We are in times of great change. Leaders need to know how to be with complexity and how to contribute to and navigate systems change.
I can help do that.
These times are complex, so we need to reexamine our relationship with complexity.
These times are complex, but they aren’t “more” complex than before. In fact ALL living systems are complex, but for many decades, or even centuries, we have built linear, rigid systems attempting to control that complexity.
These times of great systems change are where we collectively are learning that that way of leading doesn’t work.
These times are inviting us all to reengage with systems & complexity, a reconnection to ourselves and to nature. But many of us have forgotten how to connect.
I had forgotten too. I spent the last 15 years teaching and consulting in old stoic masculine institutions: Oxford, Yale, Dartmouth, and other global institutions where I designed educational programming and systems learning tools that are being used around the world. Before that I spent a decade living in Asia, teaching in Japan and then founding and running an educational organization and hybrid social enterprise in Cambodia.
My type-A life got me an MBA, two co-authored books (with a third on the way), and the chance to coach, facilitate, and design strategies for global companies, organizations, and foundations looking to contribute to systems change.
Along the way, I felt like I had to bury the inner work, the leadership and reflection processes, and the sacred pieces of this systems work, and of myself, in service of the more technical and tactical approaches to systems change. I’m done with that.
I decided it was time to bring balance back between the linear and circular parts of my work and life.
This world, and each of us, needs balance: of the outer work and the inner work, of the yang and the yin, of the masculine and the feminine. As I continue to work to bring myself back into balance I have found ways to help others who are looking to do the same.
This is a sacred balance that is important and possible in each of us. The balance of the sacred masculine (the drive, the goals, the intelligence, the tools, the strategy) with the sacred feminine (the intuition, the awareness of interconnectedness, the systems approach, the spaciousness, the relationality, the presence).
I am working to bring myself and my organizations back into sacred union and helping others do the same. In doing so, we can each contribute our part in bringing our world back into balance.
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This community is helping people get unstuck to thrive. If you want to be in community with people who are looking to balance their own yin and yang, to keep their drive and vision but pair it with ease and inner grounding, we’ve got you.
We are all better off if we do this work together.
In this community, we get to practice being in a future version of the world we want to see: interconnected, collaborative, intuitive… together.
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