The Path of Soul-Based Leadership - Part 1

I support leaders to connect to the power of their spirit, download their soul purpose, and pioneer it in the world.

In this work, I’m constantly amazed by the intelligence of the process that people move through. It's like I get to see the magic of how life works and it has always been such an affirmation to me of the loving intelligence behind our paths.

Over this 3-part series of articles, I want to share a few pieces on how I witness this path unfold for people, pretty much uniformly.

If you want to access support for your own soul-based leadership, get in touch.

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Part 1

My experience has been that the way life unfolds for beings who are in the process of stepping up into leading in the world from their soul purpose has certain shared features that everyone passes through.

Generally, it goes like this…

The individual first has some peak experience, some vision, which allows them to see and feel what it would be like to live as their fully actualised self in alignment with their soul’s purpose. Maybe it comes through meditation. Maybe prayer. Maybe a medicine ceremony. Maybe ecstatic dance. But it impacts them deeply. It feels good. They are massively inspired. It sews a seed.

This is what gets the person activated for their journey. They start to reorient their life. They’re passionate about their path. They’re ready for the next step, which they imagine will be a fuller entry into living their purpose.

But no.

That’s not what they get.

What they get next is generally some set of experiences that reveal to them the blocks, traumas and attachments that prevent them from living the deeper vision.

This isn’t what they expected. It’s humbling and vulnerable. More than that, as the individual sees a reflection of themselves that shows them in no uncertain terms all their shadows and the ways they avoid and deceive themselves pressed up against their face, it’s kinda horrifying.

And for many, it’s confusing. They ask themselves, “Who am I really? Am I this high vibration, inspired, dedicated being on the path of growing into my fullness, or this traumatised mess who sometimes can’t seem to tie their own shoelaces?”

Been there?

It can feel kinda schizophrenic. One day they’re in their fullness. The next day they’re broken on the floor, lost in their own shadows.

Which is real?

Answer: they both are. And there is a certain genius to the process. The soul first drops a vision into the individual’s mind of what it could look like for the person to live a fully soul-aligned life, leading and pioneering from their purpose. This is like the carrot on the stick that keeps the donkey interested and moving forward.

Sorry, but yeah, you’re the donkey.

Then it reveals all the stuff that blocks the being from fully being able to live that. This initiates the individual into their cleaning up work. And to do that, they have to face themselves. They’re gonna need to face every trauma, shadow, and method of self-avoidance and self-deception.

This is the hard stuff. This is the blood and guts of the path. This will take the person into the most challenging reflections of themselves that they would never be willing to face, unless – yep, you guessed it – unless they had been given some incentive that they wanted enough, cared enough about, and called them deeply enough, to go through it.

This is why the soul drops the vision first, before it then surfaces what needs to be cleaned up for the individual to truly step into leading from their soul purpose.

What happens next? Then the healing work starts and the aspiring soul-centred leader walks through the valley of their own shadow.