The Argonauts

“Get out of your comfort zone!” – You probably have been on the giving or receiving end of this advice more than once. But what exactly happens when we dare to change our comfortable day-to-day patterns?

Stepping beyond the safety of our comfort zones can be scary. But when we really investigate our choices and become aware of them, we move closer to ourselves. On our journey to becoming a conscious leader, we take the courage to feel uncomfortable. It might be challenging — we call it a hero’s journey, after all — but it can reveal hidden treasures within ourselves that we didn’t even know were there.

Catch our Co-Founder Loes Fokker at the World Economic Forum 2024 in Davos! Loes will join the Doconomy Stage of Impact for a conversation surrounding mental health and representation in the global discourse.

📆 17 January 2024 from 3:30 - 4:00pm
📍 Hotel Strela Davos

More details here ⬇️
https://www.doconomy.com/resources/doconomy-at-world-economic-forum-2024

The "loneliness pandemic", as coined by former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, is seeping through all layers of society. The world increasingly feels brittle, anxious, and incomprehensible. A hopeless situation, if it weren't for a potent antidote: Aliveness as a way of being (and thinking).

Argonauts Founder Stefan Beiten explores this concept in a three-part essay "From Alienation to Aliveness". Read part 1 here – and while you do, you may already ask yourself: What makes YOU come TRULY ALIVE? 💭

From Alienation to Aliveness Nurturing the Essence of Human Connection: Part 1 An Essay by Stefan Beiten In this era of escalating alienation, I find myself at a pivotal juncture, reflecting how our societies have evolved from the “VUCA” environment of the past decades to the current “BANI” landscape: Volatility, which I was still in the process of adapting to, has now...

Our actions, reactions and decisions are controlled by the interaction of our conscious and unconscious mind. By regularly taking "deep dives" below the surface, we begin to examine why we behave the way we do.

👉🏻 If you are ready to dive deeper into your own self, apply for our Navigator Trust Circle program. As a Navigator, you enter a world of deep connections, profound conversations, and collaborative missions with your peers from around the globe.

🔗 More info on our website:
the-argonauts.com/navigators

Conscious leadership has captured significant attention in recent years. It offers a distinctive perspective on leadership, combining personal growth, social responsibility, and professional success. But what's the path to becoming a conscious leader?

In this month's article, we'll discuss the three core values necessary for effective conscious leadership: Awareness, Responsibility, and Empathy (ARE). This exploration will help you answer the essential question: "Am I A Conscious Leader?"

🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-conscious-leader-role-awareness-responsibility-empathy-busse-iqcbe/

You have probably heard of the term "psychological safety." It describes an environment that feels safe to admit mistakes, take risks, and speak up about concerns or disagreements without fear of negative consequences. Recently, social scientists discovered that psychological safety is a basic human need; it is crucial to allow people to be at their best – whether at work, school, or home.

Leaders play a vital role in enabling a psychologically safe work environment. And that is also in their best interest – countless studies have shown the multifaceted benefits of psychological safety in the workplace.

We have compiled 4 behaviors that contribute to building a psychologically safe environment you can practice in your team or at home.

👉🏻 If you'd like to experience for yourself the magic that can happen in a psychologically safe environment, we invite you to look at our Conversational Fluency Master Class:
https://the-argonauts.com/cfmc/

We have all the technology and resources needed to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Why is it that humans have not been able to bring the necessary solutions to our planet, our children, and our future?

Argonaut Founders Stefan Beiten and Loes Fokker addressed this question in their keynote at the ADN Business Services Academy 2023 earlier this year. Watch the recap:

▶️ https://youtu.be/uJcXdv77_0k

How to Solve the Crisis of Trust and Purpose | Keynote @ ADN Warsaw We have all the technology and resources needed to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Why is it that humans have not been able to bring the necessary...

One more week until our Founder Stefan Beiten takes the stage at the HR Inside Summit in Vienna, Austria!

Join Stefan and Argonauts Eveline van den Heuvel and Nikolaus Weil to explore how we can nurture a global shift to a transformational, abundance-of-life driven paradigm of life:

📌 HR Inside Summit in Vienna, Austria on 12 October 2023
🎤 Keynote "Democratizing Conscious Leadership, at Scale" at 10:00am
💬 Interactive Session "Introduction to Trust Circle Essentials" at 11:30am

Programm - HR Inside Summit 2023 Wir freuen uns, euch das Programm des HR Inside Summit 2023 in der Hofburg am 11. – 12. Oktober präsentieren zu dürfen.

In this month's article, we discuss the importance of self-reflection and open dialogue as powerful tools to combat affective polarisation.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/journey-self-reflection-dialogue-age-affective-freya-mi-ju-busse

A Journey of Self-Reflection and Dialogue in an Age of Affective Polarisation Affective polarisation, characterised by strong negative emotions and beliefs towards individuals with opposing views, has increased substantially in the United States and countries of Europe in recent decades. The repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic have only served to intensify this divide.

The quality of our conversations defines the quality of our relationships, and thus, our lives.
Here are 6 principles to make any conversation more meaningful, according to science.

🤓 If you want to read more about this topic, we recommend the following articles:

📖 Psychology Today, 2018: Does the Quantity of Social Interactions Affect Happiness?

📖 Verywell Mind, 2022: What Is Active Listening?

📖 Psychology Today, 2023: The Art and Science of Great Conversations

'What is the one conversation that could change everything (in your life, work, community...) – but seems impossible to have?'

When we introduced this reflection prompt at our Virtual Summit last week, it inspired a dozen of deeply personal sharings and intense discussions. And we were touched to see that after those 90 minutes of vulnerability and curiosity, many of our participants went from strangers to friends in spirit.

Thank you to all who made this event an unforgettable memory, and a special thanks to all of our wonderful facilitators who guided these very personal explorations with patience and kindness.

📌 If you, too, would like to experience what a different kind of conversation can look like in our Trust Circles, we invite you to join one of our upcoming 'Taste of The Argonauts' events: https://lu.ma/taste_of_argonauts

Catch our Founder Stefan Beiten alongside Argonauts Eveline van den Heuvel and Nikolaus Weil at the HR Inside Summit to learn more about how to transform our collective consciousness.

📌 HR Inside Summit in Vienna, Austria on 12 October 2023
🎤 Keynote "Democratizing Conscious Leadership, at Scale" at 10:00am
💬 Interactive Session "Introduction to Trust Circle Essentials" at 11:30am

HR Inside Summit 2023 11. - 12. Oktober In der Hofburg Vienna tauschen sich mehr als 2.000 Teilnehmer:innen mit internationalen Top Expert:innen beim größte HR-Event im DACH-Raum aus.

When you do the same thing over and over again, how can you expect a different result?

Taking a moment to pause and reflect is crucial for breaking free from conventional thinking and coming up with innovative solutions to solve the problems we face today.

Let's look into how conscious leaders can benefit from finding strength in moments of stillness and how embracing moments of calmness can foster your growth as a leader. 🧘

➡️ Read here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finding-strength-stillness-how-embracing-moments-can-help-busse

Organizational and developmental psychology reveal that there are factors that drive and sustain both personal and cultural transformation.

These are trust, purpose, a sense of belonging & community, accountability, commitment & discipline, and iterative feedback & learning processes.

The Aristotle study by Google found that the single most important factor in determining team effectiveness was psychological safety, the foundation for trust.

🤓 If you want to read more about this topic, we recommend the following articles:

📖 Google Re:Work, 2015: The Five Keys To A Successful Google Team
📖 Accenture, 2021: Why Psychological Safety At Work Matters To Business
📖 McKinsey, 2003: The Psychology of Change Management

📌 Learn more about how we support transformation in individuals, teams and organizations:
the-argonauts.com/methodology/

This is your sign to bring change into YOUR life this September.

The quality of our conversations and relationships decides the quality of our lives. So why not start here?

