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Welcome to another engaging episode of HIRED! The Podcast, where we explore the hiring landscape, talent acquisition, and the dynamic world of work. Host Travis Miller is joined by Kevin Hanegan, Chair of the Advisory Board for The Data Literacy Project and former Chief Learning Officer for Qlik. Together, they delve into leveraging data analytics to navigate recruitment complexities, emphasizing the importance of balancing data insights with human intuition.Travis and Kevin discuss various aspects of the hiring process, covering goal setting, data identification, and challenges faced by organizations. They highlight critical thinking in data analysis and the necessity of challenging assumptions for cognitive diversity within teams. Kevin's experience offers practical approaches to candidate evaluation using a comprehensive framework integrating quantitative and qualitative metrics. Throughout, they emphasize leveraging data-driven insights for informed decisions in today's workplace.Kevin Hanegan, Chair of the Advisory Board for The Data Literacy Project, brings extensive experience and a passion for organizational transformation through innovation. As the author of "Turning Data into Wisdom: How We Can Collaborate with Data to Change Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Even the World," Kevin leverages his diverse background spanning business, technology, learning, and psychology to drive organizational performance and facilitate change. He has successfully optimized both cost centers, like Learning & Development departments, and profit-generating divisions, demonstrating his ability to navigate diverse business landscapes. An advocate for open communication and collaboration, Kevin fosters a culture of empowerment.Join us on HIRED! The Podcast to gain insights from Kevin's wealth of experience and expertise in driving organizational excellence in today's ever-evolving world of work. Subscribe now for more enlightening conversations on talent acquisition, workforce development, and the future of work._________________________________________________Connect with Kevin Hanegan & The Data Literacy ProjectLinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3TZZ0gyWebsite - www.turningdataintowisdom.comThe Data Literacy Project - https://thedataliteracyproject.org_________________________________________________Want to stream our podcast on another platform?Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/3vLWiNXAudible - https://adbl.co/3vJfOu7Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3xJFQzm
On this episode of Point of Relation, Thomas is joined by humanitarian, writer, and social entrepreneur Zainab Salbi. They discuss the difficult nature of working in the humanitarian space to address the many injustices that people, particularly women, face worldwide. Zainab explains how being open and vulnerable about her own traumatic experiences gave her the compassion and inspiration needed to tell women's stories and work to end oppression, systemic violence, and climate change. In a line of work that is so emotionally taxing, she's learned firsthand how crucial it is to resource yourself with the same kindness you show to others and care for your own emotional well-being. As she puts it, “You can't give out of an empty well.” Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault and violence against women. If you anticipate this topic to be too triggering for you to hear about and effectively process on your own, we recommend you choose not to listen. ✨ Become a member of Thomas Hübl's membership community, The Mystic Café, and join us for a live event to commence our upcoming 10-Day Challenge.
Intersectionality. Haven't heard of it? You're about to get the inside scoop. Join Gervase and her guest LaVanda Brown as they discuss LaVanda's work in and around the YWCA, including powerful topics like racism, women empowerment, internalized -isms and false hierarchy, and how we as modern women can walk the road to healing and wholeness in a unified and tangible way. LaVanda Brown joined YWCA Greater Charleston as executive director in February 2016. Her experience, leadership, and passion for serving others span 30 years. A passionate advocate for causes including gender equality, diversity, and racial equity, and a strong ally of under-resourced teens and homeless populations, she envisions a world where differences are not just tolerated but celebrated. Connect with the mission: Join the YWCA / Attend YWCA events Would you like a 1:1 session with Gervase? Book a 90-minute Soul Shift Intensive: https://www.gervasekolmos.com/the-soul-shift-intensive If you'd like to invite Gervase into your compnay to facilitate coaching or conversation to shift company culture, please email us at hi@gervasekolmos.com Follow Gervase Connect with Gervase on Instagram: www.instagram.com/gervasekolmos Visit her website: Gervase Kolmos Resources: The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World
We live in a world where there's so much focus on matrix, statistics, and data, and while these are all important, they do not hold the soul of the mission and the vision. They are not the reason for growth or prosperity, but points of information. Zainab believes that a person has to keep their integrity towards the soul of the mission or the vision. Feminine leadership is putting as much importance to the actual mind in the facts as much as to the heart's knowledge, for the heart has wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence. If we run organizations only using our minds, it becomes broken, disconnected, and unsustainable. Zainab Salbi has frequently been named as one of the women changing the world by leading publications ranging from Newsweek to The Guardian. Oprah Winfrey identified her as one of the women changing the world to People Magazine and President Bill Clinton identified her as one of the 21st century heroes to Harper's Bazaar. Most recently Foreign Policy Magazine named her as one of “100 Leading Global Thinkers” and Watkins Magazine identified her as one of the top 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2020.At the age of 23, Zainab founded Women for Women International, a humanitarian organization dedicated to women survivors of wars. Under her leadership (1993–2011), Women for Women International