Sublime

Thus, the multifaceted capacity to be present becomes a key factor in effective leadership: the quality of one’s capacity to be fully present, comprehend what is happening, hold steady in the field of action, and make choices regarding when and how to intervene from within the social group (from wherever you sit) in ways that help the group to make

the artistry of leadership and the artistry of teaching recognize the opportunity within the conflict—the gap between how things are and the needs and aspirations of the social system—the adaptive challenge. One learns, not only how to take action and intervene, but also how to pause, to wait, to pace the work to let a process the leader cannot ful

access to coaches who initiate the learner into the “traditions of the calling” and help them by “the right kind of telling” to see on their own behalf and in their own way what they most need to see.

When we get trauma-triggered in our close relationships, our Wise Adult shuts off, and we are seized by our Adaptive Child. We feel “taken over” and we want to push back. When people first learn about this Adaptive Child part of them, usually their initial instinct is to want to control it, to see it as bad.

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It does appear, however, that surviving the public disclosure of their own experiences of failure, and gaining access to analytical concepts anchored by powerful metaphors and linked to their own experience does give people new powers. They are enabled to develop modes of conscious leverage in relationship to things that were formerly either invisi

TAKE THE HEAT AND HOLD STEADY.

The master-apprentice model provides the kind of careful atmosphere in which I have been able to help my learners seek and develop the stories that will accept them, that will shine through them, not just lay on the surface of their being like dime-store jewelry.

Honor Risk Taking and Experimentation