Dates for Next Year's EQ-HR Seminar at LPTS

2010 Emotional Intelligence and Human Relations Lab (LPTS Photo)

SAVE THE DATE FOR NEXT YEAR!
Louisville Seminary's Emotional Intelligence and Human Relations Seminar
August 23-27.



Among this year's participants pictured above were ten master's level students, four Doctor of Ministry Students and ten ministers/church leaders taking the seminar as a Lifelong Learning experience.  Many of them told us what a transforming experience it was.  Rev. Steve Huston from New York said: "I'm thankful that I was able to spend a week with you at the EQ-HR workshop in Louisville." 

We've heard from others who could not make it this year but are looking forward to next year.  Thus we're announcing the date far in advance.

Tuition is not finalized for next year.  This year it was $775 for Lifelong Learning participants. 

Go to the website for the EQ-HR Center for more information:  eqhrcenter.org/

Call me for more information:  800-264-1839, ext 372.

We'll open registration next April.

David

Six Places Still Open for Emotional Intelligence Lab

Roy Oswald and I invite you to register now for this summer's best leadership development opportunity anywhere. The EQ-HR workshop is an experiential laboratory for improving your emotional intelligence in a safe and supportive small group environment.

The cost is $775, which includes access to the BarOn 360 degree survey on emotional intelligence which you will use confidentially to set your own learning goals around the four areas of emotional intelligence as described by Daniel Goleman.

Most of the time of the workshop is spent in small unstructured groups of about ten with two experienced and wise group facilitators in each group.

See the Louisville Seminary Website, click on the button at the bottom of the Home Page that looks like the banner above, for more information and a link to register online:

http://www.lpts.edu/.

Call me if you want more information. 502-992-9372.

David

Emotional Intelligence Laboratory This Summer!

Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
UPCOMING LIFELONG LEARNING EVENT

Emotional Intelligence and Human Relations Laboratory
July 21 to 25, 2008

Course Description: This is an intensive and highly experiential one-week course, with the major amount of time being spent in a small groups of 10 to 14 people with two experienced trainers in each group. As group life unfolds, participants are offered feedback on the impact they have on others in the group. Participants will learn both inter-personal and Intra-group communication skills. The content of the course will focus on the four areas of emotional intelligence as keys to improving leadership effectiveness for church leaders.

Faculty: Roy M. Oswald, Center for Emotional Intelligence and Human Relations Skills,
Retired Senior Consultant with Alban Institute
David R. Sawyer, Professor of Ministry and Director of Lifelong Learning, Louisville
Seminary.
Adjunct Trainers to be named

Cost: For Lifelong Learning:
Tuition: $620.00
Food and Lodging: $490.00
The tuition fee include a survey on Emotional Intelligence: $160
This survey involves a 360 degree EQ evaluation of each participant
provided by up to 20 people related to this individual.
For Academic Credit (3 hours)
Tuition: $930
Food and Lodging, $490.00

For more information contact:
Dr. David Sawyer: Director of Lifelong Learning, Louisville Seminary
dsawyer@lpts.edu
800-264-1839 ext 372
Dr. Carol Webb, Lifelong Learning Assistant, Louisville Seminary
cwebb@lpts.edu
800-264-1839 ext 429
Roy M. Oswald, Executive Director Center for EQ-HR
roymoswald@aol.com
301 432 2616

What's Wrong with the "Vision" Thing?

For many years I followed the advice of many of my mentors, notably Ed Friedman, who recommended that a mature leader was to stay in good relationship with members of the system while taking clearly defined positions (Generation to Generation, p. 229). He taught that the eyes are located in the head for a very good evolutionary purpose--so that the head could lead the rest of the body with clear vision. So visionary leadership became one of my guiding principles. After several hard knocks in leadership, I now see a flaw in that logic. Friedman, a man of the mid 20th century, took a patriarchal, individualistic perspective on congregational leadership. Almost with an "of course," it was assumed that the rational, intellectual (socialized male) approach was the correct one.

Now there's new mind research that indicates vision is not so much individual as communal. Writers like Daniel Goleman (Primal Leadership, Harvard Business School Press, 2002), and Joseph Bragdon (Profit for Life: How Capitalism Excels, Society for Organizational Learning, 2006) note that we see not only with our eyes and our higher brain, but also we pick up key information on the emotions and insights of others through deeper brain paths. The true locus of leadership, they argue, is not the eyes but the heart.

That suggests to me that leadership is a communal activity, best carried out in concert with as many members of the congregation as possible. It's not my vision, but our vision that counts. In a flat world, with open sourcing as an important variable, leadership in the Wikepedia model is more likely to succeed in the 21st century than leadership on the model of the elite academy.

Maybe the task of the leader, as Harrison Owen suggested years ago (Riding the Tiger, Abbot, 1991), is to "keep the sytem open" for full and rich and complex participation of all the resources at hand.

What do you think leadership is?