Join us for our 5th Annual Gathering


October 3-8, 2021


Babson Executive Conference Center

NEXT PRACTICE INSTITUTE

The Next Practice Institute (NPI) of Mobius Executive Leadership sponsors transformational training programs for our practitioners, partners, and clients.

These programs operate at the nexus of “best practice” in such areas as organizational development, culture change, and adaptive leadership, and “next practice” in neuroscience, somatics, energy work, music, yoga, and other expressive and devotional arts.

Together we are creating a global community of practice devoted to the craft of transforming people into stronger leaders and building a more just and sustainable world and restoring the cultural fabric.

Since 2016 each year we have conducted a week-long professional development immersion outside of Boston. 2021 will mark our fifth annual NPI celebratory and learning event.

The annual gathering brings together a global group of practitioners including coaches, mediators, interventionists, and facilitators, business leaders, human resources and organizational development professionals, strategy and leadership advisory consultants.

We come together for renewal, learning, inspiration, and practice.

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ANNUAL GATHERING | PROGRAM TRACKS

Participants in the 2021 Annual Gathering can select from one of nine tracks for the week. When registering, please select a first and a second choice. To guarantee your selection, we encourage you to sign up early!

Track One
with Zander Grashow

Adaptive Leadership and Alignment to Change

Co-author of the seminal book The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Zander delves into the art and practice of individual and collective evolution based on thirty years of research at Harvard University. This track provides an evolutionary change framework to determine the parts of the work to carry forward, how to advance among competing priorities and what new capacities are required. We will also explore the intersection of mobilizing external change and mobilizing ourselves. A globally recognized authority on leadership, Zander has been a trusted advisor and partner to Presidents, activists and change agents in their most critical moments of transformation.

Track Two
with Arawana Hayashi and Dr. Matthias Müller-Lindenberg

Social Presencing Theater (SPT)

SPT is an art form and a facilitation methodology connected to Otto Scharmer’s seminal work on Presencing and Theory U. For facilitators who have wanted to better understand how to work with emergence this track offers a rich chance to study with SPT pioneers. In this track you will use body postures and movements to dissolve limiting concepts, access intuition, make clear current reality, and the deeper, often invisible, leverage points to create profound change. SPT facilitates fast and highly effective organizational change and innovation. Arawana, working with Otto Scharmer and Peter Senge, leads the development of SPT. Matthias is a senior leadership advisor and member of the Mobius Personal Mastery Faculty who uses SPT regularly in his work with business clients.

Track Three
with Jenny Sauer-Klein

Scaling Intimacy

Founder and director of The Culture Conference, helping leaders build culture from the inside out, Jenny creates transformational human-to-human experiences that prioritize connection over content. This track is an in-depth training in her methodology for leading-edge experience designers and facilitators, including team building games designed to help facilitators engage groups with confidence. Jenny’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Inc., Fast Company, Forbes, and Tim Ferriss’s book Tools of Titans

Track Four
with Ester Martinez

Organizational & Personal Healing with Constellation Principles

Ester brings twenty years of experience as a psychotherapist, constellations expert and student of Thomas Huebl. This track explores the systematic principles operating within all human systems, whether family, teams or organizations. We will explore the invisible realms — the cords that guide so many of the visible symptoms we encounter. This session will lift the veil and invite your own deep healing process.

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Track Five
with Jennifer Cohen and Gina LaRoche

Healing Collective Trauma; Embodying Anti Racism

“That which is not fully metabolized, processed, understood and healed will repeat itself.”
Racism—both its origins and its manifestations, live in our collective and individual systems as trauma. We will explore in an embodied manner the impact of that trauma on our capacity to fully inhabit ourselves, to speak powerfully and clearly across difference, and to build more diverse, inclusive and equitable organizations and societies. Through practice, small group work, and guided exploration we will metabolize together, build shared practice, and look at ways through the trauma to a new future.

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Track Six
with Dr. Richard Schwartz

Working with Different Parts of the Self

Renowned family therapist and trauma expert, Dick Schwartz, is regarded as a pioneer for developing the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. In this track you will apply the IFS model to yourself to identify and integrate your sub-personalities or parts of yourself and learn to access your larger, wiser “Self.” You will also learn to guide your clients as part of your coaching practice. For a taster, watch Dick’s keynote address on our website, under Next Practice Institute Resources.

