I had been stuck for weeks on the launch of the Relational Leadership Academy. The website shell was up and we had so many agreements in place. But I felt stuck. I felt frozen. I felt uncertain.
Over the winter I’ve been enrolled in an online retreat with the Gene Keys founder Richard Rudd...
Patrick and I started discussing the Relational Leadership Academy in the Spring of 2021. We started meeting about it formally in August of 2021. By November, we were well on our way with agreements in place and task lists and a new website.
I started the Pearl Sequence with the Gene Keys, a...
Patrick is a proud and loud and outward ENFP. He’s upbeat, fun, positive, and optimistic. He dresses as Santa during the holidays. And everyone is convinced. Like for real convinced.
Lee is an ENFJ. The E, N, and F are fairly in the midrange. But the J is very J. Which means she’s...
We are so grateful to have all these beautiful photographs with which to launch our project together.
Michell Biton is a very talented man. He made us feel at ease and brought out the very best in us. The beautiful photographs are a testament to that. He made us laugh, encouraged us to play,...
In thinking about how to frame our model a nine month training for paradigm shifting leaders, we were really drawn to the Hero’s Journey narrative.
Popularized by Joseph Campbell the Hero’s Journey looks at themes that run through the lives of humans.
They can be characterized...
Getting to this age and stage of life, we (Patrick & Lee) both know enough about our unconscious material and be mindful of how we approach new endeavors. Instead of focusing only on the opportunities, we were very clear to also spell out our concerns and challenges.
In fact we scoured our...
Patrick came to our meeting with the suggestion that we come up with 15 questions that have been floating in our hearts and minds during this co-creation process and get them all down on paper. No need to answer them. No need answer any of them.
Asking questions, creating questions, living in...
When we sat down to do our holistic goal together in October of 2021, we started off by each of us choosing our core values. Then we married them, each of us adopting both sets of values. From there, we added quality of life statements and commitments to live these values in our work with the Relational...
Our first formal meeting was August 8, 2021 on the deck of Patrick’s house in Maggie Valley, NC by the beautiful river.
We started with a centering, pulled some tarot cards, and talked about the Lion’s Gate new moon.
From what we read in the above-linked article:
“The...