A fellow coach supervisor recently described her interaction with officials who were enforcing fire safety regulations in the shared hallway of her property. Their overbearing and pre-emptory manner was intrusive and she was quickly consumed by fury. Mid melt-down, she realised that being angry wasn’t helping and used all her skills and experience to de-escalate
In my previous post, I wrote about my journey into dedicated followership of both Leadership Embodiment (LE) practices and their founder, Wendy Palmer. Nailing my colours to a mast doesn’t come easily to me – yet of all the leadership resources I’ve come across in 25 years of executive coaching, I’ve found LE to be
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In November, I returned to Samye Ling to host an introductory Leadership Embodiment (LE) workshop. It’s wonderful to re-engage with this work and to share these practices with others. Over the weekend we explored our reactive tendencies in contexts such as how we speak and listen; how we relate to adversity and unpalatable news; how
Prompted by a conversation with Wendy Palmer a few years ago, I’ve been clarifying my understanding of the terms ‘somatic’ and ‘embodied’ and exploring the relationship between them. The words are sometimes used interchangeably – and I’ve blurred the distinctions myself. I’m a Leadership Embodiment (LE) teacher and use LE practices in all my work,
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