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
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
April 2026 Community Learning zoom
Apr 20 2026 - 12 noon US Eastern
Theme for the April session: The Resilience Layer ™
The April Community Call will introduce you to the Resilience Layer ™ - a set of six capacities that can underpin your individual and team intentions when the going gets challenging. Resilience — the kind that allows individuals and teams to genuinely thrive during strategic transformation, not merely survive it — is not a fixed trait. These six capacities that can be deliberately, thoughtfully cultivated. And you probably already have your own ways into some of them, but may simply never have done so intentionally. Nor have you considered the full range.
And mark you calendar for the 3rd Monday of every month between May and November 2026 to keep the space open for the new upcoming WAOC Community Calls possibilities.
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SOME FREE RESOURCES
From Feb 16 2026 Community Call - The unique power of Attention and Intuition/Journaling to Vision Board your Intentions - Free Resource: Vision Boarding Workbook
From 2025 - As you prepare to begin your 2026 year (or any new timeframe) with greater goal 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.
FALL / WINTER 2026 “PRACTICALS”
(OUR ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMS)
KNOW YOURSELF. LEAD FROM THERE
Our Most Person Practical - For Women
9 WEEKLY LIVESTREAMS | 4Q 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
GROW THE TEAM. RESHAPE THE WORK.
For Women Team Leaders
9 WEEKLY LIVESTREAMs | 4Q 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
SEE THE SYSTEM. CHANGE THE SYSTEM.
For Women Who Are Done Treating Systemic Problems as Personal Ones
9 WEEKLY LIVESTREAMS | 3Q DATES TO BE DETERMINED | JOIN NEWSLETTER FOR UPDATES
Everything you have ever tried to change — a team dynamic, an organizational culture, a pattern that keeps reasserting itself no matter how hard individuals work — exists inside a system. And systems have a remarkable capacity to absorb individual effort and return to their original shape. Not because you weren't skilled enough. Not because you didn't try hard enough. Because you were working on the symptom, not the structure.
This practical changes that.
See the System. Change the System. is a nine-session learning practical that builds the systemic fluency every woman needs — not as an abstract intellectual exercise, but as a practical leadership capability that changes what you see, what you understand, and what you are able to do next.
What you will learn to see
Systems are not mechanical. They are social, relational, and deeply human. They are made of structures, yes — but also of habits of thought, identity dynamics, informal power networks, and narratives so normalized they have become invisible.
You will learn to read beneath the surface of any organizational challenge using tools including iceberg analysis, stakeholder power mapping, and systems archetypes. You will develop the capacity to distinguish between symptoms and root causes — and to identify the leverage points where thoughtful intervention actually produces lasting change.
What you will learn to see specifically as a woman
Here is what most systems thinking courses leave out: the system looks different depending on where you are standing inside it.
Women in organizational life are navigating a specific and well-documented set of structural dynamics that have nothing to do with individual capability. The credibility tax — the additional proof of competence routinely required before authority is granted. The authority-warmth bind — the persistent cultural expectation that competence and likability are in tension, and that you must manage both simultaneously. The invisible labor of making others comfortable with your power. The informal networks built on access that was never designed to include you. The way "this is just our culture" is so often a description of accumulated preferences of whoever has held power — presented as neutral, experienced as constraint.
These are not personal problems. They are structural ones. And you cannot change what you cannot name and see clearly.
This practical names them. Clearly. Without apology.
What you will learn to do
Seeing the system is the beginning, not the end. The second half of this practical focuses on intervention: how change actually moves through complex, interdependent systems, and what women who understand that can do strategically, relationally, and with greater leverage than force alone ever provides.
You will leave with a systemic map of a real challenge you are currently navigating, a set of intervention strategies grounded in your specific context, and — perhaps most importantly — a fundamentally different relationship to complexity. One in which difficulty is no longer a sign that something is wrong with you, but information about the system you are working to evolve.
What this practical includes
9 weekly live sessions via Zoom
Frameworks drawn from systems thinking, Theory U and two decades of organizational change work with women leaders across sectors
The Resilience Layer™ — six foundational capacities that allow you to stay grounded, clear, and effective during the disorientation that systemic change always produces
Peer learning and accountability partnerships
A resource library of tools you will use long after the practical ends
Who this is for
Women who sense that the obstacles they are navigating are larger than any individual relationship or personal skill gap. Women who want intellectual rigor alongside genuine community. Women who are ready to stop adapting to systems that were not built for them — and start understanding how to change those systems instead.
Women at any career stage. Across sectors. Across geographies.
Dates
Fall 2026 | Exact dates to be announce - Join the WAOC Newsletter to be the first to know.
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