Facilitators for the Shift
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
How do we see our work?
And what might we do differently if we nest the specific purpose of our specific meeting, task, project or initiative within the wider purpose of what Joanna Macy calls “The Great Turning”? By this she means the shift from an industrial growth society to a life sustaining civilization.
To be a “Facilitator for the Shift” is to dedicate our life force to humanity’s grand adventure of shifting EVERYTHING — from the behaviours and structures to mindsets and consciousness – towards greater alignment with the evolutionary impulse of Life.
You can be from any walk of life, with or without formal authority and power.
If these ideas are resonating, we invite you to say “YES”, or to acknowledge anew the power of the “YES” you have already said!
Now What?
The ways forward are paths we make by walking. “Facilitators for the Shift” is one way to name the co-arising wave of agency and leadership popping up everywhere.
Know that we are legion!
Odds are excellent that people in your wider circle, if not your immediate circle, feel similarly called. So reach out. Perhaps you instigating a conversation will be just the nudge another needs to fall, like ripe fruit, into their own “YES”.
Gathering with others helps us access more support, perspectives, collaborators, allies, networks and more. It’s friendlier and more fun. And it is an expression, in and of itself, of what is seeking to emerge, since the Great Turning involves us shifting from isolation and separation towards community, collaboration, and co-creation.
And I’m pleased to offer custom and off-the-shelf capacity building workshops.
Along the way
In case they are helpful to you, here are practices and principles that have helped me:
Choose trust.
Moment by moment, we get to choose if we orient based on fear or trust. Both shape the way life unfolds through us. It is unspeakably powerful to choose to trust that fundamentally, no matter what happens, I will be okay. More here.
Orient to the better world we all know is possible.
There is, understandably, much doom and gloom as the old world unravels. It is easy to catch the contagion of negativity and despair. Practice inner hygiene. Put the oxygen mask on yourself first so you can breathe freely and be alive to the mystery.
Allow conscious co-creation with Life.
Experiment with the idea that there is a greater intelligence you can tap into and ask “it” for help. Be open to what shows up. Be prepared to be surprised, perhaps by a phone call out of the blue, or a post you happen to catch on social media…
Work light!
We’ve been raised to work hard, and then some of us have graduated to working smart. Go the next level: Work light. Joy is vastly more powerful than reason or hard work. Joy backed by reason and strategic action is profoundly compelling. Concentrate your efforts on what you truly love to do and what has most meaning for you.