On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, MR CHARLES B FLEETHAM wrote:
> Replying to LO1841 --
>
> In his letter Don states that he has seen leadership emerge in people when
> they experience a Significant Traumatic Event - STE. I have also observed
> this many times and felt it myself when I was promoted to my first serious
> managerial position. Don links the emergence of the leadership patterns
> to experience. I think there is more than experience working in these
> events.
I am inclined to agree. I have on several occasions seen people who
somehow seemed to rise to the occasion and provide significant leadership
during a crisis or in response to unexpected demands yet who had little or
no previous experience that would seem to have a bearing on what they
accomplished.
> I think the leadership patterns can emerge from the activation of what C.
> Jung labeled "archetypes." Jung thought archetypes were like psychological
> "photographs" waiting to be developed in our psyche. . . .
> For the past two years I have been experimenting with
> training/education/collaborative learning sessions that focus on
> activating leadership archetypes. My clients like the process. I am not
> sure where this line will take me, but for now I am exploring it.
This is an intriguing direction for exploration. I'm curious as to how
you are going about this process.
-- RoMay Sitze, rositze@nmsu.edu