What Can You Do About Disengagement?

In any business, you have employees that hate their jobs and their bosses. Bosses are overworked and underpaid. Leaders are overwhelmed and had no idea what they were getting into. It’s not working, and it doesn’t have to be this way.

Disengagement is the invisible force holding not only your business back, but our entire species from real fulfillment.

What is Clear and Open?

Clear and Open is a body of teachings and a community for professionals committed to excellence, achievement, and evolution. It’s based on a universal set of principles and methods that solve your business problems at the deepest levels.

You’re courageous enough to look at how your work is inevitably an expression of yourself, so your workplace can become a dojo, literally a “place of enlightenment” where the only opponent is your own shadow.

Clear and Open is for introspective high-achievers like you, because you see your work as a vehicle for your own evolution, your greatest self-expression, and a path to your deepest fulfillment in every domain of your life.

 

About Josef Shapiro

Josef Shapiro is a voice for excellence and extraordinary results in a young coaching industry still finding its way. He is a lifelong student of human potential, holds black belts in Aikido and Jujitsu, and has been a teacher since age fifteen. He lives in Hawaii with his cats Popo and Pele, some Muscovy ducks, and spends not nearly enough time with his guitar.

Josef began his career in 2002 by training at EMyth, a pioneer of business. He later joined the company’s management team and oversaw sales, marketing, coach training, and program development. Clear and Open is an advanced methodology for business and personal growth synthesized from many models, including the Enneagram, Zen, Landmark, and more, but is most influenced by the ground-breaking emotional-spiritual paradigm of Edenity.

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The Story of Clear and Open

Is there a part of your job you can’t imagine not doing? Maybe that’s holding you back? That’s what I found in myself, and it changed everything.

I love working individually with people and still do. But one day I saw I could do something greater. To make clear the tools, systems, and methods I’ve developed over the years and open them to a wider audience–to build a community of people who could learn from and help each other.

I tell my clients that if I do my job right, at some point they won’t need me. Clear and Open is about keeping that promise. It’s about codifying all that I’ve learned into a community-based, affordable, powerful method for change that can scalably serve many more than I could alone.

What’s With the Poetry?

The three-line haiku I write on the site, my blogs, and elsewhere is a Japanese poetry form used to depict the essence of a specific moment in time in a provocative way. In Zen, these poems are sometimes used to challenge the reader’s conditioned tendencies or otherwise invite change. The beauty of Zen is that its teachings are universal to all religions, philosophies, and other world-views, which is why its principles form part of the foundation of Clear and Open. And no, I don’t usually follow the syllable “rules” of traditional haiku.

Rules are training wheels
That serve a purpose
But are not the truth

Catherine McCann, CEO of Best Cleaners

I was feeling frustrated, sad, and angry about the state of the world and my powerlessness to change it. In just a few months, my progress has been incalculable. Josef is helping me sift through a lifetime’s worth of my own “stuff,” including things I thought I’d dealt with long ago. I can honestly say that I have never felt more at home with myself than I do right now and this in the middle of a global pandemic!

Wael Al Sayegh, Founder of Alareen Martial Arts & Fitness

Working with Clear and Open has been far more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. The value I receive from investing in my monthly membership fee goes far beyond the numerical amount that leaves my bank account. The Dojo Ranking System is a pathway towards the realization of my most authentic Self. As a leader, life is lonely by the very nature of the job. Clear and Open helps me to not only be okay with that loneliness, but to also listen, learn, and appreciate it for what it is, a Divine gift.

Ed Reese, Founder of Sixth Man Marketing

Clear and Open helped me find my authentic self and share it with others. That allows me to be myself at work, with my friends, and around those I love. It dramatically improved the connection I have with others AND (without intentional effort) brought the right professional opportunities to me that both notice this way of being and value my “open” leadership style. It’s difficult to place a value on how much this impacted my life personally and professionally. In many ways I think I still don’t even know myself.

Rebecca Rosman, Founder of Rosman Designs

Since joining the online group courses of Clear and Open, I have learned to lean into productive discomfort, recognize unconscious defenses and motivations, and develop critical thinking skills. Committing to a daily meditation practice has also made a huge difference in my life. Josef’s style of teaching and coaching invites us to engage, take action and grow…not only on a professional level, but also on personal and spiritual levels as well.

Every once in a while I cross paths with someone who changes the quality of my life for the better. Josef has proven to be one of those people.

John Cheary, Founder & CEO, John Marshall Media, Inc.

Josef has made a significant contribution to my life. During my time with him he’s illuminated areas of myself that I wasn’t aware existed, helping me recognize issues that were holding me back and helping me discover ways to improve them. I’ll hold the lessons that he taught me for the rest of my life. I can’t recommend him enough.