Minisode 1:18 - Language as a Tool for Greater Awareness

09/05/24 • 4 min

This minisode from episode 18 is one of our favorite moments from this conversation, as Marianne and Jonathan explore the metaphorical process of digging not just downwards to unearth the truth, but moving forward into new spaces of understanding. Tune in to learn about the growth and expansion of consciousness through the power of words.

Listen to the full episode here: https://www.illumifyinstitute.com/podcast-the-illumify-game-changer/season1-18

Listen to the full episode here: https://www.illumifyinstitute.com/podcast-the-illumify-game-changer/season1-18

Previous Episode

Season 1: 17 – The Leader’s Journey So Far

Jonathan is at a crossroad in his leader’s journey. He’s completed all of the Illuminate questions and surfaced his vision of meaningful change. In this episode, he reveals how it feels to lose himself before finding his true path. As he embarks into the next phase of his leader’s journey, I explain what it means to “Amplify”, and then ask him what he’s bringing with him of all that he’s illuminated.

01:50 The power of conversation to bring things to the surface. There is a good and necessary confrontation in each question.

06:50 You’ve captured what Illuminate is all about – clarity.

07:29 When it’s just out of reach, you sense the ground falling away and you’re in free fall. For a moment, we lose ourselves.

10:54 “I’m keenly aware that I’ve discovered pathways and chambers that I’ve never been in before.”

12:26 “The conversation is the thing.”

18:05 The paradox that we have to lose ourselves before we can find ourselves.

26:01 A “shared home” is the beginning and the heart of the vision.

29:09 There’s nothing worse than the idea that you reach a moment in your life and you realize you have not lived your life well and it’s too late to change that. What an awful feeling that must be.

31:25 A mother’s anger.

35:13 Knowing your north star can be a powerful compass to the good life.

37:45 The leader arrives in Amplify

38:00 Having found your path, you’re no longer travelling solo.

38:12 What are you bringing with you from Illuminate?

41:14 They need to feel why this is necessary, urgent, why the past was intolerable.

42:29 You yourself are not the vision. You’re the emissary for it.

Next Episode

Season 1: 19 – The Leader’s Story

We are each on our own journey. We can travel the very same roads and yet see very different things from one another. And even when something draws our attention, we can choose to turn away or not. That’s what makes the leader’s journey different. There’s no turning away. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it if you know that changing it matters. In this episode, Jonathan shares the story of how his vision of meaningful change emerged as he journeyed through life.

01:21 Amplify Question 17

03:02 It’s the life I wanted.

04:22 I wouldn’t have felt this opportunity for change 20 years ago because the world was in a place of deep optimism.

06:20 It’s new ground but not a new planet.

10:50 One of the urges in my vision is to find a way of addressing how we find ourselves fractured across a fractured community.

13:33 The vision of change comes from scanning the landscape with acuity, and feeling it.

19:35 It comes back to my story of what Europe is and can be.

22:30 My vision speaks to the idea that there are people who feel uprooted, disconnected, alienated even within their own home.

25:28 There are people who have not left home but still feel uprooted.

27:42 No human being can get to the perfect definitive truth about themselves because there are mechanisms of denial and delusion within ourselves. But do we want to try?

29:30 A moving story of a film sparking you to say “Enough! This can’t go on.”

33:37 Seeing the false note in the realm of truth enables you to see the patterns.

37:09 When you can’t reform your way out because the soil needs to be changed.

37:55 The power of the storyteller.