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

 
 
 
 

EPISODE SUMMARY

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?

Here is what we explore:

04.15: What is shadow and why does it matter?

09.50: Shadow work - the ability to consciously expose exiled parts of self

10.46: Is shadow always dark? What about the golden shadow?

12.40: How do you recognize shadow?

14.15: The importance of shadow work as it relates to integral leadership

19.10: What is a cultural shadow and how does it get reinforced by culture?

23.23: Why is shadow work important?

25.30: What shadow integration looks like for Anne-Marie

26.50: What shadow integration looks like for Rob

29.10: What shadow integration looks like for Rixt

33.17: The power of identifying missing experiences when working with leaders

34.53: Befriending our disowned parts

42.10: Why shadow work isn’t a destination – it’s a journey

43.50: The power of not doing shadow work alone – we need one another

 

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EPISODE NOTES

Rixt Kuiper:  

Rixt has been an international executive coach and leadership consultant for over 18 years. She is passionate about elevating business performance through the conscious practice of leadership. 

She has worked with a great variety of senior leaders and teams from 30+ countries, consulting for many Fortune 500 companies, focusing on conscious leadership for inclusion, innovation and whole system change.

Rixt brings evidenced-informed coaching techniques to uncover and challenge limiting beliefs, assumptions and paradigms, stimulating fresh thinking and wholeness.

By coaching senior executives and their teams, she helps them to lead a peaceful revolution fueled by values, ethics and soul toward a future of meaning. 

To learn more about Rixt: 

Rob Sinclair:

Rob is a highly sought-after leadership consultant, systemic team coach, and human development specialist. For the last 12 years Rob has spent his days working with leaders and teams from all over the globe at all levels - from startup founders/CEO’s and ivy-league MBA students to executive leaders at Salesforce, Honda, Ernst and Young, Conservation International, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Microsoft, and more. 

Leveraging insights from his 25+ years in the martial arts, a degree in biology, and his studies with some of the most cutting-edge practitioners in leadership development and systems change, Rob combines the latest advances in adult cognitive development, interpersonal neurobiology, agile transformation, and innovative systems evolution to work as a catalyst for the development of deeper servant leadership on behalf of a better world.

 

The Leadership Circle:

Lastly, I want to acknowledge the leadership circle, which is an organization focused on integral leadership. 

 

Anne-Marie:

 
Integral Leadership, Embracing Our ShadowAnne-Marie MarronCentering Power, Wild Power, Self-Acceptance Power