With responsibility come decision making and accountability.  Does the leadership role imply being in control or can we find a way to encourage collaboration and a shared sense of stakeholder-ship? And fully embrace our responsibility for the role we are in?

Moving from an impulse to control the environment to a conscious framing of the context and an invitation to all of the participants to share their perspective, leadership can be a collaborative experience where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Patrick, a sixth Dan aikido master, opens new perspectives using embodiment, discussion and contemplative exercises to encourage the discovery of a new kind of leadership, the Collaborative Facilitator.