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| | "So many people today would like to make a greater difference than they are—however little or much they are doing. Some have done deep inner work and have a vision for what they would like to accomplish, but do not have enough knowledge of how leadership, groups, and organizations work to manifest that vision. Others have plenty of real world skills, but have not done the work on themselves that could enable them to persevere or to inspire the trust and cooperation needed to succeed. This program is designed to combine and link transformational personal reflection and awareness with the knowledge and skills required to be an agent of positive change.”
—Carol Pearson, Ph.D.
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New times require new leaders, capable of
bringing increased creativity and depth to their work. In periods of significant social transformation, old paradigms begin to erode, and new ways of being, thinking, and acting spring up everywhere, like new
grass growing in the cracks in a sidewalk. These sprouts may seem small and separate, yet each can be viewed as part of a larger, new creation – perhaps even as a new species of grass, not yet “discovered” because not yet noticed. As new ways of leading and interacting emerge in
diverse places, a collective shift can follow if links are
made between these separate events and insights. This leadership master’s program is designed to spotlight these connections and open windows into ways of thinking and being appropriate for the current interconnected global environment. Its curriculum integrates ancient wisdom, ongoing best-practices, and cutting edge new approaches, revolutionizing how leaders approach their work,
whether with individuals, groups, organizations or
complex networked systems.
 |  Carol S. Pearson, Ph. D, Pacifica Executive Vice
President and Provost and author or co-author of The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By; Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes That Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform our World; Magic At Work: Camelot, Creative Leadership and Everyday Miracles; The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through The Power of Archetypes, and Mapping the Organization Psyche: A Jungian Theory of Organizational Dynamics and Change. |
 In today’s world, leaders cannot just tell people what to do and expect them to do it. Rather they need to inspire people, which means leadership in its very nature requires psychological awareness. Understanding groups and social systems well enough to transform them, while successfully engaging collaborative efforts and limiting unanticipated side effects, necessitates sophisticated psychological knowledge and abilities. It is also imperative that leaders understand unconscious as well as conscious motivations and patterns in order to balance these complex factors. The material in this curriculum emphasizes applications drawing on the theory and practice of depth psychology, and invites those involved, both faculty and students, to bring their whole beings – mind, body, spirit, and soul – to participate together in forging a new paradigm of effective leadership. In this way, this program supports Pacifica’s commitment to tending the soul of the world through engaging and strengthening the soul within leadership, groups, organizations, networks, and coalitions. The Leadership and Organizational Psychology program is designed for people who want to make a positive difference in the world and in doing so understand that, as Gandhi advised, they must be the change they want to see. It prepares students to become, or enhance their effectiveness, as leaders and/or as leadership and organizational development professionals.
Students in the Leadership and Organizational Psychology Program:
• Engage with cutting-edge leadership, group, and organizational theory and research emerging from a variety of schools of thought and communities of practice • Critique, synthesize, integrate and apply learning to real situations • Gain a sophisticated knowledge of how depth and other psychological theories and practices can be applied to developing leaders and other employees, marketing and public relations, employee recruitment and retention, employee engagement, team-building, and organizational development and change efforts • Learn experientially from the practical application of diverse depth psychology approaches in their own development as individuals and as leaders and in the development of others • Utilize the experience of learning in a cohort to build group process and virtual collaboration expertise, using an action research model for gaining insight from group experience • Clarify their own senses of purpose and calling, formulating a leadership or leadership/organization development philosophies and plans for how they will use their new learning and abilities in their professional and civic lives. |
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