The need for a spiritual revolution in leadership

A #bookin8days client recommended “Leader as Healer: A new paradigm for 21st-century leadership”. A book about leadership. A new type of leadership. A care-to-dare type of leadership. The current imbalance between left- and right-brain thinking — specifically, the dominance of the former — poses the single biggest threat to the survival of our civilisation. The left brain has commandeered the right in order to reign over us and all we do, but with vastly limited perspective. The resultant disconnection, in which the left brain fails to share its feedback with the right, is a central pillar of the culture of absence in which we find ourselves.

Epigenetics

Here is something to think about. Epigenetics is the study of how certain external effects modify gene expression. Epigenetic markers for stress were observed in the next four generations of mice. Disharmonious and unhealthy patterns from the past continue to repeat in our lives, however unconsciously, until they are brought fully into awareness and space is made for healing. We have a moral responsibility to work on ourselves for the sake of our children.

Change is coming

The gravity of this moment is an unprecedented evolutionary opportunity: the choice to integrate timeless contemplative wisdom with the advances of modern science and psychology. This is the moment when what we need most is enough people with the skill, heart and wisdom to help us pull ourselves back from the edge of breakdown and…