Who are you being invited to become in these times?
What's holding you back?
Our times require us to grow in our leadership to be fit to face the complex challenges before us.
Join other leaders, coaches, learners in deep transformational (and at times playful) learning in this 4-session (+) course
Join us this October and beyond for our multi-session course
Unlocking Your Potential: the Immunity to Change™ approach
facilitated by David Westerlund
Founder of Be Present Discover Joy
Consulting and Coaching
This course will be highly-interactive, taking time to build a robust learning container to enable us to dive into the Immunity to Change ™ (ITC) approach. Harvard's Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey have developed ITC over twenty years of research in adult development.
Why is it that even when we are committed to change that matters, we still find ourselves stuck?
We must do the work of inner development. (Even the UN has catalyzed Inner Development Goals to meet the complex challenges of our times.)
The Nike motto falls short. It’s not a matter of Just Doing It. What we need is to grow in our mental complexity. We need to discover our “immunity to change’’ - the hidden dynamics (that we each have a particular version of) - and then explore whether and how it’s still serving us or not.
What results is a new experience of agency and liberation. We can free ourselves from Big Assumptions that have been holding onto us, limiting what’s possible, and shift to expanding the possibilities that are now available to us!
This course is for you
if you want to:
Experience powerful virtual engagement with others that connects, energizes, and inspires.
Learn the Immunity to Change™ approach that will allow you to see the lens you are looking through
Explore whether your Big Assumptions are really as ''always true'' as you think they are
Bring your whole self - vulnerable and imperfect - to the conversations
Register Today!
Limited Super Early Bird spots available until September 9
October cohort - 4 sessions together:
Fridays - 9:30am-noon (US-Pacific)
Friday, Oct 7
Session 1: Building our Learning Container and
Setting Your Improvement Goal
Friday, Oct 14 (NEW added session!)
Session 2: Playing our way to Imagining a Different Future
Friday, Oct 21
Session 3: Creating Your Personalized Immunity Map and
Designing Tests of Your Big Assumption
Friday, Oct 28
Session 4: Integrating Your Learning and
Setting Intentions for Possibility
My aim is not to have you learn something
interesting and then forget about it.
I want to support you by giving you some containers for integration.
For Super Early Bird course registrants, the following are included in your cost:
- one 30-min 1:1 coaching session with me
- join a peer trio for 12 weeks after Session 4
to integrate your learning, as you test your
Big Assumptions and find freedom!
Each week meet for only 20 minutes!
- 90-min closing session with everyone
on Friday, January 27, 2023
Course Cost: $600 US
Super Early Bird
until Sept 9 midnight US-Pacific time : $350 US
Your Facilitator
David designs and facilitates virtual, real-time, workshops, courses, and retreats that amplify engagement to unlock hidden resources within individuals and organizations.
David Westerlund
David delights in listening to the aspirations of leaders and helping them unlock hidden resources by facilitating meaningful engagement. This unleashes innovation, and leads to resilient, supportive, joyful, and agile workplace cultures that allow organizations to have greater momentum and impact towards their mission. His work as a consultant, facilitator, and coach is informed by the philosophy and practice of Liberating Structures and Applied Improvisation, both of which remind us that there is a lot of wisdom in the room, and amplify our ability to tap into that and experience collective synergy.
He believes that in order to solve the complex problems we are facing we must be collaborative and intentionally develop skills of presence, agility, and creativity. His clients include: United Way of King County, PeaceHealth, Roche, Skagit Valley College Foundation, Non-GMO Project, Bastyr University, Catholic Community Services, St. Elizabeth Hospital, and the U.S.Dept. of Agriculture’s Center for Training and Development.