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- 4 Energy Patterns
- Absence
- Acceptance
- Agile
- AI
- Andy Robins
- Anne Masten
- Artificial Intelligence
- autonomic nervous system
- Autopilot
- Awareness
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- B-F- van Heel
- bamboo
- Behavior
- Being Present
- belongingness
- Bill George
- Bio-leadership
- Black Lives Matter
- blowing dharma
- Body
- Brad Reed
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- Brand
- Brave
- breath
- breath control
- breathe
- breathing
- bullies
- bully
- Captain Marvel
- Captain Marvel Journal
- Carols
- Centeredness
- Change
- Chaos
- ChatGPT
- Chicago
- Chosei Zen
- Chozen-ji Zen
- Chris Niebauer
- Christmas
- Cleveland Clinic
- Cliamte crisis
- Climate
- Climate Change
- Co-create
- Co-Regulation
- Coaching
- Coll
- Collaborator
- Collective
- Communication
- community
- Community
- Compromise
- Conflict
- connection
- Connection
- Contract
- Control
- COP28
- Coping
- Coping To Transforming
- courage
- COVID
- COVID-19
- Culture
- Curiosity
- Cushion
- Cycle
- Daikozen-Ji
- Dan Siegel
- death
- Democracy
- Democrats
- Derek Chauvin
- dharma bamboo
- Discomfort
- Disconnected
- Disruption
- division
- Donald Trump
- Driver
- Duke University
- Ecosystem
- ego
- Ego
- Election
- Eleven Rings
- embodied
- Embodied Energy
- embodied leadership
- Embodied Leadership
- Embodied Work
- Embodiment
- Embrace change
- Emergency Response
- Empathy
- Empower
- Energy
- Energy Patterns
- enthusiasm
- Executive Presence
- Expand
- Explore
- Facing The Hungry Ghost
- Family
- Fear
- Fearless
- Fearlessness
- FEBI
- FEBI certified
- Feedback loops
- Flipping the voice of resistance
- Food is Medicine
- Forbes
- Freaking Out
- Freedom Inc
- From Coping To Transforming
- Functional Freeze
- Future
- Futurist
- generative medicine
- George Floyd
- Ginny Whitelaw
- Giving
- Giving Is Receiving
- Gordon Greene Roshi
- Gratitude
- Gregory Bateson
- Grounding
- Habit
- Hara
- hara centeredness
- harmonize
- HEAL
- healthcare
- Healthcare
- Healthcare Professionals
- healthcare system
- HealthScripts
- Heart Math Institute
- Holistic
- Holistic Leadership
- Home
- hotchiku
- How
- I Don't know
- I don't know
- illusion of certainty
- Individual
- Inner Critic
- inner voice
- Institute for Zen Leadership
- Integral Life
- Integral Theory
- Integration
- interaction
- Interconnected
- Interconnected Universe
- interconnectedness
- internal work
- Jeremy Rifkin
- Joe Biden
- Joel Barker
- Jon Meacham
- Journey
- Joy
- Katelyn Jatelina
- Keishin
- Ken Wilber
- Kevin Cashman
- kintsugi
- knowing
- Korn Ferry
- Kosha Joubert
- Labels
- Lead with Purpose
- Leader
- Leaders
- leadership
- Leadership
- Leadership and Practice
- Leadership from the Inside out
- Leadership Skills
- Leadership Without Easy Answers
- Learn
- Letting Go
- limbo
- limiting beliefs
- Limiting Habits
- limitless opportunity
- Listen
- Lockdown
- Loneliness
- Loss
- Ma
- Malcolm Gladwell
- mandela
- Mark Walsh
- Meaning
- medicine
- Meditation
- Meditation Practice
- Meltdown
- Michael Beschloss
- Michael Singer
- Mind
- mind-body
- Mind-Body Connection
- Mindset
- Mindvalley
- Movement
- Moving Forward
- Mu
- Nature
- nelson mandela
- Neurobiology of We
- New Year
- Nikki Jackman Joy
- No Answer
- No self, No Problem – How Neuropsychology is catching up to Buddhism
- no separation
- Norma Wong
- Normal
- Norman Garmezy
- Norris Hansell
- Nutrition
- Observe
- Omori Sogen Roshi
- One with
- One-Withness
- Orchid
- Organizer
- Otto Scharmer
- Overcoming Fear
- pain
- pandemic
- Pandemic
- Paradox
- Patience
- Perfection
- Perfectionist
- permaculture
- PermaLeadership
- perspective
- Perspective
- Phil Jackson
- Physical Training
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- Pocket Project
- political divide
- Poverty
- Practice
- Presence
- Present
- President
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- Rachel Maddow
- racial justice
- racism
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- Radicalized
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Rebecca Ryan
- Recieving
- Refugees
- regenerative
- Relationship
- Relationships
- Republicans
- Repurpose You
- resilience
- resonance
- Resonate
- Rev. angel Kyodo Williams
- Rhythm
- Ro-buki
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Ronald Heifetz
- Samadhi
- samu
- Schismogenesis
- Self Awareness
- Self care
- Self-Transcendence
- Sense
- Separation
- Sesshin
- shakuhachi
- shugyo
- slow
- Slow
- Slow Coach
- Slow Down
- slowing down
- Smooth
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- Spirituality
- staff
- Steve Jobs
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- strawberry
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- String Theory
- Strong Woman
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- suffering
- Support
- Surangama Sutra
- Sustainability
- Synchronicity
- systemic view
- Tanouye Roshi
- Taoism
- team
- Teams
- Terry LePage
