Spirit in Action is the purpose and destination of Resilience. As awareness, mastery and alignment of body, heart and mind mature, Spirit emerges. We are committed to encouraging this emergence and seek your participation.
In this first article, we approach enlightened leadership from two perspectives: context and self. In the first, leaders recognise in the environment the need and readiness for change. Then, often with relentless grit they nudge a shift to a new state. Success in creating a better reality defines outward leadership.
Please read Paul Hawken’s 2009 address to the University of Portland: Healing or Stealing. This is the most elegant and compelling short case for the emerging context for enlightened leadership.
In the second, leaders seek to stimulate and refine their own evolution. Quite clearly, humans do not emerge fully evolved. We require years of skilled parenting, socialisation, learning, practice and difficulty to overcome. It is often only in our late forties or early fifties that we “wake-up” from the dash for cash and the authentic self beckons through the mist. Finding our way through the bewildering clamour of quick solutions requires fortitude.
As we challenge ourselves to realise this journey we will be exploring this in phases and would welcome questions to help remain relevant. The proposed themes:
Inertia: why it is so hard to make consistent measurable progress
Match fitness: Integral Daily Practice for enlightened leadership
Emotion as a critical fitness demand for enlightenment
Cognitive demands: what we might study and know
Family and Children: how does domesticity help or hinder
Being Present: the challenge of liberating the inner Voice
What help is out there for tough minded, evidence-based leaders
Role models for Enlightened Leadership