FrameChangers Book Club
All our LDP practitioners have favourite books that they speak of and recommend. Often these are the books that have changed their map of the world and changed their experience of themselves in connection with it, and with each other. We started to call these books Frame Changers - because they reframe in the reading.
We thought we'd create a resource to share some of these and allow us to explore the power of these Frame Changers. So we now run a quarterly series of Book Club sessions, where one or two of our LDP community members will speak about a book that has profoundly changed them - and how.
Our next FrameChanger session features Quiet Perseverance: 30 Lessons from an Introverted Outsider's Daughter by Victoria Liu on 30 January, 1-2pm.
In Quiet Perseverance, Victoria tells many personal stories and explores the moments from her life that shaped her most profoundly. From her reflections on these she explores what it means to develop as a postconventional leader when your natural style - introverted, neurodivergent, or shaped by cross-cultural experience - has been systematically overlooked by dominant leadership narratives.
Her book offers views of a developmental journey over many memories toward an authentic authority that honours cognitive diversity as her meaning-making capacities expand.
With each story, comes a lesson. The book's 30 lessons offer practices for expanding awareness across self-awareness, relational awareness, and systems awareness. Each lesson invites readers into the questioning, reflective stance that supports the emergence of post-conventional development.
Why is this a FrameChanger?
Victoria’s book is more accessible than many developmental texts, so in that respect it is different from some of our previous FrameChangers. However most of us, most of the time, do not appreciate how different, difference truly is. It means that even as coaches and consultants we can recognise too late (or not at all) what it feels like to be in our clients’ skin. In Quiet Perseverance, Victoria's stories reveal something we often miss in our practice: when someone's fundamental container for experiencing the world is different - whether through culture, neurology, or temperament - their entire developmental journey unfolds differently.
Everyone has a story, and this is a reminder for us to look a little deeper and feel a little more empathetically with all our clients navigating the transition when post-conventional meaning making is emerging.
Use the booking button below to reserve your place (and suggest your FrameChanger book if you have one).
Our last FrameChanger session featured Feeling and Knowing: making minds conscious by Antonio Damasio and you can listen to the discussion here.
The relationship between adult development and consciousness is a dynamic and increasingly explored area of psychology, suggesting that our inner world of awareness is not static but evolves in complexity and depth throughout our lives. In essence, adult development is not merely about aging; it's about the potential for a profound transformation in how we understand ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us - a journey that is intrinsically linked to the evolution of our consciousness.
Antonio Damasio's book, Feeling and Knowing: making minds conscious, offers a valuable and thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between adult development and consciousness. While not a work of developmental psychology, its neurobiological perspective on consciousness provides a foundational understanding of the raw materials from which adult development sculpts a mature and evolving sense of self.
It could be argued that this is not a Frame Changer but there is no doubt that it is a Frame Extender giving us a foundational insight into the origins of consciousness and the importance of somatics, feelings, emotion and intellect in the process of furthering development.
You can also listen to our FrameChangers podcast featuringThe Dao of Complexity by Jean Boulton. This conversation is a profound exploration of complexity science and its transformative power for leadership and life.
Jean shares her unique perspective on how embracing continuous change and recognizing emergent patterns, rather than clinging to a mechanical worldview, is essential for navigating our increasingly complex world. She highlights the importance of sensing, experimentation, and working with polarities in leadership, drawing fascinating parallels with ancient Daoist thinking and the value of intuition. You can discover how Jean teaches others to deconstruct mechanical thinking and find opportunities within organizational messiness and change.
This episode offers invaluable insights for leaders looking to cultivate postconventional thinking and foster a culture of inquiry and adaptation! Listen here.
You can also listen to our interview with Richard Boyatzis on The Science of Change: discovering sustained, desired change from individuals to organizations and communities (February's FrameChanger). In the interview, we explore the science behind transformational leadership and the mindset shifts that drive lasting change. Richard and Nial discuss the psychology and neuroscience of leadership development and examine how evidence-based principles shape leaders and organisations. Listen here!
