About, continued…
When I completed college with a humanities degree many years ago I recall trying to decide what I wanted to do for work. I simply thought about what seemed “most important’, as if I were laying down my poker chips on a bet.
At that time we were in the first wave of the ecological movement. It seemed unthinkable that anything could be more important than “saving the earth”. So my chosen career became environmental protection. I embarked on my career in local government – primarily in water conservation and landscape sustainability.
Over time I began to expand my view. I have always had a philosophical bent, looking at the bigger picture and wondering what makes us tick. I also wanted to understand and improve organizational functioning. I gradually turned my attention to human and organizational development and systems thinking and trained as a coach.
At that time, I mistakenly thought that we humans had truly learned from our mistakes with respect to the environment. After all, we had environmental regulations in place, governmental agencies charged with environmental protection, more environmentally friendly technology and most importantly, greater consciousness about the value of sustainable environmental practices to help us achieve needed course correction. Done, right?
Yes, I was indeed wrong. That we are at a crisis point with climate change is the most obvious example of our failure to steward the health of the plant, and therefore of her inhabitants.
These two threads – the environmental and the developmental - have now come full circle for me.
And this brings us to Living Cycles Coaching and the evolutionary moment we are in.
As Albert Einstein said: “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”
My calling is to participate in this evolutionary moment by supporting those seeking to participate fully in life, to be wholeheartedly present, who wish to co-create a future they want to live in.
If not now, when?