“Psychological safety—a shared belief among team members that it’s OK to speak up with candor—has become a popular concept. However, as its popularity has grown, so too have misconceptions about it.” Read or listen to this piece just published in the Harvard Business Review. The article outlines six common myths surrounding psychological safety, the ground-breaking work of Amy Edmondson. The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, and a Mobius Senior Expert, Amy Edmondson, and co-author of this article, Associate Professor at Harvard, Michaela Kerrissey, remind us that, “Ironically, talking less about psychological safety and more about the goal and the context and why everyone’s input matters is the first step in building psychological safety.”

Mobius Senior Expert Dr. Paul Dunion’s April article in Psychology Today suggests antidotes to our typical reactions to navigating the immensity of the current ambiguity. “The domestication of the unknown by routine, repetition, and dogma has begun to quake,”  he writes. As global instability and unpredictable leaders have many of us gripped by angst, Paul encourages us to view this as an opportunity to examine our relationship to Life. He offers ten practices to “stabilize our relationship” with the unknown. We are delighted to confirm that Paul will rejoin the faculty for this year’s Annual Gathering of the Next Practice Institute in October. The track he will lead with Andrea Winter, both Senior Mobius Transformational Faculty members, is back by popular demand. While we are taught to be externally referenced, identifying with the values and expectations of family, teachers, coaches, and leaders, this week-long immersion will focus on

The Power of Being Internally Referenced. Self-awareness, self-trust, self-loyalty, and self-love will be considered as Paul and Andi guide participants to move into the inquiry involved in deep intimacy with the self. 

 In this taster edition of Mickael Drouard’s podcast, where he speaks with select leaders and change makers who are evolving organizations from hierarchy to empowerment, he revisits what he has learnt from the first twenty-five episodes of the series. Mickael reflects on the reasons organizations are now pushing past the limits of hierarchy (including attracting, retaining, and motivating the next generation of leaders) and what it takes to do so. We are delighted that Mickael will join this year’s faculty, along with Stefan Ekwall, to offer a week-long exploration of the inner capacities required to elevate the energy of a group and how to design and scale decentralized structures that enable Collective Intelligence to emerge and flow. The week-long practice and study will be enhanced by River – a groundbreaking, wisdom-guided AI which offers previously unseen possibilities in organizational learning. Listen to Mickael's podcast here. 

Corentus Team Coaching Advanced Learning Lab 

Online – June through August 

Our alliance partners at Corentus, a longtime leader in team coaching and effectiveness, offer a summer series of Advanced Team Coaching Learning Labs—ideal for those coaching (or planning to coach) leadership and executive teams. Earn ICF continuing education credits through experiential courses, hands-on coaching, and online resources. Sign up for some, or purchase as a bundle at a discount. Friends of Mobius will receive 50% off registration with code MOBIUSFRIEND50 at checkout. Learn more and register here.

In addition to this Advanced Lab, our friends at Corentus speak with thought leaders monthly on their First Friday podcast. Last month Corentus CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Caillet spoke with Amy Elizabeth Fox about Relational Awareness and Trauma-Informed Culture, and why this is critical for leadership, employee retention, team alignment and overall organizational success. This week, on Friday, May 2, Corentus will host a live conversation with Mobius Transformational Faculty member Mieke Jacobs about Energy Mastery in Action in Executive Team Facilitation. Register here for this free 45-minute event.

Online – July

Grow your change leadership capabilities in these upcoming summer workshops with the pioneering Gisela Wendling. Click here for more information and to register.  

 Associate Fellow at Mobius, the internationally renowned philosopher-poet David Whyte, will offer his next Three Sundays series on May 11, 18, and 25. These are wonderful explorations to nourish the mind and the soul, with recordings available to all those who cannot join live. In anticipation of this latest series, David writes, “deep, prolonged attention has transformed my own life, so many times, and at such crucial thresholds. Everything is an invitation to something larger and more generous. Everything in today’s world can also be a distraction, breaking us and our lives into fragmented pieces, dissipating our powers and rendering us fretful and anxious: the difference between those two lives lies in our ability to pay profound attention in silence to everything that approaches and surrounds us. Deep and prolonged attention grants rest and recuperation, turns seemingly besieging forces into opportunities and transforms far-off hopes into immediate possibilities. Above all, prolonged attention makes us friends with the world again and with those who inhabit it." Register here.