Retooling on the Run Real Change for Leaders

Retooling on the Runis a profound reminder that while we may be executives, managers, doctors, or teachers we are also human beings whose own well-being is a precondition for global evolution. Heller and Surrenda show how to move through life's challenges and changes.Retoolingis a blueprint for enhancing personal effectiveness at work.

Stuart Heller is the author of The Dance of Becoming: Living Life As A Martial Art, and his private practice focuses on long-standing conditions that resist change. He is currently a professor of Qi Gong and T'ai Chi at Five Branches Institute of Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz, California.

Preface

xiii

Introduction

xv

Section I A New Foundation for Leadership

1

(54)

Changing Yourself to Change Your Organization

3

(16)

Ideas: Going Back to the Beginning

4

(5)

The Nature of Change

9

(2)

Second-Order Change

11

(4)

Clarifying Your Goals

15

(1)

The Versatile Leader

16

(3)

Building a Foundation for Second-Order Change

19

(8)

Ideas: Ideas for Action

20

(7)

Mastering Centered Presence

27

(20)

Ideas: Four Strategic Keys for Retooling-on-the-Run

27

(6)

The Practice of Centered Presence

33

(2)

Unity of the Body and the Mind

35

(1)

Power and Presence

36

(2)

Returning to Centered Presence

38

(1)

The Danger of Losing Center

39

(2)

Playing with the Retooling Exercises

41

(1)

Initial Exercises

42

Exercises: Practicing Centered Presence

34

(8)

Centered Presence for Resisting the Power of Negative Emotions Grow

42

(1)

Without Centered Presence, Negative Emotions Grow

43

(1)

Changing Your Experience through Centered Presence

43

(1)

Using Centered Presence in Daily Life

44

(3)

Training for Versatility

47

(8)

Ideas: The Four Exercise Sections

48

(5)

What You Can Expect for Yourself

53

(2)

Section II Deepening Centered Presence

55

(72)

Perceiving With All of You

59

(22)

Ideas: Centered Presence in Motion

59

(3)

Isn't that Interesting?

62

(1)

Habits Generate Perceived Normality

63

(1)

Linking the Internal With the External

63

(3)

Three Modes of Perception

66

(1)

Words and Muscles

67

(4)

Dampening the Differences

71

(1)

Word-Muscle Dissonance

72

(2)

The Muscles of Belief

74

(2)

Unravelling Your Beliefs

76

Exercises: Establishing the Rhythm of the Hand

60

(1)

Exploring Your Own Rhythm

61

(3)

Coordinating Your Movement With Your Breath

64

(4)

Finding Yes in Your Body

68

(1)

Intensities of Yes

69

(1)

Intensities of No

69

(2)

The Cycle of Yes and No

71

(2)

Word-Muscle Dissonance

73

(1)

The Muscles of Love and Hate

73

(2)

The Muscles of Positive Believing

75

(1)

The Muscles of Negative Believing

76

(1)

Noticing the Many Facets of Belief

77

(1)

Retooling Your Response to a Negative Belief

78

(1)

Unwinding the Power of the Belief

79

(2)

Working With the Three Centers of Perception

81

(16)

Ideas: The Head

82

(3)

The Hands

85

(3)

The Feet

88

(2)

Breathing the Centers Together

90

(2)

Cultivating Perspective

92

Exercises: Find Your Head

83

(3)

Find Your Hands

86

(3)

Find Your Feet

89

(2)

Breathing by Relaxing

91

(2)

The Corporate Perception Practice

93

(4)

Acting With Your Whole Body

97

(8)

Ideas: Moving From the Head

98

(2)

Moving From the Hands

100

(2)

Moving From the Feet

102

(2)

Moving With All of You

104

Exercises: Moving From the Head

98

(1)

Speaking From the Head

99

(1)

Moving From Your Head in Daily Life

99

(1)

Moving From the Hands

100

(1)

Speaking From the Hands

101

(1)

Moving From Your Hands in Daily Life

102

(1)

Moving From the Feet

102

(1)

Speaking From the Feet

103

(1)

Moving From Your Feet in Daily Life

104

(1)

Knowing With Your Whole Body

105

(6)

Ideas: Knowing With the Whole Body

108

Exercises: Knowing From the Head

106

(1)

Knowing From the Hands

107

(1)

Knowing From the Feet

107

(1)

Finding the Integrative Answer

108

(3)

Practicing for Success

111

(16)

Ideas: Practicing for Success

113

(1)

