Getting Back to the Body: Leadership Lessons on Power from the Martial Arts and Somatic Tradition

Embodied learning has been a core part of the ALIA offer, so people may be interested in this article just published in Integral Leadership Review on lessons for leadership from the embodied/somatic tradition and martial arts. 

I have linked to it here.

The editor has called it "deeply inspiring", so I hope it can impact in a similar way on you.

"When our eyes are sensitive and there is more light than we can bear, our pupils contract. In the same way, when we experience overwhelm at work, or when the demands of our life exceed the inner resources we feel available to meet them, we can narrow the aperture of our entire being. We reduce our intake. We organise our self so as to not be touched quite so intensely by the world. This mental and energetic withdrawal is mobilised through patterns of smaller or larger muscular contractions, preparing us for fight, flight or freeze. A raising of the shoulders, a shortening of the breath, a holding in the belly. Each of us has our default pattern, as individual and as universal as a fingerprint..."

Be well,

John Tuite

www.clearcircle.org