This bonus episode focusses on all that we can learn from nature: concepts that we find in nature and are applicable to both our own lives and the leadership challenges we face in our business.

The concepts covered in this podcast:

To unleash our inner wildness we need to know ourselves and connect with the world around us. In this, we are helped by nature: if the land does well, we are well.

Restorative & regenerative abilities of nature and us. We will go through stress and difficulty, it’s unavoidable. But how we come back from that determines how resilient we are. We need to learn to let things be to let them regenerate, eventually that will lead to better results.

Seasonal thinking - there’s a logical flow of energy in nature. The more we follow the flow of nature throughout the year, our lives and in our companies the easier it becomes.

Both and - two things can be true simultaneously (for instance co-operation and competition); it happens in nature all the time and it could be true in our lives as well…if we allow for it.

Wholeness & diversity - embracing the totality of things and ourselves. If we allow all voices in our organizations to be heard, we become stronger and more flexible - but how do we do that? How do we deal with the messiness that comes with it?

(The threshold for) Discomfort - it helps us in learning, but we have natural way of avoiding it. We can grow our muscles for discomfort, though, and thereby become better versions of ourselves.

There is no single truth - that’s a thought that helps us to be kind to ourselves and build the confidence we need to stand tall within ourselves.

Larger than self - we are a part of everything around us: everything that was, that is right now and that will be. Knowing that, hopefully, will move you to treat nature with the respect it deserves.

Self-love is the first and most essential building block for all of us if we want to contribute to a better world.

To learn about leadership in nature, visit expeditiongoodlife.org and join an expedition!
To learn more from our guest Dennis Kiley, please go to https://www.ecopsychologyinitiative.com/ , sign up for one of the cool fireside chats or follow a course.

The book that we refer to when we talk about Inner Wildness is from Nick Totton - “Wild Therapy: Rewilding our inner and outer worlds”