By David Cicerchi There's a particular feeling that many of my clients know well. You want to move forward. You want to transform, grow, show up fully in your relationships, your work, your life. And yet — you keep falling back into the same pattern. A trigger hits, and suddenly you're in shame, contraction, fear, anxiety. The spiral begins again. This is the false self at work. What Is the False Self? Before I explain the false self, let me say something about what it's obscuring: your...

Sensemaking, self, and transformation in a time of unraveling by David Cicerchi As I discussed in Part 1 of this series , we are living in a time of fragmentation. In the external world, we see polarization, disconnection, burnout, and isolation. In our internal world, many feel a constant sense of not-enoughness, a persistent fear of being unseen, unloved, or irrelevant. This is not merely a collection of individual issues—it’s a civilizational condition. It’s what Dr. Marc Gafni calls the...

A Leadership Aperture Coaching series for HR leaders navigating the current leadership context If you’re an HR leader watching your managers and directors strain under the pace of change—more volatility, more ambiguity, more pressure—you’re not imagining it. Many leaders are trying to meet a “new world” with an “old operating system.” And that gap is showing up everywhere: slower decisions, brittle cultures, rising conflict avoidance, and a growing sense that leaders are “in over their...