Bio-Leadership Pioneers – 3 Day Workshop

The Bio-Leadership workshop is a three-day process designed to develop new forms of leadership for the 21st century.

Across the world, many people now feel that conventional leadership is no longer sufficient for the complexity of our time. The Bio-Leadership Project responds to this need by supporting more generative, more adaptive, and more responsible organisations that are better equipped to navigate the 21st century.

The Bio-Leadership Project responds to three major trends:

• The need to shape new ways of living and working that are more adaptive, more connected, and more regenerative
• The need to protect and restore our wider social and ecological systems
• The search for purpose and meaning

Throughout the workshop, participants will use and develop the Bio-Leadership Map as both a living research and thinking model and a framework for learning. It is designed to help guide the process and clarify the territory and goals we want to reach.

The Bio-Leadership Map includes five areas of exploration:

• New measures of purpose and progress, inspired by nature
• New kinds of organisational form, inspired by nature
• New ways of working collaboratively, like ecosystems
• New forms of generative product and service, and ways of providing them, that protect and replenish nature
• New cultures rooted in connection, leading to deeper change

Over the past two years, the Bio-Leadership Project has grown rapidly, connecting and collaborating with remarkable people and initiatives. Today, it works with groundbreaking organisations such as Patagonia, the World Benchmarking Alliance, Amani Institute, as well as inspiring innovators from many sectors.

This programme is about bringing together like-minded people in the UK and offering tools, techniques, and support structures to help develop a new way of living and working. At its heart, the work is about reconnecting with the wisdom of nature and exploring our place as partners within the systems of life.

The programme

Bio-Leadership works through three threads:

• Principles, models, and tools to inspire new forms of leadership
• Deeper personal practice, supporting new qualities of personal leadership and transformation
• Working as a field — a web of people and projects helping to weave new ways of working into the status quo. This level combines broad ideas about innovation with deep perspectives on identity, power, and productive belief systems.

Who is this for?

This workshop is for change-makers, facilitators, and innovators within organisations and across society — people who want to be part of a growing field that believes a new kind of innovation is needed, one that supports people in working with the wider systems we are part of.

Costs

Large organisations: £900 (over 50 employees)
Smaller organisations: £750
Individuals: £575

This includes accommodation in a shared dormitory, all sessions, snacks, and meals.

Extra costs for a private room: £60 per night
A shared twin room: £45 per night

Some sources of inspiration

Frederick Laloux, Reinventing Organizations
Theory U and the wider work of Otto Scharmer
Fritjof Capra and work on systems and life
Joanna Macy and work related to the Great Turning
Thich Nhat Hanh and being in a new way
And other important references connecting leadership, human development, natural systems, and more.

Andres Roberts

Andres is a guide, educator, and entrepreneur pioneering new forms of development in partnership with nature. His work brings together innovative approaches to leadership and change, wisdom from ancient cultures, and deep experience in nature to support more generative, systemic change. He is the founding partner of the Bio-Leadership Project, an initiative that helps organisations realign with nature to address the challenges of the 21st century. He is also a guide and co-founder of Way of Nature UK, an organisation that supports deep transformation through reconnection with nature. He is based in the UK.

"His motivation for systemic change is tangible and his energy is abundant and infectious… He is a genuine inspiration." (Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors and Chairman, World Benchmarking Alliance)