The Foundational Presence Walkabout is specifically designed as a weeklong guided retreat and deep dive into regenerative powers of Place and reflective, dialogic, and authentic leadership practices.
"Never have I been in a session where I was given time to really think...sit and think...walk and think... smell the fire and think... listen to the river and think. This was truly a one of a kind ...chance in a lifetime learning event." - N. Moss, DTE
MY PROMISE
If at the end of the walkabout, you feel you have not received value,
I will refund your fee minus fixed costs.
This program is not a “quickie” or “executive briefing”: it is an revitalizing immersion, an opportunity to let go, settle into your rhythms and reconnect with what is vital to you. I provide the structure and process for this in-depth awareness, skill building and integration experience. You bring yourself and whatever you would like to explore during this precious time you are giving yourself.. Each walkabout program is grounded in a time-proven framework and also brings in unique components based on current participants.
"I connected to my strengths and my challenges and learned, as never before, that heart-driven well-guided groups are a terrifically important frontier in the equation of fostering presence and tending to the core issues facing us and our many cultures." - Robert Corman
You will experience:
- Places that offer unique and transforming experiences in Northern New Mexico
- Leadership and presence practices from many time honored traditions that have sustained and inspired people over thousands of years
- Specific activities I use to explore and integrate body, mind, and spirit in my work with individuals and groups
- The group as resource for your own clarity and generation of possibilities
Your takeaways: In addition to those listed for all the walkabout programs, you will:
- Rediscover your personal rhthyms of rest, inspiration, creative work and play
- Have a new level of clarity around the question you brought and at least one elegant next step
- Possess new skills for connecting with your inner knowing and regenerating personal resilience and presence regardless of circumstance
"What feels resonant in me is the magic of the deep deep power of listening. And boy can that be challenging!" - Paul Cello
Below is a comprehensive description of the Foundational Presence Walkabout with internal links for convenience. My hope is that these additional words will help paint a picture and provide you a feel for the experience that is difficult to convey in the 'bullet points" above. For questions please contact me.
Introduction
The Walkabout
Program Outline
Sample Inquiries from Past Walkabouts
Logistics, Travel & Lodging
Registration
Your Guide
Words from Past Participants
INTRODUCTION: A WATERING PLACE...
The Presence Walkabout is a time to experience the power of Place and Presence and hone your capacity to be fully present, to self-regenerate, to listen more deeply, to gain new perspective and become a more effective leader in both your work and your personal life.
In all journeys there are times of deep exploration and quickening, rest and renewal. In the Foundational Presence Walkabout these interweave and catalyze each other. This is a time and space to come to rest within the rapid and complex pace of daily life. To breathe deep. To walk upon and with the Land. To be enfolded by silence. To listen for the voice of wisdom, essence and purpose. It is a time of reconnecting with the flows of personal rhythms. Of coming to center, renewal and discovery. This week is a time to re-member and re-enliven your connection with Purpose, Passion and Spirit.
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THE WALKABOUT
Walkabout is a word used to describe a journey that was first studied among the Aborigine of Australia. The journey is undertaken to a 'belonging place' to renew relationship with the principles that guide one in this lifetime. A group or an individual may go on a walkabout. It can be a walk to where they originated; where the particular "songline" that is their legacy traverses the Earth. The "songlines" are an aborigine tradition of co-creative partnership with the Land. On a walkabout, the portals that open and the insights that emerge are congruent with the journey of each individual and/or group.
Presence Walkabouts are designed in the spirit of partnering with the Land to regenerate and deepen listening and discernment individually and collectively. You will have the opportunity to visit many different landscapes, both inner and outer. You will discover your unique relationships to these landscapes and the depth and aliveness that being fully present to them can bring to your work and your life.
Some of the features of the inner and outer territories we will "walkabout in" may seem familiar to you. Yet, you will experience them in new ways as you engage places and activities through this ancient and powerful form. You will experience how the natural world can be both container and active facilitator of learning. You will feel Silence come alive within you and change your listening and ways of knowing. You will be drawn deeper into your own capacities and belonging by the call and response of your own natural rhythms. You will learn directly what it means to embody dialogic inquiry and Presence.
The Land in all its many architectures and seasons is a powerful learning partner, teaching us the essence and power of Place. As we embody the gifts of grounded equanimity and deep listening that the Land offers, our work is deepened and changed. Our invitations to others to stretch, explore, and step forward more authentically, become more resonant and powerful attractors.
