In Liminal Consciousness: Developing Leaders, Teams, And Organizations For A Better World, Ed Olson focuses on the value of liminal consciousness; on practical steps for transforming leaders, teams and organizations; and on how liminal methods for change can transcend differences and create a greater sense of wholeness for individuals, groups, organizations and, ultimately, societies.

Liminality is the space and time in between our rational thinking and our mystical and intuitive experiences. The quantum sciences and our wisdom and religious traditions point to the fields of information and energy that both surround us and are within us and all sentient life. This intelligent, wise, creative, and loving "consciousness" floods into our liminal consciousness when we meditate, dream, or use other favorite portals such as music, art, and nature.

Olson’s model of organization change is based on three simple rules:

• Include non-material reality
• Develop intuitive practices, and
• Pursue inclusive and transformative relationships

 

In the book, he describes how leaders, teams and organizations can apply an expanded individual and collective liminal consciousness to their mission. Liminal consciousness fosters diversity, complexity, kindness, love, and connectivity that can transcend our cultural, political, and national differences and make the world a better place. As we develop our liminal consciousness, we become more conscious of our unique mission and our imperative to act for the good of the whole.

 

Readers will learn about the non-material fields of intelligence and wisdom and how being open to intuitive mystical experiences will reveal what is significant in the current moment and the possibilities that presents. When we become more confident about what is revealed to us through our experiences, we forge new connections and networks that can be a tipping point for a transformed world.

 

The Author

Dr. Ed Olson’s career with NTL includes being Dean of H.I. labs, developing the complex adaptive systems program, co-facilitating diversity programs in Bermuda, offering VLF’s for members, and now participating in NTL’s initiative in leadership development.