Rockwood Leadership Blog

The Global Action Project (G.A.P.) is working with young people to author a new vision for our communities that is about acceptance, self-love, healing and justice. While I was in New York this week, I met with Rockwood (2008 Art of Leadership for Women in Racial Justice) alumna Meghan McDermott, Co-Director at G.A.P. and her [...]

We’re excited to announce that we have five Art of Leadership Trainings happening this fall on the East and West Coast, including a special training for Women in Racial Justice and Human Rights. You can view the schedule of trainings here. If you’ve already been through the Art of Leadership (yay!), we have an Advanced [...]

“Being willing to sit honestly with the hard stuff, and being also willing to honestly sit with the beauty, that’s the trick. To not get caught in an either/or story that says it’s either all terrible, or it’s all good, but to be able to hold the whole thing, and show up for it. That’s [...]

Effective visions are stated in the positive – what we are FOR, not what we’re AGAINST. When we read this post by Rockwood trainer, Suzanne Hawkes, on her blog last week, we knew we wanted to share it with you. What do you think are the qualities of great organizational vision? **** Quick: think of [...]

It was truly my pleasure to stand with Rockwood alumni leaders standing tall in Austin, TX – at the close of a 4-day retreat to envision possibilities for US human rights advocacy and progressive national security reform. Together. We congratulate these leaders on their commitment to ongoing connection across the field, and living the Rockwood practices. [...]

“If a woman can connect with why it’s so important, and how it’s so important that she serve, then she starts to become a leader.“ Sally’s List was founded in response to two alarming trends: 1. Oklahoma ranks 49th nationally in female representation at the state legislative level, and 2. Oklahoma ranks as one of [...]

“In order to really be an effective ‘leader’ in this movement, we must fully be present with each other. For me, that has meant that I need to put my cell phone down – I know – it gave me anxiety when I first tried it too!” In early 2013, Nicole Matthews, Executive Director of [...]

  As the Training Coordinator at Rockwood, I support social change and social benefit leaders to go through our public Art of Leadership Training Program.  It is an honor for me to witness the amazing people who come through our programs, representing an array of organizations from public policy, the arts, philanthropic and LGBTQ sectors.  [...]

My heart is a little tender these days. A couple of people I care about are at the end of their lives. My beloved cat of 19 years passed on earlier this month. Roger Ebert is no longer with us. My mother and aunt both died in May many years ago. All of these events [...]

A CALL TO MEN, Co-founder – Tony Porter presents at TED Women in Washington DC. He shares a powerful message about manhood and the role of men (as a collective) in preventing domestic and sexual violence. At TEDWomen, Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his [...]