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Introduction

Stillness is what creates love,

Movement is what creates life,

To be still,

Yet still moving—

That is everything!

Source: Do Hyun Choe, Japanese Master.

Welcome to the Still Moving Field Guide.

Leading change in today's world is a complex, ongoing, and demanding task—a core competence now of any leader. Congratulations for taking the time and attention to see how effective you are at this. Our goal at Still Moving is to enable leaders to lead change in more effortless ways. And, guess what: it takes effort to become more effortless!

We hope this Field Guide can accompany you in that task. Its purpose is to provide a detailed explanation of all the elements that we have found are highly related to leading big complex change well, elements that in combination we call “Change Vitality.” In addition to describing these elements, the Field Guide is designed to help you develop your practice in leading change well—a bit like a personal development manual.

It can be read alongside the book written by one of our team, Deborah Rowland, Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change (Wiley, 2017). This original Still Moving book takes you on a journey to understand how we created the Still Moving leading change frameworks, drawing on Deborah's experience, her life journey, and our pioneering research in the field, and is richly illustrated with stories of leaders who led change well.

This subsequent Field Guide is about, and for, you. Dip in and out of it where you wish, noticing where your attention is directed to. It contains guidance for personal development and also ideas for how to cultivate greater change capacity in your team and the wider system.

And keep in mind as you do so that we have found that the quality of your inner state, your being, how you “are” as a leader determines the quality of your doing, the actions you take as a leader. The stillness, awareness, and spaciousness of your inner world—your command of your mental and emotional states—really do control how effectively you can create movement in the world around you.

So, as you use this Field Guide, pay attention to your inner state, notice how you respond to what is presented—your degree of openness and curiosity, your feelings and emotions, any tendency to discount or self‐judge. Explore what these observations are telling you, before you leap into taking action!

Enjoy this journey of leadership exploration.

The Still Moving team

March 2020

Reference

1 Rowland, D. A. (2017). Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change. Wiley‐Blackwell.