Where should our conversations begin?
CLEAVE....David Whyte
To hold together and to split apart
at one and the same time,
like the shock of being born,
breathing in this world
while lamenting for the one we’ve left.
No one needs to tell us
we are already on our onward way,
no one has to remind us
of our everyday and intimate
embrace
with disappearance.
We were born saying goodbye
to what we love,
we were born
in a beautiful reluctance,
not quite ready
to breathe in this new world,
we are here and we are not,
we are present while still not
wanting to admit we have arrived.
Not quite arrived in our minds
yet always arriving in the body,
always growing older
while trying to grow younger,
always in the act
of catching up,
of saying hello
or saying goodbye
finding strangely,
in each new and imagined future
the still-lived memory
of a previous, precious life.
The Wicked Challenge : Join me online for our next W & E Session
Our observations and conversations with leaders right across varying sectors of our community seem to theme around the same focus areas. The discomfort and anxiety of the uncertainty of personal and organisational life. As a leader reading this you are acutely aware of the outcomes of the uncertainty.
Who will be the hero that will come to rescue us from the uncertainty in which we live?
That's the question our fear driven inner voice asks - like it or not.
Leaders are supposed to know the answers and solve problems. Those in authority are expected to remove the discomfort of not knowing. We are driven to act quickly and be the one to put ourselves and others out of the pain of not knowing. To ensure the safety and security of the individuals and enterprises for which we care. What is the quick fix that will make the difference?
The tools of traditional leadership fall into little substance when things are out of our control. We are challenged to hold the complexity and confusion whilst re-imaging the future. This is the real work of leadership - we are challenged to step into the wickedness that has emerged.
The work that we undertake in the wisdom and encouragement network is concerned with creating space for leaders to cultivate the inner resources to live and lead more authentically, aligning who they are to what they do. To hold the dynamic tension of not knowing and needing to know.
We will work with leadership challenges as they arise for the group and support outcomes to be put into practise.
As David Whyte challenges us; “questions that have no right to go away! “
This is not a conversation for everyone, be prepared to feel uncomfortable.
Come and join us in exploring the great unknown!. Leave after tapping into the wisdom of the network and feel encouraged to return to your world!
"I don't take your words
Merely as words.
Far from it.
I listen
To what makes you talk
Whatever that is
And me listen." Shinkichi Takahashi