The question is whether you’re brave enough to listen

I wasn’t. Not at first.

Early in my work facilitating leadership retreats, I learned this lesson the hard way, from my own fear.

I was about to demonstrate a focusing practice to a group. My body knew it
was the right moment. Something deep inside said This is the moment.

Be vulnerable. Demonstrate.

But fear paralyzed me.

So instead of demonstrating, instead of being vulnerable

I instructed. I told the group to do the exercise themselves.

The resistance I got back was immediate.

Years later, the same kind of moment.

This time I listened.

I stopped the session and said: Something feels off.

I don’t know what. But I feel it.

No data. No framework.

Just the courage to trust my inner knowing out loud.

Be vulnerable.

A participant finally said what she’d been holding in silence the whole retreat.

The room cracked open.

The magic occurred. The transformation happened in that moment.

And something in my body released, too.

According to Yale Insights, 85% of CEOs rely on intuition for major decisions.

And yet, most leadership development still trains the mind.

Not the body.

Not the inner knowing.

This is what no AI will ever replicate.

The willingness to feel what’s true – and act from it anyway.

And in days like the ones we are living through now,

When there are sirens, missiles, tension and anxiety in the air,

It becomes even more meaningful.

Because people bring into the room not only what is spoken,

But also what remains unspoken.

The fear. The worry. The tension held in the body.

And as managers and leaders, sometimes our role is not to solve things immediately

But to be the first ones willing to make space for it.

To say out loud: Something is being felt here.

Even if there are not yet words for it.

That’s not a skill you can download.

That’s presence. That’s wisdom. That’s leadership.

Where are you receiving a clear signal right now – that you’re afraid to trust?