This week we are talking about the power of turning in towards ourselves. We will discuss the links between the parts of the inner force process and self-connection, regeneration of our inner world and transformation. We will talk through how the various parts of the innerforce process fit together and support us and we will talk about how to reconnect to ourselves when we’ve lost the connection. In our New Ventures West segment, we will be joined by Cynthia Luna who is a Partner of LF Leadership and a faculty member of New Ventures West who will share her expertise with us. As we develop a method through which we can turn inward daily and throughout the course of our days, we fuel our connection to ourselves, and to others. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about. Join Angela King and Cynthia Luna to learn how.

This week we are talking about the power of cultivating agency in ourselves and each other. We will talk about what agency is and why it matters. We will introduce a simple framework to help us see the agency we have in a situation at work or in our lives. We will review the various parts of the innerforce process that support us in both meeting a situation and seeing our agency in the midst of it. In our New Ventures West segment, we will be joined by Melinda Stephenson who is a certified Integral coach and consultant with over 22 years of experience in human development and who also serves as a member of the New Ventures West faculty. As we learn how to simultaneously hold the difficulty in a situation and cultivate our own agency, we expand our capacity and resiliency to meet the situation and thrive in the midst of it. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about. Join Angela King and Melinda Stephenson to learn how.

This week we are talking about the power of restoring ourselves. We will talk about the process of discovering what actually restores us versus what the cultural norms maintain as restorative. We will explore a breath of different types of sources of nourishment and we will get tactical about how we can access these in the midst of our busy daily lives. We will discuss why it matters and what gets in our way of making it happen. In our New Ventures West Segment, we will be joined by Melissa McVicker, a certified integral coach and the Associate VIce President of HR Communication at Stanford University who will share her experience on this topic. As we learn the power of restoring ourselves, and the impact deep restoration can have in our work and in our lives, we can begin to step into this exploration in a new way which supports us in deepening our connection with ourselves and others. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about.

This week we will explore the power of boundaries. Setting, maintaining and adjusting boundaries takes practice. We will break down the concept and talk about why boundaries are critical to our effectiveness as leaders and our well-being. We will get underneath what can make setting, holding and adjusting boundaries tricky and discuss some strategies for dealing with what can get in our way. In our New Ventures West Segment, we will be joined by Marina Illich who is a certified Integral Coach and member of the New Ventures West Faculty and she will share expertise and experience on this topic. As we learn the power of boundaries and increase our ability to set, maintain and adjust them, we develop more capacity to stay in connection with ourselves and others. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about. Join Angela kIng and Marina Illich to learn how.

This week we will explore the power of practicing courage. Courage isn’t something we are born with, it is something we can learn to cultivate. As we get familiar with how fear shows up for us in our lives, we can learn tricks of how engage with it so that we are in the drivers seat instead of making decisions based on fear. Any meaningful conversation about courage has to step into the territory of vulnerability, we will wade in and talk about why it matters in our leadership. In our New Ventures West Segment, we will be joined by Justin Wise, New Ventures West senior faculty member and founder of Third Spacing Coaching in the UK who will share his vast experience and perspective on this topic. As we step into practicing courage, we can access deeper dimensions of ourselves, our teams and our individual and collective capacities. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about. Join Angela King and Justin Wise to learn how.

This week we will explore the power of owning our emotions. Research says that high performing teams have one thing in common -- psychological safety. We will learn what that is and how we can create it. As we learn to turn towards our emotions, tune into them, name them and know the choice we have, we can own our emotions which strengthens the connection we have with ourselves and with others. In our New Ventures West Segment, we will be joined by Angella Okawa, who is both a psychotherapist and a certified integral coach through New Ventures West and will share her experience and training with this topic. As we step into owning our emotions, we can drive high performance in ourselves and our teams. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about.

