Transformative Retreat
for CEOs and
Emerging Corporate Leaders
Spiritual Resources
for Responsible
Corporate Management
March, 2001
Conducted by
Vishva Niketan International Peace Centre
Your Work
If you are in the business world, you know that time and information
count. You are asked every day to balance the demands of supervisors, customers,
stockholders, employees, competitors, family—and your own mind—to make
sense. If you are not careful, the goal of "success" can overshadow your
most authentic values, turning into profound personal loss.
Your Life
Your 24-hour days need not be filled with responsibilities and deadlines,
constantly difficult choices and anxiety. Nor should you rely on yourself
alone. To share the richness of each moment; to be attentive to the here
and now, you have to be available.
Your Self
You can do more than merely cope with such challenges. If you are open
to the "teachable moment," the lessons appear. Amidst the stress of rapid-fire
decision making, you know what to do. "Spiritual Resources for Responsible
Corporate Management" can help.
Meditation and dialogue at Vishva Niketan International Peace Centre
begin with fundamental assumptions: each of us has a brain and a
heart. Our physical being is guided by psychological and spiritual energy.
And if we tap our own inner strengths we can find the presence of mind
to flourish. Ironically, such self awareness comes
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Benefits of this Training
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Deeper insight into business and social situations
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Greater integration of your "doing" life with your "being"
life
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Increased access to emotional intelligence for work and family
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Enhanced clarity and creative thinking
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Increased energy and sense of well-being
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Heightened appreciation of what is really important.
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Rest and respite from the "busyness" of business
The Schedule
(one overnight stay).
The programme will include periods of guided and silent
meditation, periods of collective inquiry and dialogue, individual and
group exercises, and positive learning activities.
Retreat Goals
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To experience firsthand a deep degree of stillness of mind
and body
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To learn how to reliably cultivate and sustain spiritual
resources under many different conditions
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To taste your own timeless capacity to generate imaginative,
effective, and authentic solutions along the path of a company, an organization,
or for yourself.
from taking "time out" as well as looking within. As you understand your
interdependence with others and with nature, you find the freedom to grow.
In mindful and creative interactions with a small group at Vishva Niketan,
you can master the skills you need and discover resources you never knew
you had.
Resource Persons:
Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, founder and President of the Sarvodaya Shramadana
Movement of Sri Lanka.
Mrs. Charika Marasinghe, lawyer and law school faculty member
Mr. Gunapala Uggalla, meditation leader
Facilitators:
Ms. Sadeeva Ariyaratne
Ms. Jayani Samaranayake
Mr. Jagath Gunawardene
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To schedule a retreat for your organisation
or business, contact:
Vishva Niketan International Peace
Centre
72/30 Rawatawatte Road, Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka.
Tel/Fax: (94-1)655653 E-mail: vishvanketan@mail.ewisl.net