The Art of Leadership
CO-CREATING A REGENERATED FUTURE FOR ALL
A REVOLUTION THROUGH ART, NATURE, AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
A 3 stage training program
Experience a radically new kind of leadership: rooted in art, nature, and co-creation, to address today's complex challenges. By combining artistic exploration, collective creativity, and immersion in nature, you will develop unique skills to facilitate systemic change—where traditional methods fail.
A vibrant, adaptive, and co-creative approach to individual and collective transformation.
Embodying a new kind of leadership in a complex world
1. Practicing Unlearning to Transform Your Leadership Stance
To learn new ways of leading, we must unlearn outdated and obsolete models, both about ourselves and in our leadership practices.
The unlearning process invites us to identify and deconstruct limiting beliefs related to authority, control, or performance. By developing a reflective attitude, each person learns to draw on lived experience, emotions, and group dynamics as sources of authentic learning.
This approach opens up new ways of inhabiting the balance between letting go and taking the right action, between intention and openness to what emerges.
2. Experiencing the Group as a Space for Learning and Collective Intelligence
The group is envisioned as a true learning ecosystem, where relationships become both a resource and a subject matter. Participants build a community of learner-researchers that fosters co-creation, the sharing of experiences, and mutual learning.
Through collaborative practices based on active listening, constructive feedback, and collective facilitation, each participant discovers the power of distributed leadership. The tools explored—cooperation mechanisms and co-creation processes—are directly applicable to professional contexts, promoting a more participatory and regenerative way of working.
3. Learning Leadership Through Art
Art becomes a privileged field of exploration for understanding and practicing leadership in a new way. By experimenting with movement, drawing, or writing, each participant refines their presence, stimulates their creativity, and strengthens their ability to improvise in the face of the unexpected.
Artistic processes—listening, intuition, composition, emergence—become valuable reflections of the leadership process itself.
By integrating these expressive practices into their professional approach, leaders learn to cultivate a more sensitive, embodied, and vibrant way of supporting change.
4. Developing Ecological and Systemic Leadership
Leadership is considered here as a practice deeply connected to the dynamics of life. By exploring interdependence, adaptation, cycles, and regeneration, participants discover an ecological vision of leadership, capable of responding to today's complexities.
Connecting with nature—through immersion or sensitive observation—becomes a source of inspiration, grounding, and adaptive intelligence. It offers powerful support for developing leadership that is more aligned, more conscious, and more attentive to the human and natural ecosystems in which we live.
Our Objectives
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Developing a systemic and ecological vision of leadership
At the end of the training, participants will be able to analyze the challenges of contemporary leadership through the lens of interdependence, ecology, and co-creation, and to apply these principles in their professional context.
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Develop skills in artistic and collaborative leadership
Participants will master concrete tools (embodied presence, dialogue, collective creation) to facilitate innovative group dynamics and lead collaborative projects, drawing on artistic and experiential methods.
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Design and implement an artistic project as a lever for leadership development.
Each participant will create a personal artistic project (dance, visual arts, writing, etc.) to model their vision of leadership and experience it in a professional or community setting, with individualized support.
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Strengthening your capacity to support change in complex environments.
Participants will be able to identify the obstacles and drivers of change within their organization and use creative methods (metaphors, storytelling, somatic practices) to foster buy-in and collective innovation.
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Adopting a regenerative and inclusive leadership approach.
Through immersive experiences (nature, arts, group work), participants will develop a leadership approach based on active listening, resilience, and inclusion, and will learn to adapt it to multicultural or interdisciplinary contexts.
Ken Otter
PhD expert in transformative leadership and expressive arts
Senior core faculty at the Tamalpa Institute
Ken Otter is lifelong surfer. He lives his life in perpetual motion, more improvised than choreographed. Professionally, he designs and facilitates innovative and transformative learning experiences for individuals and groups who wish to use their roles and work as levers to catalyze significant systemic change in their environment.
His approach aims to connect traditional and contemporary knowledge, art and science, as well as body, mind, and heart, to cultivate integrity, well-being, and wisdom on both an individual and collective level. The work and legacy of Anna Halprin and Joanna Macy, with whom he studied extensively, are major influences on his work.
For over 30 years, he has resided on the Point Reyes Peninsula in Northern California, where the community and ecology enchant, inspire, and nourish him daily. Academically, Ken Otter studied somatic psychology, counseling, organizational psychology, expressive arts therapy, adult development and learning, and leadership.
He holds a master's degree and a doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies and has also earned certifications in:
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Leadership Development (Harvard Kennedy School of Government),
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Executive and Organizational Coaching (Columbia Teachers College),
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Mindfulness Meditation (Greater Good Science Center), and
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Life-Art Process (Tamalpa Institute).
IN PRACTICE
68 hours of professional training
PARIS: Sat, April 11 to Wed, April 15 - 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
ONLINE: May 14, June 11, July 9, Aug 13, 2026 - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
LACANAU OCEAN: Tuesday, Sept 8, 2:00 PM to Sunday, Sept 13, 2:00 PM
To join the training:
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Complete the registration form
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Send us your CV by email to contact@tamalpafrance.org
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We will inform you of your acceptance and finalize your registration
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Join the Art of Leadership training
The cost of the training is €1360.
Various payment plans are available to suit your needs.
Please note that travel and accommodation expenses are the responsibility of the participants (allow €42/night in a shared room in Lacanau Océan).
Registration must be completed no later than 15 days before the start of the training. For more details, you can download the General Terms and Conditions of Sale.