Fear is Love That has Forgotten Itself E15

Fear is Love That has Forgotten Itself E15

A “common feature of fear – it usually highlights where we need to grow,” we read in “Unfear,” the book that Rooted & Unwavering guest Gaurav Bhatnagar wrote together with his colleague Mark Minukas. Believing that we are separate and forgetting that we are all part of the same essence, consciousness, causes us to lose our sense of well-being.

Being exhausted is a sign that we have are not yet recognizing we are part of an infinite energy that is always available to us. We begin to wake up to this recognition by taking the perspective of the observer – realizing we are not our thoughts and feelings and that we have thoughts and feelings.

Deeply seated in this knowing, we experience joy and play, that allows us to practice ‘detached engagement’ with the challenges around us. We know who we are in essence, don’t get lost in our own thoughts and feelings that may be about trying to fix something, and we keep self-regulating: is this thought helpful now? How be and do what is needed now?

Co-Creation Partners is a consulting firm specializing in change management with a proven approach to creating large scale performance and culture transformations. The firm’s proprietary “inside-out” approach to business transformation, is detailed in the widely acclaimed book “Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Results and Well-Being” co-written by Gaurav with Mark Minukas (McGraw Hill Dec 2021).

The “inside out approach” first addresses mindsets as a basis for creating sustained and profound shifts in behaviors for individuals, teams and entire organizations and then proceeds to technical/systemic solutions; it works first at the level of the individual, then proceeds to teams and finally to the whole organization.

Gaurav is also an evangelist for the idea of Co-Creation – working WITH organizations not ON them, partnering with and guide leaders and staff to make their own choices about how to transform. This approach is essential to building excitement and commitment within the client organization for the transformation.

Gaurav Bhatnagar is the founder of Co-Creation Partners and has dedicated more than two decades to working co-creatively with organizations to deliver performance and culture transformations and enhance leadership development. He has been a trusted adviser/ coach/ counselor to C-suite and other senior leaders in the process of transforming their organizations, with a special focus on coaching them on personal mastery, difficult conversations, and strategic thinking.

Since founding Co-Creation Partners in 2010, Gaurav has designed and led performance and culture transformations for private, public, and social-sector clients across multiple industries, including financial services, basic materials, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology. His journey in this space started in 2003, with work that his colleagues and he did on themselves and their own organization at McKinsey and Company, South Africa.

After many failed attempts, they were able to step change both performance and employee engagement and make the Johannesburg office one of the best performing offices across the McKinsey system. Just as importantly, after many years spent, he felt an enormous sense of well-being and vitality from connecting to meaning and developing a deep awareness of his own internal processes and mindsets.

This was the origin of his belief that human beings are the DNA of the organization and when a critical mass of human beings in an organization transforms the whole system tips over into a different way of being and doing. This insight is the basis of Co-Creation Partners’ proprietary “inside-out” approach to business transformation, as detailed in the widely acclaimed book “Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Results and Well-Being” co-written by Gaurav with Mark Minukas (McGraw Hill Dec 2021).

The “inside our approach” first addresses mindsets as a basis for creating sustained and profound shifts in behaviors for individuals, teams and entire organizations and then proceeds to technical/systemic solutions; it works first at the level of the individual, then proceeds to teams and finally to the whole organization. Gaurav is also an evangelist for the idea of Co-Creation – working WITH organizations not ON them, partnering with and guiding leaders and staff to make their own choices about how to transform.

This approach is essential to building excitement and commitment within the client organization. Some of Gaurav’s recent work includes: • Enhancing the transformation and change capabilities of the transformation office of a leading financial services organization in the US.

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How do we stay connected to our true selves and our greatness, especially when we are challenged? How do we rest in the heart, also when our mind keeps us restless? What becomes possible when we truly stay committed to our own and others’ best selves, also when we don’t feel it? How do we practice staying connected to our true selves, in the midst of our busy lives?

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About Our Host

For as long as he can remember Hylke Faber has been curious about what this life is about. His ongoing inquiry has become his work: helping people individually and collectively to discover what is possible in life and express that authentically and fearlessly.

Hylke started his work life with Towers Perrin as consultant and then as Partner with Strategic Decisions Group, serving a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer electronics and life sciences companies. A major shift occurred during this critical phase of his life. He had become the typical, hard-charging, 16-hours-a-day strategy consultant, and was burning out at a rapid clip.

When he discovered meditation, everything changed. He was so taken by his new discoveries that he chose to bring to business what he was learning: that there is a way we can have it all – we can be fulfilled, do work we love, and create extraordinary results with others. He thinks of it as creating a sense of ease in business.

He learned how to coach and facilitate human transformation completing his coaching certification with Newfield Network and by working at Axialent, the culture and leadership company. After a few years, he founded Co-Creation Partners together with other leaders in the field of transformation and personal development. Then he formed Constancee to help people grow by creating the conditions where deep personal, interpersonal and organizational shifts happen routinely.

He leads Growth Leaders Network, the culture and team development consultancy. He has also taught coaching at Columbia Business School Executive Education and has contributed to Harvard Business Review. He is currently teaching a course on Climate Conscious Leadership at Arizona State University. His award-winning book, Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader, was published by Dover in 2018.

His next book, Taming Your Crocodiles Practices for Leadership Depth, came out in 2020. Besides helping others grow, which he loves, he is a trained opera singer, enjoys hiking and writing, is an avid reader, in particular of biographies, and is always in the process of growing himself. He integrates all of what he learns in his work with executives.

Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.

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