Your Inner Baggage and You: a Duo or a Duel?

Have you watched Empathy the Quebec series by Florence Longpré?

It follows Suzanne, a psychiatrist and criminologist at the Mount Royal Psychiatric Institute. In her leadership role at the heart of a complex environment, where patients in great distress and healthcare teams intersect, Suzanne must combine clinical skills, difficult decisions, and demanding human relationships. Having herself emerged from a major depression, she begins a profound inner journey. She gradually discovers her wounds, contradictions, and blind spots, a path to the heart of her own emotional and psychological baggage.

This personal journey echoes the reality of every leader: every day, we carry invisible baggage at work, sometimes heavy, sometimes lighter, but always present.

Are we in a harmonious duo with this baggage, or in a perpetual duel?

Have we learned to deal with our wounds, our doubts and our past experiences, or do we still let this baggage unconsciously direct our actions, our reactions, our decisions?

Before claiming to lead others, an obligatory step calls upon our courage: our inner mirror.

 

 

To Enrich Your Experience

Our "The Leader's Emotional Intelligence" program will help you develop a mindful presence even in the midst of pressure and complexity. You'll learn to recognize, understand, and use your emotions as a source of information and a lever for positive influence, rather than as an obstacle.

Don’t hesitate to meet with us to tailor this program to your team’s reality. Our interactive trainings, supported by practical tools and post-training missions, help you anchor these learnings in your daily practice — an invitation to lead with emotional intelligence, courage, and authenticity.


 

Our article Wanted: The Perfect Leader explores self-awareness at the heart of leadership. It shows that everyone comes to work with their own baggage, experiences, beliefs, reflexes, and emotions, and that this baggage continually feeds our autopilot.

Rather than aiming for perfection or imposing an ideal, conscious leadership consists of observing what is happening within us, recognizing our triggers and choosing our responses with lucidity.

This inner work not only transforms the leader: it creates a climate of trust, promotes psychological safety and allows teams to dare, innovate and surpass themselves in a human and aligned environment.

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