PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR A
NEW KIND OF LEADERSHIP
by Terrie Lupberger, Newfield Network
Having attended the LOHAS conference, I was inspired by the varied interest groups from many fields and disciplines– business, finance, filmmaking, academia, etc., - who share a common purpose. The aim of this group is no less than to be change agents for sustainable living and a healthier planet.
I, too, share this vision, and am particularly interested in what the holders of this vision will need in order to bring the vision to reality.
Do we have the competencies needed to bring this vision to a tipping point? What do we need to learn in order to be successful? And, how do we develop the needed competencies when traditional learning is not responding to the demands of our times. In fact, what and how we are learning, as individuals and as organizations, is part of the problem, not the solution.
The same way that many in our Western Culture believe that more material possessions will make us happy, many believe that more information will bring us wisdom. Traditional learning practices as modeled in our public education systems and corporate training programs have developed in a frantic pursuit for more information, relating with the world as if all we can do is to explain it in order to use it, in a gruesomely utilitarian fashion.
I believe that what is needed for us to make our vision a reality are learning practices that include and transcend our concern for conceptual knowledge and effective action while also illuminating the paths toward wisdom and effective living.
For lack of a better phrase at the moment, let’s call this path towards wisdom Personal Transformation. And, while that word has been around since the ‘70s and somehow abused, misunderstood and perhaps now trivialized, what it aims for is a shift in the way an individual or organization sees and therefore takes action in their world.
Transformational learning is a shift in our coherence that allows the emergence of a new observer, one who is able to design new solutions to old problems, who embraces the mystery of life, aware of the power and limits of conceptual learning, and capable of foreseeing new actions and producing unprecedented results, while caring equally for personal and collective concerns.
LOHAS leaders and visionaries need learning practices that increase our capacity to successfully navigate the complexities of our times and transcend the traditions of thinking that have not only shaped our present commonsense, but that also have a powerful hold on our current approaches to business, education, politics, economics, the environment, etc.
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