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Leadership and Trauma: Uniting Paradigms to Heal and Empower Conscious Leaders

By Dirk Jan Versluis for Enlivening Edge Magazine

The subtitle of Frederic Laloux’s popular book Reinventing Organizations includes the phrase ‘next stage of human consciousness.’ A next stage of consciousness inevitably introduces new paradigms of thought. In this article I will shed some light on a new paradigm that integrates two apparently different concepts from different fields: Leadership and Trauma.

Unresolved traces of trauma and the resulting destructive patterns often have a simple effect: they stand in the way of expansion and self-actualization. Being aware of our own trauma-created wounds, blocks and shadow-parts is inevitably part of our ‘striving for wholeness’ and is of great relevance to leaders who work from ‘being.’.

As more of one’s traumas come to light and if one can hold themselves with compassion in the process, a form of Inner Leadership is born that holds the wisdom and power to transform not just on a personal level but also in a group context.[…]


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