways of thinking and obtain greater clarity about their leadership style, effectiveness and growth areas. Based upon more than 15 years experience with women leaders, the CenterPoint Leadership Assessment © is a unique instrument that focuses on the most essential leadership concerns of women.
Research indicates that women leaders face unique challenges:
At this workshop, you have the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of your unique challenges, develop your authentic presence, and learn how to use your authority and power in an ethical and effective manner. Because the workshop not only focuses on the individual women leader, but also on the unique leadership culture of her organization, you return with a plan to enhance your organization’s leadership culture. Past participants have reported that they have influenced their organizations to become more focused, flexible, collaborative, and resilient in responding to change and transitions.
The Eight CenterPoint Leadership Arenas
CenterPoint addresses eight leadership arenas.
We explore these arenas in depth, identifying those areas that are in balance and those that need development.
During the workshop, each participant receives coaching on her developmental areas.
Learning Objectives:
At a CenterPoint Learning Experience, participants:
Methods:
This learning experience utilizes dynamic experiential methods that integrate multiple learning modalities: cognitive, emotional, kinesthetic and relational. Each participant will complete the CenterPoint Leadership Assessment©. We will talk, listen, move, rest, journal, engage in small group dialogue, and dance, while learning about self, leadership and systems!
Take Aways:
Feminine Leadership: Discovering Your CenterPoint was designed by Judith A. Leibowitz, Rita J. Andrews and Joanne Rocky Delaplaine. Facilitated by Judith A. Leibowitz and Joanne Rocky Delaplaine.
Judith A. Leibowitz
Judith develops individuals and organizations. She is creative, engaging, and curious. Her talents include helping organizations, groups and individuals expand their capacity to change, collaborate, and become more effective and productive. Judith is adept at working with groups and teams, and in coaching, training and organization development. For 30 years, she has worked with a broad range of organizations in the non-profit, government and private sectors.
The types of learning experiences she designs and facilitates include Communication Skills, Conflict Management, Diversity Awareness and Inclusion, Group and Team Dynamics, and Leadership. Based upon her experience working with women leaders, she developed the CenterPoint Leadership Model and Assessment.
The focus of her executive coaching work is to expand leadership capacity by increasing personal awareness and presence, and strengthening the interpersonal and strategic skills of her clients. Her approach is holistic in nature, attending not only to organizational dynamics and interpersonal skills areas, but also to work-life balance strategies.
Clients include health care organizations, government agencies, social policy and human service organizations, utilities, and financial institutions.
Judith holds an M.S. in Human Resource Development from The American University/NTL Institute and, a B.S. in Education from the University of Maryland. She is a certified Coach with the Success Unlimited Network. Judith is a graduate of the Percept Orientation Training of Trainers offered by WeirMerrill Associates, and is certified in using the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator. She has published several articles related to diversity, interpersonal effectiveness and group dynamics.
She is a member of the NTL Institute, the OD Network, and the Women's Leadership Collaborative. A past president of the Chesapeake Bay OD Network (CBODN), Judith served in a variety of capacities on the board from 1987 to 1992.
Joanne Rocky Delaplaine
Rocky helps women find their true voice and feel at home in their bodies. Practicing and teaching for twenty years, Rocky is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher who helps her students achieve the seemingly simple tasks of grounding, lifting, breathing and being in right relationship to gravity. She has led yoga workshops at Hope Springs Institute, and believes that when a woman learns to overcome her deepest fears by standing on her head or speaking truth to power, she learns to fly.
Rocky co-led the D.C. Women’s Leadership Collaborative with Judith Leibowitz and Rita Andrews, and collaborated with them to develop the CenterPoint workshop design. She is a member of the eighteen year ongoing Women’s Collaborative Leadership Community, originally known as the WLC – developed by Alexandra Merrill and Joyce Weir.
A life-long student of dream work, Rocky believes in the power of dreams to guide and transform us individually and collectively. She applies this interest to her creative work as a published poet and collage maker. She has performed her poems on stage with jazz musician Steve Jones and with multi-Grammy winners Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer.
Her background also includes graphic design, with six years as Art Director for the United Mine Workers of America. She served on the first Board of Directors of Hope Springs Institute, and was on the Board of Directors of Grassroots Leadership based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The daughter of civil rights activists, Rocky has been walking on picket lines since age 7.
Rita Andrews
Rita Andrews, an independent organization development consultant, has devoted the past thirty years to organization effectiveness and leadership training in both the corporate and private sectors. The foci of her current consulting practice is leadership development, collaborative culture change efforts and the management of diversity as key strategies for creating organizational environments that are productive and supportive of all employees.
She has consulted to a wide range of organizations including AT&T, Verizon, The International Monetary Fund, Lucent Technologies, Corning, Inc., The University of Maryland Medical Systems, Ford Motor Company, Texaco, The US Postal Service, NASA and Fannie Mae.
Rita also provides coaching to corporate executives, managers and other professionals to clarify goals, improve communication and work relations, and achieve higher levels of performance. She works with leaders at all levels.
A graduate of George Washington University, where she earned both a Bachelors degree in Journalism and a Masters degree in Social and Organizational Behavior, Rita has completed several post-graduate programs at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. In addition, she has been on the adjunct faculties of Johns Hopkins, Maryland and American Universities.
For Rita, her own personal and professional development is critical. She continues to attend programs to enhance her skills, is also a member of the Women’s Leadership Collaborative and has been a professional member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.
Rita has just completed her term as President of the Hope Springs Board of Directors.
Feminine Leadership Application
Judith Leibowitz: judithleibowitz@comcast.net
Joanne Rocky Delaplaine: asharock@starpower.net