True creative leadership comes from within, a place of deep calm and focus, that allows you to respond to any situation as it arises. Buddhists teach about 'calming the drunken monkey mind', Henry David Thoreau recommends to 'shake off the village' in order to bring our mind where our body currently is. Leaders who embrace the self-awareness journey become beacons of growth and psychological safety to those around them.

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My favourite mindfulness practice is photography. As my teacher, Dr Marian Schmidt used to say: "In the image everything is relations. Composition is putting things in order. We have chaos outside and around us - so we search for order." He liked asking us: why do we photograph? It took me many years and lots of walking to agree with Marian in that, we are looking for the truth. Inner truth. How we stay authentic in a multitude of relations is what I like to research and explore, with clients and on my own. 

 

Photography, as mindfulness practice helps develop self-awarenes. Through the development of self-awareness we can become present, compassionate, honest, curious, committed and transformational.

If you like to Get out of your mind please join me on a photo walk. 

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Here is an article for you about why Outside lies magic!

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All website photographs by Monika Kawka.