Biographical Analysis for Top Executives
Who hasn’t experienced the situation where unpleasant patterns of perception and experience—which you thought you had just overcome—resurface in a new context?
“You don’t have to stay the way you’ve become!”
Through our “Lead Your Own Biography” program, we help you break free from old patterns of processing biographical information and experiencing life. The goal is to create mental and emotional freedom, and thereby a new dimension of freedom of choice in how you perceive, experience, and act upon your own life.
Become “aware of your true self” on a deeper level, and thus become the free architect of a mentally and emotionally harmonious, authentic self-leadership!
The “Lead Your Own Biography” program consists of the following elements:
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Biographical Analysis (BIF-SE 2015)
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Recognizing and Understanding Biographical Rhythms
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Understanding and Integrating Individual Life Principles
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Motivation Analysis (conscious and unconscious motivations for freedom, self-actualization, achievement, and relationships)
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Personal Alignment for Authentic Self-Leadership
Background:
Critical life events, as well as enduring relationship patterns, unconsciously generate specific patterns of perception and processing. Unless these are specifically addressed, processed, and integrated, they create a quasi-magnetic form of repetitive seeking behavior. Research by Parker et al. (1998; 2000), also known as the “key-lock hypothesis,” shows that repeatedly experienced negative life events (“lock”) lead to an increased tendency toward depression when similar events recur in adulthood (“key”).
In my own biographical research at Harvard University’s Mind Brain Education Program, I found that it is rather the mere presence of the “lock” that leads to a significantly increased motivation to seek out the corresponding “keys.” Thus, as long as patterns of perception and experience are not consciously addressed and processed, our brains tend to seek out similar experiences again solely out of a “preservation and protection function.” Freud called this the compulsion to repeat; I myself would prefer to understand it as a neuropsychological consequence of our brain’s functional processing mechanisms.
It is usually older people who engage with their life stories.
In his essay “Biographical Work – Between Memory and Therapy,” Professor Rainer Hirt describes how, for older people, the future seems to be fading, making engagement with the past appear worthwhile.
Why don’t we consciously shift our perspective here and learn to look in the opposite direction?
Let us consciously allow negative aspects of the past to “fade away” through integration and perceive engaging with our future as worthwhile. And that is precisely what brings freedom from the “key-lock principle,” true freedom of choice, and thus the prerequisite for authentic self-leadership!
