Course Description: Rooted Leader: Renewal - Values, Energy, and Intentional Leadership

Rooted Leader is a seasonal leadership model that uses nature-based practice and applied reflection to build resilient, high-impact leaders. Each session combines a focused classroom workshop with guided forest immersion at Shevlin Park and results in a practical leadership tool participants apply immediately at work.

Format: This course includes two sessions-one classroom-based workshop followed by a guided forest bathing field experience at Shevlin Park. Outdoor session will proceed rain, snow, or cold with appropriate adjustments. In the event of unsafe conditions, the field component will be modified to an indoor reflective format.

Spring is a season of renewal-and an opportunity to realign how you lead. Rooted Leader: Renewal blends a classroom workshop with immersive forest bathing and structured journaling to help you examine how your values, energy, and attention shape your leadership priorities and next actions.

Participants move at a slow, accessible pace outdoors-no hiking required-using observation and focused attention to explore workplace challenges such as decision fatigue, burnout, and competing priorities. This approach draws on research on attention, cognitive restoration, and emotional regulation to support reflective and effective leadership.

Through facilitated activities and the Rooted Leader Journal, you will:

Clarify your core leadership values
Conduct a personal energy audit and identify renewal strategies
Develop a values-based decision filter for daily leadership choices
Commit to one practical leadership action to apply immediately

You will leave with a written leadership intention, a sustainable energy plan, and tools to support clear, consistent decision-making in your role.

Practical takeaways

Personal leadership values statement
Energy audit and renewal plan
Decision filter aligned to values

Workplace application
Prevents burnout, improves clarity, and supports ethical, consistent decision-making.

Participants use a session-specific Rooted Leader Journal (required course material) to document insights and develop a practical leadership action plan. A seasonal sensory element is incorporated to support attention and reflection practices introduced in the course. The seasonal landscape at Shevlin Park provides a distinct observational context for each session, informing reflection and leadership decision-making.

Each Rooted Leader session stands alone and addresses a specific leadership challenge. Participants who attend multiple sessions build a comprehensive leadership practice documented through the Rooted Leader Journal.

Course Details: (seats remaining)

Schedule:

Day 1: Meets April 17, 8:30-11:30 AM, Cascades Hall 104 - Bend Campus. Day 2: Meets April 24, 8:30-10:30 AM, Shevlin Park. Register by / Refund Deadline: 4/2/26

Times:

08:30am-11:30am PDT

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Price:

Class Price : $185.00

Additional Course Information

First session meets on Bend Campus. Second session meets at Shevlin Park.

Instructors

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Stefanie Siebold

Biography: Stefanie Siebold (she/hers) has spent 29 years in the fields of education and workforce development helping business leaders solve their workforce issues and overcome challenges in pursuit of success. She is the co-founder of PIQue Coaching and Strategy Group whose mission is to help leaders hire and inspire their dream team where engagement is positive and sustaining. She is driven by opportunities to increase workforce diversity by creating inclusive work environments where every employee can show up authentically and thrive. Stefanie approaches coaching and training opportunities with a sense of curiosity, discovery, and empathy which allows her to listen deeply, embrace multiple realities and the lived experiences of others creating an inclusive, authentic environment for meaningful learning. Her trainings bring relevance to diverse and complex topics of leadership, organizational development, team dynamics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her formal education includes earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Leadership and Organizational Development as well as a master's degree in Public Administration. She earned an Executive Certification in diversity and inclusion from Cornell University and she received her professional coaching certification through Coach Training Alliance. Stefanie is a certified consultant for the Predictive Index and is a trained mental fitness coach through Positive Intelligence. What she loves about this work is how coaching and training produce a co-creative environment where growth and opportunities are unearthed in transformative ways. It's that shift in perspective and those "ah ha" moments that bring about impactful and lasting transformation. Those moments provide clarity of direction as we walk down the pathway of success.

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Facility Detail

COCC Cascades Hall

CAS 104

2600 NW College Way

Bend, OR 97703

Cancellation Policy

Students must cancel by contacting our office via phone: (541) 383-7270 or email: ceinfo@cocc.edu. Cancellations received 14 days prior to the start of the class will receive a full refund. Full refunds are also issued for classes cancelled by COCC. Refunds will be issued back to your card or in the form of a check and mailed within two weeks of the cancellation date if paid by check or cash. Failure to participate in a course or program does not result in a refund. Exceptions to the general refund policy are noted in the course descriptions on our website and in the printed schedule. If you have any questions, please call us at (541) 383-7270.