Fwd: Announcing New Leadership Opportunity at Spirit Rock
Ernest Isaacs
Some information about the new leadership structure at Spirit Rock.
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Subject: Announcing New Leadership Opportunity at Spirit Rock
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:00:44 -0700
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> *From: *<SR...@spiritrock.org <mailto:SR...@spiritrock.org>>
> *Date: *September 10, 2010 4:23:45 PM PDT
> *Subject: **Announcing New Leadership Opportunity at Spirit Rock*
> *Reply-To: *<SR...@spiritrock.org <mailto:SR...@spiritrock.org>>
>
>
> Dear Spirit Rock Community Member,
> We are writing to tell you about a new direction in governance that
> Spirit Rock is undertaking and to let you know about /*a leadership
> opportunity*/ that will be available as part of that new direction.
>
> Spirit Rock is moving to a �dharma-centric� model of governance. In
> this new model of governance, the primary emphasis of all planning,
> decision-making and administration processes will be on how they can
> be used as opportunities for practice and cultivating insight. Thus,
> all governance activities will reflect fundamentally the same
> intention as time spent on the cushion doing mindfulness and all the
> other beneficial practices of our tradition.
>
> One crucial aspect of this new model is that we will be redefining the
> chief administrative position, which will now be known as the Managing
> Director. This person will be responsible for day-to-day leadership
> and for ensuring that all aspects of Spirit Rock function effectively
> based on dharma values. Another key aspect is that members of the
> Teacher�s Council will be more actively involved in the governing
> process and will select a Guiding Teacher who will support the
> Managing Director by providing advice and counsel in keeping with the
> dharma-centric vision.
>
> As part of this governance shift, we will soon be /*interviewing and
> hiring a new Managing Director*/ who will have the opportunity to
> create and develop a vision for how leadership functions in a
> dharma-centric environment. If you are, or have been in the past, a
> top leader in a non-profit, for-profit, or government service
> organization, the position of Managing Director at Spirit Rock offers
> you a rare opportunity to bring your wisdom and imagination to
> inventing a new model of leadership. We are looking for someone with a
> dharma background who has the passion, skills and energy to fully
> embody this role.
>
> A third aspect of this new model is that all of the governing bodies
> at Spirit Rock have committed to conducting themselves as �learning
> communities.� In the learning community model, good and poor
> decisions, as well as skillful and unskillful implementation, are
> regarded as being of equal value in learning how to be a better
> organization in the future. Likewise, the goal is to share knowledge
> of what has been learned as widely as possible and to learn from all
> members of the community.
>
> If you find yourself excited about the possibility of being the leader
> of the Spirit Rock community as it pursues this new vision, please
> read the *job description posted here
> <http://www.spiritrock.org/display.asp?pageid=336&catid=1#MangEd>* and
> consider applying for the Managing Director position.
>
> In the dharma,
>
> Jack Kornfield and
> Sally Armstrong, Board Chair
>