The Awesome Women Hub Re-Think Tank Forum: A Reflection on What the World Needs Next
Posted: Monday, October 17, 2011
by Dr. Carla Goddard
Inspired to be of deeper service to the world and hearing the call to empower women worldwide in the new feminine models of community, Robin, Leslie, Carla and Sandra have come together to travel to each Awesome Women Hub Tour Stop to meet you!...
mes to a close. Spending many months immersed in the process of RE-Thinking various aspects of 'what the world needs next' has revealed many threads of a tapestry that is still being woven. Beginning really in February/March time frame, I have sat in awe listening to women from across the globe re-thinking definitions such as what does beauty truly mean, to how can we show up in the business world as authentic selves, and even going back into history to re-think the messages our ancestors left for us to live by.As this life force energy emerged from a group of women immersed both in live events and in virtual re-think tanks, the energetic signature fluxed, pushed, pulled, and caused torrents of shifts to occur in individuals (including myself). Each re-think tank vastly different than the one before, each seemingly going deeper and deeper into shifting paradigms of society.
We began with re-thinking what fearlessness means, what it looks like, and how can one be supported in making a fearless statement into reality. The old paradigm thought process of safety and tribal foundations looked at in order to bring them forward into a new paradigm of authentic selves. We looked at how this applies not only in personal lives, but how to bring it into the business world. As a result of that very first re-think tank, new collaborations were forged, new business ventures begun, and some stepped out of traditional health care to reclaim their lives.
Next, we looked at the simple word 'beauty'. How to be the woman you are at your authentic core, without explanation or apology. We looked at the potential of the world as a beautiful place in all aspects including relationships, reflection of mirrors, in business cooperation and in our voice. The ability to shed old consciousness that limit our definitions and our own ability to even love our own selves. How do we carry the unified and authentic definition of beautiful into society? Into business? Into life?
We moved into looking at the ancestors and the messages they left for us. How do we take those messages, those lessons and carry them into the future? Asking even are they relevant to today's society and even more important, are they relevant to the generation that follows? Can we learn from our ancestors? Can we return to a tribal society where we co create and collaborate, nurture one another from the competitive survival existence we live in today? Is all competition no longer a viable energy signature or is it some symbiotic relationship that must come into the evolution process?
We looked at the generation that follows our own. What are we leaving for them? Have we paused and asked them the question "what do you wish for us to leave you"? We asked questions like we often think of society as me verse we, what happens if we come together as one rather than separated by age? What happens when we go deep into our essence, can we do things different? We went to the next generation and asked them the questions.
And then, the big question ... As our world globally is standing on the verge of change. Change in nature. Change in social structures. Change in political temperatures. Change in economics. What structures do we need now, not ten years from now, but now in social society, professional society, or in organizational society itself? Is it actually new structures that need to be created, or simply re defining the ones that already exist? This single question generated overwhelming shifts in energy of those in the conversation. Women becoming the architects of themselves, creating a blueprint for the foundation of their own authentic essence, and respecting the natural cycle of life as they assimilate into it. Ideas emerged that are not just nice ideas, but concrete blueprints of carrying into society. From sustainable living and heart centered micro changes, to new business ventures co creating a new vision of working with the autistic mind.
I personally am aware of a woman finding the strength to enter a safe house, a woman quitting her "job" to embark upon a spiritual journey into sustainable living, women collaborating in new teachings giving their authentic selves a voice, a book being written on new healing, a woman embarking on new research into autism, and a sustainable community garden beginning. These are just stories I have heard of in the past week. There are literally hundreds of new ideas being birthed from the RE-think tank forum's.
So did we find the answer to the question, "What does the world need next"? The cycle of nature tells us that a seed is planted, the growing process must happen before the the fruit is harvested. As with nature, the seeds have been planted and now the growing process. It maybe some time before we can truly assess if the RE-think tank forums resulted in long term answers to the question. What can be ascertained then? That every individual that participated at some level in this past years process has forever been affected. The way the perceptions of society, relationships, business, and family are seen have shifted. A new way of thinking and 'seeing' has emerged.
I have been humbled and honored to a part of this process as the Director of Connections on the National Team, I can assure you that I too have been affected. My perceptions shifted. I have been blessed by conversations with women from across the globe whose experiences in life are vastly different than my own. We have come together to re-think, discover, and birth new ideas, new ventures, and new paradigms to bring into the world.
So to all the women whose souls have touched my own across the globe, I thank you from the depths within my heart. Robin, Leslie, and Sandra ... there are not words, but then again, you already know and feel. Thank you. Mitakuye Oyasin. Mwah.
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