shake the foundations • nourish the roots
PARADIGM is a 1.5 year intensive for leaders, coaches, healers, therapists, teachers, and facilitators committed to relational leadership and impact with integrity.
In your work with other humans, you lead, coach, heal, teach or facilitate, and want to listen and love with more skill, ease, depth, clarity, integrity, and impact.
You have an established human-centered practice or business and want to learn and grow in intimate community with James-Olivia and a tiny-group of like-hearted folks.
You recognize your contribution… and there’s more inside you that will require you to hone your skills, build your capacity, and cultivate right relationship in the face of difference.
You want to inhabit and lead from a paradigm of sovereignty.
The Focus: You.
You are the program.
Your leadership.
Your learning.
Your sovereignty.
Your relationships.
Your commitments.
Your responsibilities.
Your skills and capacity.
Your vision.
Your values.
Your legacy.
Your integrity.
Your community.
Your impact.
Your humanity and joy.
The Structure: 1.5 years — Six total quarterly in-person gatherings + monthly 1:1 thought partnering conversations
- Quarterly 3-day intensives (Chicago, IL)
- 6-Day in-person Relational Leadership Lab & Closing gathering (Chicago, IL)
- Regular 1:1 conversations with James-Olivia
- Monthly 1:1 conversations with a program partner
- Ongoing monthly community of practice after program ends
The Dates: April 2024 to May 2025
In person – Chicago, IL
- April 25-27, 2024 (10am – 7pm)
- July 25-27, 2024 (10am – 7pm)
- October 24-26, 2024 (10am – 7pm)
- January 23-25, 2025 (10am – 7pm)
- April 24-26, 2025 (10am – 7pm)
- July 20-26, 2025 (10am – 7pm, final day we will end at 2pm)
The Cost: $15,000 (Travel and lodging are not included in program cost)
The Facilitator: James-Olivia Chu Hillman
Hi! I’m James-Olivia. I am a friend to humans who love and lead, a facilitator and enthusiastic advocate of uncomfortable, extraordinary, life-changing conversations, a foundation shaker and root nourisher, and fellow work-in-progress (i.e. avid & grateful maker of mistakes).
I ask exquisitely rude questions & I cherish exquisitely honest (and sometimes squirmy) answers. This is one of the ways I love.
I believe the conversation is the relationship, and that in Right Relationship there is room for us (you and me and everyone) to show up with our whole selves. I believe neither freedom nor joyful connection can be sustained without combining relentless compassion with the disobedience of inquiry.
In my own life and in my work with individuals, partners, teams, and organizations, I actively seek out and engage in the conversations that radically alter our most important relationships — with ourselves, our loved ones, our work, the world, and everything.
To inquire about Paradigm 2024-2025, send me a little note.
I’d love to share a conversation with you.
Shake the foundations. Nourish the roots.