https://www.unshackledgrowth.com/home daily 1.0 2020-08-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f3406d7804d6938576bc96b/t/5f340b35c41e8a6ea33fe80b/1597246274965/WhatsApp+Image+2020-07-01+at+16.07.40+%281%29.jpeg Premise https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f3406d7804d6938576bc96b/t/5f341571b0dae13b45fc500f/1597248888301/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2020-07-01%2Bat%2B16.07.40%2B%252810%2529.jpg Premise - With Heracles as your companion in a fictionalized account of his mythical Ten Labors, you can learn about the struggles, fighting demons, tyrants and dragons. His’ and yours. With him, you will discover and practice new weapons; gain wisdom and mastery. Eventually Heracles overcomes his darkest self-sabotaging tendencies by defeating the three-headed hound of hell. After completing the road of trials as his companion, you will have gained insights from the inner work every person sooner or later has to engage in: gaining mastery over your old reactive tendencies to win existential freedom and move ahead skillfully under the most difficult of circumstances. It might feel like cutting lose the ballast, the sand bags that have been holding you down for decades. Prevented you from soaring into the pale blue sky as a hot air balloon, fueled by an infinite fire burning within. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f3406d7804d6938576bc96b/t/5f340e331afbf82a523ed6e1/1597248746232/WhatsApp+Image+2020-07-01+at+16.07.40+%2812%29.jpeg Premise - Faced with complex and unknown situations, where most will disintegrate, you can gain mastery over old fight, flight, fawn or freeze impulses. It comes from expanding your awareness; widening your window of tolerance; facing underlying fears; healing scars, wounds or even trauma from the past; deliberately setting intention and directing attention; positively resonating with others. In turn, you will experience more space, more time to generate more options for showing up with confidence and courage in the most difficult of circumstances. You will start responding from consciousness (rather than reacting from conditioning) to challenges faced, with seemingly effortless and spontaneous fluidity, skill and grace. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f3406d7804d6938576bc96b/t/5f340e6189853245a598d851/1597248898275/WhatsApp%2BImage%2B2020-07-01%2Bat%2B16.07.40%2B%25289%2529.jpg Premise - At times during this journey, you will feel like a yogi deeply settling into the here and now; an archeologist tracing back the steps of your own ancient history; a scientist uncovering the workings of your own brain; a steersman navigating the undercurrents of emotions and relations and an experienced sherpa, securing the route for your fellow climbers. This book offers a map of the terrain to explore and a compass to navigate your way through valleys, past cliffs, towards vistas. The author taps into his vast experience in the field of leadership development and connects the dots between diverse fields of science and wisdom that inspired him during his own transformation. The book blends stories, theory, exercises, inspiration and learnings from an eclectic mix of ancient wisdom traditions, neuroscience, quantum physics, mythology, poetry and depth psychology. It weaves disparate concepts such as Ventral Vagal Nerve; Compassion; Quantum Potential; Hero’s Journey; Attachment Theory; Wu Wei; Peak Experiences and much more into a colorful tapestry. The author leans on the wisdom of renown authors in their own fields such as Joseph Campbell; Karen Horney; Lao-Tze; Stephen Fry; David Bohm; Thich Nhah Hanh; Carl Jung; Rick Hanson; Jalal ad-Din Muhammed Rumi. After reading – and practicing with – this book, you should feel unshackled from what held you back till now, finally participating freely and fully in what life has in store for you. No longer knee-jerk reacting, but responding with wisdom, equanimity and compassion. Getting you squarely on your own path, unfolding in front of you with fluidity, grace and confidence. By showing up from this new place, sourcing from this deep well, you can skillfully shape and work with what emerges from life, influence results for the better and lead others from a new-found sense of freedom and flow. https://www.unshackledgrowth.com/about daily 0.75 2021-04-28 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f3406d7804d6938576bc96b/t/5f3410fd86cbc13d317a171d/1597247752565/WhatsApp+Image+2020-07-01+at+16.07.40+%287%29.jpeg About - Berend-Jan Hilberts is an independent leadership coach, author and lecturer. For many years, he was the Dean of THNK, School of Creative Leadership. He considers himself a reluctant economist, an eclectic Zen buddhist and a closet poet. A relatively late convert to the topic of leadership, he spent the first 20+ years of his career in a suit and tie climbing the corporate ladder; making all the mistakes in the book, being confronted by his own reactive patterns more than he cared for. He joined THNK in its earliest days a decade ago, initially focused on his area of expertise at the time: bringing new ideas into the world. Gradually his focus shifted from growing ideas to growing the people behind these ideas, noticing how real creativity, innovation or systems change came from people who had liberated themselves from the unhelpful self-built prisons they had been living in prior. He revels in witnessing and supporting leaders reaching their fullest potential. As Dean of THNK, he redesigned the program with more emphasis on and depth in the all important inner journey of the participants towards their experienced transformation. Now he brings the learnings and experience of having guided the inner and outer journeys of more than 600 participants in THNK’s executive leadership program and having guided hundreds more in other programs, coaching journeys or leadership encounters to this book. And not just from the sidelines. The author has gone through a transformational journey himself more recently, brought about by four big life events in three years time. During each of the periods following these events, he would do his inner work as well as burry himself in heaps of books and articles to understand the theory behind what he was experiencing. It’s all distilled in this book, which rests on a mix of guiding and witnessing transformation in others, lived personal experience and literature study. https://www.unshackledgrowth.com/sign-up daily 0.75 2021-04-28 https://www.unshackledgrowth.com/coaching daily 0.75 2020-08-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f3406d7804d6938576bc96b/t/5f357030c7e8237fb20b2779/1597340334629/WhatsApp+Image+2020-07-01+at+16.07.40+%288%29.jpeg Coaching - Questions I can help you answer: How do I develop into a more confident, more effective version of myself as leader? How do I free myself from "shooting myself in the foot" when things become difficult? How do I gracefully and skilfully get to the other side of my transition? https://www.unshackledgrowth.com/testimonials daily 0.75 2020-08-13