The Inner Path E-Book

Bettina Ruggeri

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

The Inner Path Leadership. A Dialog with Hypnosystemics und A Course in Miracles Leadership does not begin with methods. It begins with meaning. This book is an invitation for people in positions of responsibility to understand their inner perception in a new way – and, through that, to transform their outer impact at a deep level. Grounded in a hypnosystemic stance, inspired by A Course in Miracles, and supported by spiritual clarity, this path shows how leadership becomes effective when it emerges from inner quiet, a renewed way of seeing, and a conscious relationship with reality. A book for all who lead, guide, shape – and wish to find themselves in the process. Professional. Human. Transformative.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title

Imprint

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Afterword

Gratitude

Bonus

Apendix

References

Bettina Ruggeri

The Inner Path

Leadership.

A Dialog with Hypnosystemic and A Course in Miracles

Imprint

Title: The Inner Path - Leadership. A Dialog with Hypnosystemics und A Course in Miracles

Author: Bettina Ruggeri

Design, Layout & Cover: Bettina Ruggeri

German Editing & Proofreading: Manuel Fernandes

Translation: chatgpt

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Bettina Ruggeri

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81739 Munich, Germany

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ISBN: 978-3-9827259-7-0

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Despite careful review, no liability can be assumed for the contents. The author welcomes notes on errors or suggestions at: [email protected]

This e-book is intended for inspiration and self-inquiry. It does not replace therapeutic or medical support.

Bookdescription

Leadership. A Dialog with Hypnosystemics and A Course in Miracles

Leadership does not begin on the outside, but with the way we see – and interpret – the world.

This book is a quiet, powerful companion for people who lead, guide, or carry responsibility.

It weaves together hypnosystemic thinking, the spiritual clarity of A Course in Miracles,

and insights from systemic organizational development into a new understanding of leadership –

as an inner path of experience.

At its center lies one question:

What meaning do you give to what you experience?

Because that is where change begins – not in behavior, but in the mind.

The Inner Path shows how a shift in meaning can allow a new reality to unfold:

more ease in everyday life,

more clarity in relationships,

more effectiveness in professional action.

This book is not a toolbox, but a space for meeting yourself.

For all who wish to lead themselves –

so they can be different with others.

Dedication

For you – with this book in your hands.May it remind you of what already knows within you.

About the Author

Bettina Ruggeri has been accompanying people and organizations for over 20 years

at the intersection of leadership, development, and inner alignment.

As an Agile Coach (CEC, CTC, Accreditation Coach),

a systemic and hypnosystemic coach, mediator, group dynamics practitioner,

NVC trainer, and organizational consultant,

she combines depth with structure, clarity with resonance,

and inner stance with effectiveness.

Through the Movement Programs she co-created,

she brings new learning together with coaching and mentoring –

a living field of experience between practice, mindset, and cultural change.

Her work is grounded in hypnosystemic principles,

agile experience, Nonviolent Communication,

and a quiet spiritual foundation: A Course in Miracles,

which she has used as an inner compass for three years.

Her consulting draws on

20 years of agile leadership in IT,

ten years of hypnosystemic practice –

and, more recently, her path into hospice and end-of-life support.

Her motivation?

To bring people back into connection.

To make clarity possible.

To strengthen inner leadership.

And to create spaces in which love, joy, and peace

are more than concepts.

Her motto:

“At the end of my life, I want to wear a necklace of moments of joy.”

Introduction

A Personal Beginning

There are books that are planned.

With a proposal, a target-audience analysis, a clear position in the market.

And there are books that simply knock.

Quietly at first. Then more insistently.

Not because you want to say something, but because something wants to be spoken.

This book belongs to the second kind.

I hadn’t intended to write another book about leadership, inner stance, or transformation.

But at some point—somewhere between meetings, coaching sessions, assignments, and moments of inner clarity—

it became clear to me: the real work happens elsewhere.

Not in methods.

Not in roles.

Not in competencies.

But in the space in between:

Between an inner part that clings, and one that trusts.

Between an expectation and a stance.

Between a system that works, and one that is ready to shift.

And at some point, that faint sense became a task.

An inner one.

To write.

Not to explain, but to remember.

What Awaits You – and What Doesn’t

If you are looking for a step-by-step guide to better leadership,

you may find this book too gentle.

