Join leaders, consultants, and facilitators from around the world who have learned this transformative approach to authentic, purpose-driven leadership.
The Hidden Cost of Superficial Leadership
Every day, leaders focus on quick fixes and surface-level solutions while the root causes of organizational challenges remain unaddressed, leading to repeated problems, disengaged teams, and unsustainable results.
- Disconnection from Self: Leaders who lack genuine contact with their own mind, spirit, heart, and body show up with internal disconnection that others sense, undermining confidence and authentic presence.
- Managing Instead of Leading: Traditional approaches focus on managing and controlling people rather than creating conditions for leadership to emerge throughout the organization, stifling potential and limiting innovation.
- Ignoring the Invisible: Leaders who only attend to visible, explicit aspects miss the implicit threads – psychological contracts, beliefs, energy – that profoundly shape organizational culture and effectiveness.
- Leading Without Wholeness: Reductionist perspectives that see only parts and systems fail to recognize that everything in an organization is interconnected, leading to fragmented solutions that don’t address real challenges.
The cost of superficial leadership isn’t just poor results – it’s the unrealized potential of your people, the erosion of trust, and the creation of life-depleting rather than life-nourishing conditions.
Holistic Leadership Development Creates Authentic, Transformative Leaders
Holistic Leadership Development is a comprehensive approach that develops leaders through emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual growth, enabling them to lead with authenticity, navigate uncertainty, and create conditions for organizational success.
Your Complete Learning Journey
This comprehensive module takes you through 6 phases of learning based on the Evolutionary Spiral, with each phase building upon the previous to ensure deep understanding and prepare you for practical application.
Discernment: Understanding Leadership Context
Establish baseline measurements and develop working definitions of leaders, leadership, leader development, and leadership development. Gain clarity about the context within which leadership takes place using three powerful Genuine Contact tools.
- Complete a baseline measurement tool to assess your current holistic leadership knowledge
- Explore your personal story and motivation for working with holistic leadership
- Understand the difference between leader development and leadership development
- Learn to use the Evolutionary Spiral, Deep Essence Tool, and Operating Matrix to understand leadership context
- Develop awareness of explicit and implicit aspects that shape organizational reality
Readiness: Strengthening How You Show Up
Learn what you need to ensure sufficient readiness in yourself for holistic leadership. Reflect on how you currently show up and how you want to show up. Develop actions toward readiness through the proven practice of the Four-Fold Way.
- Develop genuine contact with your mind, spirit, heart, and body as foundation for authentic leadership
- Understand how people sense your wholeness (or disconnection) in the invisible world of energy
- Practice the Four-Fold Way: show up, tell the truth without blame or judgment, pay attention to what has heart and meaning, be open to outcome
- Develop awareness of your words and their spirit of intent
- Create actions you can take toward readiness for how you show up in holistic leadership
Engagement: Recognizing the Implicit and Leading into the Unknown
Engage with your leadership through activities that provide unique lenses for increasing your capacity. Recognize implicit aspects of organizations and their importance. Consider holistic leadership for navigating the path forward into the unknown.
- Explore the Five Beliefs of Genuine Contact as implicit aspects that shape holistic leadership
- Develop capacity for noticing both visible and invisible aspects of organizations
- Practice noticing in the external world and within yourself to expand awareness
- Understand psychological and social contracts that operate implicitly in organizations
- Learn to lead into the unknown by engaging collective wisdom: “I don’t know what I don’t know”
Construction: Building Your Holistic Leadership Plan
Review all your learning from discernment, readiness, and engagement to construct a plan uniquely yours. Learn six multi-purpose Genuine Contact tools and decide which to use in assisting your organization to understand and support your holistic leadership approach.
- Apply learning to construct a plan from the perspective of senior leader adopting holistic leadership
- Master the Service Delivery Model for clarifying business and development goals
- Use the Storyline tool to capture past, present, and future stories
- Work with Givens to create clear expectation zones that liberate rather than restrict
- Apply the Grief Cycle to honor where people are and create appropriate timing for change
- Understand Life Nourishing and Life Depleting Climates and how leader behaviors create them
- Work with the Medicine Wheel Tool to explore purpose, leadership, vision, community, management, relationships, circle of the whole, and environment
Implementation: Bringing Your Plan to Life
Pause and reflect on your growth and development before implementing your plan. Receive feedback and mentoring while walking through your implementation using imagination and then applying it in reality.
- Reflect on whether you feel strengthened in leading with authenticity, resilience, and empathy
- Assess alignment of your mind, heart, and actions
- Walk through implementation of your plan with feedback from others
- Create visual representation of implementing your holistic leadership approach
- Prepare for actual implementation following completion of the module
Monitoring & Adjustment: Sustaining Your Development
Monitor your progress using baseline measures and adjust either how you’re implementing your plan or the plan itself. Develop regular reflection practices and join mentoring circles for ongoing support in your holistic leadership journey.
