Thank you for choose to step on to the mat for the first time. The Pocket Dojō is a place where we build our capacity and capabilities to lead ourselves and each other.
Whilst most would agree that by most measures there is a disconnect between what is taught about leadership and how it is actually applied. Set against that are exemplars of how leadership practice has successfully evolved to achieve a new standards and apply new approaches.
In this podcast our intention is to share what these individuals and collectives have learned and how they apply this in their day to day lives. We'll bring you interviews, panel discussions and tools that help you develop your own individual and collective practices.
In addition, we'd like to invite you to help shape the conversation. You can ask us a question by leaving us a voice message and we'll answer it in next episode.
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Hello, everyone. My name is Paul Crick from the Elevate Partnership. And I'm a co host of the pocket Dojo podcast.
Asha Singh 0:23
And I'm Asha Singh from Learning Through Doing, I'm your other co-host.
Asha Singh 0:27
Welcome to the pocket Dojo podcast. This is a place where we will be talking about how to turn the what of leadership into the how of leadership. So we'll be talking about the practices of how to make leadership more effective, and how to make that practice accessible to others.
Paul Crick 0:48
So in this podcast, we're going to be exploring how we can do this better. We'll be interviewing leaders, sharing their stories together with tools and techniques that you can take away at the end of each episode, and hopefully, apply into your practice.
Asha Singh 1:06
So Paul, and I met a little over a year ago at a leadership circle event in Germany actually feels like quite a lot longer, doesn't it? Paul does, yes. So leadership circle is a system of leadership practice that both Paul and I have become interested in along the way. And at this event, Paul ran a really interesting workshop, where we had an exchange of what felt like masculine and feminine energy that got us really curious about how we might what we might do with that exchange. In
Paul Crick 1:39
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Asha Singh 2:09
We're also really excited to co host our first renewal retreat for women who lead together at the fantastic Broughton sanctuary in Yorkshire in the UK, in April of next year, we feel really blessed to be able to invite a small cohort of senior women leaders who are passionate about reconnecting with renewing and rediscovering their own personal power, so that they are well equipped to transform whatever they see around them.
Paul Crick 2:37
So we've just come back from being at Broughton together for the first time. And it was absolutely fantastic. It was very wet out. Because Storm Babet had just hit the UK. On the first day, it was very wild, wet and windy. And we were soaked as we walked around filming various
things. But we had a great time. Because on the second day, things got better. And it was it was just fantastic to be up there because we met a whole host of wonderful people. And every time you spoke to them, they all articulated the same message. And it reminds me of a story. When President Kennedy set up the first mission to the moon. The story goes that he visited NASA. And when he did so he met one of the people in the in the area where the rockets were being built. And he said hello to this person. And this person was mopping the floor. And he asked him what he was doing. And he said, I'm sending a man to the moon. And when we were abroad, and it felt like that story, it felt that whoever you spoke to, they talked about renewing our connection with nature and restoring the land and the practices of looking after the land, including all of modernity, but also rewilding and moving back to some of the old practices so that we find our place in nature, which we seem to have lost for now. What was your experience of that Asha?
Asha Singh 4:09
That’s a great story, Paul, about putting a man on the moon while you casino floor. I love that. Yeah, I think for me, really, it was about the energy and the essence of the place. So I was just recovering from about flu. But I felt really energised by all the different spaces that we move through and quite a lot of them that we saw, you know, in those two days that we were there. And I felt, you know, it really felt also to me, like all of those spaces have been designed intentionally for different purposes and were being used for those. So I just felt amazing kind of moving through all of those. And the second thing that I came away with pool really was a sense of endless possibility. So so much of the world is in in dire need of regeneration today, but I came away with this real kind of felt sense in my body that Broughton was the start of all kinds of new things, not just the train, and that anything is possible. And that feels really important today.
Paul Crick 5:05
So in the coming weeks, we're going to be talking about the topics of renewal and regeneration. And perhaps more importantly, we want to give people a taste of why we're doing this retreat, and teach some of the things that we're going to be covering. In each of the sessions. On each of the days there's the retreat itself is three days long. So I think most people would accept that renewal and regeneration are now firmly on certainly personal agendas, and increasingly for organisations. So we think it's a timely topic. We think the venue is a fantastic place to begin to talk about it and share it and actually show it in action.
Asha Singh 5:48
So please join us from Monday the 13th of November at 9am GMT for our first 30 minute episode, where we'll be thinking about some of the challenges that women face as leaders today, and how our work has helped them to address those. You can then find us every other Monday at the same time always 30 minutes on your favourite podcast channel, including YouTube will then also be writing at substack about each episode. You can find Paul at the pocket dojo and myself at learning through doing as well as on social media. Thanks for watching. See you then.