If you are expecting a spiritual manifesto, you may find it too pragmatic.

And if you are hoping for a systemic treatise,

you may wonder why forgiveness suddenly appears.

That’s because this book is not a professional manual in the traditional sense.

It is not a textbook, not a guidebook, not a course.

It is a field of resonance.

A conversation.

An invitation to see differently.

Not only your colleagues.

Not only your role.

But above all: yourself.

Because everything begins there.

The Tone – Between Clarity, Depth, and Lightness

This book speaks in a language that is sometimes direct — and sometimes quiet.

It uses case stories not to prove, but to remind.

It asks questions not to test — but to open spaces.

And it uses words like spirit, peace, responsibility, forgiveness —

not because they sound pleasant, but because they become true when you are willing to become quiet inside.

You will find sentences that shake you awake.

And others that hold you.

Both belong here.

The chapters are of different lengths.

Some more concrete, others more poetic.

There are exercises — not to complete, but to explore.

Quotes — not as decoration, but as windows.

And quiet spaces in between — so what has been read can settle.

The Course That Is Not a Course

The invisible thread running through this book is the work A Course in Miracles by Helen Schucman and William Thetford.

Maybe you know it. Maybe not.

Maybe the title puts you off. Maybe it sparks curiosity.

What you should know:

This book is not a commentary on ACIM.

It is not a spiritual awakening book.

But it also cannot be written without honoring the understanding that A Course in Miracles has awakened in me.

Much of what I experience today in organizations, in leadership, in conflict, in transformation processes can be described from a systemic perspective — but understood from a spiritual one.

A Course in Miracles says:

You see only what you think.

The hypnosystemic approach would describe it this way:

You construct your reality — and then act as if it were true.

Both mean the same thing:

Your inner frame of reference creates the world you experience.

And it is precisely there — in this inner space — that leadership begins.

Two Perspectives, One Inner Path

Why this book connects Hypnosystemics and A Course in Miracles

Maybe you’ve wondered why this book brings two seemingly different worlds into alignment:

Hypnosystemics with its clear language about meanings, inner parts, and fields of resonance.

And A Course in Miracles with a quieter, spiritual perspective that speaks of forgiveness, inner choice, and love.

Both worlds appear different at first glance.

But they speak about the same thing.

Only with different language.

And with a different rhythm.

Hypnosystemics sees the human being as a meaning-creating system that does not depict reality, but generates it.

A Course in Miracles says that we see the world as we think it —

and that in every moment we can choose anew from which inner state we look at it.

Both invite us to shift our view.

Away from reaction — toward choice.

Away from judgment — toward responsibility.

Away from separation — toward connection.

Over the years I realized:

When these two perspectives come together, something third emerges.

Something that not only explains — but remembers.

Something that not only analyzes — but heals.

Something that becomes tangible in organizations when people begin to truly see.

This book is not a teaching path for Hypnosystemics.

Nor is it a commentary on A Course in Miracles.

But it would not be honest not to name these sources.

Because they shape my view.

My stance.

And what wants to come into the world through me.

If you are familiar with one and the other feels foreign to you:

Maybe you still allow yourself to engage with it.

Not as a theory.

But as the possibility that your way of seeing has more shaping power than you have believed so far.

This Book is a Path

Truth needs no defense.It only needs presence.

(adapted from A Course in Miracles)

You can read it like a non-fiction book.

You can browse through it like a journal.

Or you can use it as a traveling companion —

again and again, in ever-changing phases.

What you make of it is up to you.

What I offer you is a direction:

away from reaction — toward choice.

Away from inner fragmentation — toward clarity.

Away from guilt — toward leadership that acts from spirit, connection, and presence.

If you are willing to embark on this journey,

you will not only lead differently —

you will see differently.

Because this book does not want to convince you of anything.

It wants to remember.

Something in you — that is already ready to see.

Welcome.

CHAPTER 1

How inner images become outer reality

„I have given everything I seethe meaning it has for me.“

(A Course in Miracles, Lesson 2)

Everything begins with a look. Or with a sentence.

Often a brief moment is enough — someone says something,

a colleague looks different than usual, a message goes unanswered —

and an inner film begins to run inside us.

A feeling appears.

A thought arises.

