Our world needs a new kind of leadership
Depth, substance, accountability, integrity
We are at a turning point in our world. War, climate change, pandemics, the threat of AI, polarisation: we are facing unprecedented challenges that can only be met through a deeper understanding of humanity and our individual and collective potential.
We need a whole new way of looking at our world and our role in it. We need a ‘higher order’ leadership that starts from within each one of us that ripples out to have an outsized impact in our families, our communities, and the wider world. We need to understand that leadership is not a position, but an active choice that each one of us can make, to understand our own agency, and be the change that our world needs.
We need leaders of integrity, vision, purpose and accountability, with a sense of responsibility and ‘servant leadership’, empowered by humility, not ego. And we need greater depth, not breadth, in understanding ourselves and others to bring about the transformations our world badly needs.
The arts are the most powerful tool we have to catalyse an inner transformation at the emotional, intellectual and spiritual level. They enable us to dig deeper into our individual and shared humanity, to come together with others with clarity and ‘moral imagination’ to build a new story for us all.
The Vision of the Centre
The mission of the Centre is to empower the ‘higher order’ leadership skills of current and future leaders.
Our vision is to make The Centre a leading thinker, actor and doer in a more responsible approach to what leadership is, restoring our shared humanity, and inviting a deeper way of thinking about what the world needs for healing.
But we are not just about vision and lofty ideals. We are rooted and grounded in real-world impact.
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Our Actions in the World
From our founder, Caroline Watson
“I believe that we have a golden opportunity to choose to do things differently, however hard or difficult it may seem. And we must. We owe it to future generations, let alone ourselves, to claim the natural heritage that is ours alone, to know that no machine, threat of war or destruction, polarising opinion or action that denigrates the higher order nature of man, can destroy that which is beautiful, authentic and true.
Shakespeare said the arts ‘hold a mirror up to nature’ forcing a reckoning within each one of us to choose if we are going to go down the path of destruction….or to create something new.
The time has come for each one of us to uncover our individual sense of creative agency, borne of spiritual qualities that no machine can replicate, to enable each individuals full expression - and unfold the true potential of what humanity is capable of.”
Learn more about Caroline here.