Our Approach

We work at both the individual and organizational level.

Spirit (L)ed Companions

At the individual level we provide a tailored, and guided journey which uses the holistic development model as a basis for exploring your unique qualities and your spiritual values.  This personalized focus provides a reflective space to challenge how well you are living out your potential and reflecting your leadership purposes.   

“Leadership behaviour is one of the most powerful determinants of how organisations develop (and) it is important to develop the leader’s capacity for personal spiritual growth”.

(Spirited Leadership leaflet, October, 2008) 

Genuine leadership development enables a person to uncover who they truly are so that in any context they are able to display personal authenticity and integrity which results in sustainable impact and influence.  

Recognising the incredible importance of personal spiritual growth and how it is integral to genuine and authentic leadership, we:

• Listen to you, as personal companions on your leadership journey for an agreed length of time (typically 8 session over a period of 3-6 months)
• Help you to identify your spiritual values and how these support you as a leader
• Provide tools for creative reflection, and practical exercises that will open up new insights
• Encourage critical thinking and enable constructive learning
• Suggest approaches and methodologies to enable you to stay connected to your spiritual purpose when the pressure is on
  

We will offer you deep support as well as loving challenge to move you beyond your limitations and to be stretched towards achieving your fullest leadership potential.  By saying yes to this opportunity you will embark on a journey which offers you a chance to focus on the truly important aspects of your life.  Each step will enable you to deepen and strengthen your spiritual understanding, self-awareness and character.   This approach provides a time of deep learning, which by its very nature will be transformational, since our central focus will be on your personal spiritual growth.

Our role as spirit led companions is not to bestow wisdom, from on high as it were, but to release it from within.¹

1 Adapted from:
 Newell, P., J., 2000. Echo of The Soul. Norwich: Canterbury Press.

Purposeful Lives, Purposeful Organisations

Spirituality and work has been found to be linked to improved organizational performance in a number of research studies, and more recently higher levels of productivity result when employees’ spiritual needs are aligned with organization vision and values ¹

“Things that matter most, must never be at the mercy of things that matter least”
(Goethe)

We embrace the need for organizations to accept as given that human beings flourish when their spiritual lives are nurtured.  This is our point of departure. 

Using the Holistic Development Model as a foundational framework, we create a ‘safe space’ allowing time to be used for personal and organizational refreshment and renewal. 

We support individuals to connect with their own sense of purpose by exploring their unique identity.  Areas explored include

• Who am I?  Learning from your life story, strengths, talents, values, beliefs
• What are the things you wish you could change? Embracing imperfections and current reality
• What is my potential?  Visioning from a place of genuine inspiration, aspiring to your ideals and dreams
• What is my purpose? Who are you becoming and what will your legacy be in this organization?
• What brings you joy and how do you celebrate?

Connecting the individual to the organizational context we explore:

• Who are we?  The organizational story - culture, strengths, values – encountering and listening to ourselves
• What is our potential?  The relationship between our personal vision/mission and the organisation’s vision/mission
• Why are we here?  Who are we serving? What is our purpose?
• How can we support one another in our relationships and create a genuine community?
• What brings us joy and how do we celebrate?

Spirit means life, and both life and livelihood are about living in depth, living with meaning, purpose, joy and a sense of contributing to the greater community.  Our work with organizations releases a new sense of optimism about what can be achieved together.