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2. Environment and Resources (GREEN)
3. International Development (WHITE)
4. Social Transformation (YELLOW)
5. Global Interdependence (BLUE)
World Enlightainment will shortly be holding its first programme of seminars for young people age 18 - 26 and the self-selection process of mankinds future leaders details as follows:
ALL NEW HEROS JOURNEY
“The Future World Leaders and Mothering Access Programme - An Ontological Model”
January 5 – 9, 2010
Special Attendence Fee £380:00 (Normally Fee £580)
This programme is based on our, and our partners (and our co-instructors’) work over the last seven years. The course is designed to leave all participants being leaders and exercising leadership effectively whilst able to display and maintain the maternal activities that arise from being a mother to others of protecting, preserving, nourishing and nurturing as their natural self expression.
The course is not designed to merely leave the participants with knowledge (that is not designed to leave students “knowing” about leaders and leadership, mothers and mothering and able to discuss the issues surrounding these). Rather the course is designed to give students actual access to being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership along with the maternal activities of protecting, preserving, nurturing and nourishing others. Our promise as instructors to the students is that if they honour their word to fulfil the requests we make of them they will leave the course being leaders and exercising leadership effectively with a maternal desire and ability to nurture, nourish, preserve and protect others.
The research project that led to the creation of this course originated from our interest in laying the foundations for a science of leadership. We agree with Warren Bennis (2002, p. 2) and Joseph Rost (1993, p. 8) who conclude respectively: "It is almost a cliché of the leadership literature that a single definition of leadership is lacking." and "The scholars do not know what it is they are studying, and the practitioners do not know what it is they are practicing."
Attacking the question of what leadership is required us to get into what it is to be a leader and what it is to exercise leadership effectively. Getting to the core of being a leader led naturally to attacking the task of creating leaders and the course was created.
Similarly the question of what a mother is …
We resolve these puzzles by uniquely distinguishing leader and leadership and mother and mothering as the intersection of four precise aspects which are respectively:
Linguistic Abstractions (“realms of possibility”),
Phenomena (that is, as exercised, or what one observes or is impacted by),
Concepts (the temporal domains of functionality),
Terms (as definitions)
The access provided to (and therefore what is revealed about) leader and leadership, mother and mothering when dealt with as a realm of possibility is different than the access provided to (and therefore what is revealed about) them when they are dealt with as a phenomenon, or as a concept, or as a term.
We argue that when the four perspectives are taken together, as a whole they provide access to mastering what mother and leader and leadership and mothering actually are. This enables us to get our arms around the being of a leader and the effective exercise of leadership and maternal activities. Having mastered this overall context, we can then get our hands on the levers and dials of being a leader, a mother and the effective exercise of leadership and maternal activities.
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