WLC Retreat Series

The Women's Leadership Community (WLC) Retreat Series creates a time-out for women leaders in mid-life and mid-career. We provide the conditions to access both the inner and outer resources needed to respond wisely, intentionally, and compassionately in work and life. We create a learning community that explores leadership through stories, reflection, and dialogue. This learning community provides encouragement, challenge, deep inquiry, and accelerated development. We explore questions about authenticity, meaning, and purpose in our work and receive tools for creating more congruence between who we are and what we bring to our work.

Participants attend 4 retreats held over eight to nine months. Retreats are held in a comfortable setting surrounded by the beauty of the natural world. The program balances time alone, time in structured exercises, and time in community.

WLC is facilitated by a seasoned trio of facilitators who practice shared leadership and learning. This emergent leadership model, guided by our common principles and practices helps each participant bring out her unique gifts and strengths as a leader. Each group's experiences add to our collective wisdom.

Women come from Canada, South America, and the U.S. and every possible background, including corporate executives, academics, writers and artists, and women in transition. They bring their rich life, work, and community experiences to the program. And the journey does not end after the first year. Learning experiences available to members include Monthly Circles, Alumnae Reconnection and Renewal Retreats, and other special Events. Applications are being taken for the next cohort starting in January 2010. Download 2-page brochure

WLC has a particularly wonderful balance of structure, organic process, self-reflection, guidance, and space. - WLC Participant
 

WLC is about finding your own leadership style and getting the space and the time to reflect on what kind of leader you could be. Not to make yourself into something else, but giving you the time to discover what you have inside of yourself.  - Norma Olson

For more information on how you can participate in WLC contact:
Michele Simon - 651-779-2985 

2010 WLC Retreat Series

This four-part series of retreats will be held at the ARC Retreat Center near Cambridge, MN, about 1 hour north of the Twin Cities. Each retreat meets from Wednesday to Friday.

The dates for the 2010 WLC  Retreat Series are:
January 27-29
March 24-26
May 26-28
September 20-22

Facilitators are Margy Nelson, Alice Murray, and Michele Simon

Download 2-page brochure

The cost for this series is $3800. Those signing up before November 1, 2009 will benefit from a $400 discount! Scholarships are available, so if this feels like a fit for you, let's explore options.

For more information on WLC for 2010, contact:

Michele Simon - 651-779-2985 or
Margy Nelson 218-387-2597