Thought Leadership

Measuring, translating and shifting human consciousness in society, economy, and politics - in every area of life that requires meaningful collaboration.

The three key focus points of Teresa Zimmermann’s work are:

Complexity

To navigate complexity, we need to re-learn the ancient virtue to “sit with the problem” just long enough to diligently gather relevant samples of information – until we’ve understood not things in detail (as that’s obviously impossible) but the main intangible structure of the situation and make it addressable, relatable, discussable and ready for transformation.

In today’s demand to shift fast and agile, this requires a healthy balance between constant process communication with a focus on efficiency and stability, creating an arena of trust, while assessing, designing and translating the structure for change with a very wide, ideally transgenerational scope in mind. Innerstanding complexity requires a felt sense for success patterns and challenges, while using cognition as our initial, most precise tool for making all stakeholders relate to our intention.

Prediction

While complexity research is humbly teaching us, how little we know, deciphering patterns of success allows us to anticipate quite precisely, how to foster growth. And it will also shed light on which areas will grow easily, which will need more attention, and which obstacles will be deal breakers unless elegantly transformed or removed. There is no such thing as certain prediction, but just like a tree grows in rings, water follows the path of least resistance and light comes in through cracks, we can read along the patterns of human growth behaviour and anticipate both individual and collective human movement.

Soft Power

The distinguishment between power and force follows a simple rule: power does never deplete resources – not time, money, energy, human contribution, water, soil, you name it.

People, who truly wield power are creating meta perspectives, that include everyone’s needs involved. This requires a stance of non-rivalry, as in “we cannot compete, because I want you to win too.” The practice of Soft Power describes the path of becoming deeply powerful.

Successfully navigate through change

There are many unforeseen days in the world.

  1. The changes are happening so quickly that our society is becoming unbalanced.
  2. The loss of security affects us profoundly.

Change requires an understanding of the recurring patterns in our consciousness in order to develop effective methods of adaptation.

Until everything makes sense again

Recognizing cultural patterns helps to find new ways in society.

  1. Encounters in crisis are crucial for the feeling of success and power.
  2. To enable change, we must first understand what we subconsciously need and where our thought patterns begin.

The ability to make meaningful decisions under stress is crucial for individual well-being and the success of societies.

Know who you are and find balance in your life

Pick your battles.
The rest will follow.

  1. A test to determine our unconscious needs is the first step towards change and clarity about our thought and action patterns.
  2. Everyone can activate their own potential and experience inner clarity and trust.
     

Our reactions to change depend on the maturity of our consciousness.

Beyond Neuro-Leadership:

Roots of Humanity – Grounded in Relating as crucial factor for success in large scale transformations

Teresa is haring her profound expertise combining systemic approach, dialogos, embodiment and integral life practice in the following areas:

Urban Health

 

Business Models

Integrationg capitalism & trust

Decision Making

encounter blind spots

Sense Making

formerly known as purpose

Existential Risk

global, local, personal

Diversity

beyond gender politics