Zen Leader 1
NOT GET THROUGH BUT BREAKTHROUGH
How can you use challenges, paradoxes and even your own weaknesses to breakthrough to new possibilities and a boundless sense of self? How can you embody essential wisdom and realize your goals?
Here’s your foundation.
Who is it for?
Leaders at all levels committed to making a positive difference and upleveling their leadership to embody the wisdom of connectedness.
What will you learn?
- How to flip problems to opportunities
- How to release tension and extend energy
- How to reconcile seeming opposites or decide between right and right
- How to center yourself and increase your power using hara
- How to develop your concentration and self-regulation in meditation
- How to work adaptively with the 4 large-scale energy patterns of the nervous system
- How to increase your influence
- How to bring a desired future into the present
- How to apply Zen leadership to a current challenge or opportunity
“I arrived at the Zen Leader training exhausted, depleted, and bordering on depression. A mere two and half days later, after deep nourishment on every level, I left re-energized, restored, and excited about a new vision for my business. In a word: Transformative.”
Amanda Blake
Founder, Embright
How does it work?
Live, cohort-based program offered in two online formats.
Weekend Version
- Starts Thursday evening, runs through the weekend, finishes Sunday at noon CT.
AGENDA OVERVIEW – ZL1 WEEKEND
6-Week Version
- Meets for 6 Saturdays, 2 hours most weeks and a full day in week 5
- Complemented by video content to view on your own time
AGENDA OVERVIEW – ZL1 SERIAL
Original watercolor by award-winning artist, Diane Chencharick, IZL alum
with both versions you get:
- A comprehensive workbook
- Your personal FEBI report
- Practical ways to apply 5 of the “flips” of Zen Leadership to a challenge you’re facing
- Physical practices and somatic experiences for deeper integration
- An introduction to Zen meditation and the Chosei Zen community with the opportunity to continue in Zen training after the program.
choose your Program Fee
When registering, you’ll have the option to select the pricing level that fits your circumstances.
- $240 – Scholarship rate (e.g., student, limited income, international low currency)
- $449 – Supported rate (e.g., part-time or self-employed, non-profit)
- $599 – Regular rate (e.g., full time, government or corporate)
- $749 – Benefactor rate (e.g., able to contribute to support another)
A limited number of fuller scholarships may be available, usually linked with an opportunity to volunteer. We welcome a conversation to discuss how to make your participation possible. Contact us.
Select your program below and register now
Zen Leader 1: May 2025
May 15, 2025 – May 18, 2025
Embody the basic flips of Zen Leadership from transforming problems to realizing a desired future.
Zen Leader 1: September 2025
September 25, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Embody the basic flips of Zen Leadership from transforming problems to realizing a desired future.
“Wonderful to take part in a program that integrates mind and body into 21st century leadership. Simple wisdom for complex times. Can’t wait until the next training!”
Jules Lewis
Founder and Director of Mountain High
“Everything in the training contributed to less duality and more wholeness. Now I experience everything as more whole.”
Bernd Linsenbuehler
Sales Director for GSK
“Zen Leader 1 helped me to clarify a challenge, identify options, understand energies, and get to a commitment and belief in myself to move forward.”
Wendy Luke
President of HR Sage
“The integration of Zen training, concrete strategies to ‘flip’ challenges, and an intentional community led to deep, transformational change.”
Amber Smith
Associate Director of WISCIENCE at University of WI
“The Zen Leader program could not be more pressing or timely. Reconnecting with what we know to be true through this exquisitely balanced experience is transformational. I leave with joy and a renewed sense of purpose.”
Glynnis Rengger
CEO of The Immersion Lab
“This program will open your ‘eyes’ and your energetic senses in a way to jumpstart your leadership in powerful ways!”
Chris Johnson
Q4 Consulting