What is spiritual intelligence? How may it be useful to business and training managers? Does it even really exist?
The Wikipedia definition of Spiritual Intelligence is here but I would recommend the delightfully named Cindy Wiggleworth's articles such as this one. She quotes Zohar the person who coined the phrase who says Spiritual Intelligence includes:
1. Self-Awareness … you know who you really are and you know that you are connected with the whole universe.
2. Vision & Values Led – or Idealism. Children naturally want to serve, and so do we. Vision and values led is definitive of our humanity.
3. The Capacity to Face and USE Adversity…owning our mistakes and adversity and using pain and tragedy to learn
4. To be Holistic: seeing the connections between things. Being open to and interested in EVERYTHING.
5. Diversity…thriving in and celebrating diversity. I look at you and see what is different in you and I say “Thank God for that!”
6. Field Independence (Courage)…a term from psychology that means the courage not to adapt, to be independent.
7. The Tendency to Ask WHY? Questions are infinite. In Quantum Physics questions CREATE reality.
8. The Ability to Re-Frame…put things into a larger context of meaning.
9. Spontaneity. This is NOT acting on a whim…it comes from the same Latin roots as RESPONSE and RESPONSIBILITY.
The leadership training that my own company provides in the UK is aligned with this work so I'm happy to see it spreading.
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If you prefer video this is a reading of Cindy Wiggleworth's work:
