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What is Spiritual Leadership?

In a world that is changing ever more rapidly, there is a growing need for leaders who not only achieve results, but also radiate connection, integrity, and awareness. Spiritual leadership is not about religion or woolly thinking, but about living and leading from a place of inner strength, wisdom, and authenticity. It is an attitude to life in which you consciously deal with energy, emotions, and choices, so that you and the people around you can grow.

In this article, you will discover:

  • What spiritual leadership truly means
  • Why it is important nowadays
  • How to develop spiritual leadership in your own life

The Essence of Spiritual Leadership

Spiritual leadership begins with self-awareness. It requires that you get to know yourself beyond old patterns and expectations. The art lies in making choices based on inner peace, confidence, and your own energy, rather than reacting out of fear or external pressure.

A spiritual leader:

  • Lives in connection with oneself, others, and the greater whole
  • Takes responsibility for his or her energy and emotions
  • Sets his or her own boundaries and respects other people's boundaries
  • Inspires others through authenticity and integrity
  • Has an eye for both personal growth and collective harmony

So it's not just about managing others, but above all about leadership over your own life.

Spiritual leadership is characterized by sensing what is needed, knowing whether or not to do something, and waiting for the right moment to seize your opportunities. For us, spiritual leadership is leading and directing from your intuition.

To yourself and the course of your own life, in your interactions with the people around you, and to the people you work with if you hold a managerial position or role. We therefore see spiritual leadership as an extension of personal leadership. An extension that is set to play an increasingly prominent role. 

Why Spiritual Leadership Is So Important Right Now

The world is changing rapidly. Many people experience stress, uncertainty, or a sense of disconnection. Organizations and communities are searching for a new balance in which well-being, humanity, and values are central.

Spiritual leadership offers an answer to this, because it:

  • Stimulates personal growth: you get to know yourself better and learn to consciously direct your energy.
  • Creates connection: by being truly present and connecting on a deeper level, and really listening to each other.
  • Brings balance: not only between head and heart, but also in teams, families, and organizations.
  • Enables transformation: by letting go of patterns that no longer work.
  • Is authentic: you naturally lead from your true self. 

The energy on Earth has shifted to air energy (Aquarian Age) and all the outer planets are shifting. This is unique in history. It marks the start of a new era and brings about a gigantic shift in energy that shapes the spirit of generations. 

Although the physical direction may not yet be visible, there is already an energetic direction. The higher energy frequency operates much more on non-physical information transfer and thought power than the lower earth energy. So it is important to learn to deal with this and learn to direct this consciously.

The Role of Energy and Consciousness

Everything is energy and has a consciousness and energy frequency. Energy is everywhere and influences everything. It influences your body, emotions, and thoughts, but also your company, department, or team. 

As a spiritual leader, you learn to perceive, understand, and influence this energy.

Some examples:

  • Sensing when your own energy is out of balance, and knowing how to restore it.
  • Recognizing what is going on in a team or meeting, even without words.
  • Knowing how to bring calm and clarity, even in challenging situations.

These skills mean that spiritual leadership goes far beyond traditional leadership models. It is a holistic approach of growth and leadership.

How To Develop Spiritual Leadership?

Developing spiritual leadership is a process. It requires courage, self-reflection, and a willingness to truly encounter yourself. Here are 5 steps:

1. Discovering Self-Awareness

Learn to discover your inner world. The outside world as you experience it stems from your own inner world. And with your inner world, you create your outer world. This is partly because your beliefs, thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors activate metaphysical laws and forces that influence situations. 

2: Resolving Tensions and Blockages, and Breaking patterns

Often, old beliefs, energy tensions, and blockages prevent us from living life to the fullest. Through healing and coaching, you can break through these barriers and create new space for personal growth and spiritual awareness. 

3: Pure Connection with Your Intuition

Your intuition is a powerful compass. Spiritual leadership means learning to trust your inner wisdom, even when the outside world tells you otherwise. By inner wisdom, we mean the wisdom that lies deep within you, such as knowing how energies and forces work and how to deal with them, knowing how to recognize signals and hints from your guides, and knowing which metaphysical (spiritual) laws you can apply in which situations. 

4: Direct Energy Consciously

Learn how to feel and direct energy. This will help you to be powerful and present without becoming exhausted. Move from “on your own strength” to “using the powers of the Universe.” 

5: Leading from the Heart and Soul

Leadership is not a role, but a state of being. Your heart center is the place from which you make the right choices for your life. When you live from your heart and soul, you naturally inspire others. 

