Enlivening Community Purpose
Communities and organizations, at their essence, are energy fields called together around a particular intention. The focussing intention may be for commercial, altruistic, philosophic or religious purposes. It is this intention that gives an organization its purpose for being.
The intention or purpose of an organization will draw people who ‘resonate’ to the degree that the intention is clear and held in consciousness. Primary responsibilities for any organization are to know and understand their focussing intention; to be utterly realistic about the current aliveness of the intention; to know when the original intention is no longer in alignment with the needs of the organization.
It is not unusual for organizations to find that in spite of strategic planning, visioning exercises and mission statements, they are less (not more) certain about what draws them together and inspires them into the future. This can show up as a lost sense of inter-connectedness, loss of goodwill, dwindling membership and diminished effectiveness.
Sometimes it simply feels as though the vital reason for being a part of the organization, the thing that brought you there to begin with, no longer exists.
What is important at times like this is to name the symptoms and see them as organic feedback and potentiality. From this perspective, what appear to be problems becomes the entry point to wellness.
Enlivening Community Purpose supports communities and organizations to explore, name and understand where they are, to reconnect with their joy, to collectively create a new or renewed intention/purpose and then develop a plan for achieving it.
I start with the belief that the organization knows everything it needs to know in order to create this new and living purpose. Using left and right brain approaches such as dialogue, café-style meetings, art and music, we will talk and dream and dance our way into a discovery of what is and what can be.
My work emerges from 25-years of large group facilitation, project leadership experience, life skills and a grounded spiritual practice.
