MAKING A DIFFERENCE AMIDST DISRUPTION
BY developing your most resonant self
OUR Leadership Programs, Coaching and Resources Support You in Making a Positive Impact on the World.
Making a difference might feel extra hard right now as we live in critical times defined by racial reckoning, social injustice, a heating-up planet, political polarization and the day-to-day struggles of managing your life and work in a global pandemic. We surface the Zen Leader in you by connecting with a surprising power source in your own body. Wicked problems call for wisdom, connectedness and resilience. We train you in all three, and we make it physical because what’s physical is trainable and enduring. By optimizing your whole self as an instrument for leadership and impact, the self that feels stuck can reframe challenges into opportunities. Drawing on inspiration from teachers and joining forces with colleagues, you’ll begin to move freely through life and beyond the fears that otherwise hold you back.
HERE ARE SOME RESULTS…
A physician accepts a promotion to lead a department at a major university, saying she felt readied by IZL training, and in her first year is awarded faculty director of the year
An artist ups her game to create fearlessly and teach others how to do the same
A medical director improves and inspires her department by putting meditation cushions in her office, where employees now gather for meditation and deeper conversations
A corporate leader re-evaluates her career and finds a new purposefulness that she is determined to grow into
A tired but talented technology leader describes “coming home to himself” as he learns to connect with hara and expand his senses
A physician suffering from burnout says at the close of a ZL program this is the first time she has “felt whole”
A tired but talented technology leader describes “coming home to himself” as he learns to connect with hara and expand his senses
A somatic coach learns to work with the 4 energy patterns and radically expands her business
A physician remembers to embody the first flip – center, enter, add value – as she engages each patient
Virtual Programs
LEADER SERIES
Our Leader Series is for everyone wanting to make a difference through expressing their authentic self. This training cracks open a bigger you by combining the full strengths of Zen training and the most important leadership skills of today applied in service of your connected purpose.
You’ll integrate the tools and “flips” where Zen leadership begins, and transform habits with more than just good intentions. Don’t settle for a prison of the past when you can co-create the present and attract the future. We show you how. For most people who attend, the Leader Series is life-changing.
HEAL
PROGRAMS FOR LEADERS IN HEALTHCARE
Our HEAL Series explores Zen leadership and it’s applications to healthcare. You’ll learn how to sustainably thrive and be a force for positive change in your patients, practices and systems.
We train “deep into the bones” how to face some of the most pressing issues for healthcare professionals. These courses apply the tools and “flips” in Zen training to overcome burnout and transform challenges into opportunities. Explore with colleagues how to become an instrument for healing patients and systems alike. Our community of Zen Leaders in healthcare is expanding and the results are transformative.
FEBI Programs
FEBI is a psychometrically validated personality instrument that uniquely integrates mind, body and behaviors; it is a gateway to working with the mind-body as one and, for many, to a pathway to deeper training. When you make something physical, you make it trainable, which is what makes FEBI such a powerful and practical tool to add to your teaching and coaching. FEBI certification will equip you to coach individuals using FEBI, to facilitate FEBI-based team sessions, and to run FEBI-based programs.
Some prior coaching, consulting, counseling or teaching experience is required; contact us if you have questions about your readiness to jump into FEBI certification.
discover
Reveal a newfound courage, resilience and grounded-ness. Our Zen leadership courses are a challenging and safe environment for self-discovery as you peel back the layers and see yourself clearly, sometimes for the first time.
grow
The body wants to practice. The Zen Leader courses will show you physical practices that can help you move past stuck points and become your most authentic self.
connect
Connect with yourself, your colleagues, and your purpose. Our Zen Leader courses offer techniques you can take with you to gather like-minded people to reach a higher goal.
create
The beauty and the stillness that can be found in the settings around the Zen Leader courses can inspire the creativity in anyone. What will it inspire in you?
It’s life-changing, unbelievable. There’s nothing else like this out there. The Zen Leader courses are fire.”
RESONATE : ZEN AND THE WAY OF MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Master the principle that lets you live your most significant life, from reshaping relationships to realizing large-scale change. That principle is resonance and this book is your guide.
experience resonate! Course starts May 17th!
We’ve partnered with a powerhouse online training company to bring you “Resonate.” Premium Pricing ends April 26th.
VOICES
Of the Institute for Zen Leadership
Suddenly There’s Nowhere to Hide
Suddenly There’s Nowhere to Hide
Suddenly There’s Nowhere to Hide [From Radical Dharma Rev. angel Kyodo williams] black lives matter Our society is sick, suffering on average more than one mass murder a day. Our…
How You’re Like Lake Geneva – And Not
How You’re Like Lake Geneva – And Not
IZL Stands with the AAPI Community IZL and Chosei Zen, like the Chozen-ji organization from which we grew, exists because an Asian Zen master and an Asian American were committed…
Don’t tell me to be patient!
Don’t tell me to be patient!
Don’t Tell Me To Be Patient! Bob Caron ruminates on the difficulties of patience – March 2021 Bl [Image: Blades and Droplets, Kristi Crymes] In essence, patience is the ability…