1.3- Your Leadership Style

🌱 How This Activity Helps Women Psychospiritual Leaders:

This activity reminds women that there are various styles of leadership. Understanding heart-centred and head-centred leadership is key to developing more effective psychospiritual leadership because it brings balance between logic and emotion, strategy and soul. By integrating both, a psychospiritual leader can lead with wisdom and integrity—making decisions that are not only smart but also meaningful, ethical, and aligned with deeper purpose. This balance helps create more authentic relationships, resilient teams, and spiritually aware workplaces

THE ACTIVITY:

🐸🦂 Reflect on the head vs heart-centred leadership image. Think about your own leadership style based on the image, then reflect on the questions below. Answer the following guided questions aloud or write them down.

💭 Guided Questions:

Here are some guided questions to help explore and reflect on the differences between heart-centred, head-centred, and psychospiritual leadership—and how each may show up in your own leadership style:

💗 Heart-Centred Leadership

• When I lead, how often do I prioritise empathy, connection, emotional care?
• Do I sometimes take on too much responsibility for others’ emotions or needs?
• How do I navigate conflict—do I tend to avoid it to keep the peace?
• In what ways does my compassion enhance or harm my leadership?
• When does my caring nature tip into over-giving or burnout?

🧠 Head-Centred Leadership

• Do I rely heavily on logic, structure, or outcomes to guide my decisions?
• When under pressure, do I tend to disconnect from my emotions or act impulsively?
• How comfortable am I with uncertainty, vulnerability, or emotional messiness?
• Does my need for control sometimes limit creative or collaborative flow?
• In what situations has rational thinking served me and where has it blocked connection?

🌿 Psychospiritual Leadership

• How do I balance my heart, mind, body, and spirit in leadership?
• What unconscious patterns or ‘shadows’ might be influencing my choices?
• Can I sit with paradox being both clear and uncertain, strong and soft?
• How do I integrate spiritual values, intuition, and ancestral wisdom into my leadership style?
• What would it mean to lead from my whole self not just my role or title?