Journey Programming
Safarini Journeys are customisable to suit individual leaders from around the world, as well as groups or teams from a single organisation. Whether a shared cohort or team journey, each typically consist of three phases:
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- Discovery & Planning
- Multi-Day Expedition (5-10 days)
- Post-Expedition Coaching (remote)
Every element of the Safarini experience is designed with input from organizational psychologists, executive coaches, and indigenous community leaders. The goal is to improve your self awareness, intercultural competence, and creativity, which are the lifeblood of elevated leadership.
Pre-Expedition: Discovery & Planning
Depending on the nature of your journey, prior to your expedition you will engage with your cohort and Safarini facilitators to undertake a series of diagnostic and preparatory exercises. These will include:
- Remote discussion groups: these will focus on relevant readings, both fiction and non-fiction, exploring the leadership and experiences of Kenya’s pastoralist tribes.
- Leadership Assessments: to assess your leadership style and competencies prior to your expedition, you may have the opportunity to take leading assessments such as the Intercultural Development Inventory or the Aperian GlobeSmart Profile, and be individually debriefed by a certified Administrator.
Expedition: Bush Workshops
Indigenous cultures have radically different views of leadership. Traversing their land, engaging their ideas, and contrasting your own enhances your creativity and self-awareness. Expeditions typically use afternoons to workshop areas of shared interest and contrasting approach, such as:
- Leadership Across Generations: are you harnessing the potential of the next generation to build purposeful successors?
- Harmony, Speed & Dissent: Are you efficient at the expense of inclusivity, buy-in, and conflict resolution?
- Resilience & Anti-Fragility: Do you and your team have the culture and clarity of purpose to persevere through hardship?
- Cross-Cultural Communication: Do you shy away from sensitive topics? Can you withstand challenges and find respectful disagreement?
Expedition: Reflective Walk & Talks
Fundamental to your Journey is movement. Each morning, you walk through wilderness with indigenous elders. At the start, prompts are offered from the prior workshop to facilitate deeper discussion as you trek together and sharing at your first break.
Walking is an ideal platform for learning and reflection. It reduces eye contact, promoting fluidity and relaxation in discussion, while breaking down cultural barriers and power imbalances. As a result, these conversations are free-flowing, with multiple chats breaking out in parallel, then overlapping.
Thereafter, walking time is unstructured. You stop frequently to observe wild game, learn about medicinal plants, practice bush skills, and encounter indigenous mobile villages.
Post-Expedition: Continued Learning
Safarini Leadership Journeys are the experience and adventure of a lifetime, but they are designed to be more than fond memories.
To ensure that the self-awareness and perspective you gain on your expedition has a meaningful and lasting impact on your leadership practice, Safarini’s certified executive coaches can provide remote group coaching for 6-8 weeks following the completion of your expedition.
Your group coaching engagement can also include re-administering your pre-expedition assessments to explore immediate, measurable developmental impact.
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