Conscious Systemic Leadership

CSL demands the demonstration of a new set of practices. I am highlighting the following indicative practices as a thought starter:

Individual

• Self-reflection, guided attention, and perception practices.
• Charitable work beyond giving donations.
• Interaction with people from different cultures, interests, and worldviews with an accommodative mindset, without being intimidated by uncertainty.
• Introspection and acting on how you want to bring change with your individual leadership capacity.

Team

• Appreciating the purpose of coming together as a team and loving your team members.
• Valuing the differences that members in the team bring and recognizing the power of respecting and accommodating such differences, treating consensus as an emergent phenomenon.
• Welcoming and accommodating individual introspection practices and engaging in group attention practices; integrating nature immersion practices for the team.
• Critically appreciating if the leadership capacity of your team is palpable and what it means for you.

Organization

• Aligning the organization’s physical, financial, intellectual, and human capital to create meaning internally and externally for stakeholders who are involved and affected by the organization’s actions.
• Developing relationships through careful listening to, understanding, empathizing with, and supporting people internal and external to the organization.
• Inviting and involving people with creative capabilities, such as performing arts, and introspection expertise, such as traditional healers, to take part in the organization’s strategic initiatives.
• Leveraging the organizational leadership capacity to affect the desired change internally and externally.

Platform

• Reminding ourselves that the social, regulatory, technological, and economic institutions that we create serve our purpose, but if they do not serve the purpose of social well-being and the ecological, our purpose will soon be defeated.
• Creating institutions and structures that convene stakeholders, enable negotiations, neutralize unequal demands, and facilitate agreements.
• Promoting Bohmian dialogue between stakeholders to experience everyone's point of view fully, equally, and nonjudgmentally.
• Reflecting on the missing gaps in the platform and mobilizing yourself, teams, and organization to leverage the collective leadership agency to fill those gaps.

Ecosystem

• Respecting the sacred nature of our global commons—high seas, airspace, outer space, and cyberspace.
• Adopting a regeneration mindset in our social, ecological, and even financial approaches.
• Developing capacities to give up our most prized beliefs and surrender to the system as it emerges through our conscious efforts.
• Imagining the direct connection between yourself and the ecosystem, and driving your leadership capacity to prevent any harm to the ecosystem as a result of your actions.