Leadership Lab 3
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Six domains. Three questions each. One complete picture of where you are. Lab 3 is the first session where participants shift from doing to seeing.
“The Insightful Way exists to move people from deficit to investment — from seeing themselves as problems to be managed to understanding themselves as assets to be developed.”
Session Details
Date TBD · 90 Minutes · Zoom · Free
Capacity Tier · Lab 3 of 6 · The Missing Curriculum
Labs 1 and 2 gave you tools — language and regulation. Lab 3 gives you a map. Your job is not to learn what Healing Capital is. It is to discover what you already have — and name, possibly for the first time, what has been depleting it.
Deliverable 1
Three entries per domain: current level, friction audit, and investment map. This is the most comprehensive self-assessment participants will have done in the series. The map is yours to keep and build on.
Deliverable 2
One priority domain, one shift, one bridge to Lab 1. Identify which domain has the highest friction, where investment is most active, and what one shift would produce the highest return. Revisit your Lab 1 Inner Authority Statement through the lens of what the map revealed.
You already have all six of these domains. This is not about discovering what you are missing. It is about seeing what you have, naming what is depleting it, and identifying what you are already building.
Overthinking as a substitute for action. Mental loops that feel productive but produce no forward motion. Analysis consuming mental capital without generating insight.
Suppression presented as regulation. People who have learned to manage emotion externally while it depletes them internally. The F*ck It moment often starts here.
Doing work that doesn’t connect to anything larger. Disconnection between daily activity and sense of meaning. This often presents as burnout or cynicism — not lack of faith.
Time being governed by urgency rather than priority. Reactive schedules. The feeling of busyness without the experience of progress. Time capital is often the domain people most underestimate.
Identity being defined by roles, diagnoses, or history rather than owned and developed deliberately. This is the domain most directly connected to Lab 1. If someone’s Inner Authority Statement is shaky, Identity Capital is where to look.
“You already have all six of these domains. This is not about discovering what you’re missing. It’s about seeing what you have, naming what’s depleting it, and identifying what you’re already building — so you can invest deliberately instead of accidentally.
For the next 55 minutes, we’re going to write. I’m going to write too. Three questions per domain: where you are right now, what’s consuming it, and what you’re building. Take your time. One honest entry is worth more than three performed ones.”
55 minutes of individual writing is the core of this session. Do not watch while they write. Write alongside them — your own map, your own three questions per domain. This is not a performance of solidarity. It is the actual practice. The facilitator who has done this work produces the session that changes people.
The friction audit column is where most people want to move quickly. It is uncomfortable to name what is depleting you. Stay there. The investment map is only meaningful if the friction has been named honestly. If someone skips friction and jumps to investment, gently ask: “What’s the friction you didn’t want to write?”
Identity Capital is new to the ecosystem. Some participants will find it the most powerful domain. Others will find it the most threatening. It connects directly to Lab 1’s Inner Authority Statement. If someone’s Identity Capital column is thin, that tells you where Lab 4 needs to begin for them.
The synthesis is self-directed. Your job is to ask the three questions and hold silence while people answer them for themselves. The most powerful synthesis happens in quiet. The facilitator who talks least during synthesis produces the deepest maps.
“Look at what you just built. That map didn’t exist 75 minutes ago. You made it from your own life — from what you actually know about yourself, not what a system told you was there.
That map is a portfolio. Not a report of what’s wrong. An honest accounting of what you have, what’s costing you, and what you’re building. That’s what an investor looks like.
Take it home. Look at it again tomorrow. Notice if the domain you said had the highest friction starts showing up differently now that you’ve named it.
We’ll close with one word. Not how you’re feeling. Which domain surprised you most today.”
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health.”
BESSEL VAN DER KOLK — Psychiatrist · The Body Keeps the Score
Take a few minutes to reflect on the six domains. Your responses are saved to this browser automatically — they remain private to you.
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
BELL HOOKS — Author · Cultural Critic · Educator
Inner Authority & Healing Capital Language
Systems Insight & Focused Attention
Healing Capital & Resource Mapping
Professional Identity & Leadership
YOU ARE HERE
Engagement & Network Leverage
Strategic Impact & Systems Navigation
Looking Ahead
Lab 4 takes the Resource Map built today and applies it directly to professional identity development. The domain participants identified as most depleted in Lab 3 is the entry point for Lab 4. What they named in Identity Capital is the foundation Lab 4 builds from.
Between sessions, participants watch which domain gets hit first by the week’s friction events. That observation is their data for Lab 4. The Resource Map is a living document — not a completed exercise. It compounds each time it is revisited.
Between sessions: Watch which domain gets hit first this week. When friction arrives — name which domain it’s targeting. That data comes with you to Lab 4.
Session Material
The complete Lab 3 worksheet — six Healing Capital domain maps with three questions each, synthesis reading, Inner Authority Statement bridge, and Capital Identity close. Everything you need in one place.
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