July 2020 / Leadership Coaching Tips
Anouk Brak
Anouk BrackHello! My name is Anouk Brack and I’m an expert in leadership development. We know about skills development in leadership, project management skills and conversation skills and all kinds of soft skills that are important. But skill is only one of the three dimensions of leadership development. There are two more dimensions that are very present, but often people don’t know about or are ignored; these are stage and state. So we …
Notes from the Field / January-February 2016
Anouk Brack, MSc.
In 2015 I traveled to Moscow twice to teach about Leadership Embodiment in the Embodiment Facilitator Course (EFC) by Mark Walsh and Alexandra Vilvovskaya. I was asked to reflect on my experience teaching in Russia for this special edition of Integral Leadership Review.
This course is aimed at body workers who want to offer their services in business and organisations, and for HR professionals and (executive) coaches who …
Feature Articles / April- June 2014
Anouk Brack
Are you missing out on 75% of professional leadership potential?
Deploy the 3-D developmental strategy and transcend the limits of competence-based leadership development.
This article will describe what the next level in leadership development is and how to access it. Firstly, the strengths and limitations of the concept of competence building are explained. Then the two missing dimensions of leadership development are highlighted. This offers a 3-D view of the leaders’ developmental axes and …
Notes from the Field / June 2011
Anouk Brack
…1. Change for Good – introduction to ALiA conference theme
2. Practice & Purpose – possible definitions
3. Experience of Embodied Leadership – getting a somatic sense of Embodied Leadership work
4. The dynamic balance of Power & Love – on the Adam Kahane and Wendy Palmer Module
5. The Art
Notes from the Field / June 2010
“It is not that I stay balanced all the time, I just recover so fast, nobody notices the imbalance.”
–paraphrasing O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba,
founder of the martial art Aikido
I highly recommend Wendy Palmer’s teaching of embodied leadership through conscious embodiment practices that she skillfully derived from Aikido. Aikido means something like “the way of harmony with the life-force.” I participated in her conscious embodiment …