Biography analysis for top executives
Who hasn't experienced that uncomfortable perception and experience patterns, which one seemed to have just overcome, reappear in a new context?
"You don't have to stay as you have become!"
With our program “Lead your own biography,” we support you in resolving old biographical information processing and experience patterns. The goal is to generate mental-emotional freedom and thus a new dimension of freedom of choice for your perception, experience, and resulting actions.
Become aware of yourself on a higher level and thus a freer creator of a mentally-emotionally coherent, authentic self-leadership!
The “Lead your own biography” program consists of the following elements:
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Biography analysis (BIF-SE 2015)
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Recognizing and understanding biographical rhythms
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Understanding and integrating individual life laws
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Motivation analysis (conscious and unconscious motives for freedom, self-fulfillment, achievement, and relationships)
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Personal alignment for authentic self-leadership
Background:
Critical life events as well as enduring relationship styles unconsciously generate specific perception and processing patterns. If these cannot be targeted, processed, and integrated, they create a quasi-magnetic form of recurring search motivation. Research by Parker et al. (1998; 2000), also known as the “key-lock hypothesis,” shows that repeatedly experienced negative biographical events (“lock”) lead to increased depression tendency when similar events (“key”) recur in adulthood.
In my own biographical research at Harvard University's Mind Brain Education Program, I found that merely the presence of the “lock” significantly increases the motivation to seek the corresponding “key.” As long as perception and experience patterns are not consciously addressed and processed, our brains tend to seek similar patterns out of “preservation and protection functions.” Freud called this the repetition compulsion; I would rather see it as a neuropsychological consequence of our brain's functional processing mechanism.
Older people are usually more engaged with their biography.
In his essay “Biographical work – between memory and therapy,” Professor Rainer Hirt describes how the future seems to fade for older people, making engagement with the past appear worthwhile.
Why not consciously switch perspective at this point and learn to look in the opposite direction?
Let’s consciously let negative parts of the past “disappear” through integration, and find engagement with our future worthwhile. This is precisely what grants freedom from the “key-lock principle,” true freedom of choice, and the foundation for authentic self-leadership!
