Posts in Embracing Our Shadow
Episode 19: Power Abuse through Spiritual Teachers

What does it look like when mega-celebrity spiritual teachers misuse their power and authority? And, when do these teachers' blindspots recapitulate the student's trauma - especially when the teacher doesn't understand the student's trauma response and instead blames the student for not doing the practices "right"?

This conversation with Nicola Amadora brings light to the reality that students of spiritual teachers can slip into being the recipient of dominating power dynamics of power-over with their teacher. This can cause the student to lose faith in their own inner authority and self-authoring trust.

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Episode 18: The Superhuman Compulsion -- doing, striving, busyness

How many of us learned that our value is crystallized only after we have achieved the esteemed social status, the perfect job, the perfect family, perfect body, or the perfect healthy lifestyle?

These pressures whisk us away on a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows — one day we feel accomplished, successful, and worthy, and a day later, we collapse into depression, unworthiness and feelings of self-doubt and failure.

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Episode 17: Integral Leadership - The Art of Welcoming Everything

As evolutionary leaders, we traverse through five phases of development. In this episode, Anne-Marie talks about these phases and the shift from phase 3 of creative/authentic leadership to phase 4 integral leadership. What are the key hallmarks of integral leadership and what can we do to become one? Listen to learn more!

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Episode 16: Exploring Shadow Work with Executive Leaders (part 2)

In this second episode of our two-part series, Rixt shares with us how she co-designed an integral leadership program for an executive based upon his desire to become a more integral leader — through embracing more of his shadows.

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Episode 15: The Power of Befriending our Personal & Collective Shadows (part 1)

This conversation with Rixt Kuiper and Rob Sinclair is about integral leadership and shadow work. How do we as leaders, consultants, healers, therapists and change-makers lead and love through exploring our personal projections and exiled parts of self?

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