MY PHILOSOPHY & APPROACH FOR LIVING A MORE FULLFILLED EXISTENCE
SOULFUL LEADERSHIP
Are you longing to step deeper into your authentic power and purpose?
Do you want to live a life of meaning and reveal more of your true self to the world?
Do you dream of a more beautiful world and finding your unique gifts to contribute to it?
Do you struggle with difficult and overwhelming emotions in the face of the current crisis?
Do you yearn to stoke the fire of your creativity and use it to inspire & light a torch of hope for others?
SOULFUL LEADERSHIP ASKS:
What qualities of being do we need to cultivate in order to live in service of life?
SOULFUL LEADERSHIP: THE OVERVIEW
A philosophy & approach to creating a more beautiful world & living a fulfilled existence.
On the Soulful Leadership journey we cultivate the following practices and skills: / Do you want to cultivate…:
Greater self-awareness & deeper understanding of our fears and all that gets in the way of our freedom.
The ability to cultivate the courage and awareness to stop playing it safe and small, and instead live with more risk & thus meaning & fulfilment.
The ability to understand and shine a light on our defence & protection mechanisms that get in the way of living a true, authentic existence.
Learning to be with and embrace all of our difficult emotions and turn towards them.
The ability to cultivate greater resilience in hard times.
The ability to cultivate the courage to be with and turn towards the often overwhelming state of the world and find a more effective approach to creating change.
The way we are being ‘led’ in this world, is missing a vital dimension - attendance to and appreciation for the core human values of TRUTH, BEAUTY, FREEDOM & LOVE.
Leadership that perpetuates division, domination, and control, rather than that which is meaningful, deep & abiding, is leading us astray.
True leadership, both in the world and inside ourselves, involves saying a firm & resounding NO to that which seeks to exploit, violate, dominate or manipulate, and instead an emphatic and resounding YES to possibility, creativity, imagination, joy, beauty and the sacred.
Through the Soulful Leadership approach, courses, and coaching journies; we look at cultivating a different approach that starts from cultivating greater self awareness within.
The world is in crisis in a way that can’t be solved by the logical mind.
We need to a different approach that comes from a place of greater awareness - And it starts within.
CULTIVATING
TRUE LEADERSHIP
My Soulful Leadership approach includes an in-depth understanding of the 4 different appetites of the soul - TRUTH, FREEDOM, LOVE & BEAUTY and how you can cultivate these ways of living in your own life.
Creating a life full of joy and meaning involves the conscious cultivation of these abiding human principles, so that we can feed the soul in the ways it truly longs to be fed. In order to do this we also need to also cultivate: practices of Self Awareness, Self Expression, Self Love and Self Acceptance.
The Soulful Leadership Journey is all about cultivating these practices & understanding ourselves on a deeper level to reveal what is getting in the way of living a soul-led life.
THE SOUL’S APPETITE
FOR FULLFILMENT
Through the Soulful Leadership approach, we bring awareness to what internal defences get in the way.
In the world’s current state and polycrisis, we can become overwhelmed by complexity, and when faced with existential threat, our survival personalities can kick in and try to protect us - (by figuring it out, getting swept up, collapsing, idealism). All of these reactions have some value in keeping us alive and sane, however, none of them will create the lasting change we know we need, because they are all coming from the wrong place.
I work with Play and Presence as keys to help you disarm your defences and live a life with more humour and playfulness, (as when we take ourselves too seriously, we're likely to get stuck in more patterns of defence—trying to prove ourselves or overcompensate).
In the Soulful Leadership Approach, we cultivate more awareness of our own defence mechanisms and reactivity patterns, so that we can live more freely and in service of our soul’s truth, whilst also remaining connected to our silent, still, radiant core.
THE TRUTH
WILL SET YOU FREE
Expanding our capacity to feel helps us lead deeper, richer, fuller lives, but to open our hearts, we need to feel safe. Blockages in our heart can lead us to censor and oppress ourselves. Past experiences involving too much love (smothering), not enough love (neglect), or the wrong kind of love (abuse) can make us feel unsafe in opening to love. Because love is so fundamental to our happiness and survival, negotiating our need for it alongside our fear of losing it becomes a profound challenge.
The first step toward liberation is acknowledging our pain. As we recognize our pain and how our behavior compensates for it, we release ourselves from unconscious patterns.
True freedom is living with an undefended heart, requiring the courage to confront our wounds and offer ourselves compassion. Freedom is also choice & the more conscious we become of what motivates our choices, the more freely we can live.
In the Soulful Leadership approach, we look at the armour around our heart and how to heal this, exploring the ways our defences and unconscious patterns may be blocking us, so that we can make our truest choices.
THE PATHWAY TO FREEDOM
Ultimately, we seek freedom from our own suffering.
The first step toward liberation is acknowledging our pain. As we recognize our pain and how our behavior compensates for it, we release ourselves from unconscious patterns.
Freedom is choice & the more conscious we become of what motivates our choices, the more freely we can live in line with our authentic desires. Until we can discern the emotional dynamics motivating our choices, we remain stuck in unconscious patterns of defence and survival.
In the Soulful Leadership approach - we explore the ways our defences and unconscious patterns may be blocking us, so that we can make choices from a place of TRUTH.
By embracing difficult emotions and learning to be with the pain, we cultivate greater resilience and courage to turn towards life and thus feel more alive.
When we know we can experience rejection, humiliation, and grief yet still survive, we can stop 'playing it safe,' and thus take bigger risks, creating meaningful transformation. Rather than getting stuck in our own dramas or seeing the world through a filtered lens, we gain a wider perspective, and a more grounded centre.
In the Soulful Leadership Approach, we explore the ways our defences may be affecting us from taking risks and living fully.
EMBRACING DIFFICULT EMOTIONS
Beauty is a powerful ally in expanding our capacity to feel. Beauty touches us at all levels of our being—body, feelings, mind, and soul. It lifts our spirits, opens our hearts, and makes us grateful for life. Beauty connects us—to our bodies, hearts, places, others, and even the cosmos. It awakens our senses and evokes wonder and gratitude. Beauty calls us into deeper presence and sacred communion, where transformation happens….
The Soulful Leadership Approach helps us live with more courageous self-expression, more unapologetic wild freedom, able to give & receive love more freely, and appreciate the beauty of this life more consistently, creating a rich & fulfilling existence.
From this place of awareness, we approach challenge and uncertainty from a different place. We lead from a true place. We can create a beautiful world from this place.
I believe the world needs this approach and that the work starts right here, right now within you and I.
DRINKING IN THE BEAUTY
I BELIEVE YOU ARE HERE FOR A REASON.
Are you willing to look within and discover what is preventing you from what you’re here to do?
Do you want to help create the change & beauty the world needs?
I believe you have an authentic gift to share with the world & it starts right here, right now, within you.
The time is Now.
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“We trivialise our lives when we don’t pay attention to our deeper feelings - when we choose comfort, convenience and distraction over the uncomfortable and inconvenient truth of our deepest longings.”
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