Thanks for asking Benjamin. I will most likely make space to do this again later this year (April, May, June) and will announce that here. I have also just released dates for my Dare to Lead™ workshop in Fort Collins in September if that's of interest. More to come on that in the next few weeks here on Substack: https://mackfogelson.com/offerings/dare-to-lead-training/
I am definitely exploring a lot of things in the leadership/growth space. Not in any defined leadership role at the moment. I have typically avoided spaces where assertive, go-getter. leadership is the norm. I don’t like stress or responsibility.
I guess I’m currently sitting with the question of how to engage in a broken system without getting swallowed up by it. The majority of things that drive us, or hold us back, seem to ultimately stem from a lack we experienced somewhere in our stories. For me that means my pursuit of ‘peace’ has prevented me from engaging with the struggle and hard work needed if I’m gonna bring my full self to the world.
Hi Benjamin. Thanks for asking about this. What a beautiful tension you hold. I hear you being so clear about what you see in the system you work in, and also how perhaps a lack of courage to face into the hard things keeps you/us from really meaningful and important things like connection and trust (with ourselves and others), collaboration, autonomy, innovation, and more.
What I have learned in my journey and in my work is that we don't come equipped with the skills and tools to navigate the uncertainty and complexity of our environments, especially work. And without those tools, we struggle with all of the fears, feelings, and tension that naturally come up in the work. We just don't know what to do with them or how to handle them in a human-centric way. That's one of the reasons why work is so hard (I talk at length about this in this post: https://mackfogelson.substack.com/p/work-and-the-will-to-change and this post: https://mackfogelson.substack.com/p/navigating-uncertainty-f20211bfbdc6).
Perhaps I'm hearing in your question: how do you shift this avoidance of discomfort, your pursuit of 'peace' as you name it? This is a journey and it's one that requires us to build courage that comes from learning to be more of who we are (not less). Sometimes it also means that we need to work at a place that also honors and aligns with what we want work to feel like. Regardless, the journey to show up as our full selves requires us to face into a lot of discomfort. This journey brings A LOT of peace, but not without first facing the stuff we're afraid of. That's what we come together to do in this workshop: https://mackfogelson.com/offerings/dare-to-lead-training/
Was this a one time event or are you possibly going to do something similar again?
Thanks for asking Benjamin. I will most likely make space to do this again later this year (April, May, June) and will announce that here. I have also just released dates for my Dare to Lead™ workshop in Fort Collins in September if that's of interest. More to come on that in the next few weeks here on Substack: https://mackfogelson.com/offerings/dare-to-lead-training/
I am definitely exploring a lot of things in the leadership/growth space. Not in any defined leadership role at the moment. I have typically avoided spaces where assertive, go-getter. leadership is the norm. I don’t like stress or responsibility.
I’m in Fort Collins too, that’s fun!
I guess I’m currently sitting with the question of how to engage in a broken system without getting swallowed up by it. The majority of things that drive us, or hold us back, seem to ultimately stem from a lack we experienced somewhere in our stories. For me that means my pursuit of ‘peace’ has prevented me from engaging with the struggle and hard work needed if I’m gonna bring my full self to the world.
Hi Benjamin. Thanks for asking about this. What a beautiful tension you hold. I hear you being so clear about what you see in the system you work in, and also how perhaps a lack of courage to face into the hard things keeps you/us from really meaningful and important things like connection and trust (with ourselves and others), collaboration, autonomy, innovation, and more.
What I have learned in my journey and in my work is that we don't come equipped with the skills and tools to navigate the uncertainty and complexity of our environments, especially work. And without those tools, we struggle with all of the fears, feelings, and tension that naturally come up in the work. We just don't know what to do with them or how to handle them in a human-centric way. That's one of the reasons why work is so hard (I talk at length about this in this post: https://mackfogelson.substack.com/p/work-and-the-will-to-change and this post: https://mackfogelson.substack.com/p/navigating-uncertainty-f20211bfbdc6).
Perhaps I'm hearing in your question: how do you shift this avoidance of discomfort, your pursuit of 'peace' as you name it? This is a journey and it's one that requires us to build courage that comes from learning to be more of who we are (not less). Sometimes it also means that we need to work at a place that also honors and aligns with what we want work to feel like. Regardless, the journey to show up as our full selves requires us to face into a lot of discomfort. This journey brings A LOT of peace, but not without first facing the stuff we're afraid of. That's what we come together to do in this workshop: https://mackfogelson.com/offerings/dare-to-lead-training/