The world, and the way we live together, is changing rapidly.
Yet the human being who lives in and depends on the world around us has remained the same — from the beginning of time until today. This is a paradox, but also an opportunity. It allows us to learn from historical experience, insight, and wisdom about what it means to be human — born of a woman. Self-help and self-understanding therefore become a timeless project.
Deep inside, we are as we have always been. We have real and basic needs: to be wanted, loved, and chosen; to be accepted and valued. That is why old stories become modern videos, and ancient myths become contemporary art. On the surface they look very different — deep inside they tells the same narrative.
SGL as a leadership tool works to make the unconscious conscious, and the conscious visible, so that you can guide your own life toward what you want to achieve. In practice, this means getting to know your strengths, and acknowledging your shadow sides when you act in different roles on the chessboard.
The path to a realistic understanding of oneself is long — like a confession before absolution in many church traditions. – It is a process. What is interesting, however, is that the process is the same today as it has always been.
In SGL, we deliberately compare the five steps of confession with the five phases of a group process toward new goals. – So let us begin, as it is told in my book “In the Same Boat — about group growth and personal development.”/ The National Libery, Norway