By taking radical responsibility for your own healing, you unveil the high-conscious leader within that our world needs right now.
You don’t outrun or outgrow the formative experiences that have shaped who you are. So, it makes sense that your emotional history would also be the foundation of your leadership style. If what got you to this point may now be the very thing that is holding you back, then Heal to Lead was written for you. Everything you’ve read about conscious leadership is based on self-awareness and personal growth, yet the missing link has been trauma healing. If you want greater collaboration with your people, the confidence to inspire growth in your organization, and a more meaningful connection to yourself, your community, and the natural world, it’s time to do the inner work. This book shows you how to develop high-conscious leadership, rooted in deep introspection, vulnerability, compassion, and reciprocity with all beings.
Inside, former CEO turned trauma-informed leadership coach Kelly L. Campbell walks alongside you as you unpack and process what’s been buried within your psyche. Integrating your past trauma is the key to unlearning the maladaptive strategies that have kept you subconsciously safe until now. With the resources, personal anecdotes, and reflection questions in this book, you will be better able to regulate your emotions and feel more enlivened as you lead from a place of reclamation. As an indicator of your commitment, your organization will ultimately realize greater stability and success.
- Discover how trauma lives in the body and can hinder you from accessing your potential.
- Break strategic patterns in your life that keep you automated, and gain clarity about what you are here to contribute.
- Develop greater compassion for yourself and others so you can co-create healthy workplace culture and respond productively in difficult situations.
- Make a lasting, positive impact within your organization and augment your bottom line.
- Disrupt the default of extractive, patriarchal, and supremacist business practices.
- Commit to taking part in the restoration of our societal tapestry and global environment.
Heal to Lead is a radical departure from the myths that emerging and established leaders like you have been fed for so long. By healing your core wounds, you shed other people’s stories about who you are, releasing the pain and scarcity mindset that keeps you feeling stuck. This liberation finally gives you access to your innate gifts as a leader, and you feel empowered to do the right thing by all as a generative force in the world.
Table of Contents
Prologue ix
Introduction xiii
Part I Kintsukuroi 1
Chapter 1 Why We Become Leaders 3
Chapter 2 Low- Conscious Leaders Are Everywhere 13
Chapter 3 The Wound in the Room 25
Chapter 4 Why Now? 33
Part II Preparing for the Journey 39
Chapter 5 Contextualizing Trauma 41
Chapter 6 Maintenance Versus Healing 59
Chapter 7 What Is High- Conscious Leadership? 67
Chapter 8 Four Fundamentals 73
Part III When the Past Is Present 79
Chapter 9 Fundamental #1: Integrating Trauma 81
Chapter 10 Practicing Introspection 89
Chapter 11 An Awakening 95
Chapter 12 Doing the Work 105
Part IV True Strength 119
Chapter 13 Fundamental #2: Embodying Vulnerability 121
Chapter 14 Failure’s Great Gift 129
Chapter 15 The Value of Nothingness 137
Chapter 16 The Art of Implementation 143
Part V Care in Action 149
Chapter 17 Fundamental #3: Leading with Compassion 151
Chapter 18 Compassionate Intelligence 155
Chapter 19 How We Respond Matters 163
Chapter 20 A Shift in Intention 169
Part VI the Great Remembering 175
Chapter 21 Fundamental #4: Lighting the Way 177
Chapter 22 Essential Work 185
Chapter 23 What We Receive When We Give 189
Chapter 24 Project Rebuild 195
Notes 203
Acknowledgments 223
About the Author 227
Index 229
