Unity Academy Curriculum
The Unity Academy is a community of transformation and a master practitioner school for Unity in-formed integral practice—the practice of conscious leadership, consulting, and coaching beyond the Creative level. Its curriculum is a yearlong sequential series of residential workshops supported by virtual sessions.
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This four-day workshop will be facilitated by Bob Anderson and Terri O’Fallon. Participants, prior to the workshop will fill out and be debriefed on the LCP and the STAGES assessments. This workshop will unfold within an integration of Terri’s adult development STAGES, a deep exploration of the fundamental framework of the LCP and the Unity in-formed integral model that forms the underpinnings of the academy. It will explore the seven practices of Creative leadership and introduce the framework and practices of future coursework within the academy. This workshop will deeply launch the process of the school. Participants will leave with an expanded capability to use the LCP for working in a deep and transformative way with their clients.
This workshop will lay the foundation for the entire Unity Academy experience. Through a series of didactic, somatic, experiential, and reflective exercises, you will:
This workshop will be a very personally powerful personal and leadership development experience. It will stand alone and can be take independently of going further on in the academy.
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This workshop is integral. It is Unity in-formed. It is an integration (both theoretical, scientific, and experiential) of many diverse traditions: energetic healing, Aikido, spiritual/wisdom traditions (North, South, East, West), quantum science (physics, biology, neurology), psychology (cognitive, adult development), and shadow healing (individual, intergenerational, collective). These traditions, integrated within the practice of leadership and organizational transformation, have much to offer us about how to be more effective coaches, consultants, and leaders. This workshop is about expanding the human meta-capacities that allow us to become a more transformative agent for our clients and for our organizations.
This workshop will help participants embody and ground stable access to progressively deeper dimensions of the quantum field (and/or the human energy field), open pathways of intuitive access to unified informational field and to the field of the client and develop an unprecedented level of transformative presence from which to work with clients and lead organizations. It will use Aikido to accelerate access to the above, ground and embody it in action under pressure, and demonstrate how to be in non-violent, harmonious connection while in conflict. Finally, this workshop will introduce the practice of dialogue—intuitively listening to and speaking from the field of intelligence for breakthrough insight on important issues. Participants will experience a new and unexpected level of transformative power and presence from which to work and lead.
This five-day workshop will be facilitated by Bob Anderson, Joel Yanowitz, and Donna Evans Strauss. Bob has a long history with these facilitators. They were teachers for him. In the mid-80s, Bob got involved with Innovation Associates (Peter Senge, Robert Fritz, and Charlie Kiefer). Joel was the president of Innovation Associates. Joel taught Bob to facilitate their Visionary Leadership Program, which formed the structure of Creative leadership in the UML. Joel is also an Aikido master and has been using Aikido in his work with leaders for decades. In the mid-90s, Bob attended and graduated from the globally renowned four-year Barbara Brennan School of Healing. It was at this school that the Universal Model of Leadership (UML) deepened and came into its current coherence. The Spirit of Leadership white paper was written to complete the thesis requirement in year four to graduate. Donna Evans Strauss was a teacher in the school when Bob attended. This work has deeply informed the Leadership Circle Universal Model, Profile, and mission. These two bodies of work will be experientially integrated in this workshop. See bios below.
This workshop is highly experiential and will explore the application of energetic and bioenergetic healing practice to your coaching, consulting, and leadership development practice.
As this workshop is focused on integral coaching/consulting presence and practice, it will not explore how an integral leadership change effort can be implemented in an organization. That will come in the Application workshop. Our focus will be on the essential presence of transformative coaching and consulting as something we learn to bring to all clients, regardless of their stage of development. We will explore and enhance our capacity—as coaches and consultants—to hold a transformative integral presence in-formed by Unity.
