From Self-Doubt to Self-Leadership: a Participatory Workshop

Many of us have a nasty little voice in our heads criticizing everything we do. When we listen to it, we shrink back from creativity, connection, and leadership, and we can spiral into doubt, imposter syndrome, or even depression. But when we work with those inner voices differently, we can live into the generative, courageous vision that our world needs most today.

Rosi Greenberg offers a powerful new workshop to shift those critical inner voices into powerful allies, to help people find self-love and step into leadership. Rosi uses storytelling and reflective exercises to enable participants to meet their own critical voices and find new ways of working with them. She leads us to see the systemic factors that create these inner voices so we can point the critique where it’s really needed. Most of all, Rosi facilitates powerful ‘aha’ moments of facing this phenomenon together in healing community, rather than alone.

In this workshop, participants will learn how to understand the personal and systemic origins of that critical internal voice, receive its positive intent while saying NO to its negative impact, and offer themselves a new, more loving inner voice. Participants will leave with new perspectives and practices for relating to the critic, and additional steps to take to move forward in leadership.

Ideal for anyone who has an inner critic or works with people who do, including therapists, teachers, counselors, peer recovery specialists, nonprofit leaders, managers, organizers, artists, and more.

Based on the book Everyone Has a Sam: Meeting the Inner Critic and Rewriting the Rules

Learn more at www.everyonehasasam.com

Agenda:

● Welcome and Introduction. Framing in Leadership.

● Story presentation: Everyone Has a Sam, by Rosi Greenberg – a personal journey of confronting imposter syndrome, told through illustrations

● Drawing your inner critic out: Participants draw their inner critic on the page to identify it as a separate entity and notice its messaging.

● Witnessing in community and understanding the origins of the critic: We share our critic’s words anonymously and look at the systems of oppression that create these messages.

● Offering oneself new messaging: Gathering the strength and courage of our essence, we create new messaging to hold instead of the harsh negative messages of the critic.

● Moving forward: Using this as a leadership tool: Conversation in large group on how to carry this forward as a leadership tool with others.

Rosi Greenberg, an artist of leadership development, has spent 15 years fostering a more connected, humane, and creative organizational landscape. Six years ago, Rosi founded Drawn to Lead, through which she offers bespoke workshops and retreats that have empowered thousands of leaders to unleash their narratives and find their inner power. Her book, "Everyone Has a Sam: Meeting the Inner Critic and Re-Writing the Rules," tackles imposter syndrome through Rosi’s own vulnerable personal story, life-changing strategies, and tender, inspiring illustrations. Rosi specializes in supporting people to connect more deeply to themselves and others.

Rosi holds a Master's in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School with a certificate in Management, Leadership and Decision Sciences, and a BA in Anthropology from Brown University. She has been an Artist in Residence at Foundation House and the extremely selective Artist Residency Thailand. She weaves together her expertise in Adaptive Leadership, Public Narrative, Internal Family Systems, Immunity to Change, Shadow Work and the creative arts to offer individual and group healing with a systemic lens.
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Rosi champions empathy as the paramount leadership skill for today's world. Her work bridges artistry and leadership, and nurtures profound professional connections. Originally from Philadelphia PA, Rosi now lives in the sunny foothills of Boulder Colorado.

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• Recovery Cafe Longmont - A cafe created by and for people in recovery, with resources, groups, food and community. I love this place! If you're looking for a calm haven to relax in community with others, check them out.
• NAMI Boulder County - The National Association on Mental Illness puts on cool projects and events, including support groups and Inside U, a collaboration with Disney Pixar and the Renee Crown Wellness Center based on the Inside Out movies.
• Women Entrepreneurs Association - A powerful community for women entrepreneurs like me to find community, support, and thought partnership on the journey of starting and running a business. If you're a woman entrepreneur in or around Boulder, join us!
• & generously held at the Boulder Public Library, which has amazing free spaces for all to use, fully supported and resourced. Wow.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Boulder Public Library District - Main Library, 1001 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, United States