THE CURSE OF THE HELPER

How to find your own version of Leadership when you're mostly in the back of the scene

Here is my presentation as Guest Speaker for The Embodiment Conference 2020, for the Business and Leadership Channel that I was managing. Among 500,000 people who registered to the conference to listen to more than 1,000 presentations in 12 days. I talk about what gets in the way of becoming a leader when we mostly want to be appreciated by how much we give, which sometimes include working in the shadow.

• Are you constantly trying to help others?

• Are you usually re-evaluating yourself when someone doesn't want your help?

• or feeling not appreciated when you are not recognized for your efforts?

If you responded yes to those questions, great chances are you are a helper. In this session, we will approach the characteristics of "The Helper:" why it implies repetitive situations of feeling misunderstood and inadequate, and reactions of either withdrawal or fight. There is a huge pallet of leadership definitions between being hidden or isolated and being constantly in the front of the scene, and I hope you will start to find a somatic definition of it through this session.