VIVIFY
REGENERATIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Awaken Your Wildness
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Clarify Your Calling
VIVIFY IS FOR THOSE WHO…
Desire to move beyond burnout and overwhelm to aliveness and presence.
Crave deep, lasting connection with nature.
Have found some professional success, but sense a deeper calling.
Aspire to weave a tapestry of balance, integrating thriving relationships, impactful work, and a strong and vital body.
Are ready to embrace the crises of our times with courage, creativity, and a renewed sense of service.
Are ready for a transformative adventure.
If you resonate with any of the above, then VIVIFY is for you.
2024 DATES
Kickoff: April 21st
High Sierra Wilderness Retreat: July 20-28
WHAT IS VIVIFY?
The VIVIFY Regenerative Leadership Program is a 4-month transformative journey for 12 adventurous professionals and leaders who are ready to discover a deeper way of being.
Blending leadership coaching with a unique off-trail wilderness backpacking expedition, VIVIFY supports you in stepping into vibrant aliveness and service.
Our world needs leaders who prioritize and embody…
Personal Regeneration
From burnout and overwhelm to aliveness and presence.
Collective Regeneration
Living in deep alignment and service to our communities and the natural world.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES
Come into integrity in your relationships and commitments.
Rewire your relationship with technology, and build an immune system against distraction.
Awaken your wildness - embrace discomfort to find the juice of life.
Discover the unique gift you have to offer in service of regeneration.
Who will you become in the high places of this world?
YOUR GUIDE
Dom Francks
Dom is a wilderness guide and leadership coach.
He is on a mission to foster regenerative leadership, blending personal vitality and ecological harmony. He empowers individuals to live and lead in ways that enhance their own aliveness and presence and create a deep and lasting relationship with the more-than-human world.
Dom has led wilderness immersions in remote locations including Patagonia and Alaska, and has held leadership roles at climate-tech companies, serving as Chief of Staff at Terramera and Head of Product at Solara Energy. In a past life, he was also Captain of the Stanford University Golf Team.
His work is inspired by the Animas Valley Institute, where he trained in the Yearlong Soulcraft Immersion. He’s also completed coach training with the Conscious Leadership Group.
Dom lives for movement in the mountains - he’s skied on the tallest peaks of the lower 48, completed a solo traverse of the Southern Sierra High Route, and ridden dogsleds across the Boundary Waters.
TESTIMONIALS
"Dom is one of a rare breed of man that is as skilled at exploring external landscapes as he is internal landscapes. His emotional awareness and attunement helped me to find insight into parts of my own nature and soul I hadn't yet traversed, and to reconnect to my deeper purpose."
ARIAN MAHINI
Lead AI Negotiation Advisor, Rora
"When I started working with Dom, I was feeling burned out and overwhelmed, and was seeking more embodied presence and balance. Through our work, I reconnected with my sense of self, my sense of strength, and my spirit. He helped me to show up more fully for myself and to lead more authentically and compassionately. Dom guided me back to connection with wildness and the natural world, something I was sorely missing. I recommend working with Dom to anyone who has a profound sense of mission, and wants to honor their love of the wild.”
KEALLY DEWITT
VP, GAF Energy
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
Leadership Coaching
The VIVIFY Program weaves together three styles of distinct coaching: group coaching, individual coaching, and peer coaching. The group sessions build community and introduce the curriculum. The individual sessions support you exactly where you’re at, and help you apply the VIVIFY curriculum to your life.
Wilderness Immersion
The 8-day wilderness immersion is here to give you a hard reboot. You’ll spend 3 months preparing the ground for this expedition, and you’re going to go deep. You’ll spend 6 days in the High Sierra, the premier mountains in the world for off-trail backpacking.
VIVIFY Community
You’ll be a part of a vibrant, committed community of other leaders. You’ll support each other, celebrate with each other, and travel as a pack through the High Sierra.
The peer coaching sessions are where you begin embodying Regenerative Leadership, supporting your teammates through guided sessions.
Integration
VIVIFY is structured to enable you to stabilize as a regenerative leader. You’ll be supported through the end of the program, with complementary integration coaching sessions and an ongoing Community Council.
Program Kickoff
April 21
High Sierra Wilderness Immersion
July 20-28
Program Close
August 20
Ongoing biweekly group coaching, individual coaching, and peer coaching throughout the program.
HIGH SIERRA WILDERNESS QUEST
A profound journey into your inner wildness.
Retreat for Clarity
Every healthy culture through history has known that to show up most fully in our communities and our daily lives, we must periodically retreat to wild places. VIVIFY gives you that opportunity, within a container to guide you towards deeper insights, and integrate them back into your life.
Belonging In Nature
You’ll explore primarily off-trail in the premier mountains in the world to discover on foot. Many people know about Yosemite, but the Sierra holds many equally incredible secrets. You’ll quest deep into the range, away from roads, into a wilderness area the size of Switzerland.
Rewild Your Body
Our route will take you in and out of stunning, rarely visited alpine basins. You’ll summit a 14,000’ peak, and spend time on the John Muir Trail. You’ll see marmots, drink from mountain streams, and experience the miracle of a hot drink while enjoying an alpine sunrise.
Are you ready for a transformative adventure?
Though this will be a physical challenge, no backpacking experience is required. On our Introduction Call, we’ll ask you a few questions to make sure you’ll be ready.
"Dom has helped me crystallize personal values and live in accordance with them. This has had massive impacts for me personally and professionally — bringing more energy into running my business, deepening the quality of my relationships, and finding more commitment to my decisions.”