grew from helping 30 women upon its inception to helping more than 420,000 women and distributing more than 100 million dollars in aid. Zainab is the author of several books, including the best seller Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny; Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (with Laurie Buckland); The Other Side of War; Women's Stories of Survival and Hope; If You Knew Me You Would Care,(with photographs by Rennio Maifredi); and her latest Freedom is an Inside Job; Owning our Darkness and Our Light to Change Ourselves and the World. She is also the Executive Editor and Host of several shows including Through Her Eyes with Yahoo News, #MeToo, Now What? with PBS, The Zainab Salbi Project with Huffington Post , and The Nida'a Show with TLC Arabia. In early 2022, alongside Jody Allen, Zainab co-founded Daughters for Earth, a new fund and campaign that aims to inspire all women to engage in climate change action by mobilizing $100 million for on the ground, women-led efforts to protect and restore the Earth. What we discuss: 01:02 – Introducing Zainab Salbi 04:31 – Making the Impossible Possible 09:11 – Joy through Responsibility 15:15 – A Woman Leading with her Cause 18:32 – Zainab's Journey 27:20 – Visions for Women and the Community 37:27 – Having a Team 44:50 – Zainab's Work and Daughters for Earth 53:26 – Balancing the Masculine and the Feminine 58:09 – The New Age and the Rise of the Feminine 01:03:59 – Zainab in Behalf of the Great Mother Daughters for Earth Website: https://daughtersforearth.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daughtersforearth/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Daughters4Earth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daughters4earth/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daughters4earth/ Personal Website: http://zainabsalbi.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zainab-Salbi-58665958526/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zainabsalbi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zainabsalbi/ Global Sisterhoods Launch Video: https://youtu.be/R9E9W7ECa84 To learn more about Global Sisterhood, go to www.globalsisterhood.org To join a virtual circle with us, go to http://www.globalsisterhood.org/virtual-circles To follow us on Instagram, @theglobalsisterhood @Laurenelizabethwalsh @shainaconners
This is it, right here, this is the final episode. And if you're here right now, and you've been choosing to return to this work again and again, I want to say, thank you. Cuz If we want alternative means to responding to harm other than the systems on offer from the state, we are the ones who have to invest time, energy, labor into learning, healing, imagining, practicing, remembering, and organizing to get there. As Black feminist revolutionary writer June Jordan said, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” Now is the time to generously bring forth our gifts and throw down for our collective liberation. So again, thank you for choosing to be here.Let's dream forward.Episode transcript: Coming soon!Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/June Jordan: http://www.junejordan.com/The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, ed. Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: https://www.akpress.org/revolutionstartsathome.htmlDemocracy Now!, “Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): ‘We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World'”: https://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/6/remembering_grace_lee_boggs_1915_2015Kim Tran: https://www.kimtranphd.com/ Kyra Jones: https://www.kyrajones.me/Adrienne Skye Roberts: http://therapywithadrienneskye.com/Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.
We seem to hear about data on a day-to-day basis. However, the things we hear about it tend to revolve around Social Media and the likes of Google.But is there more to data than the gloom and doom tech stories we tend to get from the media?On this episode we are joined by Kevin Hanegan to talk about Data Literacy.Kevin is currently the Chief Learning Officer at Qlik, a data and analytics company. He is also the chair of the advisory board for The Data Literacy Project and author of multiple books, including "Turning Data Into Wisdom: How We Can Collaborate with Data to Change Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Even the World."To learn more about Kevin and his book, visit kevinhanegan.comNeed music for your podcast, online streaming channel, film, or other creative content? Check out Melodie! - https://go.melod.ie/voluntaryinputLeave us a message at https://podinbox.com/voluntaryinputFind a sponsor for your web site. Get paid for your great content with ShareASale! - https://bit.ly/3QXDYfqDownload and use Newsly for free now from www.newsly.me and use promo code VOLUNTARYINPUT
On episode one, we got up to speed about the conditions that brought theater makers in the Bay Area to organize around TJ. This episode is dedicated to unpacking, at its core, what is TJ?Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-2Sogorea Te' Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/BATJC Pods & Pod Mapping Worksheet Instructions: https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/BATJC Pod Mapping Worksheet:https://batjc.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/batjc-pod-mapping-2016-updated.pdfEdSource, “At this Oakland high school, restorative justice goes far beyond discipline”: https://edsource.org/2022/at-this-oakland-high-school-restorative-justice-goes-far-beyond-discipline/673453Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth/RJOY: https://rjoyoakland.org/Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.comBay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/Democracy Now!, “Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): ‘We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World'”: https://www.democracynow.org/2015/10/6/remembering_grace_lee_boggs_1915_2015For additional resources, including this episode's ASL video: https://www.weriseproduction.com/therealworkzAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & https://soundcloud.com/diasporadicalConnect with us at weriseproduction[at]protonmail[dot]com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at weriseproduction, & on twitter at WeRiseProducers.
