Reflect. Renew. Connect.
Santa Fe Seminar is Back! November 7-9, 2024
It’s time for a new kind of school leader – one who embraces high levels of ambiguity and flexibility and insources their agency and approval. The Santa Fe Seminar is the time and place for you to reflect on the kind of leader you are today and how you might design your learning and reflection towards more authenticity, groundedness, and connection to yourself and others.
The most successful leaders take time away from tasks and the busyness of their daily lives to first and foremost reflect–and to ask and answer important questions, to share their stories with others, and to envision the future.
This place-based learning experience, held in the inspirational setting of Santa Fe, NM, provides time and space for school leaders to engage in spirited dialogue with like-minded colleagues, to write, and to explore these and other questions:
Why have I chosen the path of leading in schools?
How have the past three years impacted my leadership journey? What did I learn, and how will I use that learning?
How might I lead more intentionally and from a place that is most authentic to who I am?
How might I deepen the relationships with my colleagues, partners, and collaborators?
How do I want to respond to the emotions that get projected on me as a leader? How might I work through challenging situations I have held onto and need to reconcile/unpack/put to rest?
How might I sustain and even enhance my capacity to lead effectively, joyfully and passionately over my career?
What am I holding onto in my mind and my body? Is holding on serving me?
Am I being and leading from a place that is authentic, and is this translating to seeing circumstances as opportunities in service of my growth? Or do I see the world as a barrier that is impeding my growth and happiness in my job?
Past participants have expressed feeling renewed, reconnected to self, rejuvenated, and armed with a new readiness to tackle leadership challenges with increased self-awareness, tools and energy.
The Santa Fe Seminar — 2024 Info Below
Sample Sessions
Each year, the seminar evolves based on the participants, context and the facilitators. Past seminar’ss sessions have included:
The Context of Your Leadership: Exploring Personal History, Mission, and Vision
River and Rut Stories: What story are we telling, and is it the story we want to tell?
Exploratory vs. Confirmatory Collaboration: How the questions we ask, the feedback we give and the way we engage can impact our outcomes.
Leading from Within: Identifying and Designing Your Signature Presence
Mental Models: Which ones do we have and which ones do we need?
Leadership Case Studies: Unpacking Organizational Challenges
The Shadow: How your unconscious world shapes your experience and signals opportunities for leverage and growth
You Are the Problem: How the resistance you experience in your work can be eliminated by understanding that it resides in you and letting it go
Exploring the Multiverse - What is a different version of you doing? What are the unfulfilled dreams or paths you could have taken? What are you doing in another universe?
Managing and Enhancing Group Life: Fostering Healthy and Collaborative Relationships with Colleagues
Walking the Labyrinth: A Personal Journey of Leading
Who Should Attend
The seminar is for school leaders at all points in their careers. Past participants have included:
School heads with over thirty years of experience
Charter school principals
New heads
Classroom teachers who have a passion for leading
Division Heads
Assistant Heads
Admissions, development, and school placement staff
Deans
New Administrators
Executive Assistants
Technology Directors and other Program Directors
Administrative Teams
If you have questions about whether this is the right seminar for you to attend, contact Carla Silver at carla [at] leadershipanddesign.org.
Why Santa Fe?
This setting in Santa Fe is being provided to enhance the creativity, inspiration and expansive thinking that are prerequisites for outstanding leadership. Just as the school environment is a critical component in the education of children, the location for these conferences offers surroundings conducive to openness, the free exchange of ideas and a healthy discourse among committed professionals.
There will be time built into the seminar for participants to enjoy Santa Fe on their own, with their fellow participants, or with their partners or spouses.
We allow time for groups and individuals to explore the city of Santa Fe and the surrounding areas as well as meet one-on-one with facilitators.
Nuts and Bolts — 2024 Info Below
Registration Fee
The cost of the seminar is $1200 if registered before August 31st, 2024, $1400 between September 1st -31st and $1500 after September 31st. Some financial assistance is available through our grant program.
Members of L+Doers Unite save 10% on registration – click here to learn more about this program.
If you are interested in applying for grant funding, please apply by clicking here.
There are only 40 slots available for this seminar, and we expect to be full, so don’t wait to register. The seminar fee includes:
Breakfast each morning.
Hosted cocktail reception on Thursday evening.
Dinner on Friday night.
All seminar materials including some nice swag.
So much fun with amazing colleagues.
La Fonda on the Plaza
Santa Fe is truly a magical space to work, reflect, and play.
In addition to the guest rooms, the other facilities are charming and elegant and you are within a 5 minute walk to the Plaza and many restaurants and shops. This is a first class hotel in a remarkable city.
La Fonda has reserved a block of rooms at an incredible rate for participants - only $179 per night. Individual reservations should be made by CALLING La Fonda's reservations department at: 800-523-5002 or 505-982-5511 and then choose 1 . Identify yourself as part of Leadership + Design or by using code: #1116486
Call between the hours of (Mountain Standard Time): M-F 7am-8pm // Saturday: 8am-5pm // Sunday: 9am-5pm
To make a reservation online visit this website directly and use the code: #1116486
Travel to Santa Fe
Getting to Santa Fe is easy from anywhere in the country. For more information on travel to Santa Fe, click here.
Because of the small size and personal nature of the Santa Fe Seminar, it is extremely important that all seminar participants arrive in time for the first session and stay through the final session.
The first session begins at 2:00pm on Thursday, November 7, 2024.
We will say our final goodbyes at 12:00pm Saturday, November 9, 2024.
If you cannot stay for the entirety of the seminar, we suggest you plan to join us for a future seminar. Contact Carla Silver if you have questions about your travel schedule.
Cancellation Policy:
L+D reserves the right to cancel this seminar if there is insufficient enrollment or if the situation regionally or nationally changes due to Covid-19 or other notable event. In this unlikely event, participants will be notified well in advance of the institute and given a full refund. L+D, however, cannot be responsible for any financial obligation incurred by participants because of travel cancellations.
Refund Policy:
When requested in writing, L+D will refund registration fees as follows: 75% of registration fee when requested 45 days or more from first day of the seminar; 50% of registration fee when requested 31–44 days from first day of the seminar; no refund within 30 days of the first day of the seminar.