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Functional Freeze: Finding My Way Back to Myself
Courtney Amo, Zen Leadership Practitioner, shares her experience of functional freeze. What is it good for and how to rediscover the warmth when it is time to thaw.
Five Reasons And One Way To Slow Down In This Sped-Up Time
Smooth leadership is more coherent, resonant, attuned, connected and calm, and a way to access it is as near as one’s next exhale.
Moving in Style: Physical Strategies for the Agile Work of Leadership
The world around us is calling for great agility in leadership. Drawing on our full inner team of energy patterns, we can rise to the call.
FEBI as a Key Tool in Integrating Energy to Create Stronger, More Resilient Teams
FEBI, the mind-body assessment from IZL, reminds us in the words of Kate Watters, that “none of us have to be everything” and each and all of us have access to an array of energies than we can use judiciously on our teams.
My Surprisingly Deep Transformational Journey With FEBI
Brad Reed, FEBI Coach and transformational coach, shares his personal transformational journey with FEBI.
Fostering holistic leadership through FEBI – Lee’s Story
Jasleen Kaur and Kelly Bannister share the real journey of an IZL instructor.
What is FEBI-4U?
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw interviews Marcela Kyngesburye, ZL Instructor, about the upcoming FEBI courses and Marcela's personal interest in FEBI.
Physical Side of Great CEOs
Ginny Whitelaw explores how the findings from a Harvard Business Review study on great CEOs align with the FEBI energy patterns.
Forget Democrats and Republicans – What Kind of Convention are YOU Hosting?
Ginny Whitelaw draws a parallel between political conventions and our internal conventions. My engaging our whole mind-body, we can become more whole and balanced.
TRUMP, HAMILTON, AND THE ZEN LEADER WALK INTO A BAR...
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on messages and their ability to resonate or not with the listener. What can leaders do to help their messages hit the right chord?
The Energy of Agile Leadership: from Antenna to Arrow
Ginny Whitelaw explores how leadership energy flows through four FEBI energy patterns and how these patterns can help leaders become more agile.
Taking Ownership: How We Avoid It and How Zen Tackles Avoidance
Ginny Whitelaw explores how our ingrained tendencies to seek comfort, avoid pain, and conserve lead to unhealthy habits, ineffective leadership, and environmental neglect. She urges us to take true ownership by facing into that discomfort.
Summer In The City: If The Energy Patterns Were Cities...
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on the transformative CitiZen program, where city leaders applied Zen principles to leadership, posture, and breathwork, deepening their ability to navigate urban challenges with presence, resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Springtime For Hara
Ginny Whitelaw explores how, amid rapid advancements in AI and neurotechnology, a different kind of innovation is emerging—one that accelerates human consciousness through practices like hara breathing, leading to the development of a "harameter" that could bridge Zen wisdom with modern technology.
Leading into the Six Perfections
Ginny Whitelaw connects Ken Wilber’s Fourth Turning of Buddhism to leadership by exploring how the 4 energy patterns align with the 6 Perfections, offering a practical, embodied approach to developing more conscious, effective leaders.
The Zen Leader Goes Home
Theo Cade, Zen Leader participant, shares his experience working with a number of the Zen Leader flips.
Zen, Leadership, and the Fourth Turning of Buddhism
Ginny Whitelaw explores Ken Wilber’s Fourth Turning of Buddhism through the concept of the U Turn, showing how leaders can transcend self-imagination to access deeper insight and transform vision into action.
How a Zen Leader Can Reinvent Organizations
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux, highlighting how its evolutionary approach to leadership and decision-making aligns with Zen principles to create more adaptive, purpose-driven, and engaged organizations.
Change Requires Management, Transition Requires Leadership
Ginny Whitelaw explores how leaders can navigate change and transition by integrating William Bridges' transition model, John Kotter's change framework, and the FEBI energy patterns to align leadership responses with the needs of the situation.
How To Get Stuff Done
Ginny Whitelaw explores the concept of "driving rhythm" in leadership, emphasizing how aligning with natural cycles and leveraging the four FEBI energy patterns enables leaders to execute effectively with the right effort at the right time.