In Salsa Dancing the first step is the hardest. In leadership we can learn from the lessons of partnered dance. 💃🏽Every time you return to the count of 1 you have to stabilize yourself and push hard to reset. Like in life and leadership, just because you have been there…
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Leadership Lessons from Dance – Basics
I was teaching a Salsa private lesson recently and we were going over an intermediate move – a wrap. It’s when the lead turns the follow while holding both hands and at the end of the turn the lead wraps their arms around the follow as they transition from one…
Leadership Lessons from Dance – Choices
Recently during a salsa group lesson on spins my instructor, Marcus Negron, pointed out that sometimes we talk about our body as though it is a different entity from ourselves rather than owning that we are choosing to do something. When we fall out of a spin we might say,…
Leadership Lessons from Dance – The Affects of Trauma
The body learns coping mechanisms from trauma such as sexual assault that impact a dancer’s ability to trust and be fully present with their partner.
Leadership Lessons from Dance – Dancing from your Core
At a recent dance team practice my dance instructor spoke about dancing from ones core, being grounded, and deriving ones movements from ones center rather then moving limbs or becoming off balance by doing the steps and not being in control. He then provided an example of partnered dancing demonstrating how…