There is a growing movement of awakening exploding on the planet. This rise in consciousness is catalyzing a new prototype of leaders who are poised to express a wholehearted and integrative approach through every aspect of their lives. In this article, we’ll explore how power is one of our most influential energy sources. We’ll delve into two paradigms of power: power-over and power-with.
Read MoreEmbodied leadership includes five key components: self-awareness and mindfulness, leadership and connection, power and vulnerability, befriending shadows, and embodiment (whole being wisdom).
Read MoreThe embodied leadership path is an invitation to integrate and descend from our heads into our hearts, and into the ground of our being. It’s a practice of embodying the fullest expression of who we are. As embodied leaders, we recognize the intelligence of nature that lives within and outside of us as an unparalleled primordial source from which we access vitality, life force, the power of nurturing, and self-healing wisdom.
Read MoreTo be human is to traverse a lifetime of micro and macro initiations. Each one of us is a hero or heroine on a mysterious journey of pleasure, love, and connection, as well as states of fear, anxiety, separation, darkness, loss and heartbreak. Initiations are the path of evolution. They crack us open, break us down, leave us breathless and eventually, through their alchemy and transmutation, present us with our personal light and power.
Read MoreAs more conscious leaders find one another, networks of change agents and heart warriors expand. Together, we are birthing a new world. And given the chaotic and destabilizing times, we’re in globally, this revolutionary movement is imperative. In this article, we will review power as a form of energy and unpack the paradigm shift of power-over to power-with in more detail.
Read MoreYour brain is the mapmaker of your belief system. While our subconscious beliefs serve us to an extent, they also leave us with blind spots, such as outdated protection mechanisms. Becoming an integrated human being isn’t about erasing our adaptive strategies, but about expanding and updating responses that reflect who we are now.
Read MoreGoing down the rabbit hole of personal and collective trauma can invoke what some refer to as a dark night of the soul. The phrase “dark night of the soul” is used to describe what happens when the conceptual frameworks of our life, and the associated meaning we have attributed to it, fall apart. This collapse of “normal” can occur suddenly, or slowly over time, creating a dark and disorienting space inside.
Read MoreBoundaries are a form of power. They empower us to express our needs in relationship, whether that’s in our relationship to ourselves or others. Boundaries also offer us a forum to negotiate, using our authentic voice to stand in solidarity with our inner value system.
Read MoreTo dig into the conditioned mind is to unwind the ways in which we try to control and plan every aspect of our lives, and instead learn to surrender and sink into befriending the unknown. The practice takes discipline, self-acceptance, trusted allies, and humility.
Read MoreThere are times in life when we are maxed out, brain-fogged, and spinning like a top with anxiety. This is the grit of being a primal animal wired with safety and threat signals. We share a universal, basic need to belong and to know we’re loved and that we matter. Any threat to these basic needs can cause stress and overwhelm.
Read MoreFor much of my life, I was caught in the web of what I call ‘The Self-Improvement Campaign’. This ‘campaign’ is the false notion that somehow we are deficient. Therefore, in order to be happy, successful, and belong we have to constantly improve ourselves.
Read MoreAs primal creatures, we are bound to be reactive. So how can we develop presence, leadership, and deeply fulfilling intimate relationships when we’re innately equipped with animalistic wiring?
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be an integrated human? The process is a deep inquiry into how our multi-faceted systems are both organized towards expressing our authentic self and away from this towards ideas of who we think we should, could, or ought to be.
Read MoreAnger is something that everyone experiences, at one level or another, and it needs to be expressed to maintain emotional health and intimacy. Most people have a murky relationship with anger and how to express it in a way that isn’t hurtful to oneself or others.
Read MoreHow does the journey of wild salmon reflect the path of living an authentic life? The journey of the salmon is one of the most amazing phenomena in nature. How is it that after years in the sea, they can locate the exact stream in which they were born, and pursue their upstream return home?
Read MoreWhen we embrace the view that our shadows are as significant as our joy and passion we are on a different journey than the traditional one of ‘avoid feeling and exploring your fear, create illusions of control, and pretend to be what you think is acceptable’. Opening into and witnessing what is present in our experience is the entry point to a path of deepening into an authentic relationship with ourselves and all of life.
Read MoreHave you longed for a particular relationship, job, creating a family or a spiritual realization only to discover that after achieving these things you’re still struggling; still not happy? You discover that these accomplishment themselves are not inherently the key to your deeper sense of happiness?
Read MoreWe are entering a time when acknowledging the pain of how the ‘lone wolf’ archetype plays out individually and collectively is an imperative catalyst to mobilizing a new world and a new way of treating ourselves and every living system on earth and beyond.
Read MoreTraditionally, the path of awakening was limited to monks and monasteries. Fortunately, it has blossomed into areas such as corporations, intimate relationships, educational systems, family, friendship, and community. Through our direct engagement with life, we’re invited to practice remembering the essence of who we are.
Read MoreHave you noticed that loss, change, and transitions invite the opportunity to drop the veils and get down and dirty with what’s really important? Simultaneously, what do you notice about all the ways you try not to be where you are, embrace what you’re feeling, or face what is in front of you?
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