Leadership in Connection – Working with the Medicine Wheel

Why work with the Medicine Wheel?

In a world spinning and changing ever faster, I longed for an anchor, resilient, sustainable, and flexible. A signpost that offers clarity yet honours freedom. A beacon in complexity, with room for intuition and nuance. I found all of that in the Medicine Wheel. Maybe it will speak to you as well. Also known as the Wheel of the Four Directions or the Four Seasons, the Medicine Wheel is an ancient model that mirrors the natural structure of life. It helps us see clearly, inviting us to pause, to feel, to shift perspective, and then to move forward again.

The Wheel is simple yet layered. It reconnects us with the cyclical, timeless wisdom of nature - and with our own inner compass.

A Circle of Life and Meaning

The Medicine Wheel brings us back to a worldview where life is not linear, but circular. It reminds us that every phase - birth, growth, harvest, release - has its place. And that every ending carries the seed of a new beginning.

It weaves together the four cardinal directions and their qualities, but also heaven and earth, and most importantly: the centre. The centre is our core, the still point where all things meet.

In Indigenous traditions, the word ‘medicine’ does not refer to a pill or a cure, but to a life force and wholeness - the sacred act of restoring what has been separated.

What Can the Medicine Wheel Offer You?

Whether you are in the midst of a personal quest, facing a professional challenge,or preparing to launch something new — the Medicine Wheel can guide you like a compassthat moves with the flow of life.

It helps you:

• view situations from multiple perspectives

• gain insight into where things flow — and where they are stuck

• bring movement into your life, relationships, or processes

• reconnect with the natural rhythms of time and transformation

• find a flexible structure for leadership, organisational development, or personal growth

The Medicine Wheel does not offer ready-made answers, but a steady hand for the inner journey — with yourself, your team, your life.

A Contemporary Interpretation

In the training I offer, and in my broader work with the Medicine Wheel, I draw on the structure described by Daan van Kampenhout in The Four Directions. He explored the Medicine Wheel across cultures and translated that wisdom into a form that resonates with our Western European context. I also learned from my teacher in Shamanic Energy Medicine, Cissi Williams,how to apply the Wheel in healing work. And the teachings of Thomas Hübl, a modern-day mystic and guide in collective trauma healing, continue to inspire the way I work today.

I do not follow a fixed interpretation. Instead, my guides are nature, the wisdom of diverse traditions, my experience in facilitating (group) processes and rituals, and the intuition and lived experience of the participants themselves. This allows you to create a personal relationship with the Wheel. A relationship that can support you in your daily life, your work, and your leadership.

Nature as a Guide for Leadership

Leadership today asks something different of us - not control or outcomes, but connection.With ourselves. With others. With the greater whole.

The Medicine Wheel invites us into just that: natural leadership. Not as a technique, but as a way of being. It helps you make space for stillness, for clarity, for choice and action. At the right time, in the right rhythm. Like the seasons.

In connection with nature, something shifts. Flow arises. Direction emerges. And sometimes… magic.

Would you like to experience what the Medicine Wheel can offer you? My training will gently introduce you to this powerful map of life. You will learn to work with the Wheel in a way that suits you and build a compass you can carry with you into everything you do.

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