You will be stepping away from an extremely busy work-schedule each month to participate in Transform - Certificate of Executive Nonprofit Leadership. It’s important that we start the day off right. Transform offers a much-needed opportunity to get off the stage and onto the balcony – so you can observe the way you perform. Our goal is to create a sanctuary, a ‘secret space’ where you can remove yourself from your daily concerns and tap into the more creative, expansive inner energy that is always there but
rarely accessed.

It’s also a well-documented fact of learning that you need to periodically clear your mind before you add anything new into it. The job of a Nonprofit Director has never been more daunting – like everyone else, you are processing more information than at any time in the history of humankind. Yet you are also called upon to make critical leadership decisions every day that affect the well-being of hundreds if not thousands of people. And you wonder why you feel overwhelmed!

These optional early-morning sessions are designed to help you shift from your daily frenetic task-orientation to a calm, soothing environment where you can question your preconceptions about leadership and truly make a breakthrough.

We will have Washington’s finest and most reputable meditation, yoga and tai chi instructors join us, along with a variety of other instructors to help us pull ourselves away so we can pull ourselves together. These sessions will help you to re-categorize activities that help you to achieve work-life balance from ‘nice to do’ to ‘need to do’, and as necessary weekly routines for effective leadership in the 21st century.

There’s another reason we’ve included a work-life balance component: because you deserve it! Developing holistic practices that reduce stress now will help you to bring not just success, but also happiness into your life for years to come. Think about it: when you look back at your life when you are eighty years old, do you want to see just a career, or do you want to see a life?