Want to soften conflict?
Harvest Humility Like Moonlight (It’s Only Visible in The Night)
Every garden has its shadows.
In organisations, this often shows up as domination, passive silence, or power plays. With care and honesty, you can prune invasive vines and overgrowth to bring clarity and light(ness).
It can be about balancing facts with curious interest (practising “not knowing”), or speaking the unspeakable and necessary and addressing team members’ or stakeholders’ overinfluence or overlooked wisdom.
I believe deep and practical transformation happens when rhetoric gives way to relational honesty.
Your soil needs redistribution of attention and candour to thrive as inner gold.
Reflection seed: What parts of your leadership or work culture are overgrown with ego?
Where could a little humility make space for your new inner gold to bloom?
What are your freshest thoughts?
I wrote this piece about meeting our shadow leader…
It’s not pretty. But pausing allows for a deep dive into the relational feel, instead of blaming, judging and being full of contempt.
It’s here. “What to do when you become the leader you always dreaded”
