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Leading with Courage Circle
A small, facilitated circle for values-driven leaders navigating complexity with clarity, connection, and resilience
This is a complex moment for people leaders.
Across nonprofit, government, higher education—and increasingly corporate environments—leaders are navigating uncertainty, supporting teams through ongoing change, and working to stay grounded in purpose and values. The broader context often feels heavy or unclear.
At the same time, shared reflection, collective wisdom, new tools and frameworks, and thoughtful problem-solving can re-spark a sense of purpose and strategies for resilience—both individually and within our organizations.
This circle is designed to offer that kind of space.
✨Next circle begins in September, 2026✨
Who This is For
This circle is for values-driven leaders who:
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are responsible for supporting people through change and uncertainty
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are balancing organizational demands with care for their teams
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value thoughtful, relational, and values-based leadership
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are looking for connection—not just more content
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want a space to think out loud without needing to have all the answers
Participants come from nonprofit, education, government, and corporate settings, but share a common experience: carrying significant responsibility in complex environments, often without a consistent space to reflect or connect with peers.
About the Circle
The Leading with Courage Circle is a facilitated leadership circle, offered in recurring cohorts, that nurtures:
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clarity in complex moments
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connection across roles, sectors, and experiences
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courage in values-based leadership
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practical strategy through shared reflection
This is not a training or a lecture.
It’s a structured, confidential space for real conversation.
Our Work Together
Structure
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Four live group sessions
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Guided reflection prompts
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Optional community connection space between sessions to promote connection & strategy
Program Overview
Session 1: Naming the Terrain
Leading through uncertainty, rapid change, and moral strain. We’ll explore trauma-aware leadership, supporting team morale, and naming the emotional labor of leadership in this moment.
Session 2: Sharing the Load
Redistributing responsibility for organizational resilience and vitality. Grounding decisions in shared values and building structures that support teams without exhausting leaders.
Session 3: Renewal and Sustainability
Turning toward resilience and renewal. Recognizing burnout, strengthening sustainability practices t through people-centered asset mapping, and reconnecting to meaning in the work.
Closure: Integration & Next Steps
Applying what we’ve learned, considering possibilities for ongoing connections and community building
To support real life and busy schedules:
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Sessions are recorded
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Brief summaries and reflection prompts are shared afterward
What People Are Saying
What past participants loved:
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🌿“Being in community with other leaders navigating similar challenges—and learning from how they’re moving through them”
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🧩“Connecting across roles, sectors, and experiences, with space for real support, growth, and honest challenge”
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💡“Gaining tools and perspectives that shifted my thinking and sparked new ideas within my organization”
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🕐 "Taking an hour in the week to pause, think, reflect, and listen to others' stories. It provides valuable insight into my own work and ways to grow."
"The tools Jodi shared were practical and immediately usable. I could try something for a week and notice a real shift. And what I loved the most was the wonder of connection. Seeing how others experienced their challenges changed the way I saw my own, and that changed how I worked. I came away with new ways to empower my team, and that helped free me from decisions I didn't need to be making alone."
--Lisa Weston, Residence Life Associate Director, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Investment & Benefits
The LWC Circle Package
$425
Includes:
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all facilitated sessions
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preparation and materials
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recordings and follow-up reflections
Employer sponsorship is encouraged.
If cost is a barrier (personally or institutionally), payment plans and a limited number of partial scholarships are available.
What You'll Gain
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A psychologically safe, confidential space (with shared community agreements)
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Practical ideas for leading in morally and politically complex environments
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Peer learning and connection with others carrying similar weight
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Tools to translate insight into sustainable action
The Leading with Courage Framework for Your Team
The Leading With Courage Framework can be applied to staff training to strengthen resilience, promote team integration, and meet our moment of complex organizational change with leveled-up structures and collective courage.
Leading with Courage is an empowerment and resilience framework to support values-driven people navigating complexity with clarity. It offers practical strategies for working and leading in morally and politically complex environments shaped by significant change.
LWC names and works to redistribute the emotional labor carried across an organization, particularly in disrupted sectors such as nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations. It empowers people to ground decisions in shared values while building structures that support one another without exhausting leaders and staff. The framework also strengthens sustainability practices through people-centered asset mapping and reconnecting individuals and teams to the meaning in their work.
Contact Jodi for a customized LWC program for your team or organization.
