We are in the habit of thinking in binary terms. I am either selfish or caring. But what about learning to recognise the moments when it might be vitally important for you to step up and speak up for your own needs in the interest of growth and wholeness – even if that hurts someone else?

In the West we have learned to revere the mind and its analytical and logical processing power. This attitude is ingrained in our education system and places of work. It has become so much part of the fabric of our being, that it is difficult to see it for what it is – unless we become intimately connected with a culture that has a different value system, like multiple indigenous cultures around the world.

Self-Leadership aims to awaken the inner processes that allow us to perceive the world, not as black-and-white or linear, but as complex, layered and intrinsically connected.