Embody Centered Presence in One Month

114

(2)

The Seven Steps to Successful Practicing

116

(11)

Section III The Inner Game of Change

127

(36)

A User-Friendly guide to Letting Go

133

(6)

Ideas: Letting Go of Only What You Do Not Need

135

(2)

The Power of Movement

137

(2)

Relaxation in Action

139

(24)

Ideas: Pausing in the Midst of Action

142

(6)

The Many Sides of Effort

148

(2)

The Tension of Wanting

150

(5)

Opening the Door

155

Exercises: Standing and Sitting

139

(4)

Pausing and Relaxing in the Midst of Action

143

(2)

Putting More Pauses in Your Movement

145

(3)

Everyday Standing and Sitting

148

(4)

Wanting to Stand

152

(2)

Building Up the Wanting

154

(2)

Wanting and Relaxing into Your Feet

156

(2)

Wanting and Relaxing into Your Hands

158

(1)

Wanting and Relaxing into Your Head

159

(1)

Wanting and Relaxing Your Whole Body

160

(3)

Section IV Getting Unstuck from Your Habits of Feeling

163

(36)

Turning Your Negative Feelings into Gold

167

(18)

Ideas: Posture and Feelings

168

(1)

Stretching Your Repertoire

169

(3)

Two Poles of Feeling

172

(4)

The Movements of Feeling

176

(3)

Danger Mind

179

(3)

Staying Open in the Midst of Fear

182

Exercises: Explore Inconsistencies Between Feeling and Posture

169

(1)

Feeling Peaceful

170

(1)

Feeling Angry

170

(3)

Feeling Happy

173

(1)

Feeling Anxious

174

(4)

Feeling Open

178

(1)

Feeling Frightened

179

(6)

Consciously Changing the Rollercoaster of Feelings

185

(14)

Ideas: Phase 1: Doing the Pattern on Purpose

187

(4)

Resisting the Natural Flow of Feelings

191

(1)

Phase 2: Doing the Pattern on Purpose

192

(2)

Phase 3: Retooling the Mood Cycle

194

Exercises: Identifying the Pattern of Our Habits of Feeling

186

(2)

Shifting From Positive to Negative Moods

188

(4)

Traveling the Whole Mood Cycle

192

(3)

Retooling the Mood Cycle

195

(4)

Section V Stalking Versatility

199

(52)

Practicing Intentional Versatility

203

(26)

Ideas: The Stress and Startle Responses

205

(2)

The Five Rings

207

(4)

Feeling What You See

211

(2)

Four Scenarios

213

(3)

Imagination in Motion

216

Exercises: Recognizing Your Response to Encounters

209

(2)

Noticing Your Visceral Reaction to Visual Images

211

(5)

Responding With the Strategy of Ground

216

(2)

Responding With the Strategy of Water

218

(5)

Responding With the Stategy of Fire

223

(2)

Responding With the Strategy of Wind

225

(4)

Retooling Your Personal Strategy

229

(22)

Ideas: The Ring of Ground

229

(6)

The ring of Water

235

(4)

The Ring of Fire

239

(6)

The Ring of Wind

245

Exercises: The Ground Breath

229

(2)

The Ground Stance

231

(2)

The Ground Move

233

(2)

The Water Breath

235

(1)

The Water Stance

236

(1)

The Water Move

237

(2)

The Fire Breath

239

(2)

The Fire Stance

241

(2)

The Fire Move

243

(2)

The Wind Breath

245

(1)

The Wind Stance

246

(2)

The Wind Move

248

(3)

Section VI Pursuing Your Vision

251

(25)

Self-Mastery and Leadership

253

(4)

Summary of Essential Exercises

257

(15)

Ideas: The Heart of Retooling: Eleven Key Exercises

257

(1)

Creating an Individualized Training

258

(3)

Exercises: Centered Presence

261

(1)

Using Centered Presence in Daily Life

262

(1)

Breathing Your Way to Greater Control and More Spontaneity

263

(1)

Getting Unstuck From Your Habits of Feeling

264

(1)

Relaxation in Action

265

(1)

Releasing Unwanted Tension and Shifting out of Negative Feelings

266

(1)

Cultivating the Ring of Ground

267

(1)

Cultivating the Ring of Water

268

(1)

Cultivating the Ring of Fire

269

(1)

Cultivating the Ring of Wind

270

(1)

Cultivating Versatility and the Ring of Space

271

(1)

Summary of Essential Ideas

272

(4)

Notes

276

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