This document summarizes a seminar about leadership from within. It discusses creating a personal leadership map, exercises to understand conceptual vs real leadership, and a model of self-leadership using 8 spiritual powers developed through meditation. The powers - introspection, tolerance, adjustment, discernment, decision-making, facing, cooperation, and packing up - can be strengthened by connecting with one's inner qualities of peace, love, power, purity and happiness. True self-leadership involves ongoing self-reflection and using these powers in daily life.

1. SEMINAR FOR LEADERS
LEADERSHIP FROM
WITHIN

2. MAPS GUIDE OR MISGUIDE
US. THEY ARE NOT A FAC,
BUT THE FRUIT OF OUR
PERCEPTION
“IN THE ORIENT, I am
informed, there exist huge
forests populated by exotic
animals and flowers. Men who
have visited those regions
attest to the strange customs
of the natives who inhabit
them. They speak of striped
carnivores known as tigers
feeding on victims who go
naked but for stripes painted
all over their bodies. Some
observers maintain that these
natives are barely human
because of their dose
association with the animals
that eat them, and so are

3. A TRIP TOWARD THE PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
 First thing we will do is to establish our own map.
We already have one – old and quite worn out. It
has been useful until this moment and we have
reached wherever we have reached thanks to it. To
create a new leadership map means to reinterpret
the meaning of being a leader.
 We are going to travel and we will use this new
map all the time.
 Let’s talk before starting…

4. PERSONAL LEADERSHIP MAP
 What is to lead?
 What are my models of leadership? At the
time of leading, what is my base?
 What are the characteristics of those
models? Perhaps dedication, or strength.
Maybe courage and determination, softness
and love?
 In this map, what is the place I want to
reach? Just like my model, or is it OK to be a
little less?
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5. AFTER HAVING A MAP…
 Let’s go for a trip!
 We are going to travel toward the country of
our leadership. We will take more than one
day to accomplish the trip, and the map we
have just designed we will help us all the
time.
 After reaching there, we will take sometime
to settle. But we know we will be much better
than before.

6. FOR TRAVELLING, WE ASK QUESTIONS
 There are some questions we must ask
before travelling.
 If you travel to another place, these are some
of the questions to be asked:
 What is the weather?
 How is the people there?
 How to dress?
 In groups, we will go even deeper, asking the
questions about our final destination.
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7. LEADERSHIP
 Conceptual leadership, which describes the
leader from an ideal point of view. It gives us
a kind of precision in relation to what a leader
should be like.
 The real leadership is that idea put into
practise. It is your leadership, my leadership,
that leadership we all use in the day today
life.
 Any difference between them?

8. CONCEPTUAL LEADERSHIP
 How the leader should be?
 We can summarize conceptual leadership like this:
 Capacity of convincing people to do what they would
never do.
 Complete coherence.
 Accomplish a vision without compromising values and
principles.
 Creation of new leaders.
 Leaving a footprint in History.

9. REAL LEADERSHIP
 How is the leader?
 This is a turbulent world, so:
 People do not get convinced that easily, and even after
being convinced there is nothing there to guarantee they
will do whatever the leader is proposing.
 A natural incoherence.
 There is the accomplishment of a vision, but with the
compromise of values or principles.
 Creation of some leaders, but mostly followers.
 It is very hard to leave a footprint in History.
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10. REALIZATION EXERCISES - I
 I need to climb a mountain,
a long walk that will take
me a full day. I can only
carry 11 pounds.
 According to the next list,
choose the elements you
will take.
 YOU CANNOT
SEPARATE ELEMENTS
OR INVENT NEW ONES.
STICK TO THE LIST.
 Water – 4.2 pounds
 Cereal bars - 3 packages (7.94
lbs)
 Sandwichs - 4 (1.32 lbs)
 Apples - 4 (2 lbs)
 Technical books for reading (I
have work to deliver on Monday)
– 6.61 lbs
 Fiction books – 8.82 lbs
 A laptop (fully functional for the
whole-day walk) – 6.61 lbs
 Ipod, speakers and solar
recharger – 3.31 lbs
 DVDs and reproducer – 5.51 lbs
 Cell phone and solar recharger –
0.66 lbs

11. REALIZATION EXERCISES - II
 A billionaire got in touch with me. He needs my help to
create an indigenous nation in Central America, where all
their needs are fulfilled and they can dedicated themselves
to whatever they feel like, without having to work for
surviving. Reason: he is a descendant of natives from
Central America, this is why he has that interest. He has a
piece of land big enough for that, and all the needed budget.
He is also in close touch with a group of natives.
 In group, talk with others about what you would do. At the
end of the conversation, the group will have a simple plan
indicating the basic steps to help that person to accomplish
his vision.
 After making the decision, the group will present it for
others.
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12. DIFFERENCES
 Let’s take some of our time to reflect on
leadership: the one that is and the one that
should be.
 Let’s take our personal leadership map and
check what is more important and we cannot
compromise in our leadership.
 Let’s look inside ourselves, in our own
leadership capacity.
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13. SELF-LEADERSHIP
 Its principle is so simple: before leading
others, you must learn to lead yourself.
 The practise is something else. We learn
how to lead others – and we became experts
in that – but we forget how to lead ourselves.
 So, let’s look inside ourselves again, to that
being we are, and let’s go back to that simple
principle.

