by Sara Ness
There are twenty-two of us in my living room the day before the training starts.
I’ve run the Authentic Leadership Training more times than I can count. Actually, about thirty five times, which is countable but only because I spent an hour with my calendar. I know the content...
by Jeff Jones
Module 8 of the Authentic Life Course is all about learning to deepen connection with others by checking assumptions, sharing withholds and appreciations, and setting boundaries.
Funnily enough, I happened to complete this module just before I had a challenging disagreement...
by Jeff Jones
Module 7 of the Authentic Life Leadership course is all about deepening connections. This module came in a very timely manner, as I have just been at home visiting with my family. My mother and I have always loved each other very much, and we also have had some big differences...
by Jeff Jones
As I glanced over the names of the lessons in Module Six, I knew this would be a juicy one for me.
I have a tendency to be a real “go with the flow” kind of guy, so taking agency in group situations, or even in a one-on-one situation has always been a challenge for me....
by Jeff Jones
In Module Four of the Authentic Life Leadership course we begin to practice agency through making skillful requests. Once again, my most powerful moment came out of my triad call. Surprisingly though, it did not come through my making requests, but from having requests...
by Jeff Jones
The main teachings in Module Three are around asking for and receiving feedback. As I glanced over the lesson titles, I felt myself contract a little bit, as I am quite aware that I spend an undesirable amount of energy thinking about “looking good” or...
by Jeff Jones
Module Two is all about context — understanding contexts, noticing contexts, and seeing the impact contexts can have. By moving through the module videos, I gained a more granular and far more manageable understanding of contexts and how to describe them — even how...
by Jeff Jones
To begin, let me set some context for who I was when I decided to do the Authentic Life Leadership training — two things were very loud in my awareness. One, I felt very stressed out and pressed for time. I had a pretty booked calendar for the next few weeks, I...
I don’t know why, but in the last few weeks I’ve been getting messages like this regularly.
Perhaps it’s The Atlantic article that came out last month that brought Authentic Relating more into the mainstream.
Perhaps it’s the spread of communities...
by Sara Ness
After 3 years of leading communities, and encountering every sort of capital-T bolded-letters you’re-wrong-if-you-don’t-agree TRUTH, I’ve discovered that authenticity – as in, “my TRUTH is paramount for me to bring to the world” –...