When We Don't Take the Risk of Being Vulnerable in our Leadership
It's a catastrophe waiting to happen
On Monday I wrote about the vulnerability of being in our strength and power.
Today I’m present to what might have happened had I not chosen to walk into the vulnerability of my leadership.
I’ll start with the story, then get to the juice.
A few days before facilitating the 2 day live Sacred Business event on 6 & 7 February, I had two people who’d committed let me know they couldn’t come. I totally accepted one person’s cancellation but for some unknown reason I felt really angry at the other person’s cancellation. Let’s call her Katrina.
I couldn’t shake off the anger. The voices in my head said ‘shouldn’t she have known better?’ But no anger towards person 1’s cancellation.
Perplexed I realised the anger had nothing to do with her cancelling. It was intuitively telling me that something wasn’t going right in her world.
Having received the premise that it’s vulnerable to be in our strength and power, and knowing that I intuitively connect to people at times, I wrote to her and said ‘may I be both bold and vulnerable with you?’
We got on Zoom last Friday and oh my gosh, it was a conversation that had to happen for what I saw was going on in a venture that really, really matters to her, one that has the ability to create massive impact and evolution in her field. Up until this seeing, it was one big freaking blindspot and had it not been seen and the dynamic continued on with, this venture would have failed and relationships destroyed.
The anger….this energy used to come through me often around 2017. It’s a no BS energy that’s super direct, there is no ambiguity and it cuts to the chase. Katrina and I experienced it back in 2017 when we coached, and here it was again asking her to see that she had de-throned herself and relegated her leadership onto another for fear of them falling apart. But she is the visionary leader, not them, and now not only did she remember and honour that, but she cut loose the strings of distrust for the other to now take their place in their own genius zone and fly.
Amongst the profundity of this conversation we also laughed, a lot. Amongst the laughter referring to the irony of the situation, I also had teary eyes that this energy has graced us once again.
What? Anger and grace in the same sentence? Yes. Absolutely.
That was Friday. On Monday I received this from Katrina.
'Oh my! I can't even tell you the ripples since our conversation on Friday. Immensely grateful to you Gisele for your "seeing" and for not ignoring your "divine anger”’.
In the email she referred to three situations (since Friday) where she was vulnerably in the power and strength of her leadership and the ripples have been magnificent.
If we do not see and own up to our blindspots in our leadership, things will go awry. It’s just the way it is. It takes humility to say I’m ready and willing to let go of what I think is true and to see what has been sitting in the shadows hijacking our power and ability to realise our visions, callings and desires.
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