Leading Together 2027

It depends how much you want to participate.

If you only attend the required calls, you will go to three or four per month. Every other week (on average*), you will have a two hour call on a Monday (6–8pm UK). Once a month, you will also have a two hour feedback session that you arrange at a time that works for you.

If you want to go to everything, and the cohort is full, then you will go to eight to ten calls per month (around two per week). Each week you would have a call on Monday (6–8pm UK) and there would probably also be a feedback session you can go to (the time of these will vary, there will be five a month).

*There are group calls on the first two Mondays of the training. After that, they are every four weeks. Between the group calls, there will be workshops on the Monday nights (one or two each week). You commit to attending two workshops per month.

This training is a place to experiment and innovate. It is also a place to reflect on the diversity of approaches that already exist (for example, both between the cultures of Flow and Surrendered Leadership and within them).

At the same time, it is helpful to have some common commitments to bind our explorations together. If you have questions or concerns about any of these, please get in touch.

When we practice together in a group call, and when one of us leads within a feedback session, it will be for one hour, online and the group will stay together in one 'room'. It will be a whole-group practice.

Our practice will embody some kind of commitment to the four values listed below. These values can be given different articulations and degrees of significance, and they are, in some form or another, part of what we are doing.

• Presence – what are we experiencing, from moment to moment?
• Agency – what matters to us? How can we make empowered choices to co-create what is emerging between us?
• Relationship – what are we doing together? What is happening in the connections between us?
• Openness – are we giving each other space to express our own leadership?

One of the core tensions in leadership resides in how to guide a group towards presence, agency and relationship without sacrificing openness through overbearing structure.

(When we lead workshops, as opposed to practice sessions, they may or may not embody these values – for example, a workshop about openness might itself benefit from being highly structured)

Yes, if you have a relevant qualification and have the requisite experience in an open-form group presence practice. Email me at leadingtogether2027@gmail.com and we can explore whether the training would be a good fit for you.

Yes, if you can attend all of the group calls and at least six of the workshops. These will all take place on Mondays, between 6–8pm UK time (7–9pm Central European Time, 12–2pm US Central Time*).

For each feedback session, you will co-ordinate with the two other leaders of the session to arrange it at a time that works for all of you.

If you are based in Asia or Australasia get in touch (leadingtogether2027@gmail.com) to discuss whether the training is a good fit for you. You are welcome to participate if you are able to join the required calls. Please also note that you may need additional flexibility in order to schedule your feedback sessions, and to attend the feedback sessions of others.

*Please note that UK daylight savings will end on March 28 2027, which is two weeks after it ends in the USA on March 14 2027. Between 14–28 March sessions will still take place 6–8pm UK time, which will be 1–3pm US central time.

Every participant is asked to attend all five of the group calls, which are an essential part of opening, maintaining and closing the container of the training.

If you know you need to miss only one of them, it may still work for you to join the training. Contact me at leadingtogether2027@gmail.com to discuss further.

If you know you cannot attend more than one of the group calls, please do not enrol for the training.

Beyond the 'core commitments' of the training, you are welcome to attend as many workshops as you like (up to fifteen, if the training is full). You can also attend the feedback sessions run by other people, which can be a wonderful source of inspiration and learning. If the training is full, these will, on average, be weekly (the timings will vary, so you may not be able to attend them all).

We will also have a dedicated online discussion space to share reflections on sessions and to discuss emergent ideas about the practice. You are free to engage with this as much or as little as you like.

All training sessions will take place as video calls on Zoom. Before the training begins, please download that software and ensure that you are familiar with how to use it.

For each feedback call, it will be helpful if one of the three leaders can host the call on a paid Zoom account (so that the call can extend beyond forty minutes). An alternative arrangement can be made if necessary.

At minimum, the training journal will include a list of the names of the training participants, along with the titles and synopses of their workshops. This is an opportunity to advertise relevant work that you do, and you can link to a personal webpage.

You are also invited, if you wish, to contribute either a short video (up to 10 minutes) or a short piece of writing (up to one thousand words). Examples of what this could be include:

• Personal reflections on why you lead the practice.
• An exploration of the meaning of a word that you take to be important in the practice (e.g. "surrender", or "love")
• A conversation about some element of the practice (or a transcript of such a conversation)
• A demonstration of something you take to be important in the practice (as a video or as a transcript)
• A deeper exploration of a topic covered in a workshop.
• A poem or two inspired by the training.

The deadline for submitting this contribution is Monday 22 March.

Shortly after the end of the training, the journal will be freely distributed (in digital form) amongst our wider practice communities. It is an opportunity to record our explorations and to stimulate further enquiries. Together, we will contribute to the evolution of open-form presence practices.