ISD Personal Leadership Workshop

Structure:

Duration: 4-hour sessions (two Saturdays)

Format: Interactive workshop blending teaching, reflection, group dialogue, and applied exercises

Participants: Professionals, managers, teams, and aspiring leaders seeking to cultivate mature, self-aware, and integrated leadership

Facilitation Style: Experiential, psychologically informed, compassionate, and systems-oriented

First Session

January 17th, 2026

Part One: The Inner Landscape of Leadership (2 hours)

Theme: Self-Leadership as Internal Integration

Objectives

Introduce the concept of self-leadership as the ability to lead one’s own mindset, emotions, and behavior with intention

Understand how internal coherence directly impacts leadership capacities

Explore how internal patterns mirror external dynamics within organizations and teams

Activities & Practices

Guided reflection: “How am I currently leading myself?”

Systems-mapping of internal dynamics (e.g., mindset patterns, personality aspects, motivations)

Group dialogue on leadership maturity and “being the adult in the room”

Takeaway Practice

Daily 5-minute self-leadership check-in: noticing what’s guiding your decisions and whether it serves your broader goals

Part Two: The Path to Self-Actualization (2 hours)

January 17th, 2026

Theme: From Self-Observation to Self-Actualization

Objectives

Explore Maslow’s hierarchy as a living developmental process rather than a fixed model

Identify personal growth edges, values, and authentic motivators

Deepen multi-level self-awareness (cognitive, emotional, somatic, and systemic)

Activities & Practices

Self-actualization mapping exercise: “Where am I operating from most often?”

Somatic awareness practice to identify internal signals of alignment and misalignment

Group reflection on the relationship between authenticity, growth, and leadership presence

Takeaway Practice

Self-actualization journal: tracking moments of alignment, vitality, and contraction

Second Session

January 24th, 2026

Part One: Cultivating Strong Internal Boundaries (2 hours)

Theme: Leading Yourself with Empathy, Strength, and Purpose

Objectives

Cultivate empathy toward one’s internal experience while maintaining firm self-leadership

Learn how to set and sustain internal boundaries with unhelpful habits, narratives, and patterns

Reframe leadership as service rather than coercion, control, or over-management

Understand the difference between setting boundaries vs. attempting to control others' behaviors

Activities & Practices

Reflective exercise: compassionate leadership vs. counterproductive internal patterns

Exploration of leading ourselves and others effectively and decisively without force

Group dialogue on leadership maturity, service, and accountability

Takeaway Practice

Self-leadership protocol using three daily questions:

What’s guiding me right now?

What’s actually needed?

What best serves the whole system?

Part Two: Being the Captain — Integration and Application (2 hours)

January 24th, 2026

Theme: Flow, Presence, and Leadership in Action

Objectives

Integrate all prior concepts into a coherent personal leadership framework

Apply self-leadership tools to real-world organizational and relational challenges

Anchor an embodied sense of leadership presence—steady, creative, and responsive

Identify your personal zone of genius and its relationship to flow and meaningful impact

Activities & Practices

“Zone of Genius” collaborative exploration (informed by Gay Hendricks’ framework)

Embodiment exercise: The Captain’s Seat (accessing clarity and flow through posture and breath)

Peer coaching triads: applying self-leadership principles to current leadership challenges

Closing integration exercise: articulating personal leadership commitments

Takeaway Practice

Create a Personal Leadership Charter outlining guiding values, boundaries, strengths, and purpose