- Use pause and reflection as a way to monitor and adjust your development
- Examine and adjust the standards you set for yourself in your leadership
- Measure learning progress against baseline to track development
- Create a development checklist to keep yourself on track
- Access ongoing mentoring circles to discuss learning and arising questions
Your Investment in Authentic Leadership
Who This Serves
This workshop is for anyone who:
- Is ready to deepen their leadership capacity, whether in a formal leadership role, aspiring to one, or leading their own life and work
- Wants to align their mind, heart, and actions to lead with greater authenticity and purpose
- Feels the challenge of leading through uncertainty and constant change
- Seeks to foster belonging, trust, and collaboration within teams or communities
- Recognizes that sustainable leadership requires attention to emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual dimensions
- Is committed to creating life-nourishing conditions rather than relying on quick fixes or surface solutions
- Wants practical frameworks and tools for navigating complexity while staying true to core values
- Values learning in a small group where diverse perspectives deepen the experience
You don’t need to be in a formal leadership position to benefit from this workshop. If you’re taking leadership in any aspect of your life – whether in an organization, a community, or your own personal development – this module equips you with the capacity to lead with resilience, empathy, and authenticity in dynamic environments.
Your Facilitators
Upcoming Workshop Details
🗓️ Dates: January 5-10, 2026
⌚ Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time (check local time zone)
💻 Format: Live online via Zoom
🤓 Pre-Work: Approximately 12-13 hours of self-study (videos and readings)
💳 Investment:
- Early Bird: $1,197 USD (register by December 19, 2025)
- Regular: $1,497 USD (after December 19)
- Genuine Contact Organization members receive 10% off both rates
All pre-work and workshop materials remain available for one year after the workshop concludes.
Ready to Begin?
It’s time to strengthen your leadership and lead from the wholeness and authentic presence your people need from you.
The early bird rate is available until December 19. If you’re seeking to create life-nourishing conditions rather than merely managing problems, or if you recognize that holistic leadership development will transform how you show up, this is your invitation.
Registration is limited to 20 participants to ensure everyone receives maximum benefit from the participatory process.
Questions about your registration? Contact us!
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should attend this workshop?
Leaders who want to inspire and drive meaningful change, aspiring leaders transitioning into leadership roles, consultants and coaches supporting leader development, and anyone seeking to foster belonging, navigate complexity, lead with purpose, or reignite passion for leadership. Perfect for those wanting to create environments where diversity, equity, and inclusion are prioritized and innovation flourishes alongside core values.
Do I need prior experience with holistic approaches or Genuine Contact to attend?
No prior experience is required. The workshop begins with foundational concepts about holistic leadership and progresses through advanced application. Your willingness to engage in self-reflection and personal development is more important than prior knowledge.
What makes holistic leadership different from traditional leadership development?
Holistic leadership development addresses emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual growth simultaneously, unlike traditional approaches that focus primarily on intellectual skills and techniques. It delves into root causes rather than offering superficial fixes, develops genuine contact with self as foundation for leading others, and honors both visible and invisible aspects of organizational life. The approach recognizes organizations as living entities requiring leadership that creates life-nourishing conditions.
Will I be able to apply holistic leadership immediately after the workshop?
Yes. You’ll leave with a personal holistic leadership plan, practical tools you can use immediately (Service Delivery Model, Storyline, Givens, Grief Cycle, Life Nourishing/Depleting Climates, Medicine Wheel Tool), increased awareness of how you show up, and ongoing mentoring support. The 6-phase approach ensures you’re prepared not just intellectually but also in your capacity for genuine contact with yourself and others.
What ongoing support is provided?
You’ll have access to regular mentoring circles facilitated by Genuine Contact trainers where you can discuss your experiences applying holistic leadership. You also receive a 1-year complementary membership* to the Genuine Contact Organization where you will find ongoing consultation opportunities and a global network of practitioners committed to holistic, life-nourishing leadership for continued learning and support.
Can teams take this workshop together?
Absolutely. Learning this module with team members has the added benefit of developing the team collectively while each member develops individually. We offer team discounts to support whole teams, leadership groups, and organizational development departments learning together.
What if I cannot attend this virtual workshop? Will it be offered again?
Dalar International Consultancy offers this module periodically. Other GC Trainers may offer this module online or in-person globally. You can also request this module be delivered via 1:1 or small-group mentoring for you or a group of your chosen participants, like a leadership team or consulting partnership. Contact us for details.
*1-year complementary membership available to participants taking their first Genuine Contact learning module only.
Transform How You Lead Forever
In a world that often favors superficial fixes and quick solutions, holistic leadership delves into root causes to uncover meaningful and lasting resolutions. The leaders who create the most sustainable positive impact are those who lead with authenticity, align their mind, heart, and actions, and create life-nourishing conditions for their people.
Don’t let another day pass leading from disconnection or offering surface-level solutions that don’t address what’s really needed.
Join leaders from around the world who have developed holistic leadership capacity and are creating cultures of leadership where everyone’s potential is unleashed and organizations thrive as living, interconnected entities.
Part of the Genuine Contact Way
This module offers a complete set of skills and knowledge that creates value on its own. It’s also part of the Genuine Contact Way – a modular approach designed with intention. You can engage with specific modules to meet particular goals in your work and life. When you’re ready to expand your learning, comprehensive Learning Paths are available, including Simplifying Leadership, Participatory Methods that Get Results, Designing Thriving Organizations, Aligning with Your Genuine Self, and Train the Trainer.
A Global Network of Authorized Trainers
Birgitt Williams and Rachel Bolton are authorized Genuine Contact Trainers. They are part of a global network of professional trainers and facilitators who teach the 19 learning modules included in the Genuine Contact Way of Working – including this one. You’ll find a complete listing of upcoming workshop dates – online and in-person and offered in several languages to suit your learning preferences in the International Genuine Contact Organization’s upcoming events calendar.
