The Leadership in the World (LW) Certificate is a non-credit, competency-based program of active learning and reflection, designed for professionals, community leaders, social entrepreneurs, and social justice activists/advocates working for a better world. The LW Certificate program supports lifelong learners to explore their sense of vocation or “calling” and deepen their leadership skills, while assessing and documenting their development through a personalized study plan, learning portfolio, and intentional mentorship.
The Core Competencies: Each of the four core areas of competence guide the development and documentation of your knowledge, skills, and attributes in alignment with academic programming outcomes while remaining grounded in your own professional and personal context. Outcomes across all areas of competence are designed to support you to develop holistically, through knowing (knowledge), doing (skills), and being (attributes).
Air: Intellectual Clarity
Outcomes – Learners completing the programme of study will:
- Know – Comprehend, apply and integrate key concepts and terminology with adequate reference to expert and/or scholarly opinion at a level of scholarly fluency in elected areas of focus. (Connection with scholarly traditions that inform the discussions you are having within your context and community; read, interpret, and communicate);
- Be – Value critical inquiry and self-reflection by demonstrating intentional and systemic critique of their conclusions and assumptions;
- Do – Contribute to intellectual discourse inclusively, demonstrating empathy for difference in experience and leaving space for other voices to be heard.
Fire: Passion for Justice
Outcomes – Learners completing the programme of study will:
- Know – Name their own position and privilege in the context of one or more contextual framework(s), such as feminist methodologies and/or the TRC calls to action (Demonstrate decolonizing and postcolonial commitments and practices);
- Be – Articulate pro-queer, feminist, and decolonising perspectives and methodologies;
- Do – Describe solidarity-building ventures for liberative community developments in specified contexts.
Water: Deep Healing
Outcomes – Learners completing the programme of study will:
- Know – Develop emotional intelligence and awareness of self through reflective practice and exploration of one or more assessments of personality;
- Be – Adopt trauma-aware healing perspectives and practices;
- Do – Demonstrate collaborative and empathetic leadership in chosen contexts.
Earth: Ecological Embodiment
Outcomes – Learners completing the programme of study will:
- Know – Articulate how their local ecological, social, economic, and political context(s) impacts their behaviours;
- Be – Identify their core eco-cultural values and how these are relevant in their specified contexts;
- Do – Implement an integral and sustainable praxis within their chosen context(s).
Competencies Specific to Your Certificate – Leadership in the World
Lodestone: Moral Compass
Outcomes – Learners completing the programme of study will:
- Know – Articulate core principles of ethical leadership and how that pertains within their vocational context;
- Be – Embody reflective, respectful, inclusive, and integrative leadership;
- Do – Clearly and demonstrably embody compassionate leadership within their vocational context.
House: Organizational Literacy
Outcomes – Learners completing the programme of study will:
- Know – Articulate fundamentals of system change theory and how that pertains within their vocational context;
- Be – Identity and integrate ways in which change theory and conflict management within their leadership;
- Do – Implement and respectfully change management initiative within their vocational context.
Eye in Heart: Visionary Courage
Outcomes – Learners completing the programme of study will:
- Know – Appreciate and describe thought leaders, both past and present, who have affected and elucidated leadership theory;
- Be – Embody and model leadership that fosters consensus, democratic, and collaborative community;
- Do – Decisively and respectfully lead innovation and change within their vocational context.
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