1. Cultivating Leadership for Ecological Sustainability
Presented by
Dr. Joel Kreisberg, DC, MA
Executive Director
Teleosis Institute 1

2. Leadership
Purpose
Vision
Sustainability
Creating a Learning Community

3. Purpose
Living and acting out of a deeply-felt connection to our source of inspiration, that which gives our work meaning.
Promote Ecological Health for the Whole Child 3

4. Vision
Being clear and communicating effectively the results we seek to create.
Create optimal and sustainable environments in which children can thrive and reach their full potential.

5. Cultivating Sustainability
Cultivating sustainability requires:
A commitment not only to making change
An understanding why we are making changes. 

6. What and Why? 6

7. Sustainability
To be sustainable, organizing structures must encourage:
Effectiveness
Integrity
Mutuality
Bill Tobert “Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership (2004)

8. Creating A Learning Community
A Learning community uses Action Inquiry
Integrity
Generate effectiveness and integrity in ourselves
Mutuality
Generate a critical constructive mutuality
Sustainability
Create organizing structures that encourage effectiveness, integrity, and mutuality which are capable of continuing transformation towards greater social justice and greater harmony with the natural environment 8

9. A Learning community Integrity Sustainability Mutuality I Experiences
SUBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE
SINGULAR I
Integrity
Experiences It
Sustainability
Behaviors
PLURAL WE
Mutuality
Cultures
ITS
Social 9

10. Integrity
Integrity is generated through more and more dynamic and continual inquiry into the gaps in ourselves.

11. What Sustains You? What am I doing? Why am I doing it?
Tell me what sustains you? 11

12. Mutuality
Mutually agreeable goals help support partnerships both internally and externally.
Mutuality supports ecological sustainability. 

13. Mutuality We can create more by:
Developing shared vision and strategies
Increasing collaboration
Learning the value of creating together

14. Partnership
Skillfully being with others in a way that fosters connections and interdependence
Rockwood Leadership 14

15. Leading Transforming Are we organized in a way that encourages
effectiveness,
integrity
mutuality?
Are we transforming healthcare towards greater social justice and greater harmony with the natural environment?

16. Cultivating Leadership for Ecological Sustainability
Promote Ecological Health for the Whole Child
Create optimal and sustainable environments
A commitment not only to making change but also to understand why we are making changes. 
Creating a Learning Community

17. Teleosis Institute Dr. Joel Kreisberg, DC, MA Executive Director