Category: Consciousness

An Exercise to Reduce Negative Inner Voice

Recent­ly, I’ve been work­ing with a num­ber of clients who are inter­est­ed in reduc­ing their neg­a­tive thoughts, self-talk and defen­sive reac­tions. Here are some notes from our dis­cov­er­ies togeth­er and a relat­ed net search.* • Neg­a­tive inner voice (inner crit­ic) express­es thoughts ini­tial­ly formed as a set of rules and penal­ties aimed to pro­tect us… Con­tin­ue read­ing An Exer­cise to Reduce Neg­a­tive Inner Voice

The Host Who Has No Self

Intu­ition is a great well, one that draws on a deep­er sense of what it means to be human. In lead­er­ship, orga­ni­za­tion devel­op­ment and man­age­ment con­sult­ing work, it has enor­mous val­ue for it often opens doors to things that are most­ly hid­den from view: the staff mem­ber whose valu­able insights are being tak­en for grant­ed,… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Host Who Has No Self

Leadership Feedback, Leadership Wounds

In one way or anoth­er, lead­ers are always receiv­ing feed­back. Some­times it is from the voiced reac­tions of peo­ple at a meet­ing they are guid­ing. Some­times it is more for­mal, for exam­ple from a staff sur­vey or 360 degree appraisal process. As a con­sul­tant and coach, I’ve noticed a fair­ly com­mon pat­tern in the process… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship Feed­back, Lead­er­ship Wounds

Relationships — Reciprocity and Conflict

Let’s say there is a scale of effec­tive relat­ing — it goes from high trust and col­lab­o­ra­tion at one pole to destruc­tive hos­til­i­ty at the oth­er. In between there are some inter­me­di­ary points, so that we get some­thing like the fol­low­ing. Please click on the graph to make it larg­er. What the graph dis­plays is… Con­tin­ue read­ing Rela­tion­ships — Reci­procity and Conflict