Empowerment Services
Back to Nature
You can't plant a garden, walk away, and expect it to flourish on its own - without some kind of human care. The same is true of your Leadership Garden.
Currently we offer our Leadership Garden faciliated training series the good old-fashioned way; face-to-face exchange of human energy.
We have parterned with the Division of Extended Programs at Western Oregon University to conduct a series of "UNIQUE Leadership" workshops using our empowerment tools for our audiences. Optional Professional Development Seminar (PDS) credit is available and the workshops can be customized for your staff and conducted on-site by special request.
Empower means to endow with an ability. Leadership is an act of guidance or direction. We connect the two to form the leadership development framework (educate, empower, and engage) that will unearth the potential in you and/or your group.
This universal framework allows anyone to build the leadership skills that express a unique purpose and aim, and apply these skills to all relationships, positions, and roles you play throughout four life-changing seasons:
| Spring: Childhood |
Summer: Adulthood |
| Fall: Parenthood |
Winter: Grandparenthood |
The most important leadership role you'll ever have is that of human being. The growth cycle begins and ends at home, in fertile ground or rocky soil. Even if you don't become a parent or grandparent, you will still enter each of these life-changing seasons. The Leadership Garden seasons transcend all other jobs, positions, or titles you may hold in your lifetime.
Our Empowerment Process
The Leadership Garden facilitated series attends to the age-old questions of who am I, why am I here, how do I matter, and how do I achieve my goals and sustain my leadership. Leadership in this context is not a job, position, or title but a way of life that expresses your imagination, purpose, and spirit to make the difference you desire.
The series uses metaphor, allegory, written exercises, listening, discussion, play, and real life application to answer those questions, as well as what does it mean to lead, who are leaders, andwhy should I care about my personal leadership?
While the learning objectives and outcomes are universal, the facilitated process is specific to the audience categories we serve (individual, family, school, community, business) and life roles within those categories.
For those who want to help facilitate the Leadership Garden empowerment process in homes, schools, communities, and businesses we offer facilitator training.
Choose your path:
- Leader Balance Workshop - this two-hour workshop is ideal for businesses, organizations, coalitions, and other groups to help you blend, balance, and expand four key leader behaviors that will enrich your team interactions.
- Empowerment Series Workshops - these 2-day or 3-day workshops are ideal for grandparents, parents, teachers, coaches, and youth group advisors who are ready to take an active role in creating fertile ground for youth to flourish.
- Facilitator Training - enables you to conduct Empowerment Workshops as a licensed or certified facilitator.
- Coaching - individual and group support for the expansion of your Leadership Garden.
- Speaking - the "Leadership Garden Legacy" keynote presentation is ideal for conferences, meetings, and events where planners want to introduce the gardening metaphor framework and inspire the audience's natural leadership.