14. 3 MODELS
 Brian Bacon / KVK Raju
 Self-leadership with
strategic planning.
 Tex Gunning
 Self-leadership by
“feeling the people”.
 Brahma Baba
 Self-leadership from
strengthen our spiritual
decision-making
process.

15. TO BE MY OWN LEADER MEANS…
 To recognise your
NORTH, where you
have to reach.
 To know your SOUTH,
where all tendencies
come.
 To look to the EAST,
connecting yourself with
your own spirituality.
 To not leave the WEST,
keeping your practicity.

16. WHAT HAVE WE DONE?
 From outside…
 Our leadership – how we
lead, our map.
 Realization exercises.
 Differences between ideal
and real leadership.
 From inside…
 Self-leadership and its
models.
 Our compass.
 Decision-making process.

17. DEEPER
 As self-leadership comes from within, it is
important to know what is there.
 As an iceberg we only show what is outside and
our relationships are superficial.
 It is time to go deeper and find precious
treasures.
 Which treasures? Our virtues and hidden
talents. They are what we really have and many
times, we don’t value.
 Let’s see what we have.

18. THE 8 POWERS

19. HOW TO GET THESE 8 SPIRITUAL POWERS
 Through meditation. When we meditate, we
connect our intellect with the self and God.
 Inside the self there is a source of hidden
treasures, and from them the 8 powers
emerge. Essentially, the being has 5 innate
qualities:
 Peace Love Power Purity Happiness

20. HOW IT REALLY WORKS
 To not think much, to learn how to trust
in your inner fellings at the time of
acting.
Meditating daily, renewing those
powers.
 To have a clear knowledge of the use of
each one of the powers. To use them in
a worthwhile way – they don’t hurt, but if
we don’t use them in a proper way, we

21. MAIN FEATURES - I
 Introspection
When you are in a situation for which you
are not prepared to face it.
The introverstion happens thrught having
positive thoughts about the self.
You will find internally the answers you
need.
 It refreshes the soul, it renews the being
and it recharges the self.

22. MAIN FEATURES - II
Tolerance
When the circunstances are threatening
you and they will last for a certain time.
With a vision of mercy, you give something
positive to other people.
You won’t feel affected in a negative way.
 It increases self-respect, but it spends
lots of energy.

23. MAIN FEATURES - III
Adjustment
When the circumstances are threatening
you and they will last for an undefined
time.
Withouth compromising your values and
principles, you make an agreement with
the situation, adapting yourself to it.
You will experience lightness in your mind
and actions.
Easily you win others’ hearts and their
cooperation, without much energy.

24. MAIN FEATURES - IV
Discerniment
 It is the first stage when you are making a
decision.
In yoga, we detach ourselves from the
situations and we experience the right
answer about what to do.
You will feel clarity in your decisions, even
though results are not seen.
The intellect recovers its strength and it
is not taken by logic or emotions.

25. MAIN FEATURES - V
Decision-making
This is the second stage of a decision.
With faith in the self, in God and life, you
act fearlessly.
You won’t feel hesitation and you will
experience the immediate fruit of a
decision made: strenght.
 It eases life and it enables us to come
even closer to our future vision.

26. MAIN FEATURES - VI
 To face
 On one hand, it is the third stage of a decision,
used when you have to face its consequences.
On the other hand, it is used when
circumstances are threatening you and your
principles and values are in danger.
 With faith in the self, God and life, I meditate
before the action and with no fear, I act.
 You will feel power inside.
 It destroys the most difficult obstacles.

27. MAIN FEATURES - VII
Cooperation
When the task is for benefit of many and it
is beyond your own capacity.
Consider yourself God’s instrument,
avoiding beinf affected by praise or
difamation.
People will ofer cooperation naturally.
 It transforms impossible into possible.

28. MAIN FEATURES - VIII
 To pack-up
 When a circumstance is over.
 You introvert yourself by having positive thoughts
about the self, assessing whatever happened in
a positive way, eliminating negative sensations.
 You won’t carry guilty feelings for something that
happened and you will feel capable of forgiving
and forgetting.
 It empowers the soul.

29. WHAT IS SELF-LEADERSHIP?
 To be your own leader.
There are many available models.
According to Brahma Baba’s model it is:
To find the hidden qualities inside the self
and to bring them about in daily actions.
To have deep yoga and to use spiritual
powers all the time.
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30. ANYTHING ELSE?
 Leadership from within depends on our realization,
our experiences. Part of the realization depends on
understanding whatever just happened.
 Let’s look our map, comparing what happened until
this moment.
 Let’s look at the questions we asked ourselves at
the beginning of this trip. Could we reply them?
 Let’s meditate. A lot.
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31. We we arrive at some
part, one trips finishes,
another one begins.
A trip toward inside the
self starts.
The challenges in
relation to self-leadership
start.
It is a bridge we must
know how to cross.
In the other side, there is
prize waiting for us.
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32. IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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 Marcelo.bulk@co.bkwsu.org
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