The Elephant in the Room

Introduction
Reader's Guide

Theme 1: Double Awareness
Chapter 1: What is double awareness?
Chapter 2: Being mindful of what is above and below the surface
Chapter 3: Difficult feelings, negative capability and defenses
Chapter 4: The practice - and consequences - of mindful avoidance
Chapter 5: Emotions as disturbance and loss of control
Chapter 6: Not-knowing as a competence

Theme 2: Mindful Action
Chapter 7: Truth
Chapter 8: Transparency
Chapter 9: Trust

Theme 3: From Avoidance to Commitment
Chapter 10: Identifying and avoiding mindful avoidance
Chapter 11: Mobilizing the three T's
Chapter 12: Consequences for leadership and organizational development

Final reflections
Your own reflections

Lotte Svalgaard holds a Phd and a MSc in Business Psychology. Her research investigates how individuals can be awake and aware, show up and engage with challenges outside of their comfort zone. Her writing has appeared in Management Learning, Action Learning - Research & Practice, Socioanalysis and SAGE Research Method Cases. Her passion, to contribute to create more passionate and mindful organizations, makes up the platform for her work, her research and her authorships.

She is a global leadership development professional with extensive experience within group dynamics, experiential leadership development, and organizational consultancy. I is currently a senior leadership consultant and executive coach at INSEAD, consulting and coaching on senior executive leadership programs across multiple industries around the world.
Besides her work at INSEAD, she is a senior partner in Action Lab, where she designs and implements business driven action learning programs for global companies. Since 2001, she has been an associated professor, lecturer and supervisor at the 'Master of Psychology in Organisations' at Roskilde University, Denmark.