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.”

Rather, you’re committing to change because doing so is helping you connect with your deepest values from your most authentic sense of self.

also to self-worth.

Different Voices

Making a permanent shift in the stance of the Adaptive Child involves what neurobiologists call memory reconsolidation, as does shifting the automatic expectations of the core negative image.

Self-awareness is the key to transformation. With self-awareness comes self-regulation—an ability to effectively monitor and manage one’s behavior, emotions, and thoughts.

Expertise-based practices, as a generalization, tend to be based in a single location relying on the development of a national or regional reputation to attract clients.

Memory reconsolidation is a change to the Adaptive Child directly (subcortical, implicit emotional knowing) rather than a change to the Wise Adult (prefrontal cortex connected and responsive to the subcortical).