Ungripping
Building Muscle in Shedding
Building muscle in suspending beliefs is the underpinning of all leadership and change work.
Change work exists in every moment you interact with the world outside of your own head.
Change work happens on high-functioning as well as low-functioning teams.
Every time a new team member joins a Team, you are by default thrown into change work.
Resetting, also known as changing, is a practice Teams use to flow with changing team formations.
Every leader change is change work.
Every administration change is change work.
Every start of a new day is change work.
At the completion of every project, you occupy a mutable space. This is sitting in a transitional moment, aka change, in present time. The "in-between" of the past and the future.
At the start of every trimester, when working in a continuous change, innovation-based, and responsive culture, you design change for the upcoming one. (Or, you should.)
Change work is ultimately consciousness and awakening work. Change work is present moment designing on and within the complex Field. You exist as leaders, teams, and individuals on that complex Field.
The complex Field is fractal and dimensional, meaning you are it and you exist within it in all the places you roam. You do your work, you lead and participate in the collective work, and within the collective work are fractals of the whole also doing work.
These are attractor forces on the Field. In spiral formations, not straight lines.
Un-gripping
Whether you are an actor on the Field, a Leader leading the Field, or a Practitioner attempting to move the Field, you know infinite variables are in play concurrently and continuously.
You learn to build a reliable and trustworthy instrument that is responsive and adaptive to enable you to bob and flow responsively and adaptively within the external tides of change.
You come to appreciate and direct yourself as one of infinite factors.
Individually and systemically, you brave the discomfort of looking at what keeps you limited. In doing so, you refine and sharpen your instrument. You build an operating system worthy of interfacing gracefully with the flows of change. Your robustness outshines any fragility.
Stuckness
Stuckness looks like complaining, explaining, repeating, litigating, and looping. To confront and upset your well-established equilibrium of complaining, explaining, repeating, litigating, and looping, you open the proverbial hood and stare it in the face.
Collectively.
Overtly, not covertly.
In dialog together, not in back channels.
Maturely, not immaturely.
Trusting your ability rather than scapegoating or sabotaging.
Humbly, not egoically.
And, with open ears and big hearts.
You courageously ask —
"Where are we at?"
"What is keeping us stuck?"
"How do we admit that the same tooling that arrived us here will not get us to the next horizon?"
"What unconscious and sub-terra beliefs control us?"
"What are we afraid of?"
"What do we not say out loud?"
You interrogate —
The shapes, forms, history, and sources of your deeply held beliefs without the zealous commitment to them.
You squarely look fear in the eye to loosen its grip on the system of beliefs and to learn about your all's programming.
You accept how beliefs create and maintain blind spots, antagonise growth, momentum, and evolution.
You learn to —
Work with the principle that beliefs are limiting by their very nature.
You realise —
Making new decisions actively, immediately, and consciously are a key way out of the looping, complaining, stuckness, litigating, and entrenchment.
Limitation is a state by which individuals and systems return to naturally, when not actively doing the work of continual expansion and elevation. Therefore, unsticking and shedding are practices needing tooling. You learn to consciously create disequilibrium against the inhibiting regression to limited believing.
Building this muscle is effort.
Get out of your head.
Do what you don't usually do. Because you have to start somewhere.
Start there.