<h1>OUR PROGRAMS AND APPROACH</h1>
<h2>Why Mysterial Leadership, Why Now</h2>
<h5>Ever wonder if the success you’ve worked so hard for has been worth the price? Do you sense that life keeps speeding up and you just can’t run any faster? Do you long to make this world a better place, but don’t see how? Do you feel that your life is too much doing and too little being? Do you struggle to offer what you value the most—your empathy, your intuition, your openness—to a world that favors impersonal, rational, decisive ways of acting?</h5>
You’re not alone. As we venture into this complex new century, more and more people—women and men—are realizing that longstanding ways of acting and being are no longer working, for individuals, communities, or the earth.

Our world is increasingly interconnected, fast-paced, unpredictable, and complex. In recent years, its spectacular challenges and opportunities have brought us to the limit of our current paradigm of leadership—one that was a match for the times in which it emerged—but is proving insufficient for today.

This milieu is calling forth a whole new way of leading, one that is truly a match for the 21st century. And we began to observe, in graduates of our full Certification program, exactly this happening - radically new ways of living, loving and leading consistently emerging. We felt a strong need to name this new paradigm of leadership so that it could provide an inspiring image of the future for other women.
<h4>We call this way of being Mysterial leadership™.</h4>
The word “Mysterial” derives from two characteristics that we observed distinguish a 21st century new paradigm woman leader from her 20th century counterpart:
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	<li>Ease with the unknown, chaotic, and ambiguous – with the <em>Mystery</em>, and</li>
	<li><em>Medial</em> with its two meanings - a psychological term denoting the capacity in a woman’s psyche that is able to bridge between radical differences, including masculine-feminine, dark- light, simple-complex, east-west, rational-intuitive, conscious-unconscious, pragmatic- visionary, and so forth. Medial also means an ability to manage reactivity and find the middle way in challenging situations.</li>
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<h4>An Expanded Definition of Leadership</h4>

Many women today do not see themselves as leaders, even though they have significant influence within their worlds. This is especially true of women who are not in positions of traditional authority. Kore Evolution more expansively defines leadership as a way of being and doing that includes and yet transcends the focus on roles, power, competition, and control associated with traditional leadership paradigms.

When a woman begins to embody a Mysterial way of being, it is natural for her to bring her innate gifts and passions to the world. She becomes an influencer through her presence and her creative, well-timed actions – a Mysterial leader.

As the world becomes more interconnected and interdependent, the boundaries between the various domains of our personal and professional lives—between Living, Loving, and Leading — also dissolve. In the old heroic paradigm of leadership, we were encouraged to keep them separated. This paradigm is an artifact of the Industrial Revolution and before, which is based on a masculine worldview. In order to succeed as leaders, women have had to adopt ways of being that were historically oriented to the way men lead and develop. This was not a mistake — it was just not always a good fit.

Today it has become self-evident that what happens in one domain of our experience deeply affects the others. Achieving synergy between the domains of living, loving and leading is not only highly desired by women, but also is a high leverage approach that allows women to make a greater contribution to self, family, community, organization, society, and the entire planet. 

Further, since the global financial meltdown in 2008, organizations around the world have begun to accept that there will be no return to “normal.” Those who succeed will develop the systems, cultures, vision, and leadership teams that are able to move with a rapidly evolving, massively globalizing?? reality. This will include many women who have influence in nontraditional ways.

<h4>An Inner Upgrade<h4>

Many women leaders today are feeling a fierce urgency to up-level their own leadership capacity and unique expression. This includes wanting access to not only their masculine skills to make things happen, in a linear way, with focused goals for unlimited growth, within a command and control structure; but also the complex feminine capacities for emotional/social intelligence, intuition, collaboration and caring, divergent thinking, and a sustainable and generative understanding of cycles, among other things.

Importantly, women want a new paradigm of leadership that not only draws on more of their innate strengths (that the world needs now), but is also more satisfying and meaningful. 

<h4>For women to up-level to a new paradigm of leadership that is truly a match for the 21st century, they require a leadership development approach based on <em>how women actually develop</em>. </h4>

<h2>Our Urban Mystery School</h2>

We create conditions in which women can open to the unfolding mystery of their innate potential. Combining an academically sound, research-based curriculum with ageless wisdom, the arts, and deep practice, Kore Evolution is essentially an urban mystery school—ready to take students to places they’ve never been before. 



<h4>The Woman’s Mysterial Leadership Certification™</h4>
<strong>The Women’s Mysterial Leadership Certification was created to be the most comprehensive, in-depth, ground-breaking, and future-sensing leadership development program in the world based on how women actually develop.</strong> 

It is intended to prepare women to expand their leadership influence and impact in a rapidly evolving, massively globalizing environment by skillfully accessing all of their innate potential as women, benefiting themselves, others, their organizations and beyond. 