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Track Seven
with Hedy Schleifer

Encounter-centered Relational Transformation

Hedy is a master relationship builder who will share her pioneering approach, Encounter-centered Transformation, a discipline and set of tools for thriving in authentic connection; something our world needs now more than ever. In the living laboratory Hedy creates, you will get hands-on experience with relationship enhancing skills, and the opportunity to deep dive into the intricacies of becoming a relational leader. You will also develop your relational intelligence on the path to relational maturity.

Track Eight
with Anne Gottlieb

Sourcing the Poetic Flame: 10,000 Ways Into Your Creative Process

How do we channel our creative flame into our work, leading us to joyful discovery? Working with a meaningful question or archetype of your choosing, participants will learn to locate many of the ways to unlock the expressive soul. Including literature, music, movement, and visual art, this is a highly experiential and powerful context to support transformation and depth of inquiry. It is designed for those who are ready to move their body, use their voice, and ideally who have done a somatic workshop. Anne is the Director of Presence & Presentation Practice at Mobius. She is an actor, writer, and collaborative artist who has developed a bold approach to transformational leadership, translating 2+ decades of imaginative inquiry, expressive psychology, and professional theater into programs for global leaders.

MORNING KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

Supplementing the track learning, we host focus sessions from distinguished and emerging voices in the field of personal, organizational, and societal transformation.

TUESDAY

Karl Scheibe

Mirrors, Masks, Lies, Secrets and The Drama of Everyday Life

Karl Scheibe is a social and clinical psychologist whose teaching and writing centers around the psychology of self and identity. His publication record spans 50 years and covers problems of human predictability, studies on self and identity, and the connections between psychology and the techniques of theater.

WEDNESDAY

Ashish Nanda

Managing the boundaries and conflicts of interests in professional service firms

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard, Ashish Nanda’s research focuses on the ethics and economics of managing professional service firms – including how conflicts of interest influence professional identity, the role of professional associations, and the boundaries of professional service organizations. He suggests ways of managing conflicts for the individual, the organization, and the profession.

THURSDAY

Rasmus Hougaard

Leading with mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion

Based on his book The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard shares key insights from the research he and he co-author, Jacqueline Carter, published in this important work. Rasmus regularly writes on leadership for HBR, he is the Founder and Managing Director of Potential Project, a global leadership training, organizational development and research firm. They help leaders and organizations enhance performance, innovation and resilience through mindfulness and other practices grounded in neuroscience and research.

FRIDAY

Paul Dunion

Summoned to Live in Larger Soul Stories

A psychological healer since 1982, Dr. Paul Dunion’s work includes individual therapy, working with trauma, soul work, and how to embrace life as a mysterious and unpredictable journey. He is a graduate of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and the author of five books. In this talk he distinguishes between what it means to live in large soul stories rather than the large ego. The depth of soul stories calls us to a robust capacity to be relational. This unity consciousness inspires and animates our sense of belonging and reveals what is truly sustainable.

EVENING KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

We welcome distinguished thought leaders and pioneering voices in the field of transformational leadership to inspire us and advance our learning.

MONDAY

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

The evolution of somatic coaching and the anatomy of change

Richard Strozzi-Heckler is the founder of Strozzi Institute. He has spent over four decades teaching Somatics to business, non-profit, military and government leaders. He was an advisor to NATO and the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe. He is the author of eight books, has a PhD in Psychology and is a seventh-degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido. Richard is considered the pioneering voice who introduced Somatic Leadership and embodiment practices into the field of leadership development.

 

TUESDAY

Frederic Laloux

Reclaiming integrity and aliveness

Frederic Laloux is the author of Reinventing Organizations, the seminal book that inspired countless leaders of large corporations, of environmental, social and faith movements to make the leap to a new management paradigm. Currently, his inquiry invites us to examine how the structures we inhabit so often require us to step out of integrity, and how deeply we long to reconnect with wholeness and aliveness.

THURDSAY

Peter Koenig

Transforlution – transformation and perpetual evolution towards solutions in accordance with Nature

Peter Koenig has been developing tools and systems to accelerate consciousness and human development for leaders for 40 years. He is an expert in Seminal Thinking, Behavioral Finance, and Organizational Architecture. He coined the term transforlution. At the heart of his expertise is a series of deep insights into our relationship to money, the realization of life purpose, and transformation.

