Soulful Leadership Development
You are a leader. You lead well and want to lead even better. You have moments when you are at your best, and you’d like to turn these moments into patterns.
Soulful leadership is about Presence and inspiration.
It’s about the capacity to observe and shift our level of awareness. It’s about accessing our inner authority even while outer realities scream for attention.
Most leaders have a remarkable tool kit that makes them really good at their jobs. Career development has been about growing this tool kit of skills that help teams and organizations thrive. What often is less developed is the inner life and being of the leader.
Soulful leadership emerges when our mind, heart, and intuition are synchronized. It leads to work that is highly effective and deeply meaningful.
The questions become,
Why is it so hard to consistently lead with our best selves?
Why is leadership that feels soulful so elusive?
The shorthand answer is that often we are unaware of our patterns of thinking, feeling and acting. When we function out of these unconscious patterns we become reactors rather than responders, we function out of a kind of programming rather than our values and inspirations.
The key to soulful leadership is waking up to how we are programmed and reactive. By growing our capacity to observe ourselves, we expand our capacity to make wise and creative choices.
And as we invest in our spiritual lives and practices, we increasingly experience the powerful state of Presence. And Presence becomes the channel for the inspiration and guidance that transform us as leaders.
Three Pathways to Soulful Leadership
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Your pathway to soulful leadership is as unique as your fingerprint.
What is common to each person’s journey is that it’s always a process of contemplation and deep personal reflection.
Silence, solitude and stillness become primary tools for this journey.
Through my Soulful Leadership Coaching process I walk with you as a companion on journey where your deep wisdom is the true guide.
After an initial consultation with you, I tailor a process using one of the various tools available to us. Among other options, we have at our disposal the Awareness V Continuum, a values and vision guide, soul cards, the Enneagram, and the Leadership Circle Profile™.
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The Enneagram is an ancient wisdom model that captures contemporary psychological truths. It gives us a detailed description of our inner motivations and a map that is remarkably clear for how we can grow into more flexible and life-giving ways of living and working.
I have many years of experience using the Enneagram with leaders to awaken us to how we get stuck, and how we activate a deepened spirituality.
When we locate our personality type (there are 9 of them), it makes so much sense of why we struggle as we do. But the magic of the Enneagram is how it maps a path for soulful leadership a clear way for our spiritual growth and how we access our higher potentials as a human being.
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The Leadership Circle Profile™ is the best tool I know for gaining a deep picture of who you are as a leader. The tool creates a mirror and measure that compares our reactive tendencies with our creative capacities. It helps us see how our patterns of action are linked with habits of thought.
The picture expands as we gain feedback from selected colleagues and peers that provides an intimate view of how they perceive us and our leadership. Their feedback reveals both our key blind spots and leadership gifts.
As a certified evaluator, I help you identify the specific tendencies that are blocking soulful leadership, and point you to the capacities that, if engaged more, will transform how you work and lead.
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From Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
Most of us arrive at a sense of self and vocation only after a long journey through alien lands. But this journey bears no resemblance to the trouble-free “travel packages” sold by the tourism industry. It is more akin to the ancient tradition of pilgrimage—“a transformative journey to a sacred center” full of hardships, darkness, and peril.
In the tradition of pilgrimage, those hardships are seen not as accidental but as integral to the journey itself. Treacherous terrain, bad weather, taking a fall, getting lost—challenges of that sort, largely beyond our control, can strip the ego of the illusion that it is in charge and make space for the true self to emerge. If that happens, the pilgrim has a better chance to find the sacred center he or she seeks.
Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now—in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.
