Insights from a group of coaches reflecting on the complex (adaptive) challenges of their clients in comparison to their own.
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Adaptive Leadership and Cultures
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The personal growth of leaders and culture practitioners is one of the central themes of the Adaptive Cultures approach. We have found that as leaders and culture practitioners deepen their personal growth, they exponentially increase their capacity to influence the systems they work within.
Andrew Gerkens's insight:
I'm using the accreditation program referred to in this article to unlock my potential as a culture practitioner. The program is challenging me to increase my own adaptive capacity, which in turn will better enable me to influence that of the people and organisations I support. The needle on my discomfort meter will continue to be in the hot (but productive!) zone, but I'm supported by some incredible people, so I couldn't be more excited about the possibilities. 
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I could easily put every single Jennifer Garvey-Berger post in here. She shares openly, beautifully and with great care. If you don't follow her, then DO SO IMMEDIATELY!
Two really interesting points that resonated with my own experience:
1. The ease at which we can identify other people's adaptive challenges, but the difficult we have in recognising our own
2. The extension of this, which links strongly to some of my own big assumptions (immunity to change) is expecting myself to get on with it, solve it and be pretty unkind to myself for not. Jennifer reinforces the importance of being more gentle with ourselves once we do recognise an adaptive challenge and applying the practices (i.e. experimenting) to respond accordingly. Good opportunities to reframe....