The Leadership for Sustainability program is designed for diverse leaders across an array of fields and sectors. This practice-based program is rooted in leadership practices that are inspired by the wisdom of nature and challenge forces of domination and oppression.

Intro

At its heart, the Leadership for Sustainability program is dedicated to cultivating a non-extractive, reciprocal, and solidarity-based learning ecosystem rooted in love and relationship. It is grounded in the belief that the changes we create in the world are reflective of the changes and conditions we cultivate in ourselves.

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Master of Professional Studies in Leadership for Sustainability

Offering an innovative blend of remote learning intensives, interactive online courses, and coaching, this two-year distance-learning program is anchored by an incredible network of faculty and professional affiliates.

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This M.P.S program is an invitation to deepen awareness of our social conditioning and to bring rigor, discernment, and accountability to our practice: aligning our actions, responses, and strategies more fully with the values and aspirations for the world we want to create. The program is designed for practitioners from a wide array of fields and sectors who are willing to focus on their own learning and are committed to participating in a learning ecosystem centered around well-being, reciprocity, and relationship.

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A Distinct Approach

Our approach is grounded in the offerings and generosity of our professional affiliates: A network of brilliant practitioners who embody leadership and creative practices rooted in culturally grounded traditions/lineages; ecological and indigenous principles; and multiple ways of knowing.

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Three Central Learning Goals

Leadership inspired by the wisdom of nature. Transforming structures of domination and oppression. Deepening our leadership practices.

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Creating Conditions for all Life to Thrive

The MLS program is committed to creating a relational, reciprocal, and non-extractive learning ecosystem rooted in principles of differentiation, interdependence, self-organization, invitation, permission, and more.

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Leadership for Sustainability Fellowship Program

Our Fellowship program is designed for emerging and experienced leaders to explore leadership practices inspired by the wisdom of nature and that challenge forces of domination and oppression. Elements may be taken for credit or as non-credit professional development opportunities.

Fellowships and Certificates