Leadership for Orisa Lifestyle Retreat

Dates: November 1-3, 2014
Location: Oakland, CA
Tuition: EARLY BIRD SPECIAL $369 before July 31 $619 after Deposit:  $200

Now is the time to integrate Orisa Lifestyle into how we build community, do business and lead organizations!
Join Chief Solagbade Popoola, Orland Bishop and Obafemi Origunwa for this 3-day leadership workshop and learn how to successfully and collaboratively make Orisa Lifestyle a core value in your family, your spiritual community, or organization. The overall focus of this workshop is capacity building and collaboration to create 16 generations of sustainable culture.

Program Overview:
Collaboration is the active ingredient of Orisa Lifestyle. Collaboration takes much more than good intentions. Individually and collectively,  practitioners of Orisa Lifestyle who learn to work effectively across communities will definitely need capabilities that are not presently being taught in our spiritual community: 1. How to build trust between diverse parties 2. How to create shared visions that transcend religious tradition and national identity 3. How to foster shared understanding of complex realities 4. How to develop shared strategies and best practices 5. How to observe and reflect on what is working and not and to adjust thinking and action. 

In short, effective collaboration is an ongoing learning process that demands an unusual degree of openness – of mind, heart and will - to challenge many assumptions, ways of operating, and cultural norms that we have come to accept as law. Sometimes, what has limited our progress are the very behaviors that have made individuals and groups effective in the past. Spiritual leaders like you, who want to build their capacity to lead change efforts, from wherever they sit within their communities, are invited to attend this Orisa Lifestyle Retreat. The workshop will blend personal capacity building and application to real issues through a series of practice sessions using tools for systems thinking and collective learning. Leadership for Orisa Lifestyle will be both personal and collective: people learning how to work better together by working together to achieve common goals that otherwise might be impossible. 
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With over 30 years of Ifa knowledge, Chief Solagbade Popoola has traveled the world spreading the holy teachings of Olodumare (God) and instructing a new generation of Ifa priests on the philosophy, analysis and application of IFA’s holy Odus (sacred verses.) The IFA Temple of Los Angeles- Ijo Otura Tukaa has the honor of hosting Chief Popoola’s to the U.S.  Don’t miss this historic visit and join us for spiritual guidance and practical wisdom. Also get exclusive access to the first book within Chief Popoola’s IFA book series titled IFA: It’s Core Values. 
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Orland Bishop combines a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal with an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies. He was a research fellow with the Center for the Study of Violence and Social Change at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and has consulted with many human development organizations. As director of Shade Tree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, he has pioneered approaches to urban truces and mentoring at-risk youth that combine new ideas with traditional ways of knowledge.
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Obafemi Origunwa, MA is founder of Iwalewa Folklife Enterprises, Lecturer at Orisa Lifestyle Academy and Co-Author of Oriki Awon Orisa. I am a professionally-trained counselor, with a Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Counseling from San Diego State University. I am particularly interested in Jungian psychology. This particular combination of ancient wisdom and modern approach allows me to offer you a unique and refreshing blend of Western and Indigenous healing practices. 
Program Description:
In this workshop you will:
  • Increase your capacity to lead spiritual development and community healing with Orisa Lifestyle as the overarching principle
  • Learn from and network with leaders from diverse vantage points who share your passion for supporting Orisa Lifestyle
  • Gain the tools to integrate Orisa Lifestyle into your family, organization or community
  • Strengthen your capacity-building skills
  • Sketch an Orisa Lifestyle plan for your family, organization or community.

This unique workshop:
  • Offers less lecture and more hands-on development of your leadership skills
  • Strengthens your systems thinking skills so you can switch from reactive problem solving to creating new possibilities for holistic growth
  • Provides a common language for talking about National change and building stronger relationships for continuing what we initiate in the five day retreat
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Who should attend:
  • Spiritual and personal leaders, Orisa priests, health and human services professionals
  • People who want to build their leadership capacity to lead change efforts, from wherever they sit within their communities
  • Leaders who feel a personal commitment to Orisa Economics

3 DAYS

SATURDAY

  1. Orientation and Overview
  2. Connection Before Content
  3. Introductions
  4. Increasing Awareness
  5. Emotional Association
  6. Perceived Self-Efficacy
  7. Motivation to Act
  8. Making Agreements
  9. Festival

SUNDAY

  1. Gratitude, Reflections and Insights
  2. The Virtuous Cycle
  3. Skills Development
  4. Creating Opportunities to Act
  5. Responding to Demand
  6. Facilitating Change
  7. Celebrating Successes
  8. Commitment Before Closure
  9. Festival

MONDAY

  1. Gratitude, Reflections and Insights
  2. Being Artists Together
  3. Community Ceremony
  4. Festival

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