Golf Leadership Workshop Details

Who is considered a leader?    In can be said that every individual by being inherently in charge of the success or failure of one human life’s a leader.  The simplest of definitions a leader I know is “ someone who sees the need and responds.”   So those in the position of corporate leaders lead best when recognize that those they hire are also leaders facing great challenges and obstacles, besides those contained in their jobs.  If the foundation of all leadership is self-leadership we all have the similar lessons to learn and can improve their leadership skills by practicing them in everything they do. 

How is leadership related to playing golf?  One person, one ball, one goal, and hundreds of ideas, from different sources about the best way to play the game  Perhaps in no other game is there such a sharp contrast between one’s “best” and worst performance.  Imagine what impact that has on one’s learning/performance environment in their heads?  If we lend our awareness to our inner dialogue, as well as to our swings, we will find wonderful examples of habits the work and those that interfere with of how we lead ourselves on the golf course.  We may even find moments of rare silence born of trust, in which we don’t even think we’re exercising control, yet which brings out our best shots.  Within this addictive game, we catch glimpses of our potential both to learn from our experience, as being confounded by an uncanny tendency to repeat unproductive habit patterns, mentally and physically.  It becomes a mystery do us why we continue to play to the the level of our expectations, and even get nervous when on the verge of surpassing our usual scores.   We correct, we fix, and assess ourselves continuously, and of course secretly are always looking for the secret of the game which we think we find once per week.  We’ll recommend ways to practice increased awareness, but no secrets, which only feed the hope that we can stop being conscious and stop learning.      

The purpose:   The goal of the game of golf is made clear in the Royal and Ancient Rules of the game:   get around the course in as few strokes as possible. But these rules do not tell us why to play the game, and what we can get out of the hours we do. These are leadership decisions that each player must choose. What is more important, my score, my enjoyment, or what I learn?  Can I learn more on the golf course than golf?  Our answer is, “Yes you can, if you can free your self from your attachment to score.  The purpose of the workshop is to explore what works and what doesn’t, in golf, in self-leadership and life itself.  Our hope is that you open the door to understanding of yourself as well as your golf, to find what can be truly fulfilling and enriching use of the time you invest in the game buy generic zolpidem that goes beyond the gratification of score.  We hope in fact that you, like others, will find your own ways of  to lower your golf handicap by exploring the possibilities of letting go of some of the ways you have learned to handicap yourself. Such learnings become applicable to leadership of all kinds.  For example, you may find the courage it takes to “delegate” your swing to the parts of body that know more about how to learn to swing a club, than you will ever learn from a book.  Or how to handle pressure by not creating it in the first place.  

The Inner Game method:  Do not expect to be taught new techniques of golf or leadership. Expect rather to find a learning environment free of judgment, where you can explore your potential to learn by increasing awareness of your experience in the moment.  Many who have explored the inner game learning methods, have find found unexpected ways to gain insights and understandings that can be applied to any aspect of their lives.

NOTE TO ORGANIZERS:  Logistics will vary with workshops and include:  venue, date, schedule, meals, costs, equipment, clothing. Some workshops will offer the choice of participating for one or two days.  Some will be open to anyone interested.  Others will be selective to corporate leaders from the same corporation who choose to have a common experience.  When Tim Gallwey is not present, the workshop will be lead by facilitators he has personally trained who speak the local language.