Creating safe environments that encourage creativity & response-ability
Environments that allow us to really show up.
To show up means to reveal ourselves as we really are – not the image that we are pretending to the world – and to be emotionally vulnerable. When we dare do this – we want to be met emotionally, loved, accepted, supported, and protected. We want to feel that it’s safe to show up as we are.
Most of us fear being rejected and judged… many of us didn’t have a healthy surrounding to be fully received and accepted as we are. And as such it becomes scary to authentically show up. What if we’d get hurt again?
We need to create unconditional spaces where we feel safe to show up vulnerably and share ourselves without judgment. A safe space where we are received as we are, where we can drop the mask and really show up in deep relational space. This calms the nervous system down and encourages ideas and creativity to flow more authentically. That’s why the Somatic Intelligence Inner Circle inside the SI Academy is so important and is included in your annual membership.
As Simon Sinek likes to say: “Companies need to feel like brothers and sisters to create really effective teams.“
Great leaders create inclusivity and the kind of space for themselves and their people to really show up. They create a culture that appreciates people’s feelings, across the whole spectrum – and as a result, people within these organizations feel felt and a deep sense of connection. These talented leaders constantly remind themselves and their leadership teams, that we’re all human beings. They understand that human beings who feel and process their emotions are more present, positive, and successful.
When leaders can learn to become more available emotionally, they learn how to help team members move through what is blocking them and impacting their performance.
Availability = response-ability = my ability to respond to you.
And this doesn’t mean that we let go of productivity or of being disciplinary when needed. It means we show up with empathy and we navigate the fine line between caring/supporting and producing.
Being emotionally available is an essential part of our emotional resilience – being available first of all to yourself, to allow processing, and then to others.
If we process our own emotions better so we don’t numb ourselves, run to addictions, and keep ourselves too busy so we won’t feel, we can become more spacious and available emotionally for others.
Many powerful leaders have met their shadow side and stood still in the face of emotions that were hard to be with. They emanate great light.
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