Oct. 6, 2022. Our partners at Evolute Institute who offer psychedelic leadership experience retreat programs just started publishing a great new 8-part series on Inner Work. The first article just came out and explores the question “What does ‘deep inner work’ actually mean”?
They emphasise that numerous schools of thought, ranging from millennia-old philosophies to modern academic approaches like developmental psychology and evolutionary biology, have made invaluable contributions over time to the understanding and fostering of human growth and development. In their article, they synthesize the best insights from these wisdom traditions, scientific theories and practices as well as from applied therapeutic process work and coaching. All with the goal to create a framework for “deep inner work” that can stand the test of time and advance human well-being and flourishing – both in our personal as well as professional lives.
Evolute thinks of the necessity of deep inner work for professionals and leaders alike as “the elephant in the room” - everyone can feel our old ways of doing don’t suffice anymore and that we need to move away from trying to fix the outside world into building our inner capacity, enhancing our psychological resources, in order to be able to deal with the uncertainties and complexities of our times. But many people still don’t talk about it. And if they try to, they get lost in some kind of confusion, because like in the old story with the blind men touching different parts of the elephant, everybody touches a different part and thinks she knows what inner work is…
The blind doctors and the elephant. Image by the great artist G. Renee Guzlas.
So we think this work of describing the elephant of inner work holistically, from 8 different angles, is great and much needed - taking all 8 perspectives together we can hope to understand better, what we need in terms of personal and leadership development in these turbulent times, both individually as well as collectively.
You find the first article here: Deep inner work: Increasing our inner freedom.
