“Wherever you go, don’t forget to take your body with you!”
Adaptive Development tends to be “top down.” It goes something like this:
- Improve a physician’s or executive’s thinking first. Enhance the way he or she makes sense of the world by trending them to higher levels of Adaptive Development. This increases the ability to engage complexity, ambiguity, paradox, and volatility.
- Improved thinking, subsequently, boosts emotional experience, typically by reducing fear-based and counterproductive thinking. Greater emotional agility is a central but often neglected element of leadership and executive development.
- And finally, since emotions are a main driver of behavior (although we are often loath to admit it), improved cognitive and emotional agility improves behavior.
However, now we understand that our thinking is often impacted when the body reacts to a dynamic or circumstance and sends counterproductive messages to the brain. In other words, sometimes it’s the body first!
Adaptive Development must include the somatic element by incorporating “bottom-up” considerations.
That’s why we incorporate bottom-up elements into the Fern EPC method.
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Fern Executive and Physician Coaching specializes in Adaptive Development for physicians, physician leaders, and executives.
