Chapter TwoCultivating Leadership through Deep Presencing and Awareness Based Practices

Jonathan Reams, Olen Gunnlaugson, Juliane Reams

Throughout the past century, leadership development has focused primarily on leaders’ behaviors or skills. While these are important, there is also a growing understanding of the need to cultivate the subtle, internal qualities of the leader’s self as fundamental to leadership. Following from this view, it is our proposition that cultivating and enacting key forms of awareness based interventions and encouraging practices of deep presencing are foundational to leadership development.

In this chapter, we examine deep presencing (Gunnlaugson & Walker, 2013) in the domain of self-awareness and through the lens ...

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