The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader

Make a list of the habits and routines you’re currently engaged in. Are these habits and routines relevant to who you’re becoming as a leader and where you want to go? If so, write why, and if not, why not? Write down what new practices would assist you in becoming who you want to be and where you want to go. What would be a generative practice tha

This is an alignment of the physical body according to the natural laws of mass, gravity, and posture. This means that we scan to see if we are balanced along our vertical line, top to bottom; horizontal line, left to right; and depth, front to back. If we’re aligned along these three dimensions, we’re in harmony with the natural law of gravity. Th

When we center in this manner, we inhabit our bodies in a way in which we’re relaxed without being slack, and alive and extended without being stiff.

The traditional way of committing to something new is to begin by defining what it is we’re bringing into form. For example, if it were to be a better listener, we would first define powerful listening. We would then read or hear examples of leaders who were powerful listeners and how this made them effective. We might read a paper or see a PowerPo

From a somatic point of view, imagination is not a mental construct but an attribute of synaesthesia. Imagination as an extension of our energy goes beyond what each individual sense is capable of in order to connect with those things we do not directly sense and makes it possible to touch the invisible

Gestures and sounds emanate from the body into language and thinking. With language incarnate we live consciously in time and rhythmically with others. Our embodied life extends into a horizon of possibility in which the past is history in our flesh, the present is the center of being and action, and the future is the trajectory of our felt imagina

The third element, the embodiment of our values and commitments, is engaged when you speak your commitment before the beginning of each practice and after the practice is completed. That is, if you recall the purpose you’ve engaged in any given activity or practice, it will keep you connected to the commitment of your highest vision. When we’re eng

The body is where thought begins, since the body is where we are.

There has been, for example, little recognition given to someone who could produce value through the way they manage mood, how they skillfully coordinate with others to achieve a desired goal, or their ability to ignite the passion and purpose of others.