The Sam School for Life & Leadership:
Shift negative narratives in yourself and your workspaces through this creative approach to inner leadership and systems change. An emergent, co-created program.
Starting in September
Free 'taster' (info) session:
July 29, 12:30 - 1:30pm ET, online
Take a Deep Dive in Rosi's all new 8-week Leadership Program
and/or learn to teach the introductory session in the new Training of Trainers!
SAM SCHOOL: 8 weeks. 18 people. 1 zoom room. Powerful change.
If you've ever doubted yourself in a way that's held you back, or had the feeling you just weren't good enough, this is for you. I know that feeling deeply, and I also know that it can be overcome.
Join this eight-week program to explore the origins of self-doubt and learn to embrace more powerful self-narratives. With a small cohort guided by Rosi, we will create community and support as you get to know your own patterns and recreate new ones to supercharge your leadership in the world. Based in Leadership methods taught at Harvard University, this course offers cutting-edge tools for self and systems change.
Our work will be co-created and emergent as we together explore this phenomenon and learn about ourselves, our inner voices, and one another.
You’ll leave with:
If you've ever doubted yourself in a way that's held you back, or had the feeling you just weren't good enough, this is for you. I know that feeling deeply, and I also know that it can be overcome.
Join this eight-week program to explore the origins of self-doubt and learn to embrace more powerful self-narratives. With a small cohort guided by Rosi, we will create community and support as you get to know your own patterns and recreate new ones to supercharge your leadership in the world. Based in Leadership methods taught at Harvard University, this course offers cutting-edge tools for self and systems change.
Our work will be co-created and emergent as we together explore this phenomenon and learn about ourselves, our inner voices, and one another.
You’ll leave with:
- Increased awareness of the ways you hold yourself back.
- Higher self-regard and articulated narratives of self-confidence.
- Defined tools and ability to navigate self-doubt in moments of crisis.
- Skills for leading teams and supporting colleagues through motivation rather than fear.
- A cohort of confidantes to turn to in moments of doubt.
Course Outline:
The following is a basic outline of the pathway we will take. However, this course is co-created with participants as the group together navigates this terrain. We will be explorers and emergent designers together, following our process and our real-time curiosities, while supported by the structure of a curriculum. Which is all to say: this is subject to change. As are WE!
Session 1: We set the communal container together, and meet each of our inner critics. We notice where and when they show up in our lives, and what specifically they say in those instances.
Session 2: We explore the cultural origins of our inner messaging, and become like alien anthropologists, looking at our culture and its critical messaging from an outside perspective. We find understanding and a locus for where the critique actually belongs!
Session 3: We explore the family origins of our inner messaging, and dive into what was happening early on in our lives that we needed to take on these harsh messages. Through journal and art exercises we connect the cultural messages to our own lived experience and begin to comprehend the origins of the critic.
Session 4: In this powerful session, we do a role-play from the critic's own perspective, to understand why they took on their job. We gain a felt-sense experience of the care the critic holds for us, and get answers to some of our deepest questions for it.
Session 5: In each of us, there is a little child who started to believe all the things the critic tells it. We create a playful blanket fort with this little one inside of us, then sit with it and offer it kinder, more loving messages. A favorite!
Session 6: We sift through the critic's messages to find the wisdom, truth, and any specific advice it has for us. In this way, the critic becomes a supportive and wise ally. It might even get a fancy new name!
Session 7: Being witnessed in our power can be difficult if the critic has been with us for a long time. In this session we practice telling stories of moments of pride, with no qualifications or caveats. It's beautiful to witness one another and cheer each other on.
Session 8: We reflect on the shifts that have occurred in the past 8 weeks and create plans for how to carry this forward in your leadership and with those you work with. We'll celebrate and do a graduation ceremony together as we close.
The following is a basic outline of the pathway we will take. However, this course is co-created with participants as the group together navigates this terrain. We will be explorers and emergent designers together, following our process and our real-time curiosities, while supported by the structure of a curriculum. Which is all to say: this is subject to change. As are WE!
Session 1: We set the communal container together, and meet each of our inner critics. We notice where and when they show up in our lives, and what specifically they say in those instances.
Session 2: We explore the cultural origins of our inner messaging, and become like alien anthropologists, looking at our culture and its critical messaging from an outside perspective. We find understanding and a locus for where the critique actually belongs!
Session 3: We explore the family origins of our inner messaging, and dive into what was happening early on in our lives that we needed to take on these harsh messages. Through journal and art exercises we connect the cultural messages to our own lived experience and begin to comprehend the origins of the critic.
Session 4: In this powerful session, we do a role-play from the critic's own perspective, to understand why they took on their job. We gain a felt-sense experience of the care the critic holds for us, and get answers to some of our deepest questions for it.
Session 5: In each of us, there is a little child who started to believe all the things the critic tells it. We create a playful blanket fort with this little one inside of us, then sit with it and offer it kinder, more loving messages. A favorite!
Session 6: We sift through the critic's messages to find the wisdom, truth, and any specific advice it has for us. In this way, the critic becomes a supportive and wise ally. It might even get a fancy new name!
Session 7: Being witnessed in our power can be difficult if the critic has been with us for a long time. In this session we practice telling stories of moments of pride, with no qualifications or caveats. It's beautiful to witness one another and cheer each other on.
