Today is Day 1 of the Inaugural 11A Collaborative Annual Retreat and I already find myself face to face with the stormy seas of self-concept development (pun intended - Bermuda is wonderfully awash in weather). In reflecting on the past year, I realize that who I am has fundamentally changed. I have gone from employee to founder. I have built a solid business. I have led teams. I have wrestled with not knowing and figuring something out. I have built boundaries and preferences. I am not who I was a year ago. And my guess is, neither are you... At times like this I go back to an article on self-concept development I had the privilege of co-writing with Corrie Voss, MOD, Ed.D. a few years ago, ably supported by Frances Baldwin. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eXvkv2-G. In it we propose a three-step process to assimilating new realizations about oneself: Awareness, Humility, and Will. It's very helpful to revisit the article on this stormy morning as I experience what we call "dislodgement," the jarring unseating of one's current self-concept. As I approach the retreat process ahead, I will aim to find a new self-concept by bringing Awareness, Humility, and Will into all that follows.
Organization Development Scholar-Practitioner | Behavioral Scientist | Conscious Leader
4 周Yay! Enjoy the liminal space of transformation!