Thriving in complexity.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness – William L. Watkinson
We are living in unprecedented times of rapid change and disruption, where our current systems are no longer fit for purpose. Our traditional ways of problem-solving tend to make things worse. Today’s intractable challenges are windows of opportunity for us to grow our capacity to metabolize uncertainty, build agility, and unlock innate human potential — enabling the conditions for moving beyond survival to thriving.
Do you feel tension between a greater purpose calling you and the reality of your current ways of working? Do you know in your heart what is most important and long to close that gap for deeper alignment? The tensions experienced in you, your team, and your organization, are the gateway to healing, integration and profound transformation. When we turn towards these tensions with skill and compassion, trapped energy is liberated to fulfill your greater purpose and also that of your organization. Enduring impact comes from such alignment and integration.
The work of Dana Carman Integral Consulting (DCIC) is to help you create the conditions and capabilities within yourself and your systems to both “solve” problems and to see future problems as catalysts for healing, integration and unfolding creativity. The work is generated by a living inquiry into what it is to thrive at individual, team, organizational, regional and planetary levels.
If you feel called to play a leadership role over this next crucial decade in designing new and more sustainable systems and organizations that are a fit for our 21st century challenges, let’s have a conversation.
Listen to Dana Carman speak about his work in the video below.
How Dana Works
The work, that Dana has come to call Wayfinding, starts with an experience in nature with the leader of an organization who is at the threshold of a big transition — an inner or outer crisis calling her or him into deep inquiry around what time it is, both in their life and in the world. While in nature Dana and his clients have profound conversations, unfolding deep inquiries.
Dana guides his clients in a process of reckoning, helping them identify the tensions that are generating an integrity gap between the path they are currently on and what the future is calling them toward. Dana helps his clients turn towards these tensions with curiosity, compassion and humor in partnership with the Earth. These are the ingredients for transformative insights to arise and a deep sourcing of what’s calling — in one’s life, in one’s role as a leader and in the larger organization.
Next, attention turns to the real world business challenges his clients face. These challenges are re-framed as a practice field to which to bring new insights and capabilities. Dana helps his clients design a path forward that is in service of the emergent future.
Additionally, Dana nurtures capability within the client system to learn and teach the approaches and frameworks he has introduced to the senior team. In this feed-forward, a new way of working becomes a competitive advantage organization wide.
Dana and his colleague Joel Yanowitz also partner together in offering Wayfinding to leaders, top teams and their organizations worldwide. To find our more visit Wayfinding Leadership.
Creating the necessary conditions for an organization to sustainably
move to a new level of satisfaction and impact for all stakeholders.
Leadership Coaching and Reinvention
Amplify your natural leadership talents.
Cultivate new mindsets and practices that develop greater capacity for leading through complexity. Identify blind spots and heal inner blockages and contradictions for deeper satisfaction, integrity and impact.
Top Team Alignment
Unleash the energy, agility and collective intelligence of your top team.
Enhance team capacity to be an exemplar of your organization’s desired culture such that their ability to lead in volatile and uncertain times transcends being a liability and becomes a competitive advantage.
Breakthrough Projects
Culture transformation that demonstrates next level capabilities
in real time.
Bring together a cross functional microcosm of your organization to accomplish a measurable impact in an accelerated time frame. Level up through meeting a need in a mission-critical area of the organization .