Session 8: We reflect on the shifts that have occurred in the past 8 weeks and create plans for how to carry this forward in your leadership and with those you work with. We'll celebrate and do a graduation ceremony together as we close.
Watch the Info Session from July 8
(Despite having covid I made it through the ''why' behind the course and the session outline - if I sound a little sick... that's why. enjoy!)
What previous participants have shared:
Rosi's Live Into Leadership program [now 'Sam School'] helped me step into my own unique strengths. Once I was able to identify what my inner critic (born from societal/familial expectations) was telling me I *should* be doing, I was able to clearly see what I *could* be doing. It has helped me bring my whole, authentic self to the table. - Lacey Connelly
Rosi is an amazing facilitator and leads the co-creation of a powerful space where I felt safely seen, held, and empowered to be my best vulnerable self. Gaining clarity around the inner critic really is a doorway into stepping into a powerful version of yourself. I've learned who my inner critic is, where it comes from, and how to build a healthier relationship with my inner critic, all while making beautiful connections in community. I have never felt as empowered, confident, capable, loved, and hopeful to continue authentically stepping up in my life and work. - Dahlia Quintanilla
This program is illuminating! I could understand very deep layers of my inner critic and naturally find ways to be more compassionate to myself and live more freely without questioning my every move and feeling. I found acceptance, patience, and love for myself, and a loving community of people that made me feel heard and accepted and were able to put into words and images many of my own feelings and struggles. - Ale J
This cohort helped me not only identify my inner critic, but really get to know her and why she's there. After the cohort, I've been able to team up with her in a way that allows me to have confidence now that she knows she doesn't need to protect me anymore. - A.G.
Rosi has the amazing ability to walk alongside people with such authenticity that they don't even realize she is actually guiding them. It's a true gift. - former student
Tell me more!
Leadership is ‘accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertainty’. As such, leadership can be done from any level, with or without an official position of authority. However, it requires us to be brave in the face of the unknown, and to take risks.
When trying to lead, we often get in our own way. We tell ourselves we’re not good enough, our idea is dumb, better not to speak up this time. But this voice is not us; it’s our 'inner critic,' who can prevent us from truly stepping into leadership. When we get to know the critic and understand how it works, we can shift our relationship with it to step more bravely into leadership where it’s needed most. Most importantly, we can create new neural pathways to support stories of pride in ourselves.
Through this experiential workshop, leadership development trainer Rosi Greenberg offers a deep look into the inner critic and ways to work with it more productively. Using methods taught at Harvard University and years of experience coaching thousands of leaders, Rosi offers powerful techniques for effective growth. You'll leave with new practices for relating to that voice in your head and new perspectives on how to work with it in your teams.
PROGRAM DATES:
September 3 -- October 22, Tuesday nights, 7:30 - 9 pm ET -- Early bird Applications due July 15
Cost for 8-week program: sliding scale, $397-1068, with scholarships available and additional donations welcome. See application for details.
We'll follow this 8-week program with a Training of Trainers for the workshop -- if you're interested in learning how to teach this yourself, head over here!
Rosi is also available to bring this to your company or organization, from a 2hr workshop to a 2-day retreat.
And who is this "Rosi Greenberg" anyways?
“Rosi is such a great model of self-awareness and teaching from your values. Her teaching is embodied and authentic.” -- 2022 Participant
Rosi Greenberg is an artist, author/illustrator and leadership development trainer who creates spaces for people to connect more deeply to themselves and others. Through her leadership development practice, Drawn to Lead, Rosi has trained over 6000 leaders at all levels to share their stories and call communities to action. From c-suite executives to frontline organizers, college students to late-career senior experts, participants in Rosi’s sessions find depth and transformational shifts. For the past several years, Rosi has worked with leaders in the Recovery movement to share brave stories of leadership, combat stigma, and change policies to save lives and improve care. Her forthcoming book, Everyone Has a Sam, creates a quirky character of the inner critic and offers ways to move beyond it. In her art, Rosi explores mental health as she intertwines text, line drawing, and swirling color. She brings her artistic talent to teams to help people vision, get on the same page, and document meetings through creative visual scribing. Rosi holds a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, with a Certificate in Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences, and a BA in Anthropology and Arabic from Brown University.
Yeah OK but what does she know about imposter syndrome? She sounds all fancy.
Rosi Greenberg is a person who took years to dare to call herself an artist or a facilitator, as she did not believe she had any positive traits towards either, and was certain that anyone who told her otherwise was lying. Rosi spent 33 years striving for high achievement through Ivy League degrees, as she did not believe herself worthy of love or intrinsic merit otherwise. Through several bouts of severe depression, Rosi experienced what it is to feel like a shell of oneself, hopeless and lost. When she was 33, during a particularly bad bout of it, Rosi drew a picture of her inner critic that made her laugh. One picture turned into two, and two into a book, and with the help of this art, and friends, and Lexapro, Rosi slowly realized that she could re-write the rules to her life. And she has. The doubt still comes back to visit, but now Rosi knows how to be with it in new ways. Rosi does not have all the answers, but offers this series as a space of inquiry, connection, and mutual growth.