Resources
I've created some resources for you to get started with inner work. I believe that inner work is a non-negotiable in today's world with more and more extreme challenges being thrown at us all. The way through is to be fit and strong — inwardly.
And if you are a leader, I've learned it's imperative you realize the degree to which your inner life is impacting your entire organization. And any changes you implement in your organization are going to be like paper boats floating on a sea of culture.
Investing in your culture means investing in the inner life of your people. Investing in your inner life also means investing in your culture.
These journaling exercises I've designed and provided for you here are meant to give you a small taste for what, exactly, inner work entails. And they are meant to provide you with some support and help in that all important work.
If you have any questions, or would like to tell me how it went for you, please don't hesitate to reach out at [email protected].
I'd love to hear from you.
Louisa Barnum
The Inner Game of Leadership
The leadership issues of our time demand a major up-leveling in how we engage with our inner world.
All leadership issues these days, besides the usual headaches of market relevance and organizational efficiency, revolve around people problems — communication, conflict, teamwork, managing stakeholders, burnout, imposter syndrome, facilitating change, managing feedback... the list goes on.
And people are not technical problems that can be "fixed". Instead, we can learn to bring what makes us wonderfully human into the heart of how we work together, show up for each other — and lead.
In this ebook I walk you through three powerful instruments to help you up your inner leadership game.
I also include reflective and thoughtful journaling exercises to help you land the concepts — and ground them into your leadership from now on.
How To Do Inner Work
A Five Day Journaling Exercise
Are you facing challenges in your life that seem impossible to overcome? Frustration, resentments, or repeating cycles?
I have a saying, “what is coming TO you is actually coming FROM you.”
Through learning how to do inner work and practicing regularly, you will find greater freedom and the power to change your circumstances.
This journaling exercise will help you to:
- Identify areas of your life where you are feeling stuck, in pain, and frustrated.
- Explore the root causes of these entanglements.
- AND teach you the foundational steps of how to do RIGHT kind of soul work that leads to freedom and agency in your life.
Five journaling prompts that will guide you through fundamental inner work. Each daily prompt builds on the previous day — and by the fifth day, you will have a deeper understanding of the situation — and the right next step to take.
Forbidden Needs
Guidebook & Journaling Exercise
Interpersonal dynamics destroy teams, friendships, marriages, careers. Why?
Because we don't know WHAT we need, and we don’t prioritize our most important needs. Instead, we suppress, deny, and ignore them because they don’t fit into our ideas about what we SHOULD be, or do, or have.
But chronically unmet needs become toxic, for you and everyone around you.
Needs is not something people easily talk about in life. Needs can be dangerous because they are threatening to the status quo of our lives if we were to admit to them.
In this free guidebook, experience for yourself why connecting to your needs is like putting the oxygen mask on.
The exercises help you access your needs, especially the ones that are forbidden. Learn to access your beautiful, important truth so you can discover and experience for yourself the freedom to be found there.