6 Steps To Becoming The Peacebuilder

The external world may be riddled with hate, fear, and separateness, but leaders can sure find an effective way to tackle this—through conscious leadership.

- Michael Bianco-Splann

We have become a tribal nation polarised by competing belief systems, where every day seems to take our fragile sense of reality to the next level of dysfunction. How does one quell the fires raging in our communities, country, and global world order? How do we find a level playing ground?

As a conscious leader, my experiences have aptly shown that in order to find any degree of peace, I must look within my own psyche to quell the fires that burn. Let us face it: blaming external entities is much easier than looking in the mirror and exercising self-reflection. It is not pleasant work to examine the angry and resentful underpinnings of our belief systems, or our self-righteous, better-than-thou thoughts, actions, and attitudes. Honest self-awareness seems in short supply among the collective, and certainly in much of today’s leadership.

In my lifetime, never has there been a greater need for effective leadership than now. We, as a humanity, are at the precipice of either taking control of the malaise that exists or falling off into a vortex of hate, fear, and separateness. But we, as conscious leaders, have the power to navigate this minefield effectively—as peacebuilders.

Here are six steps to becoming the peacebuilder that is required to confront this reality: