Michelle Obama once stated that especially we women have to plan our joy like we have to plan work.
But: What if joy is nothing we can plan – but our most natural state, hidden deep within, under layers of sorrow, sadness, fear or self-doubt?
When we realize we’ve always been joy and will always be – then even the question if we can be joyful when everything falls apart on our planet becomes irrelevant.
We ARE joy.
We just have forgotten.
Let’s rediscover this essence of being human. And be even better care-takers for those who need us.
When and where do you feel most yourself?
(Me? When I’m with the people I love and doing what I love to do ✨️)
Schlagwort: Leadership
Lead with love
„A Leader is the visionary who sets the heart-centric empowering policies, encourages team spirit, radiates happiness and channelizes inner-power into success.
Heart-centric means, that the leader believes in intrinsic qualities, freedom, creativity, thoughtful expression and healthy relationships.”
Maitreya Dadashreeji
In a contemplation session today with Lucia Steinbach and Monika Kindermann-Kletzmayr, this quote by my spiritual guide and teacher Maitreya Dadashreeji emerged. And I am still contemplating about it.
What is a leader? How should they be?
For me, …
… leadership is servant and compassionate🙏🏼
It is all-inclusive, leaving no-one behind 🫶🏼
And, yes: it is visionary – outlining the direction in which we’re heading together 🌟
Leading others begins with leading myself – and with the question: who is leading my Self?
Leadership is a state, a condition of being – pursuing the wellbeing of others in a most natural way 🌱
In that sense, leadership with impact is always transformational – aiming at fulfilling my highest potential, that of my team, the organization and, in the end, society at large.
When we become the purest instruments for what is wanting to emerge through us – we are leaders in the most transformative sense of the word, serving our highest purpose 💫
In my view, a leader is a caretaker (always). That might be seen as a weakness given the current status of caretaking in our society – but serving someone and taking care of them, is one of the highest forms of leadership in my humble view 💞
What are your opinions on these questions?
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Wirkungssprint Dresden
Was für schöne Erinnerungen an zwei Tage Wirkungssprint der Stiftung Bürgermut vor zwei Wochen in Dresden 😍☀️🍂
Dankbar, das Team vom Haus der sozialen Vielfalt Leipzig rund um Yusuf Aydinbas und Halil Ünal coachen zu dürfen – und viele weitere Engagierte aus Ostdeutschland und ihre Coaches kennenzulernen!
Diese Tage haben mir mal wieder gezeigt, warum ich so gerne Teams und Führungskräfte aus der Zivilgesellschaft begleite – wir brauchen Euer Herzblut, Engagement und Knowhow so sehr 🤗🌱
Einen großen DANKE-Blumenstrauß 💐💐💐 ans Team der Stiftung Bürgermut, Friederike Petersen, Hannah Vongries und Josefa Frieda Baum für Eure wunderbare Betreuung – ich bin auch bei einem nächsten Durchgang sehr gern wieder mit dabei 🫶🏼
Die tollen Bilder hat Tine Jurtz gemacht – und die Location bei YETI Fellowship war auch absolut einzigartig 💞
🙌🏼 Und für alle kurzentschlossenen Non-Profit-Wirkenden: wer noch auf den letzten Drücker ein Endjahres-Coaching zu Reflexion und Neuausrichtung braucht: ein paar Slots sind noch frei 🙌🏼
Leading with compassion
These days, we can easily tend to think that we, as compassionate leaders and coaches who care deeply, are the crazy ones.
🤔 What’s helping me and my clients?
Leave the level of the obvious. Search for deeper reasons behind the surface of the events.
In short: see the universal framework of what’s unfolding.
Adopting a spiritual perspective helps with
🕉 Letting go of patterns and mindsets that no longer serve our shared humanity craving for meaning, love and peace.
🕉 Finding meaning in the suffering and being with what is – holding a breaking heart while strengthening our capacity to help and love more.
🕉 Building a bridge towards a future that heals in full faith that a brighter tomorrow will rise out of the dust of rampant wars, erupting volcanos and incessant wild-fires.
Thich Nhat Hanh stated it very clearly:
„We have to wake up together. And if we wake up together, then we have a chance. Our way of living our life and planning our future has led us into this situation. And now we need to look deeply to find a way out, not only as individuals, but as a collective, a species. …
We need a collective awakening. One Buddha is not enough. All of us have to become Buddhas in order for our planet to have a chance.“
Let us, together, discover the Buddha within. Let’s ignite our Divine hearts and listen to our soul’s yearning again.
Let’s open the door for
❤️🩹 faith dissolving fear
❤️🩹 friendship bridging division
❤️🩹 compassion and care healing pain and suffering.
It’s only together that we can make it through these times of collapse aka collective awakening 💞
🫶🏽 Feel free to reach out if you want to learn more about my Peace Gardening Sessions where we’ll look through this spiritual lense to re-frame your challenges 🫶🏽