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The Top 2 Metrics That Expand Your Power aliveness article articles by larissa burnout coaching framework growth leadership mindfulness at work power rest sensing the future of work transformation vital leadership wayfinding Jan 25, 2023

Common opinions about expanding our power at work often cite things like getting promoted, gaining decision-making power, getting a raise, expanding your network, and becoming recognized as a leader in your field. 

But none of these are foundations of power. They are actually expressions of power.

If you've been here with us at Wayfinding, you'll know we have a more specific, nuanced understanding of power than the average bears out there, and if you're new here—welcome!—and peep that link for your power orientation.

So how do we nurture our foundational...

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Core Routines for Being a Bridge aliveness article articles by larissa burnout calling growth intuition leadership meaning through work mindfulness at work power rest ritual sensing the future of work transformation vital leadership wayfinding Dec 19, 2022


Helping others rise to a new level of consciousness asks certain things of our beings. 

This community is comprised of a wide range of such bridges. Each of you helping to infuse more expansive worldviews into the world of work in amazing ways like regenerating the real estate industry; advancing DEIB in organizational leadership, practice, and policy; bringing psychedelic wisdom to the mental health field; redefining best practices at the highest levels of law; and guiding organizations to get work done in more adaptive, human ways. 

 

You bridge a reality of what’s so...

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Leading Through the Rest and Recovery We All Need aliveness article articles by larissa coaching grief growth leadership mindfulness at work power rest sensing transformation wayfinding workplace Mar 16, 2022

“We need time to rehabilitate from the trauma of the pandemic” as Dr. David Rock, CEO of the NeuroLeadership Institute, wrote in the Harvard Business Review in February. This is a crucial pattern for all leaders and teams to take note of with many more contributing factors than just the pandemic.

It's notable when I have a moment when I'm having the same conversation across all my clients. 
This is one of those moments.

Here are some factors contributing to why we’re seeing such a widespread pattern:

  1. Immersion in a constant trauma field in the world &...

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Part 1 - Why explore intuition as a leader? alchemical leadership articles by nick intuition sensing transformation wayfinding Jan 24, 2022

Practically speaking…

Intuition is a source of power and I want to make it more accessible to leaders. As we practice living with our intuition we become more whole, as family members, as partners, as teammates and as whole human beings seeking to do good in the world.

I have been exploring the depths of intuition since 2017. Both academically as part of completing my Masters in Positive Psychology & Org Development at Weatherhead School of Management as well as in the field with client-leaders looking to transform culture and introduce more sensing-based capacities into their...

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Intro to the Phases of Wayfinding leadership power sensing transformation wayfinding Dec 10, 2021

 

Wayfinding is not only the name of our organization and the signature system I’ve been contemplating, embodying, and weaving to find my way and support others finding their way in life, leadership, and organizational evolution. It is also a long-standing human skill that has existed across time and still exists in rich cultural traditions.

 
Wayfinding is our ability to find our way to places we have maybe never been before, or to places that we have been, but on a different day, as a different self, in a different time, and so in that way, too, they can be new.

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Expanding Our Vessels: Inner Power for Aligned Outer Power aliveness articles by larissa growth leadership power transformation Feb 16, 2021

Photo: SwapnIl Dwivedi on Unsplash

 

Recently, I was working with an executive coaching client who got clarity on his calling.

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The Expertise of Experience aliveness article leadership power purpose transformation vulnerability wayfinding Jan 31, 2021

Some of the expertise that my clients value the most comes from my personal life and my healing journey from a near-fatal accident that happened 10 years ago on Jan 10, 2011.

 

This journey is inseparable from my work in the world, informing my work every day. 


In honor of my ten-year anniversary, here is a map I made — primarily of the physical layers of my healing journey.



Leaders consistently value the insights I learned through this extended terrain because I learned how to bring a system (my body) back from near-death to bright aliveness, and I know how...

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Organizational Evolution & Vulnerable Leadership // Be More Podcast events leadership podcast transformation vulnerability Oct 04, 2020

In this fabulous conversation with Patrick Courneyer from Peakon, he and I explored opportunities for organizational evolution and redefining what's possible for business now. Navigating this new world of work is asking us to deal with enormous amounts of pressure, learn the true intelligence in sensing and aliveness, and to evolve systems of power in service of the whole. “The price of admission, at each stage is our old self. It’s our smaller skin. Like a snake, we have to shed that skin. We have to let it go.”

By far one of my favorite podcast conversations...

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Why Wayfinding alchemical leadership aliveness article power transformation wayfinding Jun 11, 2019

"Navigating unmarked territory to find our way through the mystery is an inherent drive in the human spirit. This ability is the essence of the skill known as wayfinding. It is invaluable, in general, and especially now, as we face very real, high stakes globally."

We speak our values and the way we see life into existence through words, so names have great power. People often ask me why I chose Wayfinding—what it is, what it means to me, and why it's relevant for our times. This is my answer.

 


 

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Rites of Passage at Responsive Con 2018 alchemical leadership power rites of passage talks transformation Jan 21, 2019

In September of 2018, I had the pleasure of speaking on the mainstage of Responsive Conference about power abuse in our culture and at work, and I invited the audience to consider their own rites of passage to release limiting beliefs and fears in order to become more influential agents of change in their organizations. Watch it and hear more here.

 


 

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How to Find the Power in Your Challenges podcast power transformation Jul 30, 2018

In June after presenting at Culture First, I had a rich (and very fun) conversation with Brad Owens, host of the Small Business Hiring podcast, about the gift of challenges and how to use sensing to reveal the power in the things we most want to avoid. Listen here :) Thanks Brad!

 


 

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On My Rebirthday aliveness article power purpose transformation Dec 26, 2017

On the eve of Friday December 8, I threw a ReBirthday dance party ceremony to celebrate the end of my 7-year healing journey.

These years since I stood up suddenly, blacked out, and fell off a waterfall on Jan 10, 2011 have been a journey I could have never imagined. One that I’m forever grateful for because I grew into a greater version of myself—more alive, more true, more loving, more joyful, and more powerful. But, oh lordy, what it took to get here…. Read more...

 


 

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