Flow and wisdom from Kung Fu Panda

I’ve been writing recently about balance, about having only enough Structure to allow Flow.

Today I will share a story, about Flow and Kung Fu Panda !

For background, one area of my work is to facilitate leadership meetings for businesses and organisations around the world. Whilst many people do this, I specialise in situations where a leader recognises they need to do something brave and different to truly achieve transformative results. With that sense, they ask around their peers, telling them what they need, then I get contacted from such referrals.

What do I do differently to others? My “what” is bravery, to stretch the client and their team to grow, to get out of their comfort zone to truly begin the process of transformative change. My “how”?

Ah, you see, that is where we come back to “only enough Structure to allow Flow”

Sure, I engage with the client in really deep dive planning, yet in the moment, the magic happens in “Flow”.

Now to my example. I was reminded of this in meeting up recently with a colleague who was supporting me in the room at that time. A number of years ago I was flown to London from Cayman by a client to help them with a two day event for their top fifty international leaders, high powered executives of a top global financial institution.

They were seeking to connect to a new vision for their business, but they were stuck in the past, in the mistakes, the patterns, the…