Corepower, Leadership from your Core.

COREPOWER – guiding yourself from the core Knowing what is important to you and living your life according to that vision. Being balanced and regaining balance whenever you lose it. Living deeply connected to yourself and the world around you. Sounds hard? Luckily personal leadership is something you can develop. The Corepower book helps you strengthen your integrity. Exercises as varied as meditations, martial art techniques and psychological models give you the opportunity to grow in the area you want. The book is divided into different qualities with which you can connect: power, love, wisdom, spirit and earth. Simple skills such as breathing from your belly, opening your heart, and focusing your attention serve as the basis for more complex forms of self-guidance and deep transformation. They bring you more physical, emotional and mental balance and nurture you spiritually. The effects are quickly noticeable in daily life. They come in the following ways: obtaining better resistance to stress, dealing with boundaries in a healthy way, working from your heart, and being more conscious of your purpose on earth. Corepower can also be useful for groups and organizations. The method can unblock group processes, heighten effectiveness and restore the balance between group dynamics and group work. Corepower is mainly inspired by insights from the Chinese philosophy of Taoism and the leadership methods of Teampower.

COREPOWER SUMMARY INTRODUCTION This Corepower book can be seen as a guide for connection and integrity. It allows you to lead yourself on the path to your core and to a deeper connection with yourself and your environment. The inner (personal) changes spurred on by the tools provided will likely also instigate a broader transformation that may be reflected in more meaningful societal contribution, anchored by a clearer sense of personal responsibility. This book can provide you with insight about what you need in order to live a balanced life. The exercises and techniques detailed in this book can help you transform negative and destructive patterns of thought and behavior into attitudes that facilitate growth for yourself and your environment. Among the benefits you might experience are a deeper inner calmness, a higher stress tolerance, emotional stability, a healthy way of dealing with physical and emotional boundaries, focus and singleness of purpose, and a higher awareness of your goals on earth. Each chapter of the book works with a specific dimension; power, love, wisdom, spirit and earth. You can go through all of them in order or skip to a chapter that appeals to you. When you work through the whole book you will be centered on different levels and experience a cycle of deep transformation. You will be confronted with knots that must be untied so that your energy can flow through freely. In that sense you can see the book as a journey through your kundalini, the central energy channel of your body. 1.COREPOWER: POWER (physical aspect) The essence of this chapter is to learn how to be in your power here and now, and how to reconnect to your power each time the connection breaks. It is like being a little flower that gets trodden down but sucks energy into its system through its roots in order to bloom again. Living in your own power goes hand in hand with respecting other people’s power, without competition, without dominance over one another. Your connection to your power can be expressed in your daily life through a lot of small acts such as stating your opinion when you know it will not be applauded or intervening when a person is insulted in your presence. 2.COREPOWER: LOVE (emotional aspect) This chapter is about living lovingly and connectedly with yourself and others. If you don’t express your emotions, you live in a disconnected way, which can easily lead to destructive behavior and alienation. It is like building a wall around yourself, closing yourself off so that you are the only left capable of coming near. If you develop a deep connection with your emotions and a healthy way of dealing with them you will benefit from it. The exercises and techniques in this chapter will guide you to open your heart, transform your emotions, communicate in a loving way, conquer old and destructive emotional patterns and build new constructive ones based on love. 3.COREPOWER: WISDOM (mental aspect) In this chapter, you are provided with tools in order to use your head in a useful way: to focus, let go, think positively, co-create and find your life’s mission. It also introduces you to the Corepower compass, the Corepower conceptual, and Coki, the healing energy of Corepower. These form the book’s core. They provide insight and can be used to achieve deep personal leadership; acting ethically from your core. 4.COREPOWER: SPIRIT (spiritual aspect) This chapter is about connecting with your spirit. This has to do everything with letting your ego die and transforming at a higher level. To succeed in this mission you have to let go of false ideas about your identity, such as a certain standard of life, a specific clothing style or a certain amount of work that you tell yourself you need to do.

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Baud Vandenbemden is an experienced trainer and coach. He specializes in guiding people towards deeper connection. He has used the Corepower program to work with diverse groups around themes such as leadership, aggression, defensibility, and social and cultural diversity. "When I work with people, I strive to connect. I guide you – to be more contact with yourself, with others, with what you really want, with your mission, and with the world you live in. By connecting with ‘the inside’ you can come to know the higher aspects of yourself and the other. This is the basis of ethical action and real personal leadership. Your work, for example, will focus not only on ‘difficult’ students but also your experiences with them. For example, how do I experience the relationship with a student, how does she or he experience me, what is my deepest motivation to work with students. From this deep examination the power to actually do things differently can arise. Otherwise, it is when focusing only on tips and tricks which can, although they can sometimes be handy, do not fundamentally change anything. The path to deeper connection is scary. Your first meeting with the underlying layers of your personality is often difficult. But the reward is worth the effort and comes as in the form of better psychic health, feelings of happiness,and a more meaningful life, among other untold benefits. Culturally there is a trend that complicates venturing inside, namely the rationalization of the world and the tendency to only take seriously that which can be objectively experienced. This results in a two-dimensional outlook on the world, an impoverishment which makes a lot of people try to fill up their inner void with all kinds of addictions (overthinking, emotional drama, eating, shopping, working, sex, legal or illegal drugs, earning money, spiritual kicks, to name just a few). My challenge for you is to get over this two-dimensionality into (re)connection with your inner subjective world. This way you will create openness for sustainable solutions to personal and societal problems. Techniques are nothing but superficial methods, no matter how effective, useful and necessary. Quality relationships are the real basis for change. This is the case for a group of young criminals, who find the way to openness through martial arts, as it is the case for a leader who wants to transcend the emptiness of a career blitz. When guiding these processes I try to create a safe atmosphere through a loving and warm attitude. This is a context that makes it possible to go a step further. I do as consisely as possible what I ask from others; to live from a place of deep connectedness.