Do you want to develop personally and spiritually? Do you want to get to know your true self and lead from your authenticity? Do you want to move from your head to your heart? Sign up for the Personal and Spiritual Leadership training. This is a unique and transformative journey in which you will not only gain knowledge and skills, but also undergo profound healing. You will get closer to your own core and intuition, and learn to apply energy and spirituality in a practical way, thereby directing your life (from different realities). More about the Personal and Spiritual Leadership course

The Difference with Traditional Leadership

Traditional leadership often focuses on strategy, results, and performance. Spiritual leadership focuses on:

  • Inner strength instead of control
  • Connection and trust instead of hierarchy
  • Awareness and intuition instead of just reason

It is a way of living that serves not only leaders in companies or organizations, but everyone: parents, teachers, coaches, entrepreneurs, and people who are simply seeking more fulfillment.

Once you can direct your own life with the help of spirituality, you are able to inspire others to do the same. People close to you, as well as colleagues and employees.

How Does Spiritual Leadership Work?

For spiritual leadership to reach its full potential, it requires trust and autonomy. Working from your intuition means, among other things:

  • not underpinning everything with facts and figures
  • not everything can be fixed and planned
  • the way something takes shape is not fixed

It is a feeling or inner knowing that co-determines decision-making, when is the right time to take something up and what is the best way to do it. 

It's by no means implied that intuitive work is all non-committal where nothing is fixed at all or where you can't direct anything. On the contrary, it is all about focus: having goals in mind, setting intentions and creating situations in which it can manifest.

Working together on this. In which there is a wealth of personal wisdom stored in everyone. It is up to the spiritual leader to bring this to the surface and unlock it in each employee. So that synergy and 'magic' is created.  

Want to Learn and Experience Spiritual Leadership?

Spiritual leadership cannot be learned solely from books; it is a process of experience. That is why the Personal and Spiritual Leadership Training is so powerful:

  • You undergo profound, transformative healings that clear blockages.
  • You develop practical skills to integrate energy and awareness into your life.
  • You grow in personal leadership, enabling you to inspire others authentically.

Business and Spirituality

Whether you have your own business, managerial position or want more direction in your own career. Many people work very hard physically to achieve something, without looking at the energetic side. While that is precisely how you bring about the big changes. 

Healing for Businesses

Projections, employees and customers are pushing your business in one direction. With a business healing, you steer it back in the right direction.

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Spiritual Coaching

Spiritual coaching from an energetical, analytical and practical point of view. Look at your situation from a different perspective.

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Transformation of Your Life

With healings you can free yourself from obstructing (behavioral) patterns, beliefs and thoughts. It creates certain realizations in yourself, allowing you to look at situations from a different perspective and to see them differently. With this you clear the way for change. Next, though, is to actually make the transformation. During the Personal and spiritual leadership training we will guide you in this process. 

Who We Are?

We are Astrid van Pluuren and Jarno Tiethoff

  • Astrid has ample experience with large, complex change processes within organizations and guiding teams and individuals in doing so. She does this from an energetic, analytical and practical approach. 
  • Jarno his talent is to bring people (through healings) back to their true selves so that they come into their own power.
Your Being, from Your Being you have access to everything you need: come into your power | Spiritual book | Astrid van Pluuren and Jarno Tiethoff

Book Your Being

This book:

  • provides insight into all layers of your energy system, what affects it and how you yourself can influence it. Energetically as well as practically. 
  • contains exercises to get rid of energy that doesn't belong to you, and to shield your energy field. 
  • is full of tips on how to lift your energy system to a higher frequency so that you will be in your power, energized, and better able to direct your life.
Your Beliefs | Do you truly believe that activating metaphysical laws will enrich your life? Astrid van Pluuren and Jarno Tiethoff.

Book Your Beliefs

This book: 

  • provides insight into the hierarchy and operation of 42 metaphysical laws and forces.
  • contains exercises so that you learn to consciously activate higher laws to change the energetic setting of your life.
  • helps you balance your feminine and masculine power so that you can maximize your life force. 
Your Karma | From a hard lesson to a driving force: transform Your Karma. Spiritual book by Astrid van Pluuren and Jarno Tiethoff

Book Your Karma

This book:

  • provides insight into karma, its origins and how it is expressed.
  • is full of examples of karmic situations for clarification.
  • contains healing exercises that enable you to reduce your karma and (partially) heal the resulting burden.

The vivid examples give you an insight into what a healing is and what emerges during healing.