JAMIE MCCROSKERY
CEO, Bluebird Climate
"I wanted to build more intentionality into my day-to-day, clarify and align with my long term vision, and connect more deeply with the natural world. Working with Dom was extremely supportive for all of the above. His creative coaching helped me reframe my challenges and find novel solutions."
JACK FRITZINGER
Founder & Climate Solutions Consultant, Timberline Strategies
The VIVIFY Curriculum
Our Regenerative Leadership Curriculum has three core pillars:
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AN OPERATING SYSTEM FOR FULL ALIVENESS
Integrity of Attention - cultivate profound presence to offer your attention to what matters most.
Integrity in Communication - empower yourself to create clean boundaries and flow in relationships.
Integrity in Action - Embrace your intuition for more aligned decision-making and greater impact.
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BECOME THE CREATOR OF YOUR LIFE
Step out of fearful reactivity, and into playful creativity.
Identify and break stale and limiting patterns.
Cultivate the courage to face the crises of our times.
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CONNECT WITH WILDERNESS, INSIDE AND OUT
1. Rewild your body, through movement, ritual, and connection with nature.2. Rewire your relationship with technology.
3. Discover a powerful and enduring sense of belonging in the more-than-human world.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Group Coaching - Two 90 minute sessions per month
Individual Coaching - Five 60 minute sessions
Peer Coaching - Two 60 minute sessions per month
Voice and text message support from Dom between coaching sessions
An 8-day all-inclusive wilderness expedition in the High Sierra (includes accommodation before and after the backpacking portion, all meals, and comprehensive preparation support)
Retreat facilitation and guiding
Integration support after the program - 3 coaching sessions
VIVIFY IS FOR THOSE WHO LONG FOR…
If you share these longings, join us to make 2024 your pivotal year.
ALIGNMENT
SERVICE
You feel the crises of our world, and long to leave a legacy your grandchildren would be proud of.
ADVENTURE
You’re ready to embrace discomfort and push your boundaries to awaken your full vitality and aliveness.
BALANCE
You want it all: thriving relationships, impactful work, and a strong and vital body.
YOUR PATH INTO VIVIFY
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SCHEDULE AN INTRODUCTION CALL
Click on "Inquire Now", fill out the short form and choose a time for your Introduction Call with Dom.
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CALL WITH DOM
In your Introduction Call, you will be learn more about VIVIFY and have all your questions answered.
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COMPLETE YOUR REGISTRATION
If your participation in the program is aligned for you and for us, you will be invited to register.
FAQ
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VIVIFY is unique in that it weaves together group coaching, individual coaching, and a custom wilderness experience. VIVIFY pairs a strong curriculum and community with phenomenal individual support to ensure that we support you in the transformation and growth that you seek.
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Logistically, we can only bring 12 participants into the Inyo National Forest. However, we also find that 12 or less is an ideal number to create a tight and cohesive community through the program.
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VIVIFY is a holistic leadership program. If showing up with more integrity, agency, and aliveness would benefit your role at work, then VIVIFY will be deeply supportive. In addition, the individual coaching sessions are tailored to support you in whatever is most present in your life - if that’s work, then that’s where we’ll go.
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Absolutely. As long as you can organize to be mostly undisturbed for your coaching sessions and are able to be fully present for the Wilderness Immersion, you are good to go!
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Yes! While most of our VIVIFY members are from the US, we can support participants from around the world, as long as you can be present for the wilderness immersion in the High Sierra.
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If you cannot be fully present in California for the Wilderness Immersion in July, you are unfortunately not able to participate in this edition of VIVIFY. We recommend you sign up for our newsletter to find out about our upcoming programs.
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Across the different types of coaching (group, individual, peer), you will have on average two hours of calls each week, plus one more hour for homework. The beauty of VIVIFY is that the majority of the leadership coaching homework will happen directly in your life, not in addition to everything you are already committed to.
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Of course! And – It is important that every individual chooses VIVIFY for themselves first, not because someone else is doing it. This program requires everyone to be fully in and fully committed.
We also encourage you to ask yourself whether you will be able to open up fully with someone you already know as part of the team. If that’s a YES, this can be a beautiful opportunity to go through a life-changing six-month adventure together with your partner or friend and strengthen your bond.
If there are two or more of you who would like to join, mention this is in your application and ask us for a special bonus!
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All coaching sessions are hosted via Zoom. You can schedule your individual coaching sessions at a time that is convenient for you. The standing time for group coaching sessions will be determined together with the whole group prior to program start to ensure we have a time when everyone can participate.
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You do not need any existing backpacking experience for the wilderness expedition, but a baseline of physical capability will be helpful. By the time we meet for our expedition, you should be able to carry a 35 lb pack for 8 miles at altitude. However, we have a few months to support you in getting there. If you’re curious, we can set you up with a training plan to ensure you’re ready to go when we walk into the high country!
If you have doubts about your fitness, please schedule a call with Dom, and we can assess together if this program is the right fit.
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After VIVIFY, you’ll have three integration coaching sessions - one as a group, one individual, and one peer session. You’ll also join your team members in an ongoing online community council, which will give you a chance to continue to share updates and source support from the VIVIFY community.
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If your questions are simple and of a logistical nature, send an email to dom.francks@gmail.com
If you would like to discuss your individual situation and ask more detailed questions, complete an application and we will answer them in your Introduction Call.