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Global Sufficiency Summit: Spend a day with Lynne Twist Author of The Soul of Money as as other leaders looking at the paradigm of "Sufficiency" as an idea whose time is NOW. For more info click here. Living From Sufficiency: Imagine a world where there is actually enough of everything for everyone: enough food, enough, water, enough clean air, enough money, enough time, enough love, enough resources, enough compassion, enough of what it takes to live on this planet in harmony with everyone and everything. Sounds like a tall order. We know. Especially now. Join us to see how. Click here for more info and to register Pilgrimages Tele Class: Let's unravel the magic of our own individual pilgrimage, consciously, and in alignment with the power and mystery of the feminine model of creation. Join us for a fabulous 6 weeks together. For more more info click here or go to www.themagicparties.com
I would like to invite you to a truly healing event. My dear friend, Wendy Capland, runs Magic Parties. They offer opportunities for woman to learn, grow and be supported in their quests in life - Sisterhood, Spirit, and a little bit of chocolate! She is running a very special two-day event in November in Tyngsboro, MA at the Stonehedge Inn. The dates of the event are November 1st & 2nd. For more info go to www.themagicparties.com
Fall supervision group: Supervision groups for seasoned, practicing executive and personal coaches. Click here to learn more! Offering 10% to sign up by 10/27!
Strategy Intensive
Build momentum and sustain velocity to achieve your strategic goals. The Strategic Intensive is two intense days where we dive into the only case study that matter...YOURS. Each class is limited to seven participants. All courses are held exclusively at the Harvard Faculty Club at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Remaining 2008 dates:
November 18-19
December 11-12.
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Buy the Book
Being Human at Work: Bringing Somatic Intelligence Into Your Professional Life
From Surviving the Thriving a chapter authored by Jennifer Cohen.
Edited by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D.
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Welcome to the Meaningful Leadership newsletter series. |
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Leading from Sufficiency: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
"The system we have is perfectly designed to get the behavior (and the breakdowns) we are currently seeing." Robert Hanig
American society is designed on a system of articulated ideas within which we all operate. Some of the core ideas are: Democracy, Free Market Capitalism, and Freedom.
Equally as influential on the system's creation, if not more so, are several negative forces. One of those is scarcity. The concept of scarcity has given rise to the suffering we experience in our society today.
Putting scarcity in the background a moment, imagine a different world. Imagine there is actually ENOUGH of everything for everyone: enough food, water, clean air, money. Enough time, love, resources, compassion. Enough of what it takes to live on this planet in harmony with everyone and everything. Can you imagine it? Can you get a feel for it? Can you let yourself walk around in that world, just for 30 seconds right now?
We assert that, in this rich nation, a world view based in sufficiency instead of scarcity would create a very different world in which to live.
If sufficiency sounds like a fairy tale, a utopian vision beyond our reach, consider the alternative of the world as it is right now: Plummeting financial markets, climate change, rapid shifts in farming and food sources.
This historical moment of profound disequilibrium is just the kind of moment interventionists dream about. It is the moment in any system where opportunity resides. Can you feel it? It is where innovation can and must happen. Things are changing. This is our moment to shape our evolution.
Over the last 20 years of working with people to develop themselves and their communities, we have witnessed a series of conditioned behaviors-or "practices" or "patterns"-with which most of us engage in relationships, to ourselves and others. Take notice: These practices are parallel to the ways we as a society relate to the earth and its resources.
In light of this parallel, we would like to examine what it means to create sustainability at every level of our lives: personal, interpersonal (i.e., families, teams, colleagues, mentors), organizational, political, social, economic and ecological.
Until we re-map sustainability at all of these levels, our efforts to create zero waste, use alternative energy, and reduce our carbon foot print will in fact be occurring inside of the context of scarcity. Fear of scarcity inevitably leads to rampant misuse of resources (even green ones) and the degradation of life on earth.
If we shift only the sources of energy we use, but not the assumptions we have about how much energy to use in the first place and why:
If we shift only the fuel we use to travel but not the assumptions we have about traveling the globe and its impact on all beings:
If we shift to organically grown food, but it is still offered by multinational corporations and held in scarce supply so that many of the world's people still die of hunger:
If a corporation shifts to be a good green corporate citizen but the culture of the organization is toxic to people:
If we shift all of these things and not our practices in relationship to ourselves and others:
We will have failed to create a sustainable world.
Ready to create sustainability? Stay tuned for the Nov/Dec newsletter:
We will map the parallel between our relationships to one another and our relationships with the Earth and resources.
We will articulate Leading from Sufficiency: how individual leaders and organizations can begin to design from Sufficiency, and invent systems, structures and practices that will realize our collective mission of a sustainable world.
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With warmest regards in this watershed moment in our history,
Jen Cohen and Gina LaRoche
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