When Your Actions Reach Their Limits

Nobody wants to be powerless. Our culture places a premium on action, doing, and making things happen. If only the inner mindset is right, everything can be achieved and managed, or so a common belief goes. But what happens when the capacity to act hits its limits and doing alone no longer provides an answer?

This is where Klaus Eidenschink’s new book “Ungeliebte Ohnmacht: Vom Wert einer unterschätzten Emotion” begins. The theologian with a background in philosophy and psychology and an executive coach questions the notion that everything can be mastered. He turns attention to a capacity that is rarely given heed: how to respond to difficult situations through altered experience and a transformation of internal processing patterns.

Between Theory and Professional Practice

How can we learn to cope with the rough and cold edges of life? What answers exist to the personal and social tragedy of human existence? Eidenschink investigates how powerlessness can be used and what significance this often underestimated emotion holds, especially in turbulent times.
“Ungeliebte Ohnmacht. Vom Wert einer unterschätzten Emotion” (Amazon-Affiliate-Link) deals with experiences that people encounter in both their professional and private lives: situations that elude personal influence and for which there is no simple solution. The audiences addressed include coaches and leaders. It also addresses dealing with change and uncertainty.
Klaus Eidenschink studied theology, philosophy and psychology and has been exploring change processes in people, teams and organizations for 30 years. He works as an organizational consultant and executive coach and runs the Munich-based Hephaistos Coaching Center. His focus areas are advising executives, team development, and conflict resolution.