15. The Leader’s Feelings

In this episode, Jonathan surfaces what is essential to standing on that new ground and breaking with the past. He’s starting to see more of the big picture, and how to express it as a leader. In answering this next Illuminate question, he then reveals that his vision means we look at each other differently as we walk the city streets.

REFLECTIONS

01:11 Expands on his vision and where language fits into it.

06:57 Today we break with the past and stand on new ground.

10:25 Expressing leadership.

14:00 What leadership is.

18:15 How leaders make powerful declarations.

27:29 What makes the new ground fertile are values and beliefs.

32:45 A story of holding to your values.

38:00 The importance of listening and treating others with respect.

42:15 Your responsibility as a leader.

43:50 How does it feel to have surfaced your vision?

49:58 The chord of resonance. Honouring the visionary. The weight of the vision. Acceptance of leadership role allows the vision to expand. The words compose the chords.

52:38 One ask of the visionary: be willing to accept that you know which chord to pluck to reach them.

54:32 The leader as curator making hard choices without hardening.

59:17 Values and inner wisdom.

1:01:50 A story of the curator’s journey.

1:03:40 What it means to “break with the past”.

CARD 14

1:04:26 Illuminate Question 14

1:09:13 My vision is of a world where we feel less lonely and less anxious.

1:10:22 Today we leave the path that led us to loneliness and despair.

1:12:20 To feel less lonely is to feel we all belong. We are connected, and begin to see each other again.

1:14:29 We will have a new understanding of how important it is to be with each other.

1:16:58 Looking each other in the eye without fear.

1:19:28 To move away from fear, we want to move towards trust.

1:23:02 On the street of a city, we flirt through our eyes.

1:24:35 Flirtation and the spark of light as recognition that “I see you.”

1:26:15 Rescuing the word “flirt”. There’s something more at stake: a light-heartedness and innocence.

1:28:42 It can only happen in a culture of trust.

1:30:57 Eye contact in light of cross-cultural differences and diversity.

1:34:14 Being seen.

1:37:45 An uplifting story of seeing.

1:39:45 Final answer.

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