What you will learn

A blend of skills and strategies to elevate your capacity to lead

  • How to handle moments of discomfort, stress, and tension by learning the skill of holding steady.

  • Learn how to use mindfulness as a tool to be able to navigate difficult situations and respond thoughtfully with intention.

  • Understand your relationship with conflict, the patterns and habits that may help you and hinder you when conflict arrises.

  • Explore common biases and barriers that often lead to conflict and learn the skills to confidently address and manage it.

  • Enhance your conflict resolution skills by listening and validating, connecting to your purpose, values, and goals, uncover clarity and boundaries, reframe your mindset, and let go.

Why choose this course?

It's not what you will get out of the program, but who you will become once you complete it.

Our approach to leadership development is both unique and transformational. We designed an engaging experience where you will learn how to effectively hold steady, and the art of conflict management. We work 'below the neck' invite you to do activities and exercises that allow your hearts and intuitions to compliment the cognitive side of the work.
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A FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE

As a fully online, self-paced course, you have the freedom to work and learn at a cadence that fits with the demands of your lifestyle. You have lifetime access to the course, so you can always come back to revisit what you have learned.

Are you ready to grow personally and professionally and develop your capacity to hold steady and resolve conflict? The program begins whenever you are ready!
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Who Is This Course For?

  • Emerging Leaders & Managers

    Who are new to their role and need to better understand the common biases and barriers that often lead to conflict.

  • Experienced Leaders & Managers

    Who want to learn the skills to be able to hold steady when conflict arrises to confidently address and manage it effectively.

  • Teachers & Sport Coaches

    Who are working with a group toward a common goal and want to enhance their conflict management skills to create a more connected culture in their classrooms and on their teams.

Program Faculty

Lorri Sulpizio

Dr. Sulpizio is the Director of the Conscious Leadership Academy at the University of San Diego and an internationally recognized leadership expert. She has taught leadership courses for the United Nations, for business schools in Russia, and collaborated with a global leaders' fellowship, training women leaders from all over the world. Dr. Sulpizio has consulted to organizations in France and Italy, as well as across all sectors in the United States. An expert in women's leadership, Dr. Sulpizio works closely with Harvard Kennedy School's Adaptive Leadership Network. She is a BCC certified leadership coach and a certified Dare To Lead™ facilitator, based on the research of Brené Brown. A former college basketball coach, Dr. Sulpizio challenges her students to push themselves to their own next level and develop capacities to the fullest.

Bonus material

In addition to the content and course materials, you will enjoy access to:

  • Resources

    A full syllabus of books, articles, and videos to expand your thinking, expose you to innovative leadership ideas, and give you a foundation for effective leadership action.

  • Lifetime Access

    Lifetime access to the Holding Steady: The Art of Conflict Management course. Come back anytime to refresh your connection to what matters most. As our lives change, so does what matters...stay connected to yourself and a life well-lived.

  • A Community You Can Rely On

    Doing this kind of work is difficult to do alone. We need a community of support to help keep us accountable and provide feedback. We are your tribe. You get access to our private Conscious Leading Facebook Group, a resource of authentic and courageous leaders

FAQ

  • How much extra work is assigned and required?

    This is a high-level course and there are a lot of valuable resources included. We want you to have a strong blend of theory and practice, and we know that people learn in many different ways, so there are videos, podcasts, and readings on a variety of related leadership and management topics. We also believe in reflection, so you know we will have journal prompts and reflection questions throughout the program. That being said, this program is yours to make of it what YOU need. You might spend as little as 1 hour a week or as much as 5 hours.

  • Who are the faculty?

    The program faculty is one of the best parts of Holding Steady: The Art of Conflict Management. They have advanced degrees in leadership, special training in adult learning, and expertise in women and gender, mindfulness, groups and teams, equity, and inclusion. This group is diverse and fun! They are highly sought out coaches and leadership trainers and work all over the world. You are definitely learning from the best!

  • I'd like to further my development with leadership coaching. How can I get started?

    Yes to this! We SO believe in coaching. The best athletes have a coach, which helps them continue to be their best! We have an amazing team of coaches, and we will spend time with you creating a strong connection between you and your potential coach. Contact us at [email protected]

  • I'd like to do this work with my team or organization. Is that possible?

    Doing this work as a team is a great way to build up your community of women leaders and provide the support they need to succeed. Quality personal development is also a big step toward cohesion, productivity, and accountability. We love doing this work with groups and teams. Contact us at [email protected]

  • Where can I get more of this kind of work?

    We are glad you asked! We have a series of online learning options that include individual workshops as well as longer programs. We host a monthly book club, have a youth and teen leadership program, and do customized work with organizations. And, we're on social media. Check out the CLA webpage at www.usdcla.org and join the newsletter for the strategies and ideas as well as the latest updates in our programs.

Course curriculum

    1. Course Companion Guide

    2. Readings & Resources

    3. Introduction to the Course

    1. 1.0 What is Holding Steady?

    2. 1.1 Mindfulness as a Tool

    1. 2.0 Your Relationship With Conflict

    2. 2.1 Understanding Conflict

    1. 3.0 Introduction

    2. 3.1 Listening & Validating

    3. 3.2 Connect to Purpose, Values, & Goals

    4. 3.3 Clarity & Boundaries

    5. 3.4 Reframing

    6. 3.5 Your Mindset & Letting Go

    1. 4.0 A Conflict Resolution Process

About this course

  • $189.00
  • 14 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

At the Conscious Leadership Academy, we specialize in creating an environment where leaders can be both challenged and supported in order to transform. Lead faculty are advanced academic practitioners with extensive experience in both theory and application. We use an integrative approach to learning and development. We are committed to your leadership journey.

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What to expect

  • A processing space

    Driven by conversation and dialogue, you will explore who you are and how you lead with the time to pause, consider, and reflect.

  • A learning space

    We join together to share information and new ideas as we dive into the discomfort of pushing ourselves to grow and evolve.

  • A practice space

    Push yourself to engage, interact and explore new ways of doing things. Take risks. Lean in. Reflect on your experience. Raise your capacity.

Pricing options

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Reimagine Leadership

Our organizations and our world need a new way of leading.

The challenges we face seem to have risen exponentially. Between the ongoing impact of the pandemic, the social and political tensions, and people's overall disengagement, leaders need a new way to operate. This course puts you on the path to be a leader of the future-- the kind of leader your team can rely on. You will lean into skills such as reflection, curiosity, and develop your own grounded confidence to connect with your people and make an impact in your world.
THE TIME IS NOW. BEGIN THE JOURNEY.

About the CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

Transforming the way you live and lead

Housed in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, The CLA brings an innovative approach to leadership development and training. We know leadership is not just a position, leadership is a practice. At The CLA, we believe that leadership can be taught and that people learn best by doing. We help people become transformative and conscious leaders who lead by example and inspire others to do the same. We have committed ourselves to creating programs that help people shift ways of being and doing in order to be more effective in their roles. Our goal in this work is to create spaces where everyone feels like they can show up as their true self, feel valued, and make an impact. We value and prioritize leading with equity and creating cultures of belonging. We want to build leaders who create positive disruptions in order to better their own lives and the organizations they work in.