SHOWING UP
Authentic Leadership with Presence, Psychological Safety & Wellbeing
Cultivate authentic presence, psychological safety, and empathetic leadership to boost team trust, innovation, and wellbeing—driving higher engagement, retention, and sustainable performance organizations everywhere seek.
What This Programme Is
Showing Up develops the foundation of authentic leadership: embodied presence, psychological safety, and empathy-driven care. Grounded in Amy Edmondson's research showing psychological safety as the most important dynamic for team effectiveness and Brené Brown's work demonstrating that vulnerability is essential for courage and daring leadership, this program builds leaders who show up fully—present, authentic, and creating environments where people feel safe to take interpersonal risks, speak up, and bring their whole selves to work.
Who This Is For
Leaders wanting to enhance team psychological safety scores
Executives addressing employee wellbeing and burnout
Anyone seeking to develop authentic presence under pressure
Leaders building cultures of trust, care, and belonging
Those committed to sustainable performance over extraction
Format
Embodied practice using Grotowski somatic techniques, Contact Improvisation, Meisner technique for deep listening, character work for perspective-taking, and ensemble creation modeling collaborative leadership.
What You'll Develop
Core Capabilities:
Embodied presence through somatic awareness and grounding
Deep listening beyond words to emotion and context
Vulnerability as leadership competency
Inclusive behaviors and microaffirmations
Responding to failure without punishment
Creating brave spaces through ensemble principles
Authentic communication without armor
Key Competencies:
Three core leadership behaviors for psychological safety: frame work as learning, acknowledge fallibility, model curiosity
Edmondson's four-zone model (apathy, comfort, anxiety, learning zones)
Structural empathy: understanding systemic barriers
Collective care and sustainable performance practices
Giving feedback from care rather than judgment