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PROGRAM OUTLINE*
*will vary slightly in the Fall
For Current Dates Visit CALENDAR
First Evening - Theme: Entering with Intention
Day One - Themes: Silence, Stillness, The Role of Reflection, Belonging & Safety
Day Two - Theme: Paradox & Perspective - Dialogue, Inquiry & Reflection
Day Three - Theme: Water as Metaphor - Leadership - The Role of Play
Day Four - Theme: Expansiveness & Discovery - Your Place in the Whole - Integration
Day Five - Theme: Closing and Bridging
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LOGISTICS, TRAVEL & LODGING
Each group is limited to 15 people. We meet in one of the most beautiful international destinations: New Mexico. Our opening and closing council fires as well as our day to day dialogue circles convene at Paseo del Ojo, midway between Santa Fe and Taos. The land here is known for its beauty and power, the depth of its silence and its expansiveness. Our time on the land will be a primary thread in our work together. Each of the seasons brings us its unique and rich questions and alchemical energies.
Arrival and departure dates and times vary with the seasons and years. CALENDAR
Click the links below to download pdfs with helpful information.
Download Travel and Lodging
Download Restaurants
Download What to Bring to Your Walkabout
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REGISTRATION
There are two steps to the registration process.
1) Contact me. I would like to hear about what draws you to this experience and answer any questions you may have.
2) If you choose to join us, I will ask you for a non-refundable deposit of $150 as a symbol of your commitment.
FEES:**
Full: $925/person
Early Registration: $850 paid in full 60 days before the first day of the walkabout.
The balance of your registration is due 45 days prior to the first day of the walkabout.
Cancellations: Between 45 and 30 days before the program start date I will refund your fee minus the $150 deposit. Within 30 days of the program start I will refund 50% of your fee minus the $150 deposit
**I do not want anyone to not be able to join a walkabout because of financial considerations. Iif you feel strongly that the experience is important for you at this time please set up a time to talk with me.
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YOUR GUIDE
To read my bio and a brief history of walkabout in my life and work please visit ABOUT ME/US.
UNABRIDGED WORDS FROM PAST WALKABOUT PARTICIPANTS
What Glenna created was the environment where the aspirations and quests of strong and distinct individuals became clearer as one's sense of self sharpened. I connected to my strengths and my challenges and learned, as never before, that heart-driven well-guided groups are a terrifically important frontier in the equation of fostering presence and tending to the core issues facing us and our many cultures.
- Robert Corman
It was like no other retreat, training or workshop I have done. I came with little expectation and I was very surprised, and pleased, with the quality of relationship that was borne out of our shared commitment to show up. The places in nature were very special and contributed to the field we created which I can only describe as spiritual intimacy. It felt like a true circle of the heart.
Thank you, Glenna, for your skill in creating a safe, sacred container and in weaving our circle, and thank you for your wonderful heart that was always present and very much open. I know this allowed us to listen in another way, with the ears of our own hearts, to the other voices of our selves speaking. What a remarkable group of people you attracted!
- Ken Robinson
What has really left an impression are two concepts...the unfolding of Purpose and the sense of one's Place. This has deeper levels of meaning for me than what the words may imply. The Walkabout fosters this important aspect of recognizing a need to be in relationship to the Earth and the land.
This form of relationship building....consciously engaged...being in the body and being on the land...seems to me to be connected to some larger purpose of which I feel a small part... a new way of knowing unlike what we have been living since the age of reason.
– Lorna Dwyer
What feels resonant in me is the magic of the deep deep power of listening. And boy can that be challenging!
Our ability to help groups come together in a way that allows for the transformation of the way that they think together, feel together and create new possibility together will rest, in part, with our own ability to create a container for the kind of deep listening that heals and elevates mind, heart and action.
After our week together, I feel refreshed and renewed and grounded in a richer way of Being with others. I thank you all for helping me see the possibilities in myself and others.
– Paul Cello
Never have I been in a "training" session where I was given time to really think...sit and think...walk and think... smell the fire and think... listen to the river and think. This was truly a one of a kind ...chance in a lifetime learning event. I am grateful for Glenna Gerard's wisdom and capacity to create this container of spirit filled learning and sharing.
-Nikki Moss
"Compounded interest"... an image that comes as I sense the energy from the summer Walkabout and sense into the convening of the fall group. It is an image of a sacred field... growing in some exponential way as we hold one another in our prayers and meditations, in our hearts and bellies and minds ... an antidote to the hurricanes; a healing force ...
- Becky Winslow
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