Last night was the first session of a new professional development community of practice. As we shared wishes for the next six months, I named an interest in bringing real working tensions for peer coaching, learning, and growth. Those who know me know I’m always developing something and I better be to have the great privilege of coaching leaders and teams.

As I offered a brief example, my neck flushed and heart raced. Our ever-present facilitator asked what might be happening for me in that moment. I knew but needed time to listen from within.

After sitting with it overnight, I feel clearer, more centered, and grounded in how I want to meet this learning moment next time.

It was a reminder that inner turbulence is often information. When held with care within ourselves and those we feel safe and aligned with, it can become insight, choice, and learning.

Leadership and human growth rarely emerge from polished conditions. Clarity and creativity are often shaped in the messy, uncertain, in-between and uncomfortable spaces. Sometimes the messiness is evidence that something new is forming. More bravery, here we come!

Where might a creative tension be inviting you forward?

With gratitude to Simon Goland, Ph.D., PCC and all who were part of the conversation and learning community and of course Friedrich Nietzsche.

Eva