This is it! The end of the 7-day program and one final step to INTEGRATE each of the six leadership principles you’ve discovered and leaned into and to…

Pull Together All the Threads…

Leadership is not a fixed destination—it’s a living practice. Over the past seven days, you’ve explored six core principles that shape how you lead with queer integrity.

Now it’s time to pause, reflect, and integrate.

Which of the six pillars—FEEL, KNOW, THINK, VOICE, DREAM, or LEAD — is asking for your deepest attention right now?

Where do you feel the greatest desire—or the greatest resistance—to step forward?

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Option A: Reflective Integration Questions

If you’d like to explore more deeply, consider these:

* What did you learn about yourself—or leadership—that you want to adopt as part of your leadership style?

* What was most surprising, challenging, or illuminating for you throughout this journey?

* Which small, consistent practice can you carry forward from each principle to embody your leadership with greater clarity, conviction, and queer integrity?

Option B: Leadership Sentence Stems (Highly Recommended)

If you prefer a more creative and generative reflection, complete the following sentence stems. Go back over your notes from each principle to guide you in completing each sentence.

* When I FEEL well, I…

* What I KNOW is…

* When I THINK wisely, I am…

* When I express my unique VOICE, I sound like…

* My DREAM is…

* I LEAD by…

You might want to write these out and post them somewhere visible—a daily reminder of who you are and how you lead.

A Final Question from the Margins

After completing this exercise, review your responses. Then consider:

What part of your queerness do you now see as a strength in your leadership—something to honour, protect, or share?

You’ve done the courageous work of reflection, insight, and intention. Now, the real-world practice begins. You don’t need to be perfect, and you certainly don’t need to perform for other people’s benefit. You only need to be present—to yourself, to your values, and to the change you’re here to support.

Keep leading with queer integrity: the world needs your voice, your wisdom, and your human-heartedness.

Here Are My Leadership Sentence Stem responses:

In case it’s helpful, here is how I answered the leadership sentence stems. What you will see is how my responses are completely in line with my coaching principles.

When I FEEL well, I can lead well, and I CARE enough to make a difference.

What I KNOW is that I stand for a human-hearted ethics grounded in personal responsibility, dignity, respect, and the freedom to express my creative purpose, and I am an advocate for queer rights.

When I THINK wisely, I am flexible and resilient, open-minded to new ideas that may challenge both my thinking and beliefs, and strategic yet reasonable.

When I express my unique VOICE, I share my ideas through vulnerability, humour, and metaphor, challenging convention and unexamined beliefs.

My DREAM is to create and support meaningful and impactful social transformation that advances fairness, dignity, and respect for our common humanity.

I LEAD by challenging myself to follow the path of human-heartedness, practicing non-contention, impartiality, compassion, yielding flexibility, humility, and commonality.

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