Healing Our Relationships with Power
Transform your relationship with power by learning five key discernments of unhealthy and healthy power.
Description
THE PROBLEM: Far too many people are illiterate in power—what it is, how it operates and why some people have it. As a result, those few who do understand it wield disproportionate influence over others. When power becomes unbalanced like this, it’s prone to toxic forms, such as force, fraud, and abuse, which harm individuals and communities. Abuses of power are highly visible and reinforce beliefs that power is bad. Misunderstandings about power lead to avoidance or dysfunction, where those who seek to do good often shy away from power, fearing it’s inherently bad. New frameworks, like Dr. E.E. Lahti’s Gentle Power, are emerging to address this, but a practical framework for using power effectively and ethically is still lacking.
THE SOLUTION: This workshop is designed to transform your relationship with power. Together we’ll do the following:
- Challenge the myth that “power is bad.”
- Introduce a new framework to distinguish healthy versus unhealthy power.
- Learn practical tools for reclaiming personal power without causing harm, while holding others accountable for abuses of power.
- Take home a platform and community to further develop your Healthy Power skills.
In this 75-minute interactive workshop, you’ll learn a framework to use power with integrity by making decisions that influence positive outcomes while avoiding harm. You’ll explore the inner work of cultivating power and the skills necessary for holding others accountable for harmful abuses of power. You’ll leave with Healthy Power tools to build upon this workshop throughout the rest of your life.
Speaker Bio
Ali Weller is a climate leadership and environmental behavior change expert, a three-time environmental non-profit co-founder, a TEDx speaker, and currently serves as the Worldwide Environment Lead for Apple’s Values Business Development team, as well as Worldwide Government Lead for Apple’s B2B Training and Programs team. Ali was trained by Al Gore as a Climate Leader in 2018, and in 2020 she helped train 10,000 new Climate Leaders globally. As a courageous leader, she models and coaches growth mindset and learning from failure. You can learn more about this topic in her 2024 Stanford Me2We talk – How the Arctic taught me to lead with courage. She believes teams can build courage like a muscle that strengthens over time, by fostering a culture where it’s safe to make mistakes, and failures are studied and even celebrated for what they teach us about how to do things better, faster, and with increasing innovation. Ali is motivated by three guiding lifelong goals:
1. Stabilize the climate for a livable planet;
2. Conserve our irreplaceable ecosystems and wildlife and regenerate wilderness;
3. Amplify and support initiatives for peace, equity, innovation, and balance with nature.
As a courageous leader, Ali is committed to fiercely support her teams with vision, and practical and grounded optimism to grow her people, remove obstacles, foster inclusion and diversity, and build relationships strong enough to move mountains. Ali has developed her leadership research into a new framework called Healthy Power – as a book and workshop series. Learn more at HealthyPower.org.
