889: What Is Agency and the Importance of Developing It

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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So, what is personal agency? According to Shaun Gallagher and his work on philosophical conceptions of the self, personal agency refers to, “the sense that I am the one who is causing or generating an action.” This means that a person with a sense of agency perceives themselves as the subject influencing their own actions and life circumstances. A couple of years ago, I had the chance to do a three-day Trauma-Informed Practice Intensive for Coaches and Leaders. One of the things we kept coming back to over the course of these three days was making sure we, as coaches and leaders, are creating spaces that allow our clients a strong sense of agency. As we dug into this from various angles and examined it through the lens of trauma, I got more and more curious and started doing my own research on the side. I know, super nerd alert. I love geeking out on this stuff. While I won’t bore you with the super coachy stuff, I do want to share with you the juicy parts that I know have the potential to benefit you right away. One of the best parts of my job is providing you with tools to see your own power and your own ability to make choices that serve you. I want you to feel confident in your own sense of self and sense of agency that guides your decision-making and action-taking. In this Greatest Hits episode, I dig into: What personal agency is and what it can mean for you Why is a sense of agency important 6 ways to develop your sense of agency It is my hope that developing your sense of agency will give you clarity and discernment around who you are and who you are becoming, and that, in turn, will impact how you show up and have impact in the world. Links mentioned: Trudi Lebron: trudilebron.com Article: https://www.mindful.org/seven-ways-to-develop-personal-agency/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	No home. No address. No address. No bank account. No bank account. No job. No job. No home. No address. No
0:14.1	bank account. No bank account. No job. No job. No home. It's time to break the vicious circle. We're working with charities like
0:23.5	shelter to provide a bank account for people who are homeless. Such HSBCUK, no fixed address.
0:30.2	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 889. In this greatest hits episode, we're going to be
0:36.3	talking about what is personal agency and why
0:40.0	should you be developing yours? Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the
0:44.8	episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 889.9. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, stories, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more powerful, positive, and purposeful lives every damn day. So let's dive in.
1:16.2	So today, what I want to talk about is agency and this idea of agency was referenced
1:22.1	multiple times in the training that I did with Trudy. And I kept thinking like this,
1:27.2	pieces of this conversation
1:28.3	or a conversation around agency would just be so valuable to you, my community. So, of course,
1:34.7	in the training with Trudy, we were talking about trauma. But what came of that was the different
1:40.4	coaches and leaders who were in this training with me. We were talking about a person's sense of
1:43.7	agency and how important that is. And especially when you have people in your community
1:48.5	who maybe have been impacted by trauma, which by the way is almost everyone on one level or another,
1:54.8	like trauma can look like so many things over the course of a lifetime, it's very likely that
1:59.6	you will be impacted by trauma.
2:01.4	And if you have survived a global pandemic and a racial reckoning and now, like, this whole
2:08.2	entire political landscape in the United States of America, where things continue to just
2:11.9	be really unpredictable and uncertain and oftentimes very scary, you've experienced trauma
2:17.1	on some level. So when it comes
2:19.2	to agency and trauma, we want to be really conscientious of how when we're building communities
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