For those who’ve read my second book, you may be wondering why I’ve invested so heavily in revising the content and released it under a new title, We Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Collective Genius.
Why now? And why this dedication to nurturing a movement to revolutionize how we work together?
First, I’ve been excited to add new content
The biggest change is a new chapter on the oh-so powerful Systems Constellations way of seeing. I learned about this framework in 2012, just after I released my second book, and I’ve wanted to include it ever since.
I’ve also added 11 new illustrations, based on reader feedback, in order to make the concepts more “sticky.”
But the most important changes, in my view, are the new sections on how each framework applies at the personal level. Doing our own inner work is crucial for us to be effective as leaders and change makers; plus the more we use the tools at the personal level, the more we will remember and be able to access the them when we need them in the flux of group situations.
I’ve received tremendous feedback from influential and trusted thought leaders, executives and change agents across sectors on this work, and that inner work element is perhaps the most popular differentiator of the work I’m presenting.
Second, it’s time!
I can’t not do it. I feel called. I’ve been playing too small too long, and it’s time to truly honour this body of work. It is in the tips of my fingernails, and my heart and soul, and the fibre of my being: The tremendous potential of inner work to bring us peace and joy, and to contribute significantly to what David Korten calls the “Great Turning” so needed at this time.
I love Korten’s phrase. Our mindsets and structures and systems need to turn away from those of an industrial growth society, and towards those of a life-sustaining civilization. A huge turning, like steering an aircraft carrier in the opposite direction.
If we work only on the outer, we’ll recreate what we already have in new forms. We need profound shifts on the inner, and “inner work” helps us do that.
Finally, it’s time to shift from “I” to “We”
And I mean that for both me personally and for all of us collectively.
Two years ago, I had a huge “ah-ha” moment: I’d been framing my work as “How might I…”. The classic lone wolf stance. Don’t ask for help. Don’t admit that you don’t know what to do next, or feel overwhelmed or lost. Bury yourself in being busy in things that are relative distractions; sort of on track but not as pointed or undiluted or alive as what is really trying to come through.
Getting that I could ask instead, “How might we…” is changing everything. Suddenly I’m not alone, and the possibilities are vastly greater.
Recalibrating from “How might I…” to “How might we…” has been a journey – I’m still in it.
It is as if every “How might we…” step I take has been matched by Life to the power of 10. Like there is a Tsunami of support just waiting for me to take a step, and to match and amplify each step that I take.
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And with each step forward, more doors opened. When I said “Yes” on the inner to doing a crowdfunder, I soon received an email out of the blue from a woman in my wider circle who I’d not heard from in years. She was on a maternity leave and had solid experience with crowdfunding. She totally gets my work, and without a moment’s hesitation, offered her services, pro bono, to help me craft a successful campaign.
Such support is humbling! It is a gift!
The very fact that someone was willing to help – to contribute hours and hours of professional consulting and hand-holding and nudges – means I can’t zone out and disappear (for long). I can’t, in integrity, receive the gift of support without doing my part — without showing up more and more and more.
But she wasn’t the only one. I soon became very good at asking for help, and was rewarded by a flood of it – from experts in communications, engagement, business and digital strategy.
And it just kept coming, with 200+ amazing souls backing my crowdfunder, intros to potential endorsers, and invitations to give workshops.
I am being midwifed by love and step-by-step practical support to break deep patterns of playing small and working below the radar.
No more Lone Wolves
I suspect that probably 98% of us are like me and can benefit from letting go of the rugged individualism we have been so schooled in, and embracing our incredible potential for collective wisdom, collective capacity, and collective intelligence.
And to get the most out of this “I” to “We” shift, we need to get better at working together. We need access to a suite of perspectives, frameworks, practices, and activities used by professional facilitators and consultants.
As we access these ways of seeing and being, we will know what is possible, and more and more of us will delight in the sweetness of working well together.
What if your best ever experience of working with others became a new normal, and if you haven’t seen anything yet in terms of what is possible for human working with other humans. I know in my bones the potential is joyous and sweet and WANTS TO HAPPEN.
I hope you will join me in growing this movement to revolutionize how we work together.
For peace and joy!
Kate
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