This week we will explore the power of our inner fuel tank. We will talk about how we care for ourselves impacts our emotions, connect us into our innerforce and supports high performance so that we have more capacity to meet situations in the way we intend. This is a new definition of self-care and we are calling it fueling up. We will be talking about how we can engage in fueling up while we work, not thinking about them as two separate acts — fueling up versus work. We will be joined by Adam Klein who is a practicing Integral Coach, Global Graduate Director for New Ventures West and a faculty member of the school who will share his expertise on this topic. As we learn the impact that taking care of our physical bodies can have on our emotional states, we position ourselves to drive high performance in ourselves and our teams. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about. Join Angela King and Adam Klein to learn how.

This week we will explore how we can more precisely track our internal states. We will learn how tracking what’s happening in our physical and emotional body can support us in our work and in our relationships and we will learn a specific framework and discuss tactics, including building our mindfulness practice, for doing this more effectively. We will be joined by Michelle Gale who was formerly the Head of Learning and Leadership Development at Twitter and recently published Mindful Parenting in a Messy World - Living with Presence and Parenting with Purpose. As we learn to more precisely track our internal states, we build our emotional intelligence skills which support our connection to ourselves and with others. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about. Join Angela King and Michelle Gale to learn how.

This week we explore the power of our thoughts. We will discuss how paying attention to our thoughts and the nature of our inner dialogue effects the results we get in our lives and work. Cultivating the power we have to shift our inner dialogue can fuel our transformation and our energy. We will get tactical about what helps us connect to our innerforce instead of our inner critic. Sarita Chawla will join us and bring her expertise on this topic. She has dedicated the last thirty years towards human development by training hundreds of integral coaches. As we learn to pay attention to our habitual thought patterns, we can shift our inner dialogue and in doing so, we create more freedom for ourselves in our relationship with ourselves, in our relationship with others, in our work and in our lives. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about. Join Angela King and Sarita Chawla to learn how.

This week we explore the power of focusing our attention through leveraging the practice of mindfulness. We will demystify mindfulness and talk about the business of NOW. We'll learn how training our brains to focus our attention expands the capacity to connect with ourselves and others. We will be joined by James Flaherty, the founder of New Ventures West and the author of Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, which is widely recognized as a seminal text in the field of coach education and is used internationally in universities and coach training institutions. As we learn to direct our attention, we give ourselves the gift of being able to choose how we invest our energy in any given moment. This is what being connected to our innerforce is all about. Join Angela King and James Flaherty to learn how.

This week we explore the power of awareness of our physical body and learn how the body fuels our innerforce. While business skills and experience are generally the currency of leadership, great leaders leverage the whole self and expand capacity through awareness of the physical body. We will be joined by Sahar Azarabadi who will share her expertise on embodiment. Sahar is a certified Integral Coach® from New Ventures West, Leadership Embodiment Associate, and certified in The Leadership Circle Profile, Polarity thinking and Systemic Team Coaching. Tapping into the power of our awareness of our physical body is key to building capacity and resiliency. Join Angela King and Sahar Azarabadi to learn how.

This week we explore the power of taking up new practices and how intentional practice supports connection with our innerforce. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” said Albert Einstein. To create new results, we have to introduce new practices. We'll be joined by Julie Engel, who will share her expertise on the power of practices. Julie is a member of the New Ventures West faulty and has three decades of experience as an executive coach, organizational development consultant, facilitator and trainer. We can create the lasting change we want through the introduction of new practices Join Angela King and Julie Engel to learn how.

In our increasingly device-connected world, many of us are searching to enrich our connections with colleagues, friends and family. Making these meaningful connections with others begins with cultivating and fueling a meaningful connection with ourselves. When did you last stop to connect with yourself? What you want? What you need? Why you do what you do, and how do you make choices? When was the last time that you considered what actually makes you feel energized versus what happens to be on your to do list? These are central questions of the innerforce process — do you have a set of practices that cultivate, strengthen and maintain your connection to yourself? How do you reconnect to yourself when you’ve lost the connection? Join Angela King to learn how to fuel, cultivate, and reignite the force that is the source of vitality, wisdom, and inspiration.