Thank you so much for being a part of our inaugural Adaptive Leadership Lab for Women-Identifying Change Agents! You can find all Lab materials as well as some additional resources below.

Lab Materials:

• Slide Deck and Flip Chart Images

• Worksheet Day 1: Leadership Experiments

• Worksheet Day 1: Organization Workshop Simulation Reflection

• Worksheet Day 1: Looking Deeper into Your Challenges: Technical vs. Adaptive Elements and Losses

• Worksheet Day 2: Journaling Questions

• Worksheet Day 2: Gender Messages

• Worksheet Day 2: Gender Messages Sample

• Worksheet Day 2: Triggers Reflection

• Worksheet Day 2 (Optional): Draft a Letter

PRE-Lab READINGS:

• Chapter 2, “The Theory behind the Practice,” from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz, Glashow and Linskey, 2009)

• Excerpt from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (Suzuki, 2011)

ADDITIONAL Resources:

On Adaptive Leadership:

• Chapters 13, 14 & 15, “Seeing Yourself as a System,” from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz, Grashow and Linskey 2009)

• Allies and Confidants from Leadership on the Line (Heifetz, Linskey, 2002)

• When Your Job is Your Identity, Professional Failure Hurts More (Tim O’Brien)

• Chapters 10 & 11 from Leadership on the Line (Ronald Heifetz & Marty Linsky, 2017)

On what it means to rewrite our inner lines of code and gender messages as individuals and communities:

• Introduction from The Crisis of Connection (Way, Gilligan, Noguera, Ali, 2018)

• Chapter 1 - Skywoman Falling from Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2020)

• Poetry is not a Luxury from Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde, 1985)

• Chapter 1 from Meeting at the Crossroads (Lyn Mikel Brown & Carol Gilligan, 2013)

• Introduction & Chapter 1 from All About Love (Bell Hooks, 2001)

On somatics:

• Somatic Roots and Boundaries Audio from April Nunes Tucker

• Excerpt of Ch.13, “Healing from Trauma: Owning Your Self,” from The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel Van Der Kolk, 2014), a seminal text in the field of somatic therapy and trauma healing

Recommended Texts to Purchase:

• Seeing Systems (Oshry, 2007)

• Your Body is Your Brain: Leverage Your Somatic Intelligence to Find Purpose, Build Resilience, Deepen Relationships and Lead More Powerfully (Blake, 2018)

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