The secret life of corporations

When you create a business, in legal terms, you form a corporate entity. An entity is “a thing with distinct and independent existence.” (Oxford Languages, 2023) Further, the word corporate “is based on the Latin corporatus, which is the past participle of corporare or to form into a body. Corpus means body.” (MacMillan Dictionary, 2023)

When I look more closely at this, and reflecting on my own experience as a founder, business owner, consultant, and employee, my experience is that each business has consciousness. It is dynamic and co-creative with the people who work there. And while it might not have physical bodies, a typical business has people that correspond to the parts of a physical body (brain, creativity, heart, hands, etc.). 

I also believe that on a deep level, a business retains the collective decisions its leaders and team make, over time, that become the business’s results and reputation, as well as that set its culture. (If you’re spiritual, you might relate this to the concept of the karma a business generates, and what that means from a cause-and-effect standpoint). 

Over time, most businesses also create a body of work, which consists of what they put into the world and the energy that body of work creates: successes and failures, fabulous leaders and less-than-stellar ones, and so on. There is a whole layer of unseen outcomes in all of this, and this layer is retained energetically in the corporation and in its people. This is the part that most leaders and teams want to heal. They may not realize this type of healing is real and available to them.

But, because anything with consciousness can be healed, doesn’t it make sense that a business can be healed? Yes!