Special Event for MLK Day!
Heart Centered Leadership:
In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Free and discounted tickets for BIPOC attendees)
Derick Carter Leadership Coach | Workplace Well-Being | Cultural Change Agent
Please join us for this special event! We're excited to have Derick join us for this timely workshop, and are offering free and discounted tickets for BIPOC!
In today’s changing world, many people are longing for workplaces where they feel valued, connected, and able to contribute with meaning. This is calling for a different kind of leadership — one rooted in care, authenticity, and our shared humanity.
Heart-Centered Leadership invites us to reconnect with the deeper part of ourselves — our heart — where qualities like peace, calmness, and happiness naturally arise. From this place, we can create environments that strengthen trust, support collaboration, and bring out the best in ourselves and others.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, this session explores what it means to lead from love and from the higher qualities within each of us. Together, we will engage in simple, experiential practices to activate and strengthen the heart, followed by space for reflection and shared insights.
Learning Objectives
A gentle sense of relaxation and ease in the body.
A lived experience of heart-centered well-being
A felt understanding of why Heart-Centered Leadership can unlock new ways of working together.
About Your Facilitator
Derick Carter guides groups, organizations, and communities to discover more collaborative and human ways of working together. He is the founder of Building Togetherness, an initiative dedicated to supporting leaders and teams in creating cultures rooted in well-being, connection, and shared purpose.
With a background that bridges organizational design, process improvement, and leadership development, Derick has guided transformation efforts across nonprofits, communities, and businesses. He currently serves on the board of the Heart Based Institute, a nonprofit advancing heart-centered approaches to well-being.
Derick’s work integrates practical tools with a deep commitment to the heart, helping leaders access empathy, care, and courage to lead in ways that are authentic and elevate trust.
4:45 - 5:00 pm Join Zoom Meeting
5:00- 7:00 pm Training
Please be aware that our trainings could be recorded or photographed.
-- Lunchtime meeting! --
What do you do when you’re facilitating a meeting and the client or the group springs something unexpected on you?
Has your client ever changed the agenda in mid-course? How do you handle that?
So many of us have had this experience – it’s part of being a facilitator! We need to hone our skills to be prepared – to not freak out, to stay centered and to respond with poise.
In this unique program, we will hear a few scenarios from the presenters, up to the “cliffhanging” moment. Then, we’ll break into groups and discuss what we would do in their shoes, and how our background and experience influence our choice of interventions. Then we’ll hear what really happened and what the presenters learned from the situation – as well as what lessons we can take away from their experience. Thank goodness it was them and not us! (smile)
Here are some participants’ takeaways from previous programs:
It is incredibly valuable to have people reflect on the things they notice about "their" responses--with no sense of rightness--and hear from others.
I realized the option to stand back for a moment before reacting, and trying to fix something that may not need fixing.
The format and structure was quite conducive to shared learning.
Another amazing evening. Thank you so much for your skill at creating the container for this lovely group of facilitators to learn from each other.
Learn from other consultants and facilitators how to deal with unexpected changes
Gain insight into your reflexive reactions and surface your assumptions about “appropriate” reactions
Learn from each other some strategies for staying present in the midst of confusion.
Audience
Anyone who consults with clients, teams or groups will benefit from participating.
About your Facilitator: Abby Yanow has been an Executive Coach and an Organizational Development consultant for 20 years. She has coached physician leaders and nurse managers, as well as managers and executive directors in non-profit, education and state government - working with them on interpersonal skills, leading change and increasing their influence. Abby also helps leadership teams increase their capability to engage in difficult conversations. Abby is the President of the Boston Facilitators Roundtable, which is a professional association of 300+ OD consultants and coaches.
11:45 - 12:00 pm: Join Zoom Meeting
12:00 - 1:30 pm: Training
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