Presence-Based® Leadership
Presence-Based® Leadership (PBL) is an experiential approach to whole person development that is practical and rigorously grounded in real world leadership and organizational challenges. Presence is inner state of inclusive awareness coupled with the felt-sense of stillness, immediacy and possibility. This training delivers the opportunity to cultivate leadership presence through information, perspectives and practices that support leaders to expand their capabilities and capacities, no matter what the setting. PBL is multifaceted and layered to produce consistent, effective individual and team leadership development in organizations.
The Nine Panes model is the central organizing principle of PBL and serves as an overarching framework that can be easily applied to the often seemingly intractable or unsolvable challenges that leaders and organizations face today. This model elegantly cuts through every level of situation, and offers new ways of understanding systems and complexity, while cultivating resilience and resourcefulness in the face of increased pressure to deliver results.
This training goes beyond just concepts. We offer practical applications of the material, in real time, and space to plan actions to implement after the workshop. Participating in this training, you will discover skills to:
- Expand thinking to be more aware and awake to formerly hidden system dynamics and implications
- Explore what matters, so that you and your team are energized, aligned and inspired to take new actions
- Engage together to open up new possible directions that create different future results
Reflection prior to the training
Please come to the training ready to work with a complex leadership challenge that you are currently facing. This challenge should meet the following criteria:
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- It is important to you and/or your work in some way.
- You have tried to solve this challenge, perhaps on multiple occasions and perhaps over an extended period, without resolution that feels successful or stable.
Journal for yourself briefly about this challenge, using these questions as thought starters:
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- What’s the problem?
- Why is it important?
- Who is involved?
- Who or what seems to be causing or contributing to the problem?
- What have you tried and what happened?
Reading prior to the training
Listen prior to the training
Interview of Doug Silsbee with Amiel Handelsman (2018) about Presence-Based Leadership
Schedule & dress code
| Wednesday, 27 June
(8:30-17:00) |
Thursday, 28 June
(8:30-17:00) |
Friday, 29 June
(8:30-15:00) |
| 8:15 – 8:30
Light breakfast, get settled |
8:15 – 8:30
Light breakfast, get settled |
8:15 – 8:30
Light breakfast, get settled |
| 8:30 – 12:00
Morning session |
8:30 – 12:00
Morning session |
8:30 – 12:00
Morning session |
| 12:00 – 13:00
Meal/Break (60 min) |
12:00 – 13:00
Meal/Break (60 min) |
12:00 – 12:45
Meal/Break (60 min) |
| 13:00 – 17:00
Afternoon session |
13:00 – 17:00
Afternoon session |
12:45 – 15:00
Afternoon session |
- Mealtimes are approximate.
- There will be mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks as well.
- Dress code – comfortable clothing with flat shoes
- Please plan on being present for the whole training without scheduling other calls or appointments during the times we will be together.
Accelerate PBL schedule 2406 (downloadable PDF)
Facilitators
Beatrice “Bebe” W. Hansen, MSSW, PCC
Bebe integrates her extensive family business experience with her psychotherapy background to support leaders, groups and organizations in building leadership skills and capacities. She is a leadership coach, consultant and trainer, and has worked with leaders in the private, non-profit and government sectors.
Bebe is the Principal of Presence-Based® Coaching and has taught and developed the curriculum for many years with Doug Silsbee, PCC, the program’s founder. Bebe continues to teach this cutting edge, ICF approved coach-training program with an outstanding team of Presence-Based practitioners and facilitators that she has personally trained. She delivers PBC, Presence-Based® Leadership and Presence-Based® Resilience trainings online and in person in Asheville, NC, around the US and internationally.
Bebe has an ongoing commitment to yoga and meditation practices and has been a practitioner of the Diamond Approach spiritual path since 2001. She enjoys road trips with her husband, traveling with her two grown daughters and son in law, and is a first-time grandmother. She can occasionally be found walking in the mountains of North Carolina and creating delicious desserts for family and friends.
Education:
- BA in Business, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1980
- MSSW (MS in Social Work), University of Texas at Austin, 1991
Certifications and Ongoing Professional Development:
- Trauma-Informed Coaching 2023
- Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy 2023
- Narrative Coach™ Certified Practitioner 2020
- Certified in FEBI, Focus Energy Balance Indicator Instrument, 2018
- Certified in Systemic Constellations, Institute for Integrative System Dynamics, 2017
- Certified in Barrett Values, CTT level 1, 2017
- The Leadership Circle, Profile Certification, 2016
- Certified Presence-Based® Coach, 2013
- International Coach Federation, 2012
- Certified Somatic Coach, The Strozzi Institute, 2011
- Founding member of DC Somatics Practice Group, since 2011
- Certified Enneagram Teacher, Enneagram Institute, 2008
- Certified Relationship and Body-Mind Vibrance Coach, Hendricks Institute, 2007
- Certified Toltec Teacher, (in the lineage of don Miguel Ruiz, author of the bestselling The Four Agreements), 2004
BWHansen Bio 2024 (download PDF)
Anne Davidson
Anne Davidson is a coach, consultant and facilitator who specializes in leadership development, group facilitation and personal and organizational development. She has over thirty years of experience as an internal organization development director and teacher. Until 2020 Anne served as Executive Vice President of Roger Schwarz & Associates where she worked internationally with corporate, non-profit and local government clients. Anne also works with her own clients through Anne Davidson Consulting to help individuals and teams reclaim their natural creativity, maximize their gifts, and develop organizations that build innovation skills.
Anne is an author and co-editor of The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook, (2005) and co-author of Facilitative Coaching (2008). Before joining Roger Schwarz & Associates in 2002, she served as Instructor of Public Management and Government at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and as an Instructor in Marketing and Management at Western Carolina University.
Anne earned her B.A. from Presbyterian College. She holds a Master of Library Science from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from Western Carolina University. She is a certified Somatic Coach (2010) and a certified Presence-Based Coach (2014).
Some of Anne’s clients have included:
- Moog International
- American Airlines
- The Boeing Company
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- City of Charlotte, NC
- Town of Chapel Hill, NC
- US Department of Agriculture
Anne Davidson PBL Bio (download PDF)