Unfolding Peace
Dear Hopeful Leader, We Can Do This!
Leaders across the globe are feeling frustrated and running ragged. Burnout is at an all-time high. Personal well-being is at an all-time low. Meanwhile, the social and cultural change we work to create in our systems and organizations seems ever-out-of-reach.
We know we have to let go of the old paradigm, but what exactly do we put in its place?
When Kawtar El Alaoui realized how deeply the old paradigms had failed her, it was almost too late. Her body failing, career falling apart, and support system fumbling to help, she realized resistance was futile. The only way out was through. To heal her life, Kawtar had to confront and replace nine disempowering beliefs that had held her hostage to a life of external privilege and internal chaos since childhood. What started as a personal journey unfolded into an embodied mission to help others to change the world more effectively.
In Unfolding Peace, this award-winning transformational consultant, facilitator, and coach has combined her riveting journey with the Conscious Togetherness Leadership Framework® that emerged from it. Whether you are working to catalyze change in your family, community, organization, or a larger system, this book will help you to:
- improve your well-being and relationships
- align your transformational intent and impact
- create change in culturally-appropriate ways
- enhance your leadership and advocate effectively
If you are weary and want to increase your positive impact with more ease, grace, and flow, this book is for you.
Stop forcing change. Start unfolding it.
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What Readers Are Saying
What Readers Are Saying
"In Unfolding Peace, Kawtar El Alaoui has sounded a trumpet call to emerging and seasoned leaders working in service of others, guiding us to recognize that we can't build healthy and happy cultures without first taking the time to do our own inner work. Through her words, Kawtar empowers leaders to leverage individual strengths and experiences to lead their teams with empathy, agency, and courage. She uses her own experiences to provide tools and approaches to help leaders build resilience and navigate within rapid-change environments, while cultivating greater compassion and connection with their teams. This book is a powerful reminder that in order to create peace around us, we must first create it within us."
~ Dimple Dhabalia
Writer and Founder of Roots in the Clouds
Former Senior Advisor to the Refugee, Asylum, and
International Operations Directorate, US Citizenship and Immigration Services
"It takes tremendous inner growth, combined with deep study of the human journey of transformation, to reach the insights that Kawtar shares in this book. Each one is powerful and is up there with some of the finest work I have read on leadership and personal evolution. Unabashedly so! What a gift to leaders and to people everywhere. This book is all about integrating the elements of heart, mind, and soul, and gloriously and authentically stepping into your own story."
~ Urja Shah
President of Setco Foundation, and the CSR Director for the Setco Group of companies, India
“‘I’ has reached its limit. Without abandoning ‘I,’ our human family now needs to develop the fullness of ‘We’ – Conscious Togetherness. ‘We’ is the way forward. We need ‘We’ to solve our collective problems and take humanity to its next evolutionary level. This book is a beacon helping light this new path. Buy it, read it, and watch how it contributes to your ‘We’ and to a much better world.”
~ Martin Rutte
Founder, www.ProjectHeavenOnEarth.com
“What is modern life asking from us? How do we lead ourselves, and how do we interact with others? These questions are not always common to ask ourselves.
Since the first moment I met Kawtar a few years ago, I was struck by her authenticity, her powerful and carefully chosen communication, and her truly extraordinary, developed skill of deep listening. In my life, she is a person on my list of ‘who to contact to discover blind spots whether that is a thought, a feeling, or physical symptom.’ I trust her because she will be there for me without any judgments and always get to the point. Now that her book is here, the whole world can have access to Kawtar’s wisdom!
This book a guide for all of us readers who are willing to take the steps to a purposeful life without any vagueness. Her story, solid background information, honest shares, and practical examples and exercises help us to integrate all the steps ourselves. Kawtar invites us, challenges us, to take the necessary steps to break through the limiting patterns that keep us from living a fulfilled, purposeful, aligned life.
This isn't just another self-development book because it is written by Kawtar, who is living proof, walking the talk that we all can become conscious leaders, starting with leading ourselves and from there be the change the world needs now more than ever.”
