The Wellness Breakthrough Academy

We teach our members to become leaders using the Academy Leadership Model – we live by these 10 core values. These are the values that have enabled us to find our purpose, push beyond our capabilities, set boundaries, and empower our students to transform themselves through deep introspection and encouraging them to become outstanding leaders.

Too often leaders are either all talk no action, or run the ‘do as I say not as I do’ mentality. True leadership starts with modelling the behaviour that people struggle to achieve themselves. This instils consistency within your own behaviour, and shows others a level of authenticity – which earns respect from those you are leading.

Good communication requires a balance of the mind and emotions. Communication must have emotion behind it in order for people to follow you, and logic behind it so it makes sense to others. Emotions through words have meaning. You MUST work on your less dominant side in order to create strong leadership communication.

Emotional connection opens the heart and goes hand in hand with communication (value 3). You must CONNECT with your followers on an emotional level or they won’t listen to anything you have to say. The more vulnerable you (and they) feel, the more inspirational you will be as a leader.

Wisdom is nothing without action, and hidden wisdom is a waste. It is one thing to gather information; change and transformation can only occur with implementing what we have learnt. “Knowing” something is very different to “living” something! Wisdom is exposed through pain.

The best step toward humility is to look within everyone to find wisdom and/or inspiration and LISTEN – we can learn from EVERYONE. Humility owns creativity. Humility must work with Focused Drive (value 7) in order to lead effectively.

Drive can lead to burn out, disease or death. Listen to your body (with humility) and slow down when required! Humility owns the rules whilst Focused Drive enforces them. You must let go of excuses and storytelling in order to really instil change.

Good leaders don’t live in the moment – they have a clear path toward their future. Vision requires a strong ‘why’! We must have a deep purpose and reason so we can create a great landscape for our future.

Leading with integrity is paramount. You must be honest with yourself and others, be accountable, and do what is right. Shame tells the story that bends us out of integrity. Authenticity, honesty and truth are found in integrity.

Trust your instincts, use your wisdom and stand for your awareness with courage. Awareness brings choice and responsibility. Awareness and courage (value 1) are circular, you can’t have one without the other. The highest-level value AWARENESS, must have COURAGE in order to proceed in life.

Knowing why you are doing things is the most important thing for you to find out. The Academy’s motto is ‘purpose in your problems’, so by working with your problems, and triumphing over them, your deeper reason for being here is revealed.

We either give up when we hit the wall and return to our old life, or we find a way to challenge ourselves with the obstacles we face. Obstacles will always be there, and once we look at them as our solution towards achievement, they become the pathway towards freedom.

We often hide what we truly think and feel from the world, the goal is to deeply comprehend why our thoughts and feelings are there. Once we can do this, we begin to own our thoughts and feelings, rather than be owned by them.

Stubbornness, over or under confidence, and/or deep internal pain creates a rigid identity. Having the ability to listen to others and change our ideas empowers us to become adaptable in times of great stress.

Doing and/or saying what other people expect of us leads to exhaustion, powerlessness, apathy, and anxiety. Making decisions and following through with them builds energy, strength, vitality, magnetism and leadership qualities.

Knowing your values and living them are two separate things. The goal is to do as you say in a way that helps yourself and others.

When you have overcome your personal problems, you become the orchestra of change for others. You are able to provide help in areas that you have overcome yourself – giving hope, empathy, understanding and compassion to others.