Leadership Legacy

Reflective Questions—What the Eyes Miss

‘ The patterns show what the eyes miss—healing flows through understanding connection’

(Shipibo-Konibo wisdom, Upper Amazon, Ucayali River Basin, Peru)

The questions below will help you to recognise hidden connections so you can:

• Acknowledge and establish your framework for courageous ideas.
• Recognise and acknowledge your intuitive intelligence.
• Embrace complexity.

Section I: Patterns as Portals

Reflections:

• When does a moment repeat enough that it becomes a ritual, not a fluke?
• Where is déjà vu manifesting as resistance in your system, self, community, family, social group, or organisation?
• What emotion frequently arises before you hide your truth?

Prompt:

Write the sentence that always tries to leave your mouth but never makes it.

Now rewrite it as an invitation.

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Section II: Your Nervous System Map

Note down:

• Where does tension live in your body when challenged as a leader?
• Where do you feel clarity in your body when you're completely aligned?
• Where in your body does fear masquerade as strategy?

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Section III: Systemic Pattern Map

Identify two to three patterns that you observe in each of the domains listed below.

• Identity: Who are you when no one is watching?
• Culture: What values are stated? What values are lived?
• Community: Who initiates? Who disappears?
• Economic flow: How does tiredness affect the flow of money or economic resources?
• Ecosystem forces: What global signals are impacting your micro-world? ...