Minds at Work

We are so grateful for our ITC community! As a thank you to you all, we'd like to share our collective Immunity Map. Check it out in our most recent newsletter! #community #newyear #goals #change https://lnkd.in/eupwg3PM

🎙️ Leading with Courage and Clarity 🎙️ I'm excited to share the latest episode in our 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴! This time, my friend Nikki Lewallen Gregory turned the tables on me, leading a conversation about what it means to show up with courage and clarity in our leadership and lives. We dive deep into those self-limiting narratives—what I like to call the "head trash"—that often hold us back. We explore how to recognize those stories for what they are, fact-check them, and rewrite the script so we can show up as our best, most authentic selves. 🤩 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀: Get a sneak peek into Salveo Partners' leadership research project based on data from coaching hundreds of leaders and four years of podcast interviews. This research is the basis of a new whitepaper that we'll feature in a webinar 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟵𝘁𝗵. Stay tuned—there's so much more to come! Tune in to "Leading with Courage and Clarity," and let me know what resonates with you! 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gcc5Hdwv #CourageousLeadership #LeadershipResearch #ShowUpAsALeader #SelfLimitingStories

Here is a way of looking at #anxiety that draws both from Western psychology and Buddhism and echoes #immunitytochange. "Our experience of anxiety is very vulnerable to our #unconsciously adding all sorts of interpretations and #reenactment issues from our history, hopes and fears.... @Bruce Tift: "So at the #psychological level, we tend to fill in an apparent cause of that anxiety and mistake a #trigger for a cause. A hundred thousand years ago on a biological level, it was probably very much in our species' interest to look for a cause. If you’re out in the woods and you hear a big noise, you should check it out, you know, can I eat it or is it going to eat me? You know, you want to find those things out. "But let’s say in the last 7,000 years, with the arising of cities and societies, our biology is not such a good guideline for living a complex social life now, and certainly not a psychological and certainly not a spiritual life. So, most of our apparent explanations for our anxiety are not only inaccurate, but they usually have a #negative quality because anxiety is a negative experience for almost everybody. So we’re going to come up with a negative explanation. "And the explanation we usually come up with is very #conditioned by our history. So if we have a history of abandonment and somebody we’re dating or getting to know doesn’t return a phone call, we might get anxious that we’re going to be abandoned. If we have a history of a smothering parent and they don’t return our phone call, we might feel relief. "And some types of therapy work at the level of interpretation, like cognitive behavioral therapy, which is very useful. If we’re going to have a story about our experience, I think better to have an accurate, good story than an inaccurate bad story. "But I think the #Buddhist view goes deeper. And at this level, at the psychological level, a lot of Buddhist practices are... let’s say #mindfulness of body. It’s a very central, Buddhist-type of approach that we return our attention over and over again to some immediate non-interpretive body-based experience. And often, it’s the breath. But the basic principle is to come out of any interpretation. It doesn’t matter if it’s a good interpretation or a bad interpretation. We come back to non-interpretive embodied presence and then check it out for ourself. Where is this apparent problem? "...No commentary, no explanation, no #identity drama. Just my heart’s beating fast. My stomach’s tight. Hang out with it and see where is any evidence that my survival is being threatened. A hundred thousand years ago, we should probably go into our #fightflightfreeze response, or we might not be in the gene pool anymore. But especially increasingly in the last couple of thousand years, especially for those of us with fortunate life circumstances, I’d say 99 out of 100 times, we’re not going to find that our anxiety is an accurate signal of a real threat." Full transcript link in the comments.

Not only can #coaching lead to tangible, measurable progress, it often provides other benefits that aren't usually measured but may ultimately even more valuable: Giulia Cambieri: "...Research is increasingly showing that #social and #psychological factors, such as being #connected to others, having an #optimistic outlook, and having a #positive, #resilient #mindset... also play a critical role in promoting #wellbeing and #longevity." Link to article in the comments. #immunitytochange #coachingconversations #connection #empathy

Start your new year off right and plan to join us January 22-24 for our Facilitator’s Workshop! Take a meaningful step toward achieving your improvement goals. Together, we’ll build our own Immunity Maps and practice guiding others through theirs—equipping you with the tools to unlock lasting change and progress. Don’t wait—register today on our website and start 2025 with purpose and momentum! https://lnkd.in/dtRaz2Z #goals #purpose #momentum #change

The psychological #immunitytochange fueling #toxicproductivity: Israa Nasir: "Toxic productivity pushes you to do more out of #fear, #shame, the need for #externalvalidation, or a drive to prove your #worth — not out of genuine purpose. In toxic productivity, productivity habits become an #identity rather than an activity. "We learn harmful or unhelpful messages about productivity throughout our early childhood experiences. You must bring awareness to your habits and patterns before you can unlearn them. Ultimately, the long-term effects of toxic productivity are harmful. Studies show that if you link your self-worth solely to productivity, you’re at a greater risk for mental health challenges like #anxiety and #depression because you’re constantly striving to meet self-imposed, impossible demands." Link in the comments.

The more we resist change, the more we suffer. An #immunitytochange map helps you see why and how you are resisting, so you can learn when your suffering is unnecessary and let go of your resistance. Robert Waldinger: "Change is absolutely inevitable. Change is constant. Change is the only constant. And the more we #resist #change, the more we suffer. There’s a phrase I like. It says, 'Let go or be dragged.' There is just constant movement of the universe and of us as individuals as part of the universe. So I would say, it’s like gravity. It’s just here, it’s with us." Podcast here: https://lnkd.in/eTKmqBK7 #evolve #adaptivelearning #adaptivechange #growthanddevelopment #changemanagement #transformation

The most precious #income we seek from work... Robert Kegan: "When you take that perspective that you know Al is always going to be Al, you're basically saying you know that their #growthpotential is over and that actually is the kind of thing that leads to the #devitalization and #disengagement which we see in such large percentages at work today. "Because not enough people actually feel that work is a place where they can experience their own #growth. That is the number one most precious #income people seek from work whether they know it or not. Of course you want a good salary; you want good health benefits. But what what really keeps people truly #engaged is the feeling that work is the place where we actually become a bigger and better version of ourselves." #growthculture #deliberatelydevelopmental #everyoneculture #leadershipdevelopment #talentdevelopment #adultdevelopment #psychologicaldevelopment #culturetransformation https://lnkd.in/eGV46NDv

Everyone is also doing a second job...hiding their weaknesses, their insecurities... spending their energy trying to look good. We focus on doing the things we already know how to do well and then stay in our lane. Gwendolyn (Wendy) Bounds refers to this phenomenon as a "competency trap," and explores what we can gain when we're willing to step out of this trap: "...Doing something where you have a chance of not succeeding is actually one of the most #gratifying things a human can do. It’s #counterintuitive, but I’ve come to believe it’s foundational not just for our happiness, health, and success but also for our longevity, based on the research I’ve read. "I want people to try and get out of their #competency traps. I want them to recognize this will require looking foolish. It will require #failing. But the rewards for doing so are probably greater than you can imagine—both for work and for your own well-being." #growthculture #deliberatelydevelopmental #personaldevelopment #talentdevelopment #leadershipdevelopment #everyoneculture #growthanddevelopment Interview here: https://lnkd.in/eRMuHdHp

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