Leadership and Power Shift

The Unconscious Dichotomy that is Holding Us Back

You’ve probably read about it, or even written about it yourself: Humanity is on the journey into a new age. It appears that evolution is giving our consciousness capacities for integrating polarities, embracing wholeness, and deeply understanding the connectedness of everything.

On this journey, we humans are invited to move away from an egocentric worldview, towards the transpersonal, non-dual, ecocentric, or — as Bill Plotkin calls it in his work — the soul centric.

When humanity’s consciousness develops, we naturally change the way we go about things. We’ve seen this in previous collective leaps, for instance in the way society was reordered during the shift from agrarian to empire era. We must organize ourselves in different ways. For decades now, we’ve been seeing the global emergence of new forms of organizing. This is expressed through solutions and movements like Self-Organization, Self-Management, Agile, Responsive, Teal, Sociocracy, and Holacracy.

I’ve spent the last decade deeply immersed in the field of self-organization, accompanying organizations and the people working in them into this completely new way of being and of doing work together. As a journey of personal development, it requires courage — and what can unfold when…