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Increasing Awareness; Better Choices; New Habits - Greater Impact.
More Ease, More Energy, More Enjoyment. Discover your Best Self.
Maybe You Are:
Stepping into a new role
Facing or leading significant change
Leading a diverse or global organisation
Needing to grow capacity or delegate
Seeking to be more innovative, productive or confident
Feeling stressed or isolated in your role
Considering what it might mean to retire
Someone who knows that there is more to achieve / discover
Transition and Change - in professional life:
Change is a constant process that happens whether we recognise it or not and whether we choose it or not.
Transition is a journey through change; to another level of capacity and capability.
Individual development is about standing back, with a trusted professional, and looking afresh at circumstances as you currently experience them. So the Transition route becomes clear; your next steps obvious and well within your reach.
“The question is not what you look at - but what you see”
The Human Response to Change and Transition
No matter what our role, nationality, gender, age, status, wealth, we are subject to the laws of the animal kingdom - which means we are hard-wired to avoid change and maintain the world as we know it.
This is physiologically manifest, through the automatic and unconscious activation of the reptilian (limbic) brain; which operates through the secretion of stress chemicals such as Adrenalin and Cortisol. These chemicals activate our ‘survival' mechanism; the Fight/Flight/Freeze reactions; rendering our Thinking mind unavailable - until the chemical storm subsides and we can resume thinking.
“In the presence of Agitated Emotion; Thinking is Impaired”
- Coffman and Moliné - Follow This Path
Our work, as Leaders, is to regain equilibrium when our emotions are activated; otherwise our body goes on producing stress chemicals and our thinking and behaviour are inevitably defensive.
We need to learn to experience discomfort, without thinking that this signifies failure; to tolerate and breathe into the agitated moment - and thereby create a space for something else to emerge.
“Honour the Space between No Longer and Not Yet” (Nancy Levin). We need to pause; slow down and look again - with a fresh mind and body.
Our work is to get curious when ‘things are going wrong’- rather than react by locking into false solutions; born of anxiety.
“There is a Crack in Everything; that’s how the Light gets in”
- Leonard Cohen
Six Sessions over 6 months:
Nine hours videoconference
3 hours telephone progress sessions
Online meetings: totally Confidential.
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