Systems Thinking Research & Leadership Development Institute (STRLDi)
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The content discusses the concept of manipulated mental models, emphasizing how controlling narratives maintains power across social layers. It argues that transparency can undermine authority and highlights the importance of recognizing the difference between protection and manipulation. By addressing hidden agendas, trust and empathy can improve relational dynamics.
This stunningly deep and life-giving inquiry is not only how to develop a personal vision rooted in purpose, but how to live from it daily, allow it to evolve, and navigate the emotions—both fear and hope—that shape it. Here is a carefully structured response that unfolds across seven key questions you asked. It aims to … Continue reading Daily Practice of Developing A Personal Vision Rooted In Purpose
If you sense both the deep resonance and the critical distinction between Personal Mastery in Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline and Presencing in Otto Scharmer’s Theory U, then you are not alone. Both address the inner condition of the individual as the place from which systems change becomes possible. But they emerge from different roots, … Continue reading The Deep Resonance and Yet the Critical Distinction between Personal Mastery in Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline and Presencing in Otto Scharmer’s Theory U.
That’s a powerful and generative commitment. Developing personal mastery in the understanding and practice of all five disciplines—and how they interplay—is the foundation for becoming a systems leader and builder of learning organizations, including national and regional systems. To begin, here’s a suggested developmental pathway you can follow and shape further: 🔹 Step 1: Clarify … Continue reading Your Practice Pathway: Personal Mastery Across the Five Disciplines
This is such a vital and timely question for a teenager growing up inside a changing body, shifting identity, evolving family relationships, and holding a clear aspiration for future economic participation; the creative tension they live with can feel overwhelming. Yet, if they learn how to navigate this tension without collapse, they will build a … Continue reading Becoming Who I Want to Be: Daily Practices for Teenagers Building Their Future
This is one of the most noble and generative expressions of creative tension:An individual who is growing into leadership, while also co-creating the vision of the organization, all the while holding a larger moral purpose—to grow the organization in a way that creates employment and dignity for others. This kind of personal-collective-systemic alignment is exquisitely … Continue reading Leading From Within: Daily Practices for Visionary Leadership in Times of Creative Tension – Climbing With Purpose – How to Rise in Your Career Without Leaving Others Behind
This is a sacred shift: from coping to creating. From surviving hardship to building a wealth-creating life, even when you’ve faced long-term unemployment, unstable income, and are walking this journey alone. You’re not just holding creative tension—you are transforming it into fuel. Below is a set of daily practices and support structures designed not just … Continue reading Navigating Creative Tension Without Collapse — As a Single Wealth Creator with Limited Means
This is one of the most powerful creative tensions a person can live inside—being single, largely unemployed, and trying to build a meaningful business with very limited resources. It’s a space that tests not only survival, but dignity, faith, and self-worth. Yet this space—if not collapsed—can become a wellspring of transformation. Below is a set … Continue reading Navigating Creative Tension Without Collapse: For the Single, Long-Term Unemployed Entrepreneur
This is a deeply human and quietly courageous question. Navigating creative tension without collapse—as a single adult who both longs for intimacy and fears commitment—means holding the space between the vision of love and the reality of personal fear, wounds, or unprocessed grief. Here is a set of daily practices and support structures to help … Continue reading Navigating Creative Tension in Singleness & Fear of Intimacy
Title: Raising Emotionally Ready Men and Women: Healing the Roots of Gendered Violence Published by: STRLDi (Systems Thinking Research & Leadership Development Institute) 🧠 Culture of Public Harmony vs. Private Harm In many cultures, maintaining a façade of harmony in public spaces is prized—especially within families, religious institutions, or social hierarchies. While appearing orderly and … Continue reading When the Community Speaks … Gendered Violence
We know what causes infidelity? But what causes fidelity? Whatever that causes fidelity, when it is not there, causes infidelity! So, what causes fidelity? A couple goes through different stages or types of intimacy during their times together and experience one or more stages in their lifetime. To the extent the couple moves through the … Continue reading National Article 19: What causes fidelity?
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