WEDNESDAY INTENSIVE

A special group session with Thomas Huebl.

Wednesday

A special group session with Thomas Huebl

Mystical Principles of Transformation

For the fifth year in a row, at the heart of our Annual Gathering, we will study the practices of consciousness development and the processes for healing individual, family, and collective trauma.

These quiet hours in the center of the week-long gathering offer a rare opportunity to study the mystical principles of transformation with non- dual teacher Thomas Huebl, who joins us each year for an immersion in his teaching.

Leading the group for a day of study, practice and healing, Thomas will offer his unique approach for living as a “mystic in the marketplace” – sharing his understanding of the mystical principles of embodiment, inter-generational restoration and personal evolution. We are truly delighted to offer this opportunity to practice with an advanced teacher who understands the challenges of modern life and grounds his work in psychology, philosophy, and meta-physical awareness.

Thomas Huebl is a rare guide: a masterful mystic able to navigate advanced realms of spiritual mastery while presenting himself in a delightfully warm, transparent, brotherly way. He is the best of 21st century enlightenment: deep thinking, clear-seeing, and radical in his stance. He is also focused on healing collective trauma to restore a healthy cultural architecture.

In 2020 he published his ground-breaking book Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. This opus explores how significant collective trauma symptoms are in shaping our modern society and contains cutting-edge remedies that serve as a beacon of hope for generations to come.

Thomas has been guiding many of our practitioners in the professional development of state-of-the-art healing practices and trauma-informed approaches to executive development. Through NPI, Thomas offers workshops, supervision groups/hyper-learning circles and in 2021 he will offer a year-long immersive study in the mystical principles of healing to prepare a group of facilitators who can work in crisis areas and public sector issues as they emerge on the global stage.

Thomas is blazing a path of 21st century spiritual practice and helping thousands of students around the world to really live their awakening amid today’s busy world.

Wednesday’s session will focus on healing and the art of transformational facilitation. Thomas will also lead the group in experiential exercises and a special toning concert at the day’s close.

EVENING ACTIVITIES

Tuesday Evening | 8:00pm

Jai Uttal

An Evening of Music

Jai Uttal – Grammy nominee, kirtan artist, and world music pioneer has been a leading influence in the Bhakti tradition for the past 50 years. Jai considers devotion to be the core of his musical and spiritual life, and he whole-heartedly shares his passionate heart through his voice and songs. He has emerged as a leading influence in the Bhakti tradition and considers Bhakti central to his musical and spiritual life and the pathway to awaken and nourish the seed of devotion within yourself.

Jai creates a safe environment for people to open their hearts and voices. No previous experience is needed. This is an exploration and expression of the heart and the spirit.

Wednesday Evening | 8:00pm

Thomas Huebl

Toning Meditation for Personal and Collective Healing

Thomas will lead a “toning meditation” session, vocalizing specific sounds that focus inner coherence and attunement in a group setting.

Toning allows participants to drop into meditative states and gain a profound experience of space, presence, and connection. The sound fields that are created stimulate the potential for deep healing and can help us respond more authentically with love and clarity in daily life. Tonings can be very powerful experiences, especially in larger groups. Participants describe them as a sacred fields of coherence. Toning sessions typically begin with the creation of a sound field of humming, gradually reaching a crescendo of ritual toning. Through the sound vibration and through the coherence that is built through the sounds in the group, participants can find an inner connection to the subtle higher dimension, to their own life’s experiences, or to deeper creativity, insights, and innovation.

The beautiful sound-space of toning is a collective composition orchestrated with each individual’s sound. As the individual harmonizes with others in the collective space, each unique sound remains vital and powerful, supporting the collectively shared conscious space that yields mindfulness and wakefulness.

Thursday evening | 8:00pm

Jami Sieber

An Evening with Cellist, Vocalist, and Composer

Electric cellist and vocalist Jami Sieber reaches inside the soul with compositions that are contemporary, timeless, lush, and powerfully evocative. Internationally celebrated, Jami’s innovative performances move beyond the surface, seeking and re-seeking her truth by creating musical bridges and connections. Doing what moves her, she inspires listeners with her honesty, musical prowess, and humanity. Her life-long commitment to the environment, social justice, and the healing arts is at the heart of her music, reflecting a deep dedication to the arts as a medium to express the interconnectedness of all beings.

