Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (2001)
(140 pages)
English Edition 0-9710922-0-6 $24.95
Authors: Mahnaz Afkhami, Ann Eisenberg, and Haleh
Vaziri
In consultation with: Suheir Azzouni, Ayesha Imam,
Amina Lemrini, and Rabča Naciri
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Leading to Choices, developed by the Women's Learning Partnership
for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) in collaboration with its partner
organizations in the Global South, is based on a conceptualization of leadership
as horizontal, inclusive, and participatory. WLP views leadership as a process
that leads to greater choices for all by fostering communication among
individuals who learn from each other, create a shared vision, and reach a
common goal forged by consensus. The alternative leadership
model presented in the handbook responds to the need for leaders who
aspire to create egalitarian, democratic, and pluralistic societies based on
collaborative decision-making, coalition-building, and gender equality.
Leading to Choices features a contextual chapter, twelve workshop
sessions, and an appendix containing culture-specific scenarios relevant to the
cultivation of effective leadership skills. At the heart of each workshop
session is a case study or scenario. These scenarios depict individuals who
discovered personal leadership skills that enabled them to address a challenging
situation in their community. The scenarios also feature the innovative work of
organizations from around the world that emphasize participatory decision making
and communication, both internally and with their target constituencies. The
scenarios span the globe, from Jordan where attorney Asma Khader spearheads the
campaign to eliminate gender violence in her country; to Brazil where NGO
Communication, Education, and Information on Gender uses communication
technologies as a vehicle for women to express themselves and promote gender
equality; to Pakistan and Afghanistan where the Afghan Institute of Learning
works to educate, train, and empower Afghan women and children living in refugee
camps; and to Nigeria, where BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights employs technology
- from the copy machine to e-mail - to share information with women in
sub-Saharan Africa and enhance their ability to participate fully in their
communities. The sessions are organized as a progression in learning to
encourage participants' involvement in decision making processes and to promote
a participatory and dialogical leadership style.
Leading to Choices is a prototype handbook with a flexible
curriculum that may be adapted and customized to suit the diverse cultural,
political, and socio-economic needs of women and men around the world. Designed
for use in interactive workshops, the handbook includes "Guidelines for
Facilitating" that enable the user to create a stimulating environment that
promotes mutual respect, dialogue, and collaboration. Leading to
Choices has been used in leadership training workshops in Afghanistan,
Brazil, Cameroon, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia,
Mauritania, Morocco, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Tanzania, Turkey,
Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe. Participants have included women, young girls, and
men; Muslims and Christians; and human rights activists, university students,
women NGO representatives, refugees, and domestic workers, among others.
Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (2001)
(140 pages)
English Edition 0-9710922-0-6 $24.95
Order
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(PDF, 1.4 MB)