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By Bjorg Eggerts The Space Between Us This book, in 2 parts, explores heartcentred living and emotional strength as frameworks for personal growth, relationships, leadership, and healing. Its core argument is that the heart should be understood in two complementary ways: as a symbolic and spiritual centre of love, compassion, and meaning, and as a biological organ involved in emotional regulation, nervous-system function, and well-being. It develops this idea through themes such as presence, openness, forgiveness, grief, self-compassion, boundaries, emotional truth, and relational safety. The text argues that genuine connection requires balancing love with discernment, vulnerability with protection, and compassion with clear boundaries. It also offers practical methods—such as breathing, mindfulness, journaling, lovingkindness, grounding, ritual, and gentle movement—to help people cultivate a more open, resilient, and reflective way of life. Beyond individual practice, the text extends these ideas to leadership, workplaces, and communities, suggesting that heartcentred approaches can strengthen trust, creativity, empathy, and collaboration. At the same time, it acknowledges important limitations: these practices can be constrained by trauma, cultural differences, institutional structures, bureaucracy, and systemic injustice.  Overall, the text presents heart-centred living as an integrated, practical, and reflective path to authenticity, healing, and meaningful human connection. We have programs also bjorg@7hh.is

An exercise for the weekend. Heart-Centred Communication: How to Feel Safer, Speak Clearer, and Grow Closer (Even When It’s Hard) Most relationship problems don’t start because you “said the wrong thing.” They start because you didn’t feel safe enough to say the true thing—or safe enough to hear it. When…

Proactive leaders think ahead and plan the next step before problems appear. ✨ Core Takeaway You figure out the next step by locating the smallest meaningful action that moves you toward what matters — not the perfect action, not the whole plan, just the next signal of movement. — 🌿…

In today’s complex business environment, moral intelligence has become a critical leadership competency. It enables leaders to navigate ambiguity, make sound ethical decisions, and build cultures grounded in trust and accountability. Unlike traditional IQ and EQ alone, moral intelligence adds the dimension of values-based leadership—ensuring that judgment, behavior, and outcomes…

How Great Leaders Navigate Change and Build the Future Business change used to come in waves. Now it hits like a tide. New technology, shifting customer expectations, and constant market disruption mean the old playbook of steady management is no longer enough. If you are still leading only to preserve…

Integration and Embodiment  Chapter from my book Pathways for Human Flourishing by Bjorg Eggerts Musical intelligence, as Howard Gardner describes it, is more than just recognising or creating music—it is the art of finding meaning and connection in sound wherever it appears. This essay argues that musical intelligence is a…

For most business leaders, no single intelligence is enough. The best leaders combine several forms of intelligence and know when to use each one. 1. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) ⭐ Most Important The ability to understand and manage your own emotions while recognizing and influencing the emotions of others. High EQ…

About EI Emotional intelligence is the capacity to recognise, understand, regulate, and use emotions constructively in oneself and in relationships with others. Within human flourishing, it matters because emotions shape attention, judgement, motivation, resilience, and connection. For example, a person who notices rising frustration during a conversation and pauses rather…