Change is an inside-out job. It’s not about reacting to external events or chasing trends, so much as it’s about developing your respond-ability—your elasticity, maturity, plasticity, openness, emotional dexterity, regulatory power, and more. Organizations that deliberately develop that capacity in every individual shore up their own resilience. In other words, “adult development” doesn’t just promote individual growth, it’s a cornerstone of organizational flourishing. Polly LaBarre takes the audience on a quick tour of the organizations and leaders investing in human flourishing in powerful new ways—and offers up a short course in “adult development,” including:
– How to begin, again (and again)
– How to change your mind—cultivating consciousness, mediating mindsets, biases, blinders
– How to develop intuition—learning to tune into your inner knowing
– How to train like an artist, a monk, and an athlete
– How to design and run self-experiments to accelerate your growth loops
– Principles for adult capacity building