Deepen your embodied power in work and life
Alchemical Leadership is a 4-month advanced leadership exploration of power and systems healing
During chaos and turbulence, how we embody leadership is more important than ever.
We need leaders who can take deep responsibility for their power — to transform themselves and our systems.
At the same time, we all need support and solidarity amidst complex and chaotic global change.
Alchemical Leadership is more than a program.
It is a rite of passage and a sanctuary for leaders
committed to healing themselves and their organizations.
REFLECTIONS
WHY ALCHEMY?
Alchemy is a practice of inner change that produces outer change.
To become alchemical leaders, we must embody responsible power and heal disconnection in ourselves.
Only then can we midwife the greatest possibilities from blockage and toxicity.
WHY YOU?
You work in service of systemic impact and long to feel more aliveness and meaning.
Your big heart and bright mind combined with your organizational power make you a crucial leverage point for evolving systems.
You’re positioned to clean up the stuck ego and power patterns preventing flow, equality, and aliveness in your organization and life.
INTEGRATIVE LEADERSHIP
You know embodying wholeness is critical in life, work, and society.
That’s why we’ll explore principles of transformation and power dynamics as they interrelate across 5 realms.
The Wayfinding Power Landscape
OUR LEARNING JOURNEY
We will learn about transformation through our own lives.
Participation in this program (1) asks you to study, track, and take responsibility for your ego and social programming, (2) may illuminate blockage or misalignment in your life, and (3) can precipitate big outer changes.
WEEKS 0-7 || ONLINE
Power and transformation dynamics in self and lineage
Weekly || Group Zoom calls
Colleague coaching in small groups
Self-study video content with personal practices and reflections
— Opening & Orienting
— Intro to Sensing, Power, & Alchemy
— Power, the Inner Adversary, & Antidotes
— Power, the Cultural Adversary, & Healing
— Power, Eros, Intimacy, & Love
— Rewilding & Rites of Passage
— Solo Quest Design & Preparation
WEEK 8 || SOLO QUEST (IN YOUR HOME REGION & ONLINE)
Evolution through ceremony — together and alone
3 Days || Group preparation and send off
Custom, tech-free solo quest in your local area
4 Days || Storytelling, mirroring, and harvest
WEEKS 9-16 || ONLINE
Embodied leadership and evolving power in organizations
Weekly || Group Zoom calls
Colleague coaching in small groups
Self-study video content with personal practices and reflections
— Quest Integration
— Leading from Essence and Power Hygiene
— Org Health Diagnosis // The Leadership Team & the Whole
— Partnership, Communication, & Relational Health
— Org Healing // The Leadership Team & the Whole
— Landing & Close
“Our time together was so beautifully set up for us.
You created a powerful virtual/digital sacred space that we all entered with reverence, and we each offered something vulnerable and important, and held those things with presence and care.
I left with a sense of knowing and connection. THAT, my dear, is no small feat.
It reveals your virtuosity as a shaman and guide.” —CE
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Alchemical Leadership is a ~100+ hour immersive learning journey, including:
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Community and peer-learning in an intimate, diverse circle of up to 12 integrative leaders
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Intentional culture for connection, healing, and transformation
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Twice weekly group Zoom calls for discussion and practice
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A rich learning library of informational video content (7+ hours) based on 15+ years of research
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Group online forum for continuing exploration and connection
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Four individual coaching sessions with the Wayfinding Guide team
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Guidance in ceremony design for crafting your unique solo quest
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Facilitated solo quest in your home region with group ceremony
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Community rituals and ceremonies
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Self-care resources and physical practices to cultivate your energy and health
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Opportunity to contribute a learning experience from your expertise to the group
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Group check-in call several months after program end
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Post-program opportunities to join AL alumni membership with alumni from all prior cohorts and AL alumni-only events
AS SEEN ON
A CULTURE OF SHARED POWER
Intimate connection in a diverse community supports courageous work and fuels our fire.
Alchemy is relational and experiential, so practicing personal and collective healing are core to our culture. We prioritize safety, curiosity, connection, belonging, care, growth, and courage. We stand for each person’s greatest self and honor each person’s unique mastery, identity, perspectives, gifts, trauma, and shadows — while also asking each of us to be responsible for the societally-conferred privileges we carry.
Each cohort, we offer several scholarships for reduced tuition to leaders of historically excluded identities. This is one of the many ways we aim to create reparative weaving.
Please know we ask all participants to engage a selection of materials and pre-work around antiracism and trauma before the cohort begins to set a common foundation.
“In a short time, we have become a family.
We’ve lived through the pandemic together and found space in the midst of everything to share our innermost selves with one another.” —PB
THE SOLO QUEST
The quest is the heart of this whole journey.
The solo quest is an ancient tradition held in many ways by many cultures. This ceremony is about entering into deep listening and humble intimacy with life — to shed the parts of yourself that no longer serve, affirm your essence, and receive what life wants to gift you for the next phase of your journey.
There is a great magic to questing in our home places. With our support, you’ll design your solo quest to step outside of the normal rules of life and reconnect to your deeper wisdom, wildness, and belonging in the life fabric.
“I’ve never been a part of such intimate story telling.
Thank you all so much for sharing.” —NK
“I feel more like myself than I have in a long time.” —HW
Feeling called to participate, but feeling conflicted?
Watch this guided video to connect to your clarity.
— Preference given to Wayfinding community members —
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