Healing Leadership
In my ongoing search for understanding of myself and my place in the world, I have found several recurring themes and 2 of them are surfacing here.
These are things seem to be hard coded into my dna and I can’t not be or do, no matter how much I try to sideline the impulse. They inform my essential nature and will find a voice somehow.
The first is Healing. This isn’t simply repair work, although it can include some of that. Neither is it some kind of ethereal transmutation of spiritual woes. Rather It’s simply to become more whole.
No more, or less. Within that are worlds, dimensions even, of possibility covering everything from childhood trauma to human potential to the nature of reality and one’s place in it.
The important part is that it entails becoming more whole as yourself. And this is a good thing. There is more to you than you can possibly understand with your thinky bits. You are utterly unique and there is no replacement. If you are not present in the universe, we are all profoundly the poorer for it.
Next is leadership. A funny thing happens when you start doing your own inner work, is that others tend to naturally look to you as an example. Kids and animals in particular respond to you differently. Leadership doesn’t necessarily mean you are or need to be in charge of people in your job, but the universe notices those who are showing up and responds in kind. And that translates to one’s community and profession quite naturally.
Put them together and you have Healing Leadership. Not only are we healing leadership itself from the historical toxic patriarchy, but we’re also healing ourselves and each other in the process. Together we become more whole. Leadership itself becomes an Instrument of Becoming for all of us. The importance of leaders that do their own inner work at this time cannot be overstated, nor the importance of leaders that can well and compassionately support others in their work.
One societal segment of our current global transformation that is particularly ready for this is the neuro-complex community and especially those of us that are just learning about it later in life, often from the diagnosis of a child or family member.
We grew up before it was understood to be anything other than a character flaw at best or willful laziness at worst. The revelation of natural neurological differences and what that means for lived experience is utterly life changing and paradigm shifting.
What is healing for one is healing for all.
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ - We are all related