It is through land that we find ourselves. It is through lineage that we return to ourselves. It is through community that we expand ourselves. In this age of disorienting change and fracture, let us wander within our daydreams of another way of being. TOPICS: A Western suburban childhood- television, processed food, malls, and fear of nature's dangers Evolutionary Mismatch Theory: our human bodies were not made for these times We are living in the Eremocene: The Age of Loneliness The medicine of women's circles and the two questions that should be central to each gathering The collective yearning for ritual and embracing the awkwardness of not knowing what you're doing Repercussions of the Burning Times We do this reclaiming work for our descendents, knowing we may not reap the fruit of our labors in this lifetime Listening to what the soul of your home wants Connecting to lineage with food and folklore How an offering of food from a stranger saved Becca's ancestors' lives Connecting with our ancestors in Mythic Time: what stories from your lineage are ever happening? The echoes of the electroshock therapy Becca's grandmother underwent & how writing Root and Ritual completed an ancestral storyline Musings on women in the 1960s, twilight births, the rise of consumerism and isolated living The world we were born into is gone: the end of the Pax Americana and the unraveling of culture and collapse of institutions We need to grieve as a culture so that we can be responsive to what's next Your body is sacred land Parenthood and postpartum in the modern age Mothering as ancestral reverence Calling in energy from unexpected sources RESOURCES: RootandRitualBook.com BeccaPiastrelli.com Becca's Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World: The Essential Guide to Women's Circles by Jean Shinoda Bolen My interview with Toko-Pa Turner, Medicine Stories podcast Episode 41 The Dreaming Channel and Remembering Ourselves Home My blog post Ancestral Voices, Women's Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear TimeFamily Constellations Becca's interview with Megan McGuire on the Belonging Podcast: Mothering as Ancestral Reverence Becca's interview with me on the Belonging Podcast: Motherhood, Grief, and the Grandmother Hypothesis
Women's Spaces Radio Show of 6/29/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., on the Millionth Circle in the Midst of Crisis - Show ID: WSA200629 Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen shares how she was mentored by Jungian supervisors as she earned her degrees in medicine and psychiatry. She comments on this "in between time" the world has been cast into through the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, a threshold of something new, and the importance of remembering gratitude in our path to help others. Grassroots movements enter into the archetypal consciousness of us all. Dr. Bolen feels for herself a strong connection to sisterhood and she encourages the gathering of women to tap their highest Self, that divinity throughout the ages, in healing circles, as describe in her book The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World--The Essential Guide to Women's Circles, and her sequel Moving Toward the Millionth Circle, that good can come out of crisis, whether personal or global. Dr. Bolen shares some tips on forming a circle, enabled today with online video meetings in the midst of the precautions for the pandemic. See the web archive page for the bio of the guest, links referenced, music playlist and this week in Herstory at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200629.html
Women's Spaces Radio Show of 6/29/2020 with host Elaine B Holtz and guest Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., on the Millionth Circle in the Midst of Crisis - Show ID: WSA200629 Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen shares how she was mentored by Jungian supervisors as she earned her degrees in medicine and psychiatry. She comments on this "in between time" the world has been cast into through the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, a threshold of something new, and the importance of remembering gratitude in our path to help others. Grassroots movements enter into the archetypal consciousness of us all. Dr. Bolen feels for herself a strong connection to sisterhood and she encourages the gathering of women to tap their highest Self, that divinity throughout the ages, in healing circles, as describe in her book The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World--The Essential Guide to Women's Circles, and her sequel Moving Toward the Millionth Circle, that good can come out of crisis, whether personal or global. Dr. Bolen shares some tips on forming a circle, enabled today with online video meetings in the midst of the precautions for the pandemic. See the web archive page for the bio of the guest, links referenced, music playlist and this week in Herstory at http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200629.html
