Cultivating Presence
Key to Self-Empowered, Authentic Leadership!

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.

Imagine Being the Best You Can Be!

Being the Best You Can Be is a process of becoming – of step by step, intentional and creative transformation.

Getting in touch with and aware of what matters helps clarify your purpose and eventually, with practice and coaching support, you are able to free yourself of the negative, self-sabotaging unconscious beliefs that keep you stuck.

Taking responsibility for yourself is a Self-empowering process. No longer giving power away to unconscious beliefs that so often hold power and control your response to the events in your life, you become capable of creating beliefs that motivate and inspire focused purposeful action.

7 Indicators of Self-Sabotaging Beliefs in Action

In a social context, at work or at home, you find yourself:

  1. Feeling impatient, frustrated, anxious
  2. Trying too hard, being too eager, overbearing
  3. Unable to focus and be present in the moment.
  4. Completing sentences for others
  5. Rushing the speaker
  6. Distracted – thinking about other things
  7. Thinking negatively about yourself (self-doubts creeping in)

These indicators and others like them reveal the presence of conflicting or contradictory beliefs or judgments and are experienced as emotional discomfort to varying degrees of intensity.

Authentic Self-Empowered Leadership Presence in Action

5 Leadership Traits that Cultivating Presence Develops

  1. Observing without judgment
  2. Unattached to outcomes (The outcome is beyond your control)
  3. Committed to service – Client-focused
  4. Actively Listening (responding vs reacting)
  5. Holding the space for others to step into possibility, explore and discover options, and make better choices.

Transformation and healing begin with awareness of discomfort, agitation or dissatisfaction and the decision to improve the situation.

Creating the possibility for transformation is a creative process. Stepping into transformation takes faith, self-honesty, and courage – the promise of achieving:

  • Relief from pain, and
  • Transforming struggle to inner peace, acceptance, and empowerment inspire hope and a vision for something better.

Take Action – What’s in the Way?

Conflicting and contradictory underlying automatic commitments (hidden beliefs) keep you stuck, frustrated and spinning your wheels.

Becoming free and clear of negative judgments and beliefs is a mental house-cleaning process that coaching facilitates.

The process helps you identify your values, clarify your vision and take purposeful step by step action – an altogether empowering experience that helps you get the results you want in your life and live on-centre.

Stuck? Transform your Self-Sabotage Syndrome workshop can get you started and well on the way to a new way of being that you design to support you in achieving your goals. Check out the events calendar for upcoming workshop dates.

Inspiration

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. Helen Keller

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson

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About Julia von Flotow

Julia von Flotow is an executive coach, Therapeutic Touch Teacher and Practitioner, mindfulness instructor, and founder of the Kaizen Leadership Institute and Therapeutic Touch Institute, Toronto, Canada. Her 12 step program to becoming an authentic and mindful leader kaizenleadershipinstitute.com/12steps/ has helped hundreds of independent professionals and business owners live happier lives and build more sustainable businesses. www.kaizenleadershipinstitute.com.

Enquire about the Integrative Self Health Coach certified training program and her 8 week online Mindfulness Practice Development Program. Connect with her on Linked In at https://ca.linkedin.com/in/juliavonflotow or email her at julia@kaizenleadershipinstitute.com.