Leading Change

How to cope with our own fear and lead others through change.

The natural cycle of life creates growth or personal ears and blockages. Which of these dominates depends a lot on how we view change. Is it exciting or is it frightening?

Who is watching? Your employees, your family, your community? If you are a leader then you are modeling how to navigate our current economic crisis. Will you step up and face your fear so we can all grow and thrive? We call fear by a lot of names: overwhelm, anxiety, frustration, pride, anger. We rarely say, "I am afraid." The Leading Change program is for leaders who are grappling with their own fears while also leading others.

I wrote this intro below so you would understand that this program is confronting, rigorous and deeply powerful. It requires courage and self-awareness. I believe it has the power to completely alter who you are as a leader and a human being.

We will work on:

* Understanding fear and how to be facile with it

* Real power

* Integrity

* Language

* Communication

* Being a visionary

* Understanding your core values and honoring the values of others

We know change is part of life yet we go to great lengths to make our world predictable, safe, comfortable, controllable and definable. In general, we don't understand our fear and how we as human beings operate with it. When we have a lot of fear, we go about setting up a world that does not stimulate our particular fear(s). We use our mind to devise ways to avoid having our fear stimulated. Fear is afraid of itself and does not want to be felt. You can do one of two things with fear. You can recognize it for what it is and stop acting on it. Or you can try to keep the world from stimulating your fear.

We all do it. Yet we don't talk about it. You know, try to figure out how things are supposed to be and then go about trying to make it that way. How did we come up with the idea that life is not okay as it is? If change is natural maybe life is too.

As a coach, I have noticed that our attempts to protects ourselves from our problems create more problems. If you keep attempting to arrange people, places and events so that they do not disturb your fear, life will feel heavy because you are controlling and fighting with everything. Most of us try to get to peace this way. Most of us try to get to joy this way. What if there is another way?

This program starts on April 2nd, lasts 5 months (15 sessions) and is a "Pay what you can" program. Please respond if you are interested and and we will send an application. Applications are due by March 26th.

Only 8 leaders will be accepted.

"I highly recommend the Leading Change program for anyone ready to take that next step of personal growth as a leader. The synergy of working with a group of highly-talented, committed individuals in a safe environment has been life-changing. Leading Change should be on every leader's calendar for this year."

Pam O'Bryant

"I have so much energy now that I have identified and freed up myself emotionally!"

Lois Pearson