The Art of Leading Collectively | hybrid
Navigating Complex Change for Collective Action
23 June 9:00 am — 26 June 2026 4:00 pm

Registration status: OPEN
(Deadline: 12 June 2026)

Course description

Duration: 4 days
Methodology:
CLI Collective Leadership Compass
Tuition fee:
€ 2,000 in-person, € 1,500 online
Registration status: OPEN
Registration deadline: 12 June 2026

Great collaboration doesn’t happen by accident — it’s intentionally led, strengthened, and practiced collectively.

Today’s complex challenges call for co-creation. Yet the realities of collaboration can be challenging: limited resources, conflicting agendas, social tensions, power imbalances, and multi-level decision-making. All of this can make it difficult to initiate, sustain, and scale genuine co-creation within teams and across partnerships.

The Collective Leadership Compass is a practical, human-centered framework that helps you assess, align, and continuously strengthen your collaborative efforts. By bringing diverse actors together and shaping adaptive partnerships that evolve into living networks, teams can navigate challenges with clarity and care, unlock collective potential, and turn diversity into strength.
It’s where authenticity meets effectiveness — and where co-creation becomes both a strategic and a deeply human success.

Registration (in-person & online)

The Art of Leading Collectively
Potsdam (Berlin area) & online, Germany - EUR 2,000
23 - 26 June 2026

Register

Download and fill in the registration form at page 2 of the flyer. Send it back as a signed PDF or photo to Cholpon Aitakhunova. You accept CLI’s general terms and conditions for the certification programme.

Yout key take-aways:
  • Understand Collective Leadership as the foundation of co-creation — where leadership is shared and diversity becomes strength.
  • Learn how to lead co-creation with aliveness, integrating purpose, authenticity, and collective intelligence into your leadership practice.
  • Apply the Collective Leadership Compass to design, navigate and monitor  collaboration processes .
  • Build resilient and adaptive structures that support outcome-oriented partnerships.
  • Translate your learning directly into your projects: Develop a six-month action plan, applying the principles of The Art of Leading Collectively.
  • Convince colleagues and partners that leading collectively will ease the management of complex change.
Meet your facilitator Elisabeth
Executive Director and Senior Project Manager at CLI Germany

You can rely on the deep expertise of CLI facilitators when participating an open course module. This course will be facilitated by Elisabeth Kuehn.

Learn more about Elisabeth
Meet your facilitator Guillem
Project Manager at CLI

You can rely on the deep expertise of CLI facilitators when participating an open course module. This course will be facilitated by Guillem Vallbona.

Learn more about Guillem
The training schedule for presence days is:

DAY 1: Explore Aliveness
Recognize your Strengths with the CL Compass

DAY 2: Leadership Journey;
Activate your Strengths for Leading Collectively

DAY 3: Build Momentum for Collective Leadership;
Improve Collaboration

DAY 4: Building Blocks for Collaborative Success;
Driving the Future Together

Important information

This training is planned as a hybrid event – both in-person participation in Potsdam, Germany, and online participation at Central European Time (CET) are possible. Please choose your format when you register.

CLI reserves the right to change an in-person participation into an online participation if you do not get your visa on time or other short-term notice reasons prevent you from coming to the course venue. Furthermore, the same applies if new pandemic situations occur that do not allow your participation on-site. Registrations remain valid in any of the cases given. We will come back to you individually in such situations and find the best possible solutions together.

Registration (in-person & online)

The Art of Leading Collectively
Potsdam (Berlin area) & online, Germany - EUR 2,000
23 - 26 June 2026

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Free information session Collective Leadership Specialist Programme

Online
29 January 2026
12:00pm - 2:00pm Central European Time (CET)

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Participants' feedback:

“The course shows how to deal with the complexity of collaboration.” – CEO, Switzerland

“It offers relevant tools with adequate flexibility for professional leadership but also for continuous life improvement.” – Deputy Project Head, Ghana

“Reassuring and inspiring; so much needed if we want to address changing systems and lift collaboration to another level.” – Project Manager, Jordan

“Aliveness from a system to the heart!” – Public Sector Director, Netherlands

“It’s the best holistic and integral approach and method I know about.” – Business Coach, Germany

Open questions?

Do you still have questions on this course? Feel free to contact Cholpon Aitakhunova directly, or join our upcoming free information session:

Course impressions:
Free information session Collective Leadership Specialist Programme

Online
29 January 2026
12:00pm - 2:00pm Central European Time (CET)

Register now
Registration (in-person & online)

The Art of Leading Collectively
Potsdam (Berlin area) & online, Germany - EUR 2,000
23 - 26 June 2026

Register