“The body we are will be the life we lead.” – Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Have you ever thought about how your body affects your capacity as a leader? Whether formally leading others or leading your own life, the way you stand, sit, move and comport yourself has a major role in your effectiveness at living a life of purpose and fulfillment. The most sincere amongst us often wish to become more daring
in living our full potential but struggle to do so. Hopeful thoughts and insight alone rarely lead to new action. Embodied leadership development addresses the gap that you may be experiencing between your best intentions, and your behaviour. Neuroscientists and psychologists have long known that how you inhabit your body and convey your intentions through non-verbal cues has an effect on how others perceive you. Did you know that how you inhabit your body and comport yourself also has a powerful impact on how you feel about yourself and what you see as possible for your life? If you are keen to develop your potential and reach for more positive results, you’ll gain more ground by bringing your attention into your whole self, including your sensate experience and body posture, than if you only tune into your mind or focus on simply gathering intellectual information. Through attending to the life of your soma, a word from ancient Greek meaning the living body in its wholeness, you can deepen and widen your awareness, and come into greater contact with your complexity and dearest cares. By engaging new practices of body, mind and linguistics you open yourself to greater possibility for positive outcomes and increase your ability to embody your full expression. Welcome, I am Embodied Leadership Australia’s (ELA) founding director, Jennifer Lalor. With over 17 years experience in Somatics, leadership development, coaching and education, I bring a professional dedication to the development of leaders who are committed to a career path of conscious transformation and personal mastery. In the service of the greater good of your enterprise and stakeholders, I will guide you to a deep and embodied understanding of how to excel in the management of complexity as you move your vision forward. I understand that your primary source of power as a leader is an awareness of your strengths and your challenges, including the impact your leadership has on others. This is true whether formally leading others or leading your own life. I champion the triple bottom line of people, profit and planet, and see building a strong organisational leadership culture as an imperative to success. Leadership development expands the playing field for all of us. Based on the work of Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s Strozzi Somatics in conjunction with the Halprin Life/Art Process and underpinned by an integral approach to adult development and education, Embodied Leadership Australia’s programs will lead you on a personal leadership discovery of authenticity, inspiration and purpose. Whether through individual coaching, team development or public workshops, you’ll learn how habituated embodied patterns underpin the sensation driven beliefs and actions that together can make sustainable transformation elusive. You’ll learn how you react under stress and practice new pathways through embodied metaphors that support you in moving from unexamined reaction to chosen responsiveness – not through wishing it differently but by developing somatic awareness, perceiving possibility differently and embodying new action. This is a key component in building relationships of trust and developing positive influence with stakeholders in a variety of environments. I offer a comprehensive approach to embodied leadership development across a range of corporate, community and non-profit sectors. I am available for individual coaching, organizational consulting and public speaking engagements. Would you like to open a conversation about your embodied leadership? All you need is your body and a little curiosity. Please be in touch. I would welcome hearing from you! e: [email protected]