The Greeks have given us a wealth of complex folklore and myths that are full of meaning for our lives. Among them are the stories of the Goddess Artemis and her human counterpart, Atalanta. They give us clues as to how to navigate the zig-zags of life. While demonstrating that life never unfolds in a straight line, the Greek myths give us inspiration to live into our fullness. Bolen declares, “Everybody has setbacks, everybody has suffering, everybody loses and wins at certain times of their lives.” She advises us to not give up; to call on the strengths of the Artemis archetype is to persevere without becoming bitter. Bolen encourages us to persist with what gives our life meaning and purpose. Bolen is the author of many books, including Goddesses in Every Woman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives (Harper Paperbacks 2004), Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women (Red Wheel/Weiser 2003),The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World--The Essential Guide to Women's Circles (Conari Press 1999), Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World (Conari Press 2008), Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can People Can Save the Planet (Conari Press 2010), Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman (Conari Press 2014), The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self (reissued HarperSanFrancisco 2005), Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey (Conari Press 2007)Interview Date: 7/9/2014 Tags: MP3, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Bolen, Artemis, Goddesses, Atalanta, Dr. Benjamin Spock, raising babies, Calydon Boar, Meleager, Athena, masculine, feminine, Hippomenes, Aphrodite, Three golden apples, heroines, walking the labyrinth, Millionth Circle, Circles, trafficking of girls and women, Fifth Women’s World Conference, 5WCW, Mythology, Women’s studies, social change
The Greeks have given us a wealth of complex folklore and myths that are full of meaning for our lives. Among them are the stories of the Goddess Artemis and her human counterpart, Atalanta. They give us clues as to how to navigate the zig-zags of life. While demonstrating that life never unfolds in a straight line, the Greek myths give us inspiration to live into our fullness. Bolen declares, “Everybody has setbacks, everybody has suffering, everybody loses and wins at certain times of their lives.” She advises us to not give up; to call on the strengths of the Artemis archetype is to persevere without becoming bitter. Bolen encourages us to persist with what gives our life meaning and purpose. Bolen is the author of many books, including Goddesses in Every Woman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives (Harper Paperbacks 2004), Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women (Red Wheel/Weiser 2003),The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World--The Essential Guide to Women's Circles (Conari Press 1999), Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World (Conari Press 2008), Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can People Can Save the Planet (Conari Press 2010), Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman (Conari Press 2014), The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self (reissued HarperSanFrancisco 2005), Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey (Conari Press 2007)Interview Date: 7/9/2014 Tags: MP3, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Bolen, Artemis, Goddesses, Atalanta, Dr. Benjamin Spock, raising babies, Calydon Boar, Meleager, Athena, masculine, feminine, Hippomenes, Aphrodite, Three golden apples, heroines, walking the labyrinth, Millionth Circle, Circles, trafficking of girls and women, Fifth Women’s World Conference, 5WCW, Mythology, Women’s studies, social change
Mindfulness, our thoughts, places of power, ley lines of the planet, why do they matter? Join us for a chat with Alisdair Coyne about Stonehenge, St Andrews, Lye Lines, places of power and a whole lot more.
In this Episode Nisha Moodley shares with us the power of sisterhood and the impact it has not only on our communities, but on a global level as well. Since Raw+Revolution was created around the beauty of building community and sisterhood we were thrilled to dive into this topic.Nisha Moodley is a women’s leadership coach, the founder of Global Sisterhood Day, and a new mother. Her work is driven by a belief in the immense power of sisterhood to help us expand our individual and collective freedom.She works with women who feel a deep calling to offer their hearts and hands in service to humanity, and through their work together, her aim is to support them in embracing their innate brilliance, expanding their freedom, embodying their leadership, and aligning their actions with their inner truth.In this episode we talk about:The big S and little S of sisterhoodWhat is the essence of sisterhoodWhat is behind competition + comparison amongst womenThe connection between sisterhood and brotherhoodGathering sisterhood revolutionThe power of the sisterhood connectionGlobal Sisterhood DayBooks:The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World--The Essential Guide to Women's Circles By: Dr. Jean Shinoda BolenAha’s from Nisha“ Our freedom is catalyzed by our connection with one another.”“ The world will be set free by women who are set free, and sisterhood is key.”Listen to the end of the show for directions and email hello@rawandrevolution.com to be entered to win some of our fun giveaways!Make sure to visit Nisha:On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nishamoodley/And at http://nishamoodley.com
A new era can began when a critical number of people change their perceptions and behavior. Jean Shinoda Bolen and I will talk about the power of woman’s circles and how the sacred circle can bring strength and energy to feed activism and fuel change. If you can’t make the live show this Wed then you can get the MP3 published a few days after by subscribing to the show or following the Fire it UP with CJ page on Facebook SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Link to Segment 1 The Goddess in Everywomen: What is the inner Goddess that you most resonate with? Jean Shinoda Bolen discusses how knowing your Goddess archetype can help keep you on your life path and open up personal growth areas. Link to Segment 2 Energizing the Women movement: Is the women’s movement dead? What are the successes we’ve had to-date? How could women circles energize the women’s movement? BLOG POST FROM OUR GUEST Never doubt that small groups of committed women can change the world: we did before, we can do it again! — Jean Shinoda Bolen CREATIVE ACTS OF EXPRESSION—CATALYZED IN CIRCLES BY