~ Neinke van Bezooijen
Ted EX Speaker Coach, Guiding leaders to authentic self-expression on world stages
“Kawtar brings to this book simplicity and authenticity that speaks to the heart and taps into our essence—our collective potential as human beings. In her work, there lies the hope for understanding what we must arrest, and hence change, about how we function and think and validate within us. This book inspires us to look at new ways of being and doing. It is a call to revealing the true essence of what it means to be humans who co-create on this planet.”
~ Vikram Bhatt
Founder, Leadership That Works India
“Kawtar's insight is shining a light and creating a path for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.
Unfolding Peace is a book to do inner work that is not always easy to do and will begin to open up the Being you were born to be by aligning your power through vulnerability, while honoring and healing your spirit to awaken and connect to the people we truly are. This book is a gift and much more. It is filled with practical inner work to have us discover the journey that will leave a positive impact for what our soul is calling for with love and peace.”
~ Wendy Schneider
"This book is a must read for everyone who is brave enough to take a long journey to their closest and farthest point of self. The reader knows that it is a hard and a long journey but also acknowledges that the end of the journey is a rewarding one, and patience is a good friend. It was an enlightening experience to read this brilliant book and have Kawtar’s company during our inner self journey, which gave us the support and the encouragement to choose the light. It was also a pleasure being a part of this book as well and I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did!"
~ Birsu Karaarslan, MA
Former President of the Feminist Collective and the Gender, Peace and Security Coalition
As a conscious leadership consultant, coach, facilitator, mentor, and speaker, Kawtar El Alaoui, LL.B, PCC, partners with conscious leaders and organizations to create cultures of well-being, belonging, and peace—replacing the old paradigm.
When Kawtar realized how deeply the old paradigms had failed her, it was almost too late. Her body failing, career falling apart, and support system fumbling to help, she realized resistance was futile. The only way out was through. To heal her life, Kawtar had to confront and replace nine disempowering beliefs that had held her hostage to a life of external privilege and internal chaos since childhood. What started as a personal journey unfolded into an embodied mission to help others to change the world more effectively.
After years of searching and experimenting with methods of driving change, Kawtar found that the changes we truly wish for in our hearts, and for our world, must be unfolded from within. Having supported leaders from all walks of life, and diverse cultural backgrounds, to find peace with the past and cultivate more empowering dynamics for themselves and their communities, Kawtar uncovered a new paradigm of empowering, uniting, and effective leadership. In the Conscious Togetherness Leadership Framework®, she weaves tools for deep inner healing and meaningful service to guide leaders in creating a more equitable, peaceful, and prosperous world. Crafted to bring humanity back to business and systems, this model offers principles and tangible tools for self-awareness, conscious communication, and collaboration, conflict transformation, social equity, trauma-informed relating, and personal and organizational purpose.
As a consultant, Kawtar bridges whole-brain leadership, soul purpose, and effective strategy. Her legal background and mediation training, combined with her leadership profile, give her access to a systemic view that holds the interests of diverse stakeholders with equal care. Her gift for creating spaces of deep listening to self, and the collective, allows individuals and cultures to turn wounds to wisdom, unleash the courage to create systemic change, and establish new life-enhancing paradigms in the spaces in which we lead.
Kawtar was voted 2020 Global Woman of the Year in the category of education by the Global Institute for Evolving Women, featured by Brainz magazine for International Women’s Day 2022 as 1 of 7 female entrepreneurs changing the world and awarded a CREA Global Award for her contribution as a Leadership Coach and Facilitator, and featured in Women’s News Korea.
She is the Founder & CEO of Conscious Togetherness, Inc; Faculty and a Mentor with Leadership That Works India; a Facilitator with Business Plan for Peace in the UK; and a Leadership Advisor with She Did It! Elle a osé! in Canada.
Kawtar enjoys bonding over deep conversations, diverse cultural traditions and foods, and collaborating on innovative and effective solutions to social problems. When she’s not speaking, coaching, or changing the world, she’s home cooking delicious Moroccan food for family and friends or watching her favorite shows on Netflix.
Within Conscious Togetherness, Kawtar heads the Cultural Transformation program. Reach out to her to explore bringing the Conscious Togetherness Leadership Framework® to your organization or community.
Join Kawtar on the ride to change the world, one mindful breath and one brave step at a time!