Across 80 hours of professional development training, the program will meet February to June for the Opening Retreat and Leadership Forums, followed by a Closing Symposium in September. 

The Program is broken into four structural components, each targeted on accelerating systemic shifts towards climate resilience:

• Opening Retreat – Mandatory multi-day, off-site weekend retreat laying key skills-building and cohort-building foundations.
• Leadership Forums – Uniquely-tailored, facilitated professional and personal leadership development skill-building sessions. These are hands-on, highly-collaborative, and experiential, with learning contextualized through impact-based case studies, and geared towards evolving your knowledge and capacity for change leadership.
• Cohort Project – Cohort-curated and -led exploration of a challenge facing the Los Angeles region to stretch your professional and leadership development in a real-time setting to leverage the diverse cross-sectoral peer learning environment and lean into impact. 
• Closing Symposium – A mandatory post-program forum for facilitated reflection and cohort support after a period of real-world, practical and theoretical application of learning.

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CRLN brings together a diverse cross-sector cohort of professionals for an immersive experiential program committed to building the leadership capacity of Los Angeles County’s climate policy, advocacy and community-based change makers.  Focused on building your leadership skills, systems-based knowledge, and issue-centered networks, the program exposes you to cross-sectoral and intersectional perspectives on climate issues and policy, community and issues advocacy, environmental justice, and land conservation and transformation. 

Drawing from practices of regenerative and place-sourced solutions, CRLN enables participants to deepen their understanding of the innate potential that lies within the natural and human living systems of Los Angeles Basin and build a toolkit to disrupt systems and structures to foster a more climate resilient future. 

The curriculum integrates the following: 

• Adaptive Leadership & Systems Thinking
• Coalition Building & Community Engagement
• Effective Communication, Storytelling, and Advocacy
• Effective Inquiry and Critical Thinking
• Equity, Inclusion, Belonging
• Group Dynamics
• Living Infrastructure Concepts
• Los Angeles. as a Living System
• Negotiations and Managing Conflict
• Place-Sourced Practices
• Public Narrative Frameworks 
• Regenerative Approaches
• Stakeholder and Power Analysis
• Self-Awareness and Self-Management Tools

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As a leadership and professional development institute, Coro’s program goals, including CRLN, aim to expand the leadership and professional capacity of our program participants in order for them to have the networks, skills, and knowledge, supporting them as they drive impact in their work and communities. 

The program creates opportunities for you to bring your professional work and passion into the program.

• Visualizing What is Possible – To help envision what urban regeneration is in a place-based setting, you will have the opportunity to utilize a Living Infrastructure Field Kit to understand: 1) impacts and trade-offs from various approaches, as well as 2) new pathways to get meaningful community-based input and engagement.
• Peer Consultancy – The peer consultancy model enables you to bring into the program a real-world professional challenge you are seeking to address and to seek peer coaching from your cohort.
• Exploring Tough Interpretations – An adaptive leadership module that builds on Coro’s effective inquiry, giving and receiving feedback, and effective communication tools to illuminate your resistance to change.
• Impact Project – As a cohort-led component of the program, the Impact Project provides you with an opportunity to expand your knowledge of the challenges the region faces related to the issues of climate resilience, while also engaging in thought-partnership with other cohort participants and external stakeholders on how to move forward.

Coro values diverse perspectives, identities, experiences, and world views represented in programming and cohorts; as such, CRLN cohorts reflect the make-up of the region, representing a wide array of backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and identities.

Ideal CRLN candidates are those who:

• work in, live in, and/or serve communities in Los Angeles County;
• have direct experience in living infrastructure practices and advocacy, climate change action, environmental protection and justice, energy, community development, water solutions, land management and conservation, and/or other related fields;
• have a demonstrated passion for or commitment to creating innovative solutions to building a climate resilient Los Angeles;
• hold an interest in environmental infrastructure, climate resilience, and environmental justice challenges;
• view climate change and environmental protection as a cross-sectoral challenge, requiring multi-sectoral communication and collaboration to sustainably make an impact and have the mindset needed to engage in transformational work; and 
• have the support they need from their organizations and/or capacity to fully commit to program sessions and group assignments.

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Multi-Perspective: You should be ready to engage productively with different paradigms and perspectives, ready to participate in personal reflection, and be willing to evaluate and reconsider your worldview given new information. Come prepared to explore new ways to contribute to the larger whole or create more value in your work.

Embracing Ambiguity: A signature characteristic of Coro programming is intentionally using ambiguity as a way to highlight your leadership defaults, ignite your learning, and support you to lead and manage through uncertainty.

Learn by Doing: Coro views leadership as a practice; you should be ready to learn by doing with sessions as opportunities to lay the foundation; you will gain the most by taking the skills, tools, and frameworks and practicing/adapting them in your professional roles.

Vulnerability and Psychological Safety: Coro views vulnerability as a critical leadership attribute essential for unleashing learning, building authentic and meaningful connection, and for holding spaces that are psychologically safe. Coro believes psychological safety is a precursor to adaptive, innovative collaboration. You should be ready to contribute to building a psychological safe cohort environment by engaging, modeling vulnerability, seeking perspectives different than your own, sharing and receiving feedback, and contributing to a culture of gratitude and generosity.

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Thanks to generous support from ARLA, Coro Southern California is able to offer CRLN to participants for a significantly reduced program fee of $250 (discounted and subsidized down from $9,500).

The generous financial support of CRLN’s sponsors and program fee covers:

• Over 80 hours of expert facilitated learning, materials, and instruction
• Overnight shared-occupancy accommodations for the Opening Leadership Retreat (specific details will be provided)
• All meals during the Opening Leadership Retreat
• Interpersonal Leadership Styles™ assessment and materials
• Lunch during full-day, in-person sessions
• Closing Ceremony reception
• Upon successful completion, a Coro CRLN certificate of completion and access to the Coro community and special alumni-only events, programming, and platforms

You may incur additional incidental expenses due to your participation, such as transportation and parking costs and additional meals outside of those provided by Coro.

Participant Stipend: Thanks to the generous support of ARLA, Coro is able to offer a limited number of needs-based stipends up to $1,000 per participant to offset expenses related to their participation, such as transportation and child care. Applicants seeking participant stipends must complete at the time of application the relevant questions on the CRLN application.

Employer and Sponsor Assistance: Most of Coro’s past participants have secured financial support from their employers to cover the program fee. We encourage you to speak with your employer or to engage your network about potential support. We have prepared this useful Program Benefits Guide to support you in employer conversations about professional development.