- The Age Of Resilience
- The Inconvenient Truth
- The Leadership Pause
- The Mind-Body Way
- The Untethered Soul
- The Zen Leader
- Theory Of Everything
- Time
- tipping point
- tolerate
- training
- Training
- Transformation
- transforming
- Transitions
- trauma
- triggered
- Triggered
- True North
- Trust
- trust connection
- Truth
- Ukraine
- uncertainty
- Unity
- unknown
- Upper Right Corner
- Vegetables
- Venezuelan Migrants
- Vibrations
- Vietnam
- Virtual Dojo
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- Voice of Resistance
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- William Keepin
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- Wisdom Weavers of the World
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- Zazen
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Exploring FEBI in Leadership and Practice
Scott, Jasleen, Kelly, and Nic share their stories and reflections on FEBI, setting the stage for an invitation to a new practice community—where everyone can come together to explore, learn, and grow.
Grounded In Presence And Absence: Zen Leadership For A World In Chaos
Grounding in presence helps leaders face a world of chaos. Further grounding in absence enables them to be a resilient, compassionate and wise presence in its whirl.
Leadership Strategies For Facing Distraction, Disruption And Destruction
From a place of centeredness and wholeness, connected to what’s true and agile in their means, leaders can access the resourcefulness and resilience to face this time.
The Roots of Zen Leader - How Sesshin Brings the Flips to Life
Brad Reed, Zen Leadership Instructor, shares his experience of sesshin and how the Flips came to life during the training.
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.
Zen With or Without a Cushion
Jo Anne Preston, Zen Leader Practitioner and ZL: Alive Off The Cushion facilitator, reflections on all of the ways we give and receive.
FEBI Ecosystem
Jasleen Kaur, IZL Instructor and long time FEBI Enthusiast shares her feeling about FEBI and the IZL community. She explores the ecosystem of giving and receiving that the community has created.
Giving is Receiving—the Fall 2024 Zen Leadership Flip
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.
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.
From Chaos to Clarity: Embracing the Zen Leader
Michael Basil, an upcoming Zen Leader Coach, shares the story of how he found IZL and how it has influenced his life.
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.
What AI Can’t Do And What Great Leaders Will Do
Dr. Whitelaw explores artificial intelligence and how leaders can move with this new technology. She also shows leaders how they can move beyond AI.
Leaders: How Do We Tell The Story Of The Future We Want And Invite Others Into It?
Dr. Whitelaw invites leaders to pay attention to the stories they tell and put their energy into, and ways to invite others into those stories.
The Leadership Superpower For Positive Change In The Climate Crisis
Dr. Whitelaw explores the steps companies can take to do purposeful work to go green while remaining profitable.
Try On A New Relationship With Time
Dr. Whitelaw explores our relationship to time. Technology is helping time "speed up" while Dr. Whitelaw invites us to slow down.
Greenbacks Versus Going Green—What’s A Leader To Do?
Dr. Whitelaw explores the steps companies can take to do purposeful work to go green while remaining profitable.
What New Year Do You Want To Bring Into Being?
Dr. Whitelaw discusses how synchronicity is not coincidence but science. She also explains how leaders can tune their antenna to sense what is coming next.
Recharging Yourself As A Leader—3 Laws Of Managing Energy
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
5 Degrees Of Connection: Which Support You As A Leader?
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw writes about Ken Wilber's Integral Theory. There are 5 stages of connection. Which stage are you in?
Facing An Inconvenient Truth Or Inconvenient Consequences
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw writes about the 4 energy patterns we all have access too. How can they help support you?
Leadership Development 3.0—Energy Included
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
Becoming The Future We Want
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
What Globalization Taught Leaders—And What They Need To Learn Now
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
Leading As A Land Grab Versus Leading As The Land
Dr. Ginny writes about two kinds of leadership, one that takes and one that recognizes the give and take.
FEBI and Emergency Response Leadership
Nate Weed, a public health leader, shares insights on how the four energy patterns help leaders effectively respond to emergencies.
Life Hurts...There Is No Avoiding It
Andy Robins reminds us that pain is a part of life. The Zen Leader reminds us that the first step is to transform the energy.