Here are some of the things I took away, and the parallels I see with organizations:
THE BRAIN IS MORE FOCUSED ON SAFETY THAN ON MOVEMENT.
🏋️♀️ Even during movement, much of the brain’s control effort goes into stabilization. Movement is only possible when the system feels safe enough. The training goal: to remain stable in every movement and position.
👩💻 Stability and change are not opposites. A sense of safety is what makes movement possible in organizations in the first place. Ignore that, and you may end up blocking the very change you are trying to create.
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM PULLS THE PLUG, NOT YOUR ENERGY LEVELS.
🏋️♀️ Many physical systems recover relatively quickly. What often becomes fatigued is the nervous system, and with it our ability to sustain performance safely. At that point, pushing harder against the system does not help.
👩💻 Organizations, too, are rarely exhausted because people lack the will to change. More often, the system simply lacks the capacity to safely absorb even more movement.
MOVEMENT REQUIRES MULTIPLE SYSTEMS TO WORK TOGETHER IN A COORDINATED WAY.
🏋️♀️ Training isolated skills such as sit-ups only gets you so far. What matters is the system’s capacity to adapt and its neuroplasticity, not just mechanical movement. And that capacity can be trained deliberately.
👩💻 Organizational change is not a mechanical project either. It is movement that has to be supported by the whole system.
THE BODY MOVES TOWARD WHERE THE EYES ARE LOOKING.
🏋️♀️ Orientation begins with the visual system. When we can see clearly and direct our gaze intentionally, we know where we are and where the movement is going.
👩💻 Attention is a choice. What an organization chooses to focus on shapes its reality. Are we looking closely and deliberately enough?
THE BODY KNOWS WHERE ALL ITS PARTS ARE, EVEN WITHOUT LOOKING.
🏋️♀️ Proprioception, our internal sense of where the body is and how it is positioned, can be trained. The more varied the stimuli, the more refined our awareness of different parts of the body and what they can do.
👩💻 Organizations need the same kind of awareness: a sense of their own state within their context. Where are people right now? How much energy and capacity is actually available?
THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM STABILIZES OUR GAZE WHILE WE MOVE.
🏋️♀️ Our sense of balance stabilizes not only the body, but above all the gaze. The ability to see clearly even in dynamic situations can be trained.
👩💻 Organizations going through change often lose exactly that: orientation and clarity. The ability to keep seeing where you are going even when things become unstable is not a given. But it can be developed.
Performance and movement do not come from pressure and force alone. They emerge when a system feels safe enough to let go.
