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Transformational Leadership Development

Social change is difficult work over the long haul that requires powerful leaders. Through participation in Rockwood Institute’s Art of Leadership and Learn more

Finding Your Purpose: Tool for Transformational Leadership Development

Transformational Leadership–critical for real, lasting social transformation–is when a leader has cultivated the inner awareness to powerfully lead with her full potential. Learn more

Grace Lee Boggs Fireside Chat – Convening 1 Clip 2

Grace Lee Boggs answers: What is the most personally transformative experience you've had as a movement activist? Learn more

Grace Lee Boggs Fireside Chat – Convening 1 Clip 5

Grace Lee Boggs answers: What is leadership and what does it mean to you? Learn more

Gloria Steinem & Salamishah Tillet Fireside Chat, Clip 2

Gloria Steinem and Salamishah Tillet share their transformative experiences as movement activists. Learn more

Intergenerational Movement Building in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

Parts 2 and 3 of the Practicing Liberation at Home During Covid-19 are here! Regardless of whether your children are going to Learn more

Holding Simultaneity and Exploring Language Justice

The third convening of Cohort 4 Movement Makers took place at the end of October and we are about halfway through this Learn more

Solo Leadership: It’s Time to Change the Story

[Re-posted with permission from Compass Point’s blog.] I have been watching the recent election coverage with a combination of dismay and disillusionment. Learn more

132 Of The Best Questions To Help You Reflect On Your Purpose

Reposted with permission from Rockwood Leadership Institute’s blog. After reading, be sure to check out a NEW downloadable tool that complements this Learn more

Humanity: Video Reflection on Bringing One’s Whole Self to This Work

In this video blog, I share my reflections from my first convening with Move to End Violence. Video Blog: Humanity by Patina Learn more

Weaving Networks of Mutuality and Justice

I recently re-read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” after the verdicts in Ferguson, Missouri and New York, where Learn more

Out With the New Year’s Resolution

Do you engage in the practice of setting New Year’s resolutions? I was struck by this New York Times piece on the Learn more

Practicing for Miracles

There is a quote by Thich Nhat Hanh posted up at the Rockwood offices above the kitchen sink. It reads: To my Learn more

Be The Buffalo. (Part II)

In my previous blog, I introduced the idea of “Adaptive Leadership” as a “practice of mobilizing people to tackle tough challenges and Learn more

Be The Buffalo.

Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it – and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with Learn more

Stress less. Your work is bigger than you.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.We must love each other and support each Learn more

Leadership Takes Practice: How I Remembered to Play Big, Forgot, and Remembered Again

When I participated in the Art of Leadership as a new staff person at Rockwood eight years ago, I crafted a Life Learn more

Finding Our Way: Reconnecting to Purpose

As I watched the Senate vote down the gun control measure last week I found myself thinking a lot about leadership. And, Learn more

Essential Dialogues

Reading over the recent blog entries inspired by the Move to End Violence convening in India, I am in struck by the Learn more

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