Deck 11: Self-Reflective Practices for Personal Being and Awareness

Question 1

The quote from the Tao Te Ching offers comments on leadership that encapsulate all components of complexity leadership and the Complexity Leadership model. Explain and describe how this is so.

Answer 1

This brings all the concepts of complexity leadership together and gives students a chance to discuss and relate theory and poetry. (Class/group discussion)

Question 2

Describe a time or circumstance where you had difficulty moving out of your comfort zone, where you wanted to risk moving into your vision of your own congruence. What did you do? How did it turn out? What did you learn about yourself?

Answer 2

This is personal self-reflection for each student.

Question 3

In cognitive therapy, Albert Ellis describes the process of reframing based on the interpretation of an event. Reflect on an experience you have had when you were able (or not) to reframe an event and how the experience turned out for you.

Answer 3

A situation occurs, then one interprets it to be good or bad and then the emotion follows. One can reframe by rethinking the response to the situation, which will then change one's emotion.