Events & Workshops
Our workshops and programming are can be tailored to the needs of your group, staff, and/or participants. We will work with you to determine what specific tools would be most helpful to obtain your goals.
"Not only did I enjoy this, but I would recommend it. I will use many of these techniques with my teams. Thank you." – Workshop Attendee

Relationships: Developing a Relational Strategy to Meet Your Goals (virtual)
Date: Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Time: 10am-11:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
“Birds of a feather flock together”, an English idiom that refers to how like minds come together. What about different perspectives?Brush up on tips to build relational strategies to achieve your goals at home and work!
Date: Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Time: 10am-11:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
“Birds of a feather flock together”, an English idiom that refers to how like minds come together. What about different perspectives?Brush up on tips to build relational strategies to achieve your goals at home and work!

Happy AND Helpful Volunteers? Yes, and More Please! (virtual)
Date: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Time: 10am-11:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
Join a panel of volunteer engagement professionals and volunteers as they share their positive experiences in working with and being a volunteer! Hear how they used creativity to shift the “working with volunteers is like herding cats” to working with volunteers is fun and is the best return on investment for the organization!
Happy National Volunteer Week – April 20 – April 26, 2025 — Brandon Lambert, Joe Hailey, Alice Fong as moderator.
Date: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
Time: 10am-11:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
Join a panel of volunteer engagement professionals and volunteers as they share their positive experiences in working with and being a volunteer! Hear how they used creativity to shift the “working with volunteers is like herding cats” to working with volunteers is fun and is the best return on investment for the organization!
Happy National Volunteer Week – April 20 – April 26, 2025 — Brandon Lambert, Joe Hailey, Alice Fong as moderator.

Self-Care!? Juggling Competing Priorities and Yourself (virtual)
Date: Tuesday, May 29th 2025
Time: 2pm-3:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
Did you skip another meal, again? Declined going out with friends due to a project? Don’t bother making exercise part of your new year’s resolution because you’ll break it again. Join us for a panel of busy professionals who juggle self-care into their busy lives. Join this interactive session to expand your practices!
Date: Tuesday, May 29th 2025
Time: 2pm-3:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
Did you skip another meal, again? Declined going out with friends due to a project? Don’t bother making exercise part of your new year’s resolution because you’ll break it again. Join us for a panel of busy professionals who juggle self-care into their busy lives. Join this interactive session to expand your practices!

Leadership for the 21st Century (virtual)
Date: Thursday, September 18th 2025
Time: 9pm-10:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
The Center has shared our approach in many sectors, including health care, business, government, community, nonprofit, and schools. This session introduces people with tools to lead in the 21st century. Create space for people to bring their “best stuff” to conversations, relationships, and the workplace in a non-critical, open-minded environment.
Date: Thursday, September 18th 2025
Time: 9pm-10:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
The Center has shared our approach in many sectors, including health care, business, government, community, nonprofit, and schools. This session introduces people with tools to lead in the 21st century. Create space for people to bring their “best stuff” to conversations, relationships, and the workplace in a non-critical, open-minded environment.

Living with Gracious Space (virtual)
Date: Thursday, October 30th 2025
Time: 9pm-10:15am
Investment: $60
Link will be sent with your registration receipt.
When two or more gather, well-meaning people may find themselves in situations of conflict or disagreements. Whether y, community initiative, difficult conversation on race, a reorganization, performance appraisal, coaching conversation, new vision, mission or strategic plan, a new team, or mediation – Gracious Space can make the relationships stronger and the work flow more creatively. This session dives deeper when we invite the stranger and learn in public.
Values-Based Leadership Stewards Program
Fall 2025
The Stewards Program takes participants on a deep and transformative two-part journey -- the internal work of personal growth and development and the external work of social action. This is a community of practice as to identify and know our values and have the courage and discipline to act on them on behalf of the common good for all. The program meets monthly for ten months and will begin in October 2024. For more information and to apply to this year's cohort, please view the VBL Stewards Application.
"I highly recommend CEL's Stewards program to anyone who agrees that pursuit of the common good is a worthwhile leadership endeavor, and who is also motivated to actively engage toward that end." -- Joe Hailey, CEL Volunteer
Fall 2025
The Stewards Program takes participants on a deep and transformative two-part journey -- the internal work of personal growth and development and the external work of social action. This is a community of practice as to identify and know our values and have the courage and discipline to act on them on behalf of the common good for all. The program meets monthly for ten months and will begin in October 2024. For more information and to apply to this year's cohort, please view the VBL Stewards Application.
"I highly recommend CEL's Stewards program to anyone who agrees that pursuit of the common good is a worthwhile leadership endeavor, and who is also motivated to actively engage toward that end." -- Joe Hailey, CEL Volunteer

Leadership Legacy Event:
Strengthening Relationships to Advance the Common Good
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025
Time: 7:00pm - 8:15pm PST
Ticket: $50
Doors open at 6:30pm
Location: Wisteria Hall Terrace (outside)
2300 Arboretum Drive E Seattle, WA 98112
You and your guests are invited to join us for a beautiful evening to connect and be inspired. Refreshments are available for in-person guests.
Strengthening Relationships to Advance the Common Good
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2025
Time: 7:00pm - 8:15pm PST
Ticket: $50
Doors open at 6:30pm
Location: Wisteria Hall Terrace (outside)
2300 Arboretum Drive E Seattle, WA 98112
You and your guests are invited to join us for a beautiful evening to connect and be inspired. Refreshments are available for in-person guests.
Photo from 2021 Leadership Legacy Event
*We offer scholarships on a sliding scale. Please contact us.
Values-Based Leadership Stewards ProgramWhat does it mean to share the rock? The Stewards Program takes participants on a deep and transformative two-part journey -- the internal work of personal growth and development and the external work of social action.
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Restorative, Inclusive School Environment Initiative (RISE)The Restorative, Inclusive School Environments (RISE) Initiative seeks to build youth-adult partnerships and community-based collective leadership to create and foster the necessary conditions for all students to succeed.
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Stewards CircleComing Soon!
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