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Opening to Receive –Feminine Leadership

So many of the attributes often associated with great leadership come from the masculine energy dimension – action, logic, boldness, physical strength, discipline, self-control, and so on. These attributes have facilitated many great achievements in the hands of some leaders and wrought unhelpful destruction in the hands of others when taken to extremes.

At this time when we are all thinking about the giving and receiving of gifts, it is perhaps worth considering how well we open ourselves to receive. Being open to receive is a very feminine quality and also demands vulnerability and softness. When we open ourselves we can become exposed – in terms of our knowledge, our feelings, and our lack of certainty.

The deep value in being open is that it creates possibility and space. It fosters the opportunity for something new and unexpected to emerge and, in that sense, is creative. The feminine is essentially creative – not in the direct action sense but in the qualitative sense – it allows the seed of the new to take root and be born.

In our world of complexity, uncertainty, and wicked problems, applying the qualities of openness, receptivity, and vulnerability to leadership opens the doorway to a new level of creative thinking.

It invites ‘possibility’ in to play alongside ‘not knowing’. Think about Michelangelo when he was preparing to create the statue of David. Too much masculine energy would not have seen the level of success that emerged in this masterpiece. Vital to its emergence was a deep vulnerability and needing to be open to being in relationship with the block of marble and allowing the vision to emerge.

As leaders, we too need to be open to emergence, to not knowing, and to trusting in a deeper intuition that even in the depth of not knowing, by staying open we can create masterpiece outcomes for the greater good of our world.

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Lorraine Flower
Lorraine Flowerhttp://azzur.co.uk/
As a Corporate change agent, consultant, coach and mentor Lorraine founded azzur and is completely transparent about the spiritual principles on which it operates. Alongside her 18 years as azzur’s founder, Lorraine brings 20 years' service industry experience to bear through her senior leadership roles at British Airways (BA) and Great North Eastern Railway (GNER). It is Lorraine's belief in individual and organisational power for good that gives azzur its raison d'etre. azzur and Lorraine specifically has worked with clients across the business spectrum from financial services, to retail and transport to healthcare an in both the public and private sectors. azzur is focused on developing contemporary, spirited leadership capability, and organisations built on inspiring purpose, empowering cultures and a powerful vision and values. She is championing new models of leadership and organisational development founded on the principles of conscious leadership and writes extensively on these topics.She is a member of a number of global spiritual groups and communities serving the greater good of Humanity and the planet. She works and studies extensively in developing and exploring conscious leadership believing that business leaders are key players in transforming the well-being of the planet and humanity as a whole.

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