Whole
Person Leadership is a new leadership approach that is needed for sustainable
development in the new business paradigm that emerges right now. This business
paradigm is focusing on people, collaboration and process instead of machines,
technology and control. Sustainable development has three main areas, social,
ecological and economical sustainability. Whole Person Leadership focuses on
the people and social aspects of sustainable development in order to reach
whole sustainability including ecological and economical aspects. Everything starts
with people and with self.
Whole Person
Leadership builds from the foundation of relationships and genuine contact with
oneself and others. It works with an invitation to the whole person to join the
movement, including mind, spirit, emotions and body. This kind of leadership
knows that if not the whole person is invited, people have to divide into one
person they show when they are at work and other persons they show when they
are not working. People will be like actresses in different movies and none of
these movies will show the true self. It will be like building a brick house
without proper foundation. You never know when the bricks come tumbling down.
Whole Person
Leadership requires being open to what happens and not attached to outcome.
Leading the whole person way includes to focus on and trust the process, to use
tools and methods that support a life nurturing climate and to use ones power
wise for the benefit of all.
The GenuineContact program provides us with a roadmap and a set of tools and methods that
help us build the proper foundation that will support Whole Person Leadership
to emerge throughout the organization. It is the foundation needed for
sustainable development and growth. We, who work with the Genuine Contact
program, are on an ongoing learning journey with the Whole Person Leadership.
We give ourselves and each other permission to be true to who we are. We open
space and invite our full wisdom, spirit and emotions to come out and work with
us. We are pioneers and we are fully accepting the new business paradigm that
is based on life nurturing relationships and not control. It will work wonder
in the world!
