‘Five Energies’ Change Leadership Framework

This work – founded in over 3000 years of ancient wisdom - uniquely brings together a deep appreciation for nature and some of its essential qualities, with an understanding for the sort of frameworks and tools that can work in a very practical way to support institutional and personal transformation.

To explore further, you might try this small experiment:-

i) Still yourself. Maybe close your eyes and breathe deeply for a short while.

ii) Now, simply allow yourself to be impacted by the 5 images in the bar above, and notice which image ultimately draws you most. Don’t agonise over this: make it a gut thing.

iii) Open the slide pack below – and match each image to one of the five energies described. (This should be very straightforward!)

iv) Now consider the descriptions under the ‘energy’ you were most drawn towards... It is likely that you were drawn to this energy either because it’s the one that’s strongest in you, or the one that’s weakest. Which is it?

v) Now use the diagrams in the slide pack and the accompanying paper below to explore the patterns underlying your strengths and weaknesses as a change leader. How do they relate to the ‘energies’ you find most prevalent, and most lacking, in your organisation? And what are the implications of this – for you, and for your colleagues?

vi) If this little process tantalises you – and perhaps provokes some interesting thoughts about your colleagues and/or your organisation – consider getting in touch to arrange a session, not just to deepen understandings, but maybe to deliver considerable change...

Download: Slide-pack: The ‘Five Energies’ Leadership Framework

Download: Working with the Five Energies: an introduction

Download: A Five Energies Seminar

“Thanks for an excellent session last week – provocation with a gentle, commenting edge that seemed to have reached well into people’s souls.  By the end of the week, many people were saying that it was the best workshop yet; it was powerful for them...” 

Judi Marshall, Professor of Leadership and Learning, Lancaster University

Watch "Tall, Dark, Handsome and No.1" (12mins)

Footage taken from a half-day session with practising managers at Bath University Management School.

"Stunning!"

The Guardian

Tall, Dark, Handsome & No.1 – and the financial crisis of October 2008:
PDF Download.

Barack Obama: letter to a change leader: PDF Download.

“The things of this world, so obvious and overlooked are the ‘magic decoys’ that can lure us back to a psychological perspective and once again put us in touch with the very seeds of experience, the deep fantasies we have about our world and ourselves…”

Thomas Moore, in Care of the Soul