Programs & Events
The I.L.I. offers programs, retreats and seminars in partnership with other organizations and educational institutions in Canada and abroad. Programs are held in various locations, dates and times. Continue to watch this website for updated public programs that may be offered.
The programs currently available for booking and also scheduled are:
Integrative Leadership: Taking Leadership to the Next Level
The Leadership Development Series: A Customized in-house Progressive Leadership Development Program
Yoga for Leader Wellbeing Retreats
NEW! Yoga of Leadership: cultivating presence, power and prosperity
Emotional Intelligence I: Pathway to Potential
Emotional Intelligence II: Practicing the Path
Integrative Woman Telecourse: Unleashing the Divine Feminine Within
Integrative Woman Retreat: Unleashing the Divine Feminine Within
Upcoming Programs & Events
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Integrative Leadership: Taking Leadership to the Next Level
“The process of becoming an effective leader is much the same as becoming an integrated human being.”
. . . Warren Bennis
Do you want to feel more fulfilled and confident as a leader? Do you want to build a foundation for personal, interpersonal, and organizational success? Do you want more passion, energy, and sense of purpose in your life and leadership endeavors? Do you want to clarify, harmonize, and strengthen your personal, interpersonal, and organizational relationships? More information . . .
Testimonials
"The highlight for me of Integrative Leadership was hearing the stories of other leaders and experiencing the energy of those who are consciously walking the path of integration."
"The Integrative Leadership program was led by inspiration that took the participants to where we needed to go in a specific time frame. I liked the deep reflection and inner work. It was an invaluable experience to look at all the different ways of dealing with the Four Domains of Intelligence and any issues and challenges that we may face along the path."
"Awesome course! The tools and application to a personal life plan was a highlight for me. Rick-your wisdom is extensive and your knowledge of the subject matter was extraordinary. Lillas, you present strength with quiet passion. I really appreciated that the course was modified (pace and exercises) to fit the needs of the group. You were both able to surrender to an emergent process. Well done!"
"Originally I had expected Integrative Leadership to add to my repertoire of leadership materials. Instead, it re-awakened a part of me that had died."
"The support and acceptance of the need to change was a highlight for me. How it can be done was outlined and clearly communicated within the presentation and facilitation of the program. It gives courage to a person that wants to become an Integrative Leader."
"I found the whole aspect of spiritual intelligence and how to integrate spirit into our work place fascinating and worthwhile. Also the ideas and concepts behind self growth being essential to the leadership process to prevent the case of the "blind leading the blind."
"The Integrative Leadership program was life changing. Thank you so much for the experience and the tools to look inside. Lillas and Rick are amazing facilitators and I was honored to share this experience with them."
"Integrative Leadership is a truly great program. We need to get the word out throughout the corporate world. We need to find the way to help CEO's and V.P.'s hear the message and trust enough to let the process of integration happen for themselves and their organizations."
"I really appreciated the opportunity to participate in such a "cutting edge" leadership program. I would strongly recommend that it continue to be offered in any way possible in any venue possible."
"Leading from the heart with compassion are things everyone should learn. Respecting and loving one another should be a requirement for any leadership role. This course is exactly what humankind needs for the coming transition from the mechanistic, through the organic to the wholistic paradigm that is the essence of the Age of Integration."
"I enjoyed your individual energies and the dynamics of the duo of Lillas and Rick-modeling gender balance and collaborative leadership. For me life is all about growth and integration-always and continually striving to get further down the path at work or play. This program is clarification that I am moving in the right direction."
"Both workshop leaders had an in depth understanding and knowledge about the many different aspects of walking the path of integration and spoke to their personal life experiences. It was clear that Rick and Lillas have a passion and live what they teach. The program was well prepared, presented and relevant, with very good facilitation. All handout materials were good for future use. The most important was the model of integrative leadership and how it can be applied throughout one's life and in facilitating, inspiring, and sharing with others this holistic framework. It helped me value the decisions I have made in my recent life and career transitions. It will provide good references as I continue to be challenged and carry on the journey."
The Leadership Development Series: A Customized in-house Progressive Leadership Development Program
Highly interactive with short presentations, 360 feedback, and individual assessments (MBTI, TKI, EI and Resiliency), personalized leadership development plans reflection time, small and large group discussion in an atmosphere of respect, trust and creativity. The focus will be on real issues, meaningful conversations and working together to strengthen leadership in your respective organizations. A resource package will be included. More information . . .
Yoga for Leader Wellbeing Retreats
Lillas is a Registered Yoga Teacher ( RYT) trained in the Iyengar tradition, graduating from the Yoga Studio College of Canada in Calgary, in 2005. She has taken advanced yoga and meditation training from the Chopra Centre for Wellbeing, Raja Yoga from the Sivananda Ashram, Yoga Therapy from Mount Royal University, and has recently completed her Integrative Restoration (yoga nidra) Certification from the Integrative Restoration Institute.
Lillas offers “Yoga for Leader Wellbeing” sessions within Leadership Development retreats for business and community leaders. Lillas coteaches with Marie Brown Berg, Sivananda yoga teacher , “Jai Ma Yoga Retreats”, at the Land of the Loons Resort on Anglin Lake , Saskatchewan. Lillas and Rick offer the “Yoga of Leadership Program “annually at the Sivananda Ashram, Paradise Island, Bahamas. More information . . .
The Yoga of Leadership: cultivating presence, power and prosperity
Yoga is for everyone! Leadership is for everyone!
