Inner space is the quiet space at the centre of your life. A space that only you can access and shape into a safe and sacred Inner Sanctuary that offers you a retreat from the busy-ness of the world where you can connect with what matters to you and renew yourself on a regular basis. At Kaizen Leadership Institute, we help you restore your … [Read more...]
Past, Present and Future – It’s all ONE
It’s all ONE – when you own your past. For when you own your past it doesn't own you. You've accepted it and accepting it you know it and yourself, Realizing what motivated you to make the choices you made You let go of the need to find someone to blame, feel guilt or shame. It just is what it is! Accepting your past, you accept … [Read more...]
Coaching – A Learning Journey of Transformation and Empowerment
My first year of coaching is vividly imprinted on my memory. My challenge and intention were the same – to be there, fully present, attentive to the coachee for the duration of the session. My aim was to be mindfully present, an independent, objective and compassionate listener and coach, attentive without judgment allowing none of my own thoughts … [Read more...]
Emotions – Our Inner Guidance System!
Emotions and feelings are perhaps the most intimate and important aspect of our personal communications vocabulary. They are key to self awareness, self- knowledge and our unique personal language. Emotions give rise to what we feel. They help us recognize what we appreciate and learn to understand, know and accept ourselves. Not only is emotional … [Read more...]
Cultivating Leadership Presence
Cultivating presence is a practice of being your authentic best moment to moment, aware and free of the pressures of conflicting, limiting or contradictory beliefs. This practice requires a commitment to compassionate mindfulness which, in turn, aligns vision, values and actions in service to a higher calling. The best effect of fine persons is … [Read more...]
Manage Your Energy for Sustainable Success
The topic of Work – Life Balance has received a lot of attention in the last 3 decades. Its emergence as a concern may be attributed, in part perhaps, to the increased use of technology in the workplace, and the unmet expectations for more leisure in our lives that the emerging technologies were promised to deliver. Could it be that collectively … [Read more...]
Becoming Fearless
Many of our fears are tissue-paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. Brendan Francis Imagine exploring your interior landscape in much the same way you might explore a new region. What might you encounter? What might you learn about yourself? What might you discover? All it takes is to give yourself … [Read more...]
Organizational Development Starts at the Top
When it comes to team building and organizational development, culture trumps strategy every time! Culture is palpable. It’s made up of the attitudes of the people, their feelings, thoughts and quality of relationships. Culture can be felt, perceived and experienced through our senses and intuitive or inner knowing and is expressed through body … [Read more...]
Life at the Speed of Light
Every living system has an electromagnetic force field that emits light or biophotons. According to Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp, Theoretical Physicist at the International Institute of Biophysics in Neuss, Germany “There is evidence that biophotons originate from an almost fully coherent field.” Photo on right: two algae (Acetabularia) emitting … [Read more...]