Create the Space, Invite... Allow... Awaken

Koffi Annan, recent Secretary General, United Nations said "The future of the world depends on Woman"

I know this to be true. For me I realize that women have a unique voice, a unique style of moving through the world. When a woman speaks with her authentic voice, speaking her truth, from signal # 1... there is passion and powerin her message. People see this... People hear this... People stop and listen... The message that woman is conveying will resonate with many... and in an instant the world begins to shift.

"The future of the world depends on woman" I know this, Koffi Annan knows this... Do you?

Over the past 10 months I have spent a lot of time with women's leadership... exploring leadership in general, I have become very passionate about Woman's Leadership and inviting others to awaken and become curious to the potential they too hold. This is what has driven me to speak at events, create the space to let my voice be heard, to write my articles.

For me, leadership is not about money, status, rank or position. I know you don't need any of these things to be a leaders. I don't have any of these things and I know I am a leader. To me, leading is not about being superior or having followers. Leading is about Igniting... Engaging... and Inspiring others to claim their unique sound, to know their truth and speak their authentic voice, to make a mark in their own world, however they choose.

I invite you to consider, not only your unique style of leading... but consider how much space do you create for those around you to claim their voice, to co-create with you and to grow?

This is part of my speech I gave at the Women's Leadership Learning Event I chaired for my department. On Friday Morning approximately 45 women gathered for this learning event "Developing our Leadership - Exploring our Potential". I had Cathy Carmody & Celine Burlock come into facilitate a morning of exploration based from a WEL-Systems perspective. I think everytime I listen to women engage in this context, or I read over the material, something new clicks for me. I get a clearer and better understanding of one of the models or a different way in which I can apply it.

I would have loved to have positioned myself in a different way in the room to really watch the women as some of them began to awaken. When I got back to the office in the afternoon I had 3 people stop me to talk about WEL-Systems, Huna or my expierence in all of this. I received 7 e-mails in the 2 hrs I was at my computer that followed the event. The ripples have turned to waves... the Tsunami is coming.

I am off to Oceanstone again tomorrow for another week (this time vacation/Writing Retreat), purely for pleasure, and another week with Louise LeBrun. I wonder who I will be when I return this time?

Hoping I will have to ability to post while I am there.