The Yoga of Leadership is the embodiment of authentic, conscious and integrative leadership for life. The practice of Yoga is the deep inner work of a leader, whereas the practice of leadership is naturally expressing your connection with inner wisdom in the world.
This is a unique offering for women who love the yoga path or are curious about the yoga path and who also love the leadership path or are curious about the leadership path.
We invite you to immerse yourself in transformational leadership and yoga and gain the capacity to uplevel leading in your life, your relationships, and your world!
Through short teachings, stories, individual reflection, guided meditation and exercises, partner and group dialogue, pranayama, and asana practices suitable for all experience levels you will:
• Explore the why, what’s, and how’s of the Yoga of Leadership
• Cultivate your leadership presence in your life, love, work and play
• Inspire yourself and others to lead from a place of deep authenticity
• Attract meaningful relationships, abundant wellbeing, and prosperity in your life
• Leave with your next steps for becoming an irresistibly radiant whole and empowered leader of your life
• Receive a Yoga of Leadership workbook in which to journal, read up to date resource material and take away tools
and reference for further learning and development.
What Past Participants are Saying:
“Wonderful balance of Yoga/Leadership focus. It provided the opportunity to reflect and participate on a variety of levels that comes together
as a very integrated, fulfilling and transformational process. The specialized background and skills of these trainers balanced each other and their enthusiasm for the Yoga of Leadership is both enigmatic and energizing” - Marilyn, Attorney and Yoga Practitioner
“Thank you for creating an environment that immediately created a welcoming safe space. This is so rare to find in a time when our deepest connection appears to be through social media. Coming together with other women and sharing our deepest dreams and longings was amazing. I am so impressed that this could be shared even though we did not all know one another. I left this offering with a sense of new friends and authentic connection to both myself and others. How beautiful if all leaders and those aspiring to lead were directed to lead from their heart.” - Donna, Social Worker and Yoga Teacher
Dates:
• Friday, Nov. 16th (6:30 to 9:00 pm) - “Introduction to the Yoga of Leadership”
• Saturday, Nov. 17th (1:15 pm to 6 pm) & Sunday, Nov. 18th (1:15 pm to 6 pm) - “Yoga of Leadership” Retreat.
Where:
• Yoga Studio North, #211 5403 Crowchild Trail N. W., Calgary
Fee:
• $150 (plus GST) for The Yoga of Leadership Retreat (Friday introduction and Sat and Sun) per person.
• $25.00 (plus GST) for Friday “Introduction to the Yoga of Leadership” evening only per person.
To register: • Contact Yoga Studio North Phone: 403.265.6295. Website: http://theyogastudiocalgary.com/classes/workshops/ More information . . .
Bonus for those registering by November 1, 2012:
• Free Teleseminar: “Discovering and Expressing Your Authentic Leadership Voice”: January 22, 2013: 6:30 to 8:00 pm MTN.
Note: Only for participants registered by Nov 1, 2012.
• Free Teleseminar for Yoga Teachers:”The Business of Teaching/Leading”: Jan 29, 2013, 6:30 to 8:00 pm MTN.
Note: Only for participants registered by Nov 1 2012
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Emotional Intelligence I: Pathway to Potential
“Leadership is not an affair of the head. Leadership is an affair of the heart.”
. . . (Kouzes & Posner, 2002, The Leadership Challenge)
Lifelong success depends on our ability to understand and effectively manage emotional states in ourselves and others. Emotional Intelligence (EI) permeates and influences every aspect of our personal and working lives. Developing EI increases your competitive advantage and empowers you to perform at your best. And as you do so, so will others resonate with you within your organization. More information . . .
Testimonials
“Rick is an amazing instructor. He knew and was passionate about the subject of Emotional Intelligence. He conveyed the material so well, he not only passed on knowledge, but he changed my life.”
“The EI program gave me a strong opportunity for personal and spiritual growth and development. My key learning was that to understand others, I needed to first deeply understand myself.”
“I would recommend this course on EI to every person on the planet!”
“The class participation and group presentations were amazing. By early in the second day of the course, it felt like we all knew each other really well, even though the class was only two days in length. For strangers to bond like that I found amazing.”
“In the midst of this program on Emotional Intelligence, I discovered answers to questions I had always wondered about.”
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Emotional Intelligence II: Experiencing the Path
“The emotionally intelligent leader creates a reservoir of positivity that inspires, arouses passion and enthusiasm, instills trust and creates (an organizational) climate that fosters innovation, all-out performance and warm, lasting customer and employee relations.”
. . . Daniel Goleman, 2002, Primal Leadership)
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is not a short-term technique, tool or recipe, but a lifelong process of growing awareness and relationship with yourself and others. More information . . .
Testimonials
“Rick teaches with passion. He integrates knowledge, experiences and personal practices and creates a space for the learner to do the same. He is an amazing instructor.”
“Rick’s enthusiasm was infectious. His personal self disclosure personalized the learning and was a huge benefit to the course.”
“I thought Rick was astounding! His grasp of the subject matter of EI and his ability to effectively transfer his knowledge to the class was inspiring. I would love to attend further workshops on this subject with Rick as the facilitator.”
“Rick’s openness, authenticity and professionalism were much appreciated. This class is informative and eye opening where I had many “Ah Ha” moment.”
“Thank you for the experience of Emotional Intelligence. It will be one that I will not forget.”
Integrative Woman Telecourse: Unleashing the Divine Feminine Within
More information . . .
Integrative Woman Retreat: Unleashing the Divine Feminine Within
More information . . .
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