In Temenos, we address leadership at four levels

• Self Mastery - how you regulate your mental and emotional state to stay relationally aware and connected. This is key for leaders wishing to be effective and influential when working with others .
• Leadership brand - how you nurture the positive experience that others have of you. Your authentic nature carries power and presence. However, when its your ego and defensive that mind drives you, you lose it.

• Team effectiveness - how you nurture a culture in which team members can lean in as their authentic selves, without the defensiveness which hampers the team's potential to perform as more than the sum of its parts. Then a more powerful connection emerges that drives conversations that really make a difference.
• Culture - how you apply the previous levels to be more conscious about the culture that you create. The vibe and how people relate and operate will be influenced by the way in which you do. Culture is a reflection of the leader's ability to regulate their own emotions.



By addressing four these territories in parallel, Temenos provides a range of psychological, spiritual and practical material to assist the embodiment of  practices for becoming more of your potential as a leader.

In some ways this programme could be considered a training in life, because the tools offered here are applicable to life in general, not just your place of work.

The inspiration for much of the content has been drawn from over 20 years of coaching senior leaders and their teams, together with 10 years studying and practicing as a Mindfulness-based psychotherapist.

The practices shared here are proven and can bring immediate relief to difficult experiences and stuck situations.

Maybe you’ve got this gnawing sense that something missing. You may even be wondering if it might be yourself.

This programme teaches what most business schools do not - how to grow your leadership potency from your ground of being. What is on offer here is core transformation so that you naturally choose an appropriate response to the majority of circumstances. This is much more valuable than remembering a catalogue of things to do in specific situations. The Temenos journey will guide you in deep reflection to reveal habits of mind that cause you to feel and to think as you do. And to recognise those patterns that limit you to re-experiencing the results that you're getting right now.

Want it to be different, better? Then climb aboard and allow yourself to be carried by a raft of insight and experience - just don’t forget that you have to paddle too, to keep us going to where you want to be.

I’ve worked with global and national executives and managers for over 20 years. For most of that time I have also been a long-standing visiting tutor for one of the UK’s top business schools - Cranfield School of Management.

For decades I have studied and supported senior teams and individuals to find their way to being better. But I knew that something was missing and that I needed to understand how the building blocks of selfhood seed performance, interpersonal dynamics and culture. And so I studied to become a particular kind of psychotherapist and gained my masters in Core Process Psychotherapy. This modality has its roots in Buddhist psychology and mindful awareness, but includes the best of other contemporary psychotherapies. It taught me the nuts and bolts of why people experience life circumstances and function as they do and how to help them grow beyond the limitations that this imposes on their ability to create, achieve and to feel fulfilled.

Still, I wanted to go further - to really know how to help others to evolve beyond their social and neurological habits of being that can end up causing pain and frustration. This took me to body and mind practices integrating mindfulness, breath-work, visualisation, trance, neuroscience and personal practices that support well-being. Practices that I continue to use and share, that cultivate greater mastery over one’s inner weather - and ultimately, one’s experience of life.

In essence, Temenos was borne of a passion to share these lenses, tools and skills with anyone who wants to move to their next level. It’s not just about helping people to become better at transcending their obstacles, its about teaching them a way of being that makes it easier to transform their realities.

And that of course, is a big part of what leadership is all about.

The programme provides a series of modules offering inputs, guided practices, practical exercises and downloadable PDFs, to guide your reflection and evolution as an effective leader of people.

There are 4 key sections - Self Mastery, Leadership, Team effectiveness and performance Cultures. Each section has chapters that include instruction and a guided practice to help you to apply the topic being explored. You will be expected to apply these to yourself as a person, how you lead your team and how you seed peak performing cultures.

Thinking and reflecting on this material is good, but actually doing something with it in your life is better. Then you may get the breakthrough that you have been looking for for years. One thing is for sure, once you have immersed yourself on this journey and sincerely practiced the content, you will have a new outlook on who you are and the contribution that you can make.

You don't have to do anything. But, if you study the material, reflect on how it applies to your situation and experiment with the practices, you’ll soon notice a change in how you feel, lead and contribute.

Attending modules will help, but you will make faster progress by actually applying the concepts contained within the programme to your own situation as you go along the journey.

By following suggested practices you will be creating new experiences for yourself. These experiences will transform what you think is possible and will start to shift the neural pathways that hold your patterns of thinking and behaving in place. You’ll be starting to change yourself from the core of who you are. This will cause the world around you to begin to change in response.

We view leadership as a personal quality that is relevant anywhere, not just as a corporate role or position. Anyone can benefit from the insights to self, leadership and how to make teams more effective, better places to be.

As a team member or individual contributor, the Temenos programme will help to boost your personal awareness, gravity and presence. This will nurture your ability to contribute more, giving you a stronger sense of self from which to be an effective leader and influencer. People will notice this about you. It may even bring you closer to that next promotion.