It is delivered in two distinct stages: Level 1: The Opening Program and Level 2: The Emergence Program. 

The 4.5 month <strong>Level 1 Opening Program</strong>, delivers a fundamental shift in a woman’s perspective and builds a synergistic foundation of capacities and behaviors for Living, Loving, and Leading. This program redresses critical aspects of women’s feminine nature that have been rejected or become dormant, underutilized, or distorted. This is necessary to create a healthy, sustainable balance with the masculine capacities that the contemporary workplace requires of them, such that they are more productive, creative, inspired, and satisfied in their careers. The Level 1 program is designed to stand alone, and women earn a university certificate for completion. 

For women who desire higher levels of leadership and societal contribution, the more extensive 9-month <strong>Level 2 Emergence Program</strong> builds upon the Level 1 program to continue the learning experience and complete the Mysterial Leadership Certification process. In combination with Level 1, this program completes the inner upgrade and the full range of Mysterial Leadership capacities naturally comes online. The Level 2 outcomes build upon the achievements of Level 1, generating a “higher octave” of consciousness, connectedness and creative contribution. 

The Mysterial Leadership Certification was designed by the Kore Evolution partners, drawing on 12 years of intensive research, on-the-ground experience, and the expertise of tested and trusted faculty members who have been dedicated to this important work for many years.

The Mysterial Leadership Certification is revolutionary, based on a coherent distillation of academically accepted bio-psycho-social-energetic frameworks of human and cultural development. Since 2000, it has been tested and refined with women of diverse ages, temperaments, competencies, backgrounds, and styles and at all levels within their organizations. 

<h5>Mysterial Leadership Certification Builds the Foundation for Leadership Growth</h5>

Many leadership development programs focus only at the skill, knowledge, and expertise-building level. To build the leadership capacities necessary to address the challenges of the 21stcentury, we must first upgrade the ‘Way of Being’ from which these behaviors and skills emerge.

Through our Level 1 and Level 2 programs, we systematically build a foundation, or a “source code,” that creates a solid, sustainable way of being upon which desired leadership behaviors can be sustainably built.

With the cultivation of a Mysterial Way of Being, a woman naturally expresses more skillful and effective leadership behaviors and increases her overall ability to develop her knowledge, skills, and expertise. Our graduates consistently make more valued and exceptional contributions in their workplaces, families, and communities, and report being more fulfilled in their work and their lives in general. This kind of leadership development can be seen as a true investment for the future, one that will continue to pay dividends. 

<h4>Our Transformative Technology: The Mysterial Sequence™</h4>

<strong>By focusing on how women learn and grow, and what’s really necessary to lead effectively in today’s turbulent environments, we learned what it takes to unlock a woman’s capacity to nourish her body, heart, mind, and soul—while generating tangible, meaningful results. </strong>

Through our in-depth work with many cohorts of students we decoded a developmental process, designed specifically for women, that consists of five distinct and sequential steps.

The Mysterial Sequence is an elegant developmental process that clears and cultivates all of our Yin and Yang essences, providing the “critical path” to a sustainable inner upgrade. Like a plant that unfolds from seed, to shoot, to leaves and flowers, a woman develops in an organic process that unfolds in identifiable stages, each more complex than the next. These stages build upon one another and none can be skipped.

And perhaps most importantly it is specifically designed to address the unique nature of a woman’s developmental unfolding, and to <em>redress</em> wounding that occurred at various stages of our emergence into womanhood as we tried to fit into a hypermasculine culture. As you move through the Sequence today as an adult woman you touch back into the early shaping patterns of your youth and liberate those aspects of yourself that remain stalled or repressed.

The order of the sequence isn't arbitrary. It harmonically mirrors the natural order in which these Yin-Yang essences emerged in human consciousness and culture as we evolved.

In our Level 1 Opening Program we do the groundbreaking work of opening the channel for the Mysterial pattern to emerge by guiding students through Steps One and Two. 

Once this deep work is accomplished the Level 2 Emergence Program takes women through Steps 3 – 5 engaging the full inner upgrade for the emergence of Mysterial leadership. 

At each step of the Mysterial Sequence, the participant replaces a core limiting belief with a core liberating belief, and with practice, embodies 4 core integral leadership capacities. With deep practice, the integrated meta-capacity of that step emerges, expressed uniquely through the being and doing of each woman.

The work done at each step, each transformation of The Mysterial Sequence™ transcends and includes the work done in the step before. After step 5, the result is a complete inner upgrade that enables a woman’s Mysterial Way of Being to emerge.

This upgrade is not just about women adding a few new behavioral skills to their tool belt. It is much deeper and wider than that, ushering in a whole new level of consciousness, connectedness and creative contribution. 



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