Leadership Is Changing
From Me Space
Competition
Silos
Control
Expert
Ego
Power-Over
To include We
Space
Collaboration
Shared Vision
Role-Modeling
Presence
Communities
Systems
Cultivating Conscious
Embodied Leaders
Engage your Multiple Intelligences,
Develop Awareness, and Practice Embodiment.
Multi-Dimensional Intelligences
There are many intelligences living within us, but our culture has taught us to overvalue our rational, cognitive intelligence. Here, we engage in practices that bring our other intelligences back to life, so we can know from the wisdom of our whole selves. When leaders connect with all of their faculties - body sensations, emotions, and intuitive, imaginal wisdom - intrinsic power is invoked from within, creating true presence.
Conscious Awareness
With new intelligences available to us, beyond the rational mind, leaders explore their longings, unconscious patterns, and self-limiting beliefs. Blind-spots become illuminated & insights arise, often highlighting one's incredible gifts as well as ways one’s actions are inconsistent with their vision & values.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
-Marianne Williamson
Embodied Practice
If only insights were enough! We could think our way into showing up differently. But lasting change doesn’t happen from the mind, it happens from practicing a new action until it becomes second nature. Here, we don’t just learn about innovative leadership techniques, we experience and embody them together. For example, we don’t simply talk about ways we could hold meetings differently, we actually hold our meetings differently. Participants integrate new values through experiential learning & embodied practices.
A leader is a person who is passionate about a cause, inspires others, and together they craft a future that was once only imaginable.
Conscious Leadership has a Clear Impact
Increased productivity resulting from effective communication
Productivity improves by 20-25% in organizations with connected employees.
Greater resilience & innovation with diversity
Companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians.
Increased engagement through collective ownership
Employees with the highest levels of commitment perform 20% better and are 87% less likely to leave the organization.
However, 70% of change initiatives FAIL
most often due to limited engagement,
insufficient investments, & differing visions.
So how do we create sustainable transformative change?
It must be reflected at the personal, the cultural, and the structural levels of the organization. Change at any one level is ineffective.
Our Transformative Change Model
The Personal
Self Development of the Leader
Experiential Learning Practices
Mental Model Expansion
The Cultural
Foster Generative Relationships
Heart-Centered Dialogue
Restorative Conflict Repair
The Structural
Co-Creating the Future
Participatory Methodologies
Shared Visioning Strategies
The Personal
Self Development of the Leader
Experiential Learning Practices
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Learn to embody your full self - connect the mind with body knowing, heart intelligence and energetic intuition.
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Discover & integrate unconscious patterns & limiting beliefs utilizing neuroscience, somatics, mindfulness, expressive arts, & imaginal journeying practices.
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Learn to take new actions that align with your values under the same old pressures.
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Connect with your wisdom self, invoke intrinsic power from within - developing your influence, presence, & energy levels.
Mental Model Expansion
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Reframe mindsets to integrate dualisms like individualism and interdependence, control and trust, reactive habits & curious responses.
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Learn about the new sciences (Quantum Physics & Living Systems Theory) to expand your perspectives.
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Utilize Systems Thinking Methods to find the hidden interdependencies in your systems. (i.e. Delayed Feedback Loops).
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Learn to hold paradox & others perspectives, without the need to win or compromise.
The Cultural
Foster Generative Relationships
Heart Centered Dialogue
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Become clear in your language and honest in your communication.
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Learn to create psychological safe containers within your teams.
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Track communication along non-verbal & energetic communication channels.
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Stimulate a radically curious attitude towards oneself, towards others, & towards knowledge and problems.
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Develop skills to transform meeting dynamics.
Conflict Resolution & Repair
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Learn to sit in the fire of conflict and trust that new possibilities will emerge.
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Create a culture that learns to move towards fear, into the creative tension, and move through defensive behaviors.
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Foster an environment where people doubt their ideas rather than stubbornly hold onto their views.
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Utilize restorative justice practices to consciously accept the tension of teammates’ opposing views, stimulating new possibilities.
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Share new, bold ideas - explore how to be brave & vulnerable.
The Stuctural
Co-Creating the Future
Participatory Models
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Learn how to work from a participatory approach - creating a learning atmosphere that is inclusive, engaged, and empowering
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Build a participatory meeting culture of shared authority - with a deep understanding of what that means.
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Create an inclusive hiring process by exploring individual and organizational biases.
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Work with the implications of the Uncertainty Principle - ‘The questions we ask determine the answers we get’.
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Create rituals for relationship building - weekly presencing practicums, monthly lunch & learns.
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Establish group norms that can be communicated clearly amongst teams members and new hires.
Visioning Strategies
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Collectively create the story the organization wants to live into, establishing a bottom line that values people, planet, & profit!
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Create opportunities for feedback and emergent solutions using large group change methodologies such as World Cafe & Appreciative Inquiry.
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Engage in the latest visioning strategies to realize, transform, & envision what seeks to emerge.
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Build a collective energy in the organization that drives innovation & retention.​
Safe Spaces
Leaders need safe spaces to learn & practice this work. We create inviting environments that foster deep insights applied to relevant work contexts. We teach new ways to be, new ways to relate, and new processes that embody overlooked leadership values. We foster creative possibilities for thriving in today's increasingly complex world.
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