Events
From monthly gatherings to special events, here you’ll find easy ways to join our community and get a taste of our training.
Zen Leadership Off the Cushion - ZLOTC
Join us for ZLOTC monthly
Calling all Alumni! You asked for more ways to train together and to enjoy, energize and grow our community. Then you stepped up and made it happen.
These 90-minute online gatherings are led and taught by seasoned IZL community members and instructors. They follow a rhythm we’ve come to love:
Welcome, tea, and brief Zazen (sitting meditation)
Introductions and check in
A teaching on an IZL topic, with innovations, embodiment practices and seed questions for breakout discussions likely
Partner or small group discussions
“Pass the rock,” circle practice or group discussion
Coming attractions and close
The series is offered on a donation basis and meets on the 3rd Wednesday (in even months) or Sunday (in odd months) at 9 am - 10:30 am CT (NEW TIME).
New to us? Contact us and we’ll match you with a host for your first session who can introduce you to the group and answer any questions you have about the flow of activities.
Want a taste? View a ZLOTC session with Rebecca Ryan Roshi on Using Wholeheartedness to Unlock Energy and Creativity.
Up Next at ZLOTC
Maria Kukhareva is a leadership and organisational consultant and coach, based in the UK. Her methodology is influenced by the work of the Zen Leadership Institute, Strozzi Institute and MIT's U-School for Transformation. Maria likes to bring her love of creative practices (art, dance, photography) into her teaching and coaching. Maria is a certified IZL instructor and FEBI coach. Maria is a Director for Leadership Innovation for an organisation called Women-Space. She runs a bespoke programme for women in leadership titled 'Holding Space'. You can connect with Maria on Linkedin.
Flip 8 - From “It’s All About Me” To “I’m All About It” - When Nothing's Certain: Tapping Into Our Visionary Energy Through Play And Dreaming
If we are attuned to the disruptions and uncertainties of the world around us, it may be difficult at times to stay open and connected to the vision of what this world could be, and to all the amazing and magical opportunities that are possible, despite negative events we witness daily.
Tapping into our visionary energy can help with staying expansive in the times when our mind and body want to tense up, shut down and go into survival mode.
I invite the ZLOTC community to explore the intersection between Zen Leadership and the FEBI instrument, improvisation and dreaming.
When we connect to the biggest, boldest vision of what's possible, new solutions and ways of being can emerge, that seemed impossible -or invisible before.
9 am - 10:30 am CT
April 23, 2025
Event Recordings
We need deep resilience that is unshakeable–grounded in love, connection, and our universal nature.
We held this summit in 2024 with 20 expert guides to offer insights, practices and communities to deepen your resilience.
Building the resonance and muscle to address the critical work of our time with heartfelt connectedness
Here’s a taste of our 2023 summit introducing the cycle of “perma leadership” needed to build a regenerative mindset and bring healing to the world.
We brought together more than 50 experts, including Katharine Wilkinson, Bayo Akomolafe, Christiana Figueres, Joan Halifax, Ilarion Merculieff, John Liu, Kosha Joubert, Andres Roberts, Fleet Maull, Jonathon Patz and many more to help people explore the climate crisis, their place in the work, and practices to support them.
From Partner Events
from Rewiring Your Brain Summit with the Heart Mind Institute, 2023
Rewiring the Brain, Freeing the Mind
A rich conversation between Fleet Maull, PhD, co-host of the Rewiring Your Brain Summit, and Ginny Whitelaw Roshi. In it, you’ll learn about resonance, co-regulation, FEBI and much more!
Return to the Mother World: Ancient Feminine Wisdom in Times of Transition, 2023
Return to Your Whole Self
Join the conversation with Emmi Mutale and Ginny Whitelaw as they explore the local vs whole self, death, and how to live in this time of transition.