NEW ONLINE TRACK OFFERINGS
FOR REMOTE PARTICIPATION DURING COVID

If you would like to be part of the Annual Gathering and cannot be with us in Boston, you can now enroll for one of these distinctive, remote, week-long tracks. Most tracks will run concurrently to the US timing of the Annual Gathering so participants can attend the keynotes and evening sessions. There will also be one track on UK* and one on AUS** time zones for ease of engagement.

Online Track One
with Sheila Buechler & Kathrin O’Sullivan

Dancing With Complexity

How do we equip leaders to be more resilient and to keep growing their capacity to navigate the deeply complex challenges they and their organizations face? Kathrin and Sheila will share cutting-edge thinking in adult development, complexity theory and leadership embodiment, and a set of practices designed to uncover and shift habitual leadership patterns that support dancing with complexity. This track will be experiential, movement-based, and will center on a specific challenge you face in your own leadership or life with the aim of expanding your coaching and facilitation toolkit.

Online Track Two
with Paul Zonneveld & Mieke Jacobs

Systemic Intelligence and Organizational Constellations

In this track you will learn how seemingly small interventions lead to breakthroughs in complex, organizational challenges. Paul and Mieke have worked with organizations around the world for many years, researching the impact of systemic dynamics, on large organizations, leaders and top teams. In 2019 they published Emergent: The Power of Systemic Intelligence to Navigate the Complexity of M&A. This track will help you discern between the visible symptoms and the real underlying dynamics to identify the right intervention – the systemic acupuncture point – that will recreate flow in the team or organization.

Online Track Three
with Alexander Caillet & Amy Yeager

Team Coaching

Team coaching is the dynamic, complex and enlivening practice of working with a team in real time, on real work, to achieve real, measurable results. Alexander Caillet’s pioneering approach — established more than 25 years ago and since refined in collaboration with Amy Yeager, has been used with hundreds of teams internationally and taught to thousands of practitioners. Participants who take this track will get hands-on experience with this powerful discipline, utilizing time-tested frameworks, tools, and methods for assessing and improving team performance.

Online Track Four
with Nadjeschda Taranczewski

Creating Conscious Tribes

How do you create a Conscious Tribe, a collective in which people can realize their potential? How do you create an organization that people want to belong to, partner with and buy from? Nadjeschda will present an innovative assessment for collectives, taken from her forthcoming book The Conscious Tribe Playbook. By exploring the eight dimensions of the Conscious Tribe Wheel – the essential building blocks of a conscious collective, you will gain both concrete insights into your own collectives and a powerful roadmap for facilitating sustainable transformation in any client context.

Online Track Five
with Martin Boroson & Carmel Moore

The New Rules of Time

Everyone these days has trouble with time, but the irony is: No one knows what time really is. This track, profound and practical, upends your assumptions about time. Our mindful approach, based on the power of the present moment, helps you release limiting beliefs about time and design the days you really want. You’ll get a toolkit to use with clients, helping them make fundamental changes in their ‘operating model’ and build more effective, aligned, and happy teams. Led by Martin Boroson, creator of One Moment Meditation®, and Carmel Moore, former partner at EY.

Online Track Six
with Robin Alfred

Leading from The Future

Given the times we live in, increasingly leaders must operate from a place of sensing, intuiting and responding rather than predicting, planning and controlling. In this track Robin Alfred will facilitate an exploration of the true nature of the Future; the role intuition, imagination and inspiration play; and how to access these qualities to help clients catalyze a regenerative future. Robin is a seasoned trainer, facilitator and organizational consultant who has extensive experience in facilitating personal discovery, depth work and collective group intelligence, enabling emergence and the manifestation of transformational fields. (UK time zone)

Online Track Seven
with Lisa Doig

Values and Consciousness as a Pathway to Purpose

Lisa is a pioneer in the field of values, linking personal and organizational transformation with levels of consciousness. In this track, Lisa will share a powerful methodology of leader-transformation. Linked to the adult stages of development, the work integrates the Barrett 7 Levels of Consciousness Model. Through this frame, you will explore your top values and beliefs and how these inform your current challenges and, ultimately, deeper life purpose, with a view to guiding your clients to do the same. Particularly relevant for organizations seeking to be more purpose-led and values-driven, this track offers a roadmap. (AUS time zone)