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Shadow Work and the Developmental Journey

Thursday, 15 August 2024

12pm - 1.15pm AEST
2pm - 3.15pm NZST
10am - 11.15am HKT/SGT/CST
11am - 12.15pm JST

“The bottom of the profile was designed to provide insight into shadow”  P.275 Mastering Leadership, Bob Anderson and Bill Adams 2016.

Shadow work has long been recognised as a critical facet of human development and essential to master if a leader is to be anchored at stages of development beyond the Reactive /Socialised. Many coaches have heard of the human shadow and shadow work but are unsure how to apply it themselves and/or navigate through it when working with clients. Play Contemporary Leadership CoLab’s (Play CoLab) eight-year practice is deeply rooted in shadow work and its integration with the Leadership Circle Profile 360. This session has been designed to help coaches explore the concept of shadow and its relevance to themselves and the clients they serve. The intention is to help coaches become more knowledgeable and therefore more comfortable with the concept of shadow in order to deepen the effectiveness of their leadership coaching practice.

Play Contemporary Leadership CoLab (Play CoLab) is a leadership research, development and consultancy practice based in New Zealand. It mainly works with executive teams in organisations undergoing large-scale transformation. It also offers public courses to make this work available for executives across sectors including a self-directed online programme entitled Shadow Work Made Simple. 

Facilitators

Jenny Devine MA Consciousness Studies, BA Social Sciences

Jenny’s life work is about the conscious awakening, growth and development of leaders. She considers herself to be an evolutionary – one of many globally – deeply curious about how we evolve to be a more enduring and mature species that is better able to care for each other, our planet and our collective future. Jenny’s background includes holding a number of operational leadership positions in the New Zealand public health sector as well as a health consultancy role where her interest in leadership extended past management and leadership practice to the development of leaders. A move to New York from 2003 until 2009 enabled her to pursue this enquiry related specifically to ongoing adult and leadership development. Her study explored many facets of human consciousness ranging from Jungian shadow work to the nature of reality within the quantum field. In 2009 Jenny returned to her native New Zealand to bring this work home. She currently resides at Waihi Beach, New Zealand where she enjoys being deep in the heart of nature. Jenny is a former registered nurse with a B.A. Social Sciences (Nursing and Management) and an M.A. Consciousness Studies. She is a certified integrative coach, an experienced consultant in The Leadership Circle 360 profile, a certified yoga teacher and a recognised mindfulness practitioner.

 

Sandy Burgham BA (Hons) Gender Studies

Over her 40 year career Sandy has held senior leadership roles on boards and executive teams in four different sectors - communications, research, retail and professional development.  She had been a widely experienced social insights researcher and strategist as well as a social commentator through various media columns,  before being approached by Global Women in 2012 to become their first Director of Leadership Development.  This  led to a deep inquiry into what type of leadership development had the greatest impact on individuals and in 2016 founded Play Contemporary Leadership CoLab as a purposeful disruptor to the way leadership development was usually framed and delivered. To this day, Play CoLab is a collaborative practice deeply invested in innovative approaches to systemic, organisational and personal transformation, one that purposefully works with all genders and is deeply steeped in the principles of vertical leadership development.  Sandy’s experience and research has given her a particular expertise around gender dynamics in the workplace and diversity and inclusion in general.   She is a certified Leadership Coach,  an experienced consultant in The Leadership Circle 360 profile and a sought after consultant in the area of organisational culture. She  identifies as a Pakeha Japanese New Zealander.