This level of transformation occurred because she dared to engage in the Inner Work and the Integrated Work of Leadership and connected the self development to the obligation to achieve something greater for the good of others.
When we first developed a leadership training curriculum for not for profit boards there was no connecting leadership with governance. Now it is a familiar concept. It is our belief that soon the connection between inner work and leadership results will be accepted. The Integrated Work is the real work of leaders.
There are ten disciplines that we can teach and when applied can help leaders claim their gifts and their authenticity to bring about significant community change. Those ten disciplines are listed below:
Ten Disciplines of the Integrated Work of Leadership
Read Reality Truthfully
Hold Others in Trust
Understand Your History
Discern Your Call
Practice Silence and Solitude
Create Hospitable Space
Cultivate Courage
Respect Diversity
Lead Change
Give Voice to Vision
The training begins with an intensive two day experience but the process of development is life long. Each time our colleagues return to their work they go deeper and their reach grows wider. Their desire to leave the world a better place begins with connecting to the core of who they are, of reaching the place where the spirit is nurtured and evoked.
We offer excellent tools that help competence in the skills of leading change, resolving conflict and building healthy communities. What distinguishes the work of Ki ThoughtBridge is the integrated approach to leadership, of seeing the critical importance of teaching both leaders in inner work and perceiving it as a foundation to outer work.
It is the approach to formation that forms and supports authentic leaders who operate in the world with integrity and boldness, who can take the risks required to close the gap between what is and what can be who as Mary Garland says “Can step out beyond their own edge.” When they do discover a bigger world, new possibilities, and the space of true transformation because the inner work and outer work realms of their lives are aligned and congruent.