An old inner part becomes active:

“What was that? Why didn’t she say anything? Is something wrong?”

These moments are rarely loud.But they are powerful.Because something decisive happens within them:

We give meaning.

Not consciously. Not intentionally.

But unmistakably.

We do not experience reality — but our interpretation of it.

And that interpretation acts like a filter:

It shapes how we respond, how we communicate, how we lead.

And it creates — quietly and continuously — the reality in which we and others move.

Hypnosystemics speaks here of an inner reality generator.

A term that sounds technical at first, but in its depth describes a radical understanding of reality:

We live in inner worlds.

And these worlds are not objective, but meaning-induced.

What does that mean?

It means that every person, through their learning history, their conditioning, their bodily-emotional response patterns, constantly produces meanings without noticing it.

What we observe is automatically interpreted:

A colleague who stays silent is interpreted as disinterested.A brief email is perceived as rude.A follow-up question as an attack.

These interpretations are not facts.

They are hypotheses of the nervous system — guided by inner parts that have learned how “the world” works.

The economist, physician, and systemic family therapist Gunther Schmidt has observed this connection over decades in countless counseling and therapy processes.

He describes how people in painful situations usually do not suffer from the situation itself — but from the meaning they give it.

The crisis is not the problem —

but the inner image of what this crisis means: I have failed.

The feedback is not the problem —

but the interpretation: I am not good enough.

And this is where the power — and the responsibility — lies.

Because if meaning is not fixed but constructed,

then it can also be shaped consciously.

An example from my professional life:

A leader reports in a coaching session about an employee who stays out of discussions. For weeks. No contributions. No disagreement. No ideas.

“She’s just passive,” the manager says. “I think she’s simply overwhelmed.”

As the conversation unfolds, we begin to question this statement.

Not as criticism, but as a deliberate revision of meaning.

What does passive mean in this context?

What memories does this behavior trigger in the leader?

Which inner parts speak up within them?

Slowly it becomes clear:

It is not the passivity that bothers them — but the feeling of losing control.

The uncertainty of not knowing where one stands.

The fear that “something is simmering beneath the surface.”

Labeling the employee as passive is a protective interpretation.

It names a circumstance that feels threatening.

But it also prevents real contact.

What if we read the same situation differently?

If the passivity were a sign of caution — or of inner observation?

If there were a part in the employee that needs safety before it shows itself?

In the moment the meaning shifts, the relationship in the interaction shifts too.

Not because someone was persuaded, but because a different inner state became active:

Curiosity instead of control.

Connection instead of evaluation.

Another example from my coaching practice:

A Scrum Master describes a scene in a team meeting:

“The PO didn’t look up once during my report. No comment. No eye contact. I felt completely blocked.”

In the conversation it quickly becomes clear:

He interprets her behavior as disinterest.

As devaluation.

And begins to devalue himself.

When we step into the scene again together — listening, slowly — he suddenly senses:

“Maybe she was in a completely different topic. Maybe she was overwhelmed — or sad. Maybe it had nothing to do with me at all.”

A new space opens.

Not on the outside.

But within him.

This new interpretation not only changes his experience —

it also changes his stance for the next time.

Because it reconnects him with himself.

In hypnosystemic work this shift is of central importance:

the conscious choice of which reality offer you make — for yourself and for others.

A reality offer is a linguistic, emotional, physical, or inner signal that suggests a particular meaning.

When you, as a leader, say:

“I have the impression you are overwhelmed,”

then you send an offer that focuses on weakness.

When you say:

“I’m wondering what you need in order to show up with confidence here,”

then you send an offer that activates trust and a sense of choice.

Both sentences have an impact.

But only one of them opens an inner space.

And that is exactly what this chapter is about:

You are a shaper of reality — in every situation.

And you can choose what you offer.

A Course in Miracles calls this the correction of perception.

Not because you are mistaken, but because you are willing to question your projections.

You are not to blame for your interpretation.

But you are also not helplessly at its mercy.

You share responsibility.

This realization is not easy — but it is healing.

Because it gives back what many lose in everyday life:

A sense of inner freedom.

Maybe you can already feel it:

It is not about thinking more positively.

It is about interpreting more consciously.

Not painting things nicely, but quietly asking:

“What am I believing right now — and where does it lead me?”