Power is by far one of my favorite topics to talk about. Alongside belonging, it’s among the deepest fear that I’ve worked on throughout my life.
I mentioned in my last post that one of my goals is to introduce to the world a new relationship with power. I feel that most people don’t fully understand power, and my mission is to change that.
I break this idea down into four quadrants. The reason you want to understand this is that harnessing power is one of the keys to being an amazing coach.
When you know which quadrant you fall in, you understand your power and can wield it.
Imagine a 4×4 matrix. On one axis, you have low and high power. And on the other, there is feminine and masculine power. It’s important to mention that I’m not referring to gender but the way power manifests.
A form of power that all of us have been familiar with for millennia is low masculine power. In simple terms, it’s the kind of power that expresses through brute force and domination.
Sadly, this is how businesses have looked like for a long time. Bosses express low masculine power, managers use it to control their underlings, it’s pretty much everywhere.
Low feminine power is also quite familiar, which most of us have encountered at one point or another. ‘Manipulation’ is a proper description here. It’s common to see this power in people who don’t know how to ask for what they need. They have unmet needs, but they’re not open about them. They play the victim card and resort to emotionally manipulating others.
As for the high forms of power, they are both very powerful.
High feminine energy expresses through mystery. You channel it through reaching a state of higher consciousness. This is where new concepts see the light of day for the first time.
But to turn these concepts into reality, we need to take action. This is where high masculine energy jumps in. It gives us the vision that we need to take something new and transform the world around us.
So, which quadrant are you in? How do you plan on getting to where you want to be? Figure this out and you’ll see what true power looks like.
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