At the very least, it will make you more able to hit the deck running as a leader, when you get it.

Feeling stuck can be a horrible, exasperating experience, but remember, there is always a way forward. Stuckness is not an eternal state even though it can feel that way when you're 'in it'.

We could think about stuckness in many ways:

• Part of it may be about learning how to harness the collective wisdom of your team to get a break through. Breaking out of the rut could simply be about knowing who to ask for help and then having the courage to do so.
• Stuckness may be due to adopting a sub-optimal strategy for getting what you want. When we get challenged by something or someone who seems to be in our way, we may default to the usual human defensive strategies of fight, flight freeze or flop. Maybe you need to learn how to flow more with life.
• Sometimes we feel stuck when we keep going round the same old loops and just need someone with whom to chat and to get a fresh perspective.
• Could it be that you are locked in to a mental or emotional pattern that has been part of you for a long time, but never really addressed?
• Maybe things are stuck within your team or the company and you need some fresh lenses with which to interpret what is really going on, so that it becomes easier to see what needs to happen next?

When you or situations feel stuck, it's often a sign that something is stuck within you. Something about the way your thinking goes is holding you back, and when we can't see what it is, we feel unable to 'fix' it and unable to move forward.

Temenos offers psycho-education with practical lenses and practices that give a fresh perspective into yourself, relationships and on life. These lenses have supported stuck teams and leaders in freeing themselves for many years.

This programme will upgrade your inner resources to help you to find your way through pretty much anything. When we can see something more clearly from a different angle, a light bulb can come on and we just know what to do next. Breakthrough does actually require us to take action, though.

So the programme begins with Self Mastery, because you are your greatest asset. Helping you to expand, or simply reclaim, your mental and emotional bandwidth will make all challenges much easier to be with and to overcome. You will begin to notice the electric fence of fear that keeps you frozen and unable to commit to new action.

And of course, if you are really frustratingly stuck and at your wits end right now - you can always invest in a coaching session to help kick-start your mojo and get things moving again. Just click the Optional 1:1 Guidance image further up the page and it'll take you to where you need to go.

Although Temenos Mastery has been created to help leaders build better teams, there is great value in up-skilling the whole team. You could use the programme as a team development experience that will not only enhance the leadership calibre of your team, but it will also seed fresh conversation about who we are as a team, our purpose and the habits that erode our collective effectiveness and brand as a high-functioning team.

If you are interested in adopting this for the whole team, please contact us to talk about what you need.

If you wish to purchase corporate access to the Temenos Leadership Programme, we can provide bulk access tokens for distribution within your company. This may appeal to HR functions wishing to offer an immediately available resource to managers and leaders, or to help them transform the way that people think, relate and connect within the business.

That depends on how critical you believe your role or your team's role to be within the organisation and to your customers.

If your team is perceived as being ‘sub-optimal’ and yet it has a role that is strategically impactful to the business - what is the cost of doing nothing or doing what you've tried before? How does this stack up against the investment made in this programme to help you change it at its core?

If you feel that life or your career has got a bit stuck, what is it worth to you, to get things moving again? The most essential component of your progression is the way that your mind functions, how you feel and the habitual urges that drive your normal ways of relating. What's it worth to kick-start or breakthrough old patterns of thought and behaviour that may be keeping you stuck?

What’s it worth to acquire fresh perspectives on self, teams and purpose that bring something new and inspiring to how you live your role?

Only you can decide if its worth the investment. We're here to maximise your return once you have embarked upon the journey.

Temenos is an ancient Greek word meaning sacred space - an enclave or container.

Psychologically, Carl Jung viewed the term as referring to a protected container in which a transformative, alchemical process could safely occur between him and his client.

In a sense, each of us is a Temenos. A sacred container for our own soul and the crucible in which we transform ourselves as we experience life so that we can grow as an individual. Temenos Mastery offers a source of wisdom and practices to accelerate that process, making life feel more alive and fulfilling.

The programme is intended to help provide you with a safe container in which you and your team can step back from assumptions about who and how we are, and to more fully recognise the whole story. The insights and awareness that will arise from Temenos Mastery will relax stuck, partial versions of reality so that something new can enter. New feelings and choices will emerge. It then becomes possible for people to evolve their relationships and their effectiveness, both as individuals and as a collective.

This journey will also equip leaders to become a more resource-full temenos - a more potent holder of team and transformational spaces. With an increased state of presence, awareness and groundedness it will feel more natural and easier for the leaders to be an effective host of meetings and cultures that integrate and channel the collective mind to achieving more. At some level this involves transformation of mindsets and relationships to foster a more purposeful identity and a passionate sense of belonging to a tribe and cause that matters.