Sitting with The Inner Dragon

Authentic Leadership is not a path for the timid.

Courage is a prerequisite, an absolute necessity.

That’s because in order to become an authentic leader, you have to change. And change requires courage.

For those who simply want “leadership development,” there are books, courses and coaches. But for those who understand that the world has changed along with the economy comes a soul-deep awakening that leadership at all levels must also change.

The days of leadership through intimidation are dimming, their dusk is falling, and the dark night will soon be upon them.  The daybreak of the light of authentic leadership is already brightening the horizons.

The time of the new authentic leaders is upon us. Some who were leaders under the old model will embrace the new style of leadership. They will do this because they understand that leadership is not just about having your followers do as you command, but rather having your followers flourish in an authentic environment. 

Business is now more than ever a process of relationship. As I’ve said before, those relationships must be authentic .That means face-to-face business, not just with your customers, but with every one in and on your team, You Will Have To Let Your Employees, Co-workers, and Customers In..

The great writer and visionary Joseph Campbell outlined the hero’s journey in his classic work, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces.”

Today’s new leaders must enter the hero’s journey that is already changing the face of business. They will hold true to the path, knowing that real treasure is always hidden in the darkest place, and that it is to this dark place that you inherently fear to go in case you never come back that everything that will give your life meaning awaits.

I know this to be true because I have journeyed there; I have faced the dragon that can’t be slain, but merely tamed. I have also had the honor of guiding many others on their own heroic journey.

Why should you undertake such a journey if you have all you want, if you have many things that others envy?

The Cave of Self Discovery

It’s because those who seem to have everything know it isn’t enough. You must enter the cave you fear or live a life without true fulfillment.

Know this: everything you truly desire awaits you in that darkest of places.

Remember, an Authentic Leader is not without fear. However, the Authentic Leader’s vision is always going to be greater than the fear.

So it comes down to this: Do you have the courage to be an authentic leader, to go in and claim that treasure on your own heroic journey?

As Joseph Campbell says, “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

Until you enter the cave, nothing will ever be enough!

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With gratitude,

Dov Baron Speaks internationally on leadership in the new economy. He is the Leading expert on Authentic Leadership and is the world’s Only Corporate Cultural Strategist. To bring Dov in to speak to your group or organization please contact Baron Mastery at +1 604 436 2063

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Hyper Smash

The Journey into “Deep” is a courageous one…

Few will ever be brave enough to enter, let alone complete the Emotional Healing and Growth that is required to Reclaim the Authentic Self.

“Deep” is a hero’s journey to go back and find what was left behind in a place falsely named ‘history’. It is falsely named because…

History does not only exist in the past. History lives in every cell and every  fiber of our being. It is the calcified tears we dared not cry that stiffen not only our bones but the expression of our lives. History is the constriction of our veins and arteries from laughter that dare not be laughed in a childhood where children must be adults because the adults around them never grew up and faced their own pain.”

Who among us is brave enough to stand as a champion, a guide and a warrior for that lost child?

Who among us is bold enough to say; it wasn’t good enough, the child deserved to be fully alive in all it’s feelings including play?

Who is now willing to go back and get that child, hold it in it’s sadness and give it permission to cry all of it’s tears?

Who is now willing to go back and free that child’s spirit to play in the universe of imaginings? 

Who will now hold up that child’s spirit as a great light to the world that can laugh deeper, wilder and more authentically than was permitted?

I will tell you who…

The “Deeplings” of 2008!

400 individuals participated in the intro modules and only 16 graduated to the freedom of reclaiming their “Deep” Authentic Selves, and I am very proud of each and everyone of you.

Below I’d like to share a poem with you, yes you, who still hear the distant voice of a lost child that is yourself, not in some distant history, but the child who lives in the moments where you fall in love with yourself again and again.

Who will cry for the little boy

by Antwone Fisher

“Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?
Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?”

I look forward to your authentic coments about Emotional Healing…