The Body and Leadership

Body intelligence to get out of your head and on with your life

(aka – The Modern Jedi Manual)

– by Mark Walsh


The Body and Leadership – Book Chapters

Chapter 1 – Foundations – Why your body is much more than “a cart to carry your head around on”

Extracts:

How we have lost our bodies, why this is a problem and what to do about it

How to learn

Exercises

The Bodies of Hope, Adventure, Love and Choice – Narrative Extracts

Chapter 2 – Awareness, Acceptance and Intention

– You’ve got to be in to win it, you’re perfect…but what the hell do you want?

Text and exercises

The Body of Awareness and Transmission – Illustrative Narrative Extracts

Chapter 3 – Fundamentals – Know thyself

Text extracts and exercises

The Bodies of Dreams and History – Illustrative Narrative Extract

Chapter 4 – Centring – …and get thyself together

Complete Text and exercises

The Body Off-Centre – Illustrative  Narrative Extract

Chapter 5- Rhythms, Types and Tools – Jedi bodymind tricks, operating systems and groovy stuff

More Tools – Three Centres

Types

Leadership Rhythms – Life Cycles

Putting the Tools to Use – Working on Yourself

 

Chapter 6 – Embodied Emotional Intelligence – The touchy-feely bit my ex-girlfriends insisted on

Chapter 7 – Getting Along with Others – Read this if you’re not a hermit

Chapter 8 – Leadership Impact and PresenceWhy Harrison Ford is cool (and the meaning of your life)

Chapter 9 Shadow and Embodied Exploration – You’re what you think you’re not

Chapter 10 – Spirituality – Surprise, you’re The Force

Chapter 11 – The Use of Imagery – Imagine you’re small, green & your arm’s a light-sabre

Chapter 12 – Practice and Making Change Stick – How to get better at stuff

Chapter 13 – Applications – Money, sex and nonviolence – get more of what you love, and want less of what you don’t