In this workshop, we will progress through a series of individual and group activities designed to enable direct Unity in-formed subtle experience, out of which arises the capacity to embody collective sensing, speaking, and acting. Grounded in our individual presence, together we will explore speaking and moving sourced from the collective field of awareness. Using exercises (both physical and energetic) derived from the martial art of Aikido—the art of compassionate, harmonious power—we will practice our way into a deeply embodied and agile state of presence. From this state, we will practice together the art of collective intuition—dialogue. Dialogue is a unique form of authenticity (that we use with senior teams) wherein we allow the field of greater intelligence to speak through us—to in-form us in precisely those areas where we are seeking breakthrough insight and innovation. Dialogue is the capacity to drop into a deep state of embodied presence together and listen to what wants to emerge from the field. It is a foundational practice for integral leadership, coaching, and consulting. We will practice simultaneously being present and centered (within the self) while deepening relational connection in action. This practice coheres a resonate field that can be accessed intuitively, informing our dialogue with innovative insight and wisdom. Wholehearted presence invites unitive awareness—the conscious, loving, intelligent unity inherent in, and fundamental to reality.
This workshop is a multifaceted set of practices where each practice supports the unfolding of all the others. Through a series of somatic, experiential, and reflective exercises, you will:
Make a Paradigm Shift
Gain Immediate Access to Expanded and Grounded States of Awareness
Open Intuitive Access
Work With/in the Human Energetic Field
Deepen Embodied Presence
Engage in Dialogue
Heal Shadow Wounds
Note: Somatically and energetically opening the field of the body to higher currents of energy is activating. Unprocessed wounds and shadow inevitably arise. This can be very deep and intense work. It is also liberating. There will be time in every one of the academy workshops for working with shadows as they emerge. In this workshop you will be supported by the team in compassionately and powerfully engaging the shadow elements that emerge for you. In the Deep Process workshop, you will be introduced to how to facilitate this work with your clients.
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This three-day workshop will be facilitated by Bob Anderson and Donna Evans Strauss. This workshop will build upon the capability to be an intuitive transformative presence and will teach coaches and consultants how to facilitate very deep process work with their clients. Deep process work is one of the gateways to integral human development. The primary focus will be on working with shadow. This is working with the core wounds, blocks, distorted and disowned parts, and traumas (personal, intergenerational, and collective) that live within all of us.
This is not a workshop in how to coach leaders moving into or operating at an integral level—and it is. This workshop is about how to coach or consult from an integral-unitive presence. It is about being the presence that transforms, that creates a catalytic field of transformation, while working with a client (or group) that may be at any level of leadership development.
This work is founded on the principle that, to maximize the developmental opportunity we have in any moment with our clients, all parts of us must be attended to and made fully available—from the very highest to the most wounded aspects that we carry within us.
This approach works uniquely and directly with the ascending and descending currents of energy in the body. Descending in service of transcending. This is where healing—making whole—takes place. You will learn to meet your client deep within their core wounds, hold them in loving, wholehearted, radiant presence and, thereby, support the alchemical, transformative movement that wants to happen. You will learn, as this unfolds, to bring light into what is unfolding and, thereby, catalyze and support the integration of previously contracted shadow energy into the graceful ascending and descending flow of spirit-energy through the field of the body.
In this workshop, we will practice everything learned in prior academy workshops and further develop our capability to hold an unconditional, compassionate, radiant space for whatever shadow elements emerge and for all emotions, however painful. Therefore, we will spend considerable time together doing deep shadow work, for our own integral development and to learn together the various practices deep process coaching.
This workshop will lead you through a set of practices that will initiate you into how to facilitate deep shadow work. You will:
During the workshop, we will create a very safe container and a very high-energy transformative field as we devote ourselves to working very intensively, intuitively, and experientially with all aspects of ourselves. We will spend our time in deep shadow work as well as expanded states of presence and intuitive connection.
Shadow work opens the flow of vitality, energy, information, intuitive access in the body. The result is far greater effective, undefended, wholehearted, radiant transformative presence from which to lead and work.
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This five-day workshop will be facilitated by Bob Anderson, Donna Evans Strauss, Chris Thorsen, and Bill Adams. This workshop will build on all the above as it is applied. It will continue to work with energetic practices and Aikido for individual, collective, and systemic application. It will continue working with the practice of non-violent communication. The process and capability to facilitate dialogue will be fully explored. This workshop will go beyond being informed by the field to practices that shape and in-form the field of manifestation. Participants will learn how to work at very expanded states of awareness, frequency, energy, and information density to accelerate the creation of intended results and the emergent future.
This workshop is part two of the Energetics of Embodied Presence and Dialogue workshop and the Deep Process workshop. As such, it will build on everything learned in both workshops and focus on application to the practice of coaching, consulting, and leading from a Unity in-formed integral approach. You will:
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