José Stevens, Ph.D. and Lena Stevens
A growing number of business leaders have discovered an unlikely source of inspiration to help them steer the course and grow employee loyalty and profits: the indigenous tradition of the shaman. Unlock the secret shamanic knowledge that is as valuable in today's business jungles as it is in the Amazon jungles.
José Stevens, Ph.D. and Lena Stevens, authors of THE POWER PATH: The Shaman's Way to Success in Business and Life (New World Library; $14.95, $24.95 Canada; trade paperback) and founders of Power Path Seminars, a coaching and consulting business, are at the forefront of this new fountainhead of inspiration. Cutting-edge business leaders, lawyers, scientists, and entrepreneurs from coast to coast have hired José and Lena Stevens to train them in the ancient methods of acquiring and utilizing power to solve business problems, improve management, handle competition, deal with crisis and change.
About José and Lena Stevens
José and Lena Stevens possess unusual qualifications, having completed a ten-year apprenticeship with a maracame, a dynamic shaman in the Huichol tradition practicing in the Sierra Madre of central Mexico and training with shamans in the Amazon and Andes regions of Peru, central Australia, Nepal, Finland, and the American Southwest. Drawing on these extraordinary experiences as well as their twenty-five years in the business world, they offer effective executive guidance programs, business retreats, training, and seminars.
Dr. José Stevens is also author of Transforming Your Dragons: Turning Fear Patterns into Personal Power (Bear and Company, 1994). Authors of Secrets of Shamanism: Tapping the Spirit Power within You (Avon, 1988), José and Lena Stevens lecture internationally, teaching about the principles of power, prosperity, personality types, communication styles, peak performance, and self-development. Together they have led many tour groups to the ancient sacred sites of Egypt, England, the Yucatan, and Peru.
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Topic Ideas: Power Path Principles
Defining Power: Recognizing real power, identifying four sources of power, understanding the neutrality of power, and learning how and when to make a bid for power.
Balancing Power: Developing a more "evolved" view of power and its five values; learning the seven expressions of power and finding the best for you; striking a balance between male and female aspects of power; tapping into the "second attention", a heightened state of perception; and discerning between visible and invisible signs of power.
Pathways of Power: Recognizing the seven signs of the path with heart and avoiding the common obstacles to this path, learning the three primary styles of communication and mastering the four aspects of communication, and harnessing the power of teams.
Managing Power: Learning to connect with power; mastering the art of attention, intention and re-intending; stalking the seven negative behaviors that prey on power; and mastering the eight methods for fighting the bad habits that prey on power.
Other Topic Ideas: Ten Basic Shamanic Rules of Power
1. All objects in the universe are following the path of power. Everything in the universe manifests the amount of power it has gained thus far. B. More powerful objects make it possible for objects with less power to become more powerful. For example, at any given moment a business will manifest only the amount of power it has gained up to that time with the help of larger systems of knowledge, information, support, and resources.
2. Power stems from four primary sources: (1) inspiration, (2) simplicity, (3) exchange, and (4) conception.
3. Power in itself is neutral. It is neither good nor bad. It just is. How you manage it determines the positive or negative consequences for you and others.
4. The path of power is expensive. There is always a price to pay for real power. The price of power is related in part to giving up the limitations of the personality, habits of fear, inadequacy, blame and judgment.
5. Power can be manifested only when you focus your attention and intention in the present. Power is only available to you in full when you put your attention in the here and now, letting go of unrealistic expectations, worry over past failures and other attitudes that keep an individual or business from being able to focus 100 percent in the present.
6. Power can be hunted and gained in ways similar to the rules of the hunt in the natural environment. In order to walk the path of power in business, you must learn to stalk power: to observe it, understand it, know its habits, and then pounce on it with perfect timing.
7. Power must be ridden as a surfer rides a wave: balance is everything on the power path. Ups and downs, productive and nonproductive times, expansion and contraction are just a few of the aspects that require balance to stay on the path of power and not be thrown off it.
8. All power manifests through four aspects: breath, light, sound and intent. These aspects form the basis of communication. Communication is much more than just the words you speak; it has to do with you attitude, feelings, thoughts, actions, and ultimately the essence of who you are.
9. All real power has light as its one true source; the power path that manifests light is the path of love, the path with heart. In a business environment this path of love or heart translates as the power of manifesting your true work and true essence, and the acknowledgement of your individuality, service, value, character, and spirit.
10. The smaller the degree of separation, the greater the power available. Certainly both individuality and specialty in individuals and businesses exist, and this uniqueness keeps life interesting; but there is also a need to see the connectedness to the whole, for the whole is the greater power source for the individual
The Seven Forms of Power
1. Artists are visionaries, able to see ahead, to penetrate the future and portray it in the present in artistic form through sign and symbol. A master organizational leader is a visionary, able to look into the future to sense the next trends before anyone else identifies them.
2. Storyteller. Good shamans are master sales people. The master business leader must inspire people to take risks and meet ever-greater challenges. Powerful business leaders often speak in metaphor, tell stories about their vision, influence, persuade, and sell their visions.
3. Warrior. When challenged by internal or external obstacles and dangers, shamans must develop the warrior within, armed with the weapons of concentration and courage, discipline and intent, impeccability and trustworthiness.
4. Chief. The most masterful business leaders exhibit all the powers of the shaman-chief, leaders whom the people respect and listen to for their sage wisdom and direction.
5. Priest. Shamans act as intermediaries between the spirit world and ordinary reality. Although the business world is predominantly secular, a great business leader nonetheless will find that people often turn to them for things of the spirit: inspiration, vision, understanding and even some attention to ceremony.
6. Healer. Since the dawn of time shamans have been the doctors, the healing members of their tribes through their knowledge of herbs, ceremony, prayers, and journeys into the spirit realm. A masterful business leader, too, is a good psychologist, a nurturer, healer of people and organizations as well.
7. Teacher. The teacher-shaman is a seeker of knowledge, one who pursues truth wherever it might be found. Like a good shaman, a good business leader does not confuse information with knowledge, understanding that information by itself is useless whereas knowledge, knowing how to put information to good use, is supremely valuable.
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