Our Conversational Fluency Master Class gets your conversations and relationships from good to great in 6 weeks.

Experience what it means to have truly meaningful conversations in a safe space. Connect more deeply with the people you love. And learn tools to bring conscious change into your own life as well as others'.

📌 Sign up for one of our upcoming cohorts on our website:
the-argonauts.com/cfmc

Catch our Founder & CEO Stefan Beiten at the Insight Conference 2023 in Berlin 💫

🧠 Symposium: How to Change the Minds of Business Leaders with “Bewusstseinskultur” (September 2 at 11am)
🧬 Discussion: Investing in Therapies or Molecules? Patients vs. Patents (September 2 at 2pm)

More details here ⬇️
https://insight-conference.eu/speaker/stefan-beiten/

Stefan Beiten I am a father, friend, entrepreneur, lawyer, film producer, and public speaker. As a from-Idea-to-Vision-to-Strategy-to-Execution Guy", I structured and placed over US$1bn investments, founded 20+ companies, raised 3 kids, and produced 3 global media classics. My academic studies were in Munich, Ber...

Leaders today face the pressing need to address environmental and societal challenges, as it's clear that the prevailing mindset alone won't be sufficient to guide us through this crisis.

As conscious leaders, we must foster innovation, collaboration, and sustainable solutions. In this month's article, we explore the importance of urgency and collaboration in creating meaningful change and provide practical steps to turn intentions into actions:

➡️ Read here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/urgency-collaboration-keys-regenerative-sustainable-solutions-busse/

The term "conscious leadership" is omnipresent. But what does it mean? If you ask Google, it will return 40 million search results. Every company in the field has their own definition of what it means to "lead consciously".

It's a complex topic, for sure. But what if it wasn't? What if we could break it down into a simple formula like Einstein did for the theory of relativity? Well, we can:

IQ + EQ = CQ

Let's look at the components in detail:

IQ is the place of individual and collective awareness and intelligence. Here we learn about and strengthen our leadership, we gain insights into who we are, who others are, and how we operate in the world. We integrate the feedback of others to help us see more of ourselves.

EQ is where we develop empathy for ourselves and others. We loosen the grip on what holds us inside our comfort zones. We practice stepping outside of our own stories and creating space for the stories of others – inviting their ideas and wisdom to influence our own.

CQ is the collective space where we develop insights into whole systems. We connect with the physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual needs of individuals and organizations to co-create different systems. Systems that bring personal, organizational, and societal fulfillment for all. In CQ, we co-create through collective wisdom. This is the transformation that happens when individuals give up on their need to be right, wise, or a certain someone or something. There are many examples of when this happens, like the sports team or musical orchestra that are in tune and create a coherence that is larger than the sum of its parts.

In summary: IQ, EQ, and CQ are the journey of initiating and nurturing trust and bringing our purpose alive. It's a journey toward collective intelligence, empathy, and a more conscious future.

Artemis and Apollo are two deities through which the ancient Greeks perceived the magic and meaning of life in tune with nature
– through Artemis in the light of untouched, virgin wilderness; through Apollo in the light of sacred laws and principles which all life follows and which every human being needs to respect. At our Divine Roots Retreat, we got to go deeper into reconnecting with nature through the energies of the Greek Gods. Learn more about our events here: https://ayr.app/l/aEVL

Rob Husband, Facilitator at The Argonauts, shares a story with us that relates to our core value, Awareness.

Why it’s so important for leaders or anyone! to have a committed peer group.
1. We need a safe space to talk about our challenges, both internal and external.
2. Building on our shared values.
3. Creating the foundation for real impact together: Turning our wisdom into action.

Being present and fully in the moment has become a platitude of yoga retreats everywhere.
But it is the foundation of a good life and good business.
The more we can fully experience the moment, moment to moment, the more fully we will be able to shape it.

When we ask ourselves what our true purpose is in our careers WHY we are really doing it, we deepen the impact we can make with our work. The power of a purpose-led company is undeniable to other creators and the people we want to reach.