Sublime

Ireland. She is moved by his conviction that a central piece of the practice of leadership is “helping people to see the contradictions in such a way that they can discover what is in everybody’s best interest”—what Heifetz describes as “recognizing the gap that signals adaptive work.”

The single most important skill and most undervalued capacity for exercising adaptive leadership is diagnosis. In

the same psychophysiological systems that govern the traumatic state also mediate core feelings of goodness and belonging.

With this lens, there are only two possible positions that people can occupy—power over or powerless. In the interviews I heard many participants sound resigned to Victim simply because they didn’t want to become the only alternative in their opinion—Vikings.

In designing your workshops, you’re co-creating the conditions for self-discovery in a supportive community using liberating practices. You’re offering a safe space for individuals like Melanie to practice becoming choosers and deciders, and to realize that they have freedom in how to relate to themselves, others, and the world.

In an organization with a high capacity to adapt, people share responsibility for the larger organization’s future in addition to their identification with specific roles and functions.

we began working in pairs in even our smallest client engagements. That way, the lead consultant had help in understanding our work with the client as the engagement unfolded and also could contribute a second perspective after the assignment was completed. We began to work toward a norm where there were always at least two and sometimes three or f

The only way to consciously access our healing resources is through sensation and the felt sense.

“out to lunch.”