Table Of ContentTable of Contents
FOREWORD
The Practice
Evolution of the Practice
1a-Example of LE posture
How Leadership Embodiment Evolved
Aikido
Mindfulness
Biology and Neuroscience
Growing Into Leadership Embodiment
Language and Concepts
Three Leadership Competencies
Stress Reaction and Personal Patterns
Simulators and Accelerated Learning
Personality and Center
2a-Examples of Personality Postures
2b-Examples of Center Postures
Knowledge Is Not Enough
Inclusiveness
Leadership Presence
3a-Leader with expanded Personal Space that includes others
Expanding Personal Space Grows Leadership Presence
Developing a Felt-sense of Personal Space (PS)
3b-Felt-sense of PS
3c-Bubble of PS
3d-Expanded PS
Being Smart is Not Enough
3e-Leader shifting from Personality posture to Center posture
Personality
3f-Examples of contracted Personal Space in Personality Postures
Center
3g-Expanded Personal Space, top view
3h-With uplifted posture, the leader expands PS to include others
Shifting to Center
3i-Personality Posture
3j-Center Posture
Using Simulators to Accelerate Learning
Using a Stress Simulator to Discover Personal Patterns
Partner Front Push
3k-Partner applies pressure
3l-Examples of Personality Stress Postures: Head forward, Heart forward,
Core forward
3m-Example of Personality postural reaction
Centering with a Stress Simulator
3n-Partner applies pressure, top view
3o-Expanded PS under pressure, top view
3p-Disperse pressure to PS and settle
20-Second Centering Practice
3q-Breath
3r-Gravity
3s-Balance
3t-Quality
5-Second Centering Practice
3u-Inhale up and Exhale down
3v-Expand Personal Space
Shaping Your Personal Space
3w-Circular Personal Space
3x-Triangular Personal Space
Cultivating Inclusiveness
Centered Listening
Listening from Personality versus Listening from Center
4a-Examples of Listening in Personality posture
4b-Examples of Listening in Center posture
Difficult Conversations
4c-Examples of Postural and Personal Space constriction
Information Lands in the Space
4d-Listening from Personality
4e-Listening from Center
Listening from Personality and Center
Over Engaging When Listening
Under Engaging when Listening
What Shape is Your Body Taking?
Speaking Up
Shaping Personal Space
5a-Sphere of Expanded Personal Space
5b-Wedge of Expanded Personal Space
Implications of Power
Taking A Stand
Splits versus Unity
5c-Example of Split posture
5d-Example of Unified posture
Creating A Declaration
Developing a Felt-Sense of Support
5e-Receiving Inspiration and Support
Learning to Speak Up Without Aggression
Partner Resistance to Identify Personality Pattern
5f-Form a Triangle with body, top view
5g-Expand PS into wedge while partner sustains pressure, top view
Shifting from Personality to Center
with Resistance
5h-PS Wedge and Sustained Pressure
5i-Posse supports you moving forward
Technique: Training Pattern Awareness
Visibility
The Camry Effect
The Challenge of Success
Receiving Success
Empowerment – Standing Alone
Bringing It Together
Adjusting, Adapting, and Risk Taking
Seek out new ideas and try new things.
Do it on a scale where failure is survivable.
Seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along.
Responding to Feedback – speaking up
It is all in the Recovery
6a-Natural Embodiment
The Biology
Behind It All
Science & Embodiment
What Does Science Add to the Conversation?
The Path
Why We Do What We Do
The Three Legged Stool
8a-Priming
8b-The Prefrontal Cortex
A Quick Review
Threat vs. Intelligence
The Brain on Three Levels
9a-Levels of Brain Function
Neocortex
The Biology of Threat
9b-The Amygdala Hijack
Change
What is Change?
Understanding vs. Change
How Neural Change Happens
10a - The Window of Choice
The Challenge of Change
Accelerating Evolution
LEADERSHIP
EMBODIMENT
Also by Wendy Palmer
The Intuitive Body,
Discovering the Wisdom of Conscious Embodiment and Aikido
and
The Practice of Freedom, Aikido Principles as a Spiritual Guide
Leadership
Embodiment
How the Way We Sit and Stand
Can Change the Way We Think and Speak
Wendy Palmer
Janet Crawford
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The Practice © 2013 Wendy Palmer
The Biology Behind It All © 2013 Janet Crawford
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Description:Many leadership books present models for thinking and speaking, but very few address the role of the body in leading effectively. Yet, a great deal of the effect we have on others is carried by our physical presence. Our body postures hold the key to lowering emotional reactivity, while increasing o