COMMUNITY SESSIONS
& LEARNING “PRACTICALS”
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YOU HOLD THE KEY
At WAOC, knowledge, practice and transformation are inseparable.
That’s why we offer monthly no fee Community Learning Calls and we have named our occasional course offerings “Practicals” — because learning happens through doing.
We want to democratize access, in service of positive personal, organizational and societal transformation. As part of our design for generosity operating principle, we continue to experiment with various no fee and “choose what you can” fee options.
Key benefits of joining our offerings include:
Practical Skill-Building – Gain hands-on experience with tools and methodologies that enhance your ability to lead change, influence systems, and drive impactful initiatives.
Peer Learning & Collaboration – Engage with a diverse group of women change-makers, exchanging insights, challenges, and strategies in a collaborative learning environment.
Real-World Application – Apply concepts in real-time to your current leadership challenges, receiving constructive feedback and guidance to refine your approach.
Deepened Leadership Presence – Strengthen your confidence, voice, and ability to navigate complexity with resilience and clarity.
Ongoing Community Support – Become part of a global network of women leaders, fostering meaningful connections, mentorship, and continued learning beyond the sessions.
These sessions provide a unique blend of practical learning, strategic insight, and supportive community, empowering women to step into their roles as effective agents of change.
COMMUNITY SESSIONS
A. NO FEE MONTHLY COMMUNITY LEARNING ZOOMS
Reflective, deeply human, and accessible.
Each session centers on a theme — for example, self-limiting beliefs, systemic change practices, or navigating life transitions.
These calls are a safe, generative space. Just show up and lean into the exploration.
February 2026 Community Learning zoom
Feb 16 2026 - 12 noon US Eastern/6pm Continental Europe
Theme for the February session: The unique power of Attention, Intention and Experimentation
In a world that can distract us from meaning making and constrain our sense of agency, we will learn about a range of practices that can reconnect us to our sense of purpose, and move us into positive action.
Registration for this and subsequent monthly calls will be available on January 1st 2026, in the meantime, mark you calendar for the 3rd Monday of every month between February and November 2026 to keep the space open for new possibilities. Join the WAOC NEWSLETTER for Updates
As you prepare to end 2025 and begin your 2026 year with greater intentionality, here is KEEP STOP START x FEEL BE DO worksheet that we have used in the past in our Reinvention Club and Intention setting mini-practicals
Also, remember to check out our Resources Library page for dozens of free resources.
2026 “PRACTICALS” (OUR ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMS)
CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU
Our Foundational Practical - For Women
9 WEEKLY LIVESTREAMS | 2Q DATES TO BE DETERMINED | JOIN NEWSLETTER FOR UPDATES
We are always the starting point of any lasting, complex change. Our interior stories and limiting beliefs will determine the level of success of our change initiatives. Examining them with guidance helps us remove these obstacles of our own making.
What old habits of thought or behaviors born out of a scarcity mentality are you hanging onto that don’t have to be true anymore?
Yes, you can set a significant change intention for yourself and achieve it with greater ease than you imagined. And have it stick. In CSWY, you learn about failure proof ways to leverage the power of self-image and mindsets as you grow your emotional resilience and intelligence. This in turn reshapes the choices you have for new actions, behaviors, choices and eventually impact.
The secret formula you will have access to: effective self-awareness + greater confidence for everyday impact + know how to make clearer behavioral decisions in high stakes moments + implement changes that stick with much greater ease + discover the catalysts that let you have the life and leadership you actually want
HEALTHY TEAMING
If you are Leading a Team or Part of a Team - Open to all
9 WEEKLY LIVESTREAMs | 2Q DATES TO BE DETERMINED | JOIN NEWSLETTER FOR UPDATES
We too often have experiences of team leadership and team membership in ways having all to do with ineffective hierarchy, "power over", hierarchy, lack of trust, games of ego, and command & control rather than creative collaboration .
The art of ‘healthy teaming' in today’s complex, virtual, interdependent organizations instead has everything to do with being aware of a team as a system of human interdependence, as much as it has to do with the level of trust, the capacity to engage well with conflict, and the power of motivating goals that grow the whole group's skills. This practical will introduce you to the usefulness of systems thinking in a team environment, the power of curiosity and listening, as well as to the work of Otto Scharmer, Patrick Lencioni and Amy Edmondson - all to help you become a better team member and/or team leader who is able to inspire outstanding collective results in a healthy way.
Session 1 – Teams as containers or webs of interdependence
Session 2 - Curiosity as the key to unlocking your own and others’ potential
Session 3 – Listening generatively as a leadership superpower that can transform any relationship
Session 4 – Vulnerability-based trust as a courageous commitment to yourself and to authentic relationships
Session 5 – Engaging well with conflict / Letting go of the fear of difficult conversations
Session 6 – Setting clear commitments
Session 7 – Knowing how to offer accountability as support
Session 8 – Setting intentions for the collaborations that matter most
Session 9 – Gathering insights from the accountability partners experience and next steps
SYSTEMIC CHANGE
You Want to Change Whole Systems - Open to all
9 WEEKLY LIVESTREAMS | 2Q DATES TO BE DETERMINED | JOIN NEWSLETTER FOR UPDATES
Everything and everyone is part of ecosystems of interdependence. Complexity is the secret code of the world. But you don’t have to experience it as chaos. Seeing and learning how to map system dynamics and their patterns is a first powerful step for any change agent.
The word “system” can too often bring to mind mechanical or computer systems. By system, we are referring to social systems, family systems, power and influence systems.
We each belong to multiple systems in visible and invisible ways. The success of any change initiative will be constrained by how much or how little you are able to first see and assess the systems that surrounds the change and then intervene in ways that help reshape and evolve those systems.
We must not simply address symptoms of systemic inadequacies, but look at the structures, habits of thought and identity dynamics that can energize or constrain our fullest potential.
THE WAOC GROWTH FORMULA
New knowledge alone is not enough. Taking action and reflecting on the outcomes of those actions makes all the difference. Having a community to support you ensures that the changes last.
A CLEAR INTENTION
to upgrade and energize your change preparation and actions
SELF and OTHER AWARENESS
to upgrade your agency through integrated mind, emotions, and body intelligence
NEW FRAMEWORKS
to increase your skillfulness and expand your knowledge and perspective
SMALL EXPERIMENTS
to accelerate and integrate learning in real-life actions, settings and practices
WAOC COMMUNITY
to create the foundation of mutual accountability and support
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing regardless of how it turns out. “
-Vaclev Havel