“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Aristotle
“At its heart, leadership is about understanding human behaviour— what we do, how we do it and why we do it. Effective leaders meet needs; pay careful attention to group processes; calm anxieties, and arouse hopes and aspirations; know how to liberate human energy and inspire people to positive action. They harness and leverage the different and complex forces and dynamics at play in organizational functioning.”
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Manfred Kets de Vries. Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organisational Change, INSEAD
Leading With Psychological Wellbeing
At the core of conscious leadership is a deep understanding of human behaviour and self. This becomes especially important when we are dealing with complex organizational dynamics, challenging conversations, managing anxieties, rapid changes, implementing change processes, improving performance, or facing personal difficulties – all of which are part of the leadership and human experience.
In our professional journeys, we focus on delivering objectives and strategy, but we spend little time understanding who we are, its impact on our leadership, group dynamics, creating systemic changes, and how to harness the myriad of individual motivational drivers that underpin human behaviour - And yet these are fundamental to achieving our fullest potential, finding true sustained meaning, creating hope within others, and ultimately delivering our objectives.
Focusing on depth, this catalytic process is designed to bring to the front of mind that which many leaders only discover once they come to experience inevitable professional or personal pain. It empowers you to consciously and authentically lead with deliberate calm.
Studies demonstrate a direct link between the relationship of leaders and employees and the psychological well-being of both groups. Leadership psychological well-being development programs, as referenced by McKinsey Health Institute and Taylor and Francis, have shown considerable benefits.
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​Drawing from thousands of hours with clients, group coaching and counselling, retreat facilitation, insights from over 100 books, executive leadership, and personal experiences, this program has being designed to enable you to make informed and sustained changes through providing you with solid understanding of psychological wellbeing. The work is not sold as a quick fix, and is presented in a factual and no-nonsense manner.
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Holding a psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, system thinking and holistic wellbeing orientation it combines three, customizable, elements:
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Four classroom sessions, supported with manuals, that provide a theoretical and practical overview of the carefully chosen topics. Explore the modules here.
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Group discussions, within the context of self and the organization, during these sessions.
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Four one-on-one coaching sessions per delegate.
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The outcomes you can expect from your team working through the program are highlighted here. The program has received consistently positive feedback from participants at mid to senior levels across businesses of all sizes, including large corporations, SMEs, and multi-nationals.
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Outcomes
Clients who have worked through this program find that they experience:
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A deeper understanding of core human dynamics. This opens the door to better conscious relationships with others, and ourselves.
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Improved psychological well-being, greater stress resilience, and the ability to deal with the world as it is, rather than that which we wish it to be.
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Greater confidence within day-to-day roles, self-acceptance, and self-compassion. Insights into how we build self-worth and why this always trumps self-confidence.
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A better understanding of how our unconscious cognition drives most of our behaviour, and regardless of how good our intentions might be, until we bring greater awareness to this, we are doubly subjected through our lives.
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Greater presence to context and how to effectively navigate life, versus rumination and suppression.
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A deeper understanding of how causality is always at play and that mostly, more presents than is initially presented.
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A shift in leadership effectiveness and organizational performance as a result of the collective and compounding impact of these changes.
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Outcomes will largely depend on two things. Your:
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Level of openness, desire, and engagement during the sessions.
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Subsequent commitment to deeply think about, and then apply that which is learned.
“It is when we act freely, rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.“
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Management.
Known particularly for his work related to "flow", meaning and purpose.
“Emotional agility is the practice of observing our feelings as information, rather than trying to change or control them.
It is the ability to have a full range of emotions and experiences, including more difficult ones, and still choose to make decisions, and act in ways, that are congruent with our values and goals.”
Susan David. Harvard Medical School psychologist, founder of Evidence Based Psychology Management Consultancy and co-founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching.
“Research in cognitive science has shown repeatedly that many important things and much behavior is resultant of what goes on outside conscious awareness. This observation is no longer controversial to even the most hard-nosed empiricist. It is not just that we do not fully know our own minds, but there are things we seem not to want to know. These things are threatening, out of harmony, or make us feel vulnerable in some way, so we tend to look away.“
Jonathan Shedler. Psychoanalyst, clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, author, consultant, researcher, supervisor, and lecturer.
Program Content
If these are the only four psychological manuals/ books you work with in your lifetime, you will be more than adequately empowered to navigate that which unfolds.​​
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Module 1:
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The process of personal transformation
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Leadership: Starting point questions
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Leadership style
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How we learn: Where it all starts
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Powerful models to help our growth
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Trust and psychological safety as a cornerstone of performance
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Values
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Module 2:
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The foundations of personality
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The self-esteem triad: Self-worth, self-confidence, and self-care.
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Moving outwards from balanced self-esteem and the dark triad
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Authenticity and self-concept
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Building healthy self esteem
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The triangle of affect, cognition and behavior, and why we accept the duality of our emotional and thinking existence.
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Identifying emotions
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Feelings deserving more attention
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Processing our experiences
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Forced Positivity, repression and suppression
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Emotional intelligence, regulation and maturity
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Our double subjection to conscious and unconscious cognition
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Defenses and resistance
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Integrating our shadow
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Attachment theory
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Transactional analysis
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Internal family systems: accessible language
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Perception, biases, thinking errors
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Working within our zones of tolerance
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Conditions for psychological well being
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Proven ways to build psychological and physiological wellbeing
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Effective ways to deal with challenge
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Performance. Culture. Weaving It Together
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Motivation
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Intrinsic Motivation: Performance Rocket Fuel
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Amplifying Motivation
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Communication And Active Listening
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Communication Types We Want To Be Aware Of
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Systems, Performance and Alignment
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Organizational Culture
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Living Consciously
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Weaving It All Together
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What is our next step?
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