An immersive Formed Leader experience in attention and the wisdom in self-leadership.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities
Southern Pines, North Carolina
A light lunch and refreshments will be served.
Kindly reply by October 5.
Join Amy Shortt, creator of The Formed Leader, for an immersive introduction to a different approach to leadership development—one that attends not only to what leaders know and do, but to who they are becoming.
Through Mozart’s Fantasia in D minor, K. 397, guided reflection, dialogue, and intentional practice, participants will explore how the arts and humanities can cultivate attention, self-awareness, and the capacity for self-leadership.
At the heart of the experience is a deceptively simple leadership practice: learning to notice what is happening within us before we respond. By creating greater space between stimulus and response, leaders can move from automatic reaction toward more intentional choice—cultivating the presence, discernment, and wisdom that shape how we live and lead.
The Encounter
This is not a lecture about Mozart. It is an interactive formation experience.
Participants will listen, notice, reflect, write, and engage in facilitated dialogue—using a work of art as a way of seeing themselves and their leadership more clearly.
No musical knowledge or experience is necessary.
The Invitation
The Mozart Experience is designed for executives, organizational leaders, leadership-development professionals, educators, nonprofit and community leaders, and anyone interested in exploring how to live and lead more wisely.
No previous experience with The Formed Leader—or with classical music—is necessary.
The experience will take place at the historic Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines. Once the home of novelist James Boyd and his wife Katharine, Weymouth carries forward a rich tradition of bringing people together around literature, music, ideas, and cultural life.
The setting offers a particularly fitting home for The Mozart Experience: a place shaped by the conviction that encounters with the arts can deepen how we see, understand, and engage the world.
Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities
555 E. Connecticut Avenue
Southern Pines, NC 28387
Join us for The Mozart Experience and explore what becomes possible when leadership development makes room for attention, reflection, and the distinctly human work of becoming.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
A light lunch and refreshments will be served.
Kindly reply by October 5.