Events & Workshops

Listed are opportunities to experience CEL’s proven leadership approach that is based on research in moral, human, community, and leadership development. We have helped thousands of people in businesses, schools, communities, nonprofit organizations, and government gain the results they are seeking. CEL provides a multitude of offerings to operate more effectively and create cultures worth being in. Inquire on how our tailored programs and services can meet your needs. 
"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
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​Living with Gracious Space Webinar (Virtual)

Date: Thursday, December 11th 2025
Time: 12:00-12:45pm PST
Cost: $25
​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 the project is a leadership development program, 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.

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SAVE THE DATE!!
​2026 Leadership Legacy Event

Date: Thursday, August 20th 2026
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm PST 
Ticket: $50

Wisteria Hall Terrace (outdoor event) 
2300 Arboretum Drive E.  Seattle, WA 98112

Join us for a beautiful evening at Wisteria Hall Terrace for friendship, inspiration, and updates. Not able to join us, donations are appreciated! There will be an ask to raise funds to support CEL's mission. Event sponsorship from last year.

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Dale, Alice, Bill, and Waing Waing at the 2025 Leadership Legacy Event!
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10-month Stewards Cohort
2026-2027 recruitment for Cohort #5 Application
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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 September 2025. 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​

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Seven Practices of Leadership for the Common Good
​"In a world stretched to the limits of viability by divisive "us-them" thinking, we need a worldview founded upon a greater truth: the unity of humankind and the wholeness of the planet."  
​​-- Cover from Sharing the Rock
Timeline for application process from last year as an example. Learn more about Stewards.
*We offer scholarships on a sliding scale. Please contact us. 

Values-Based Leadership Stewards Program

What 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.

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.

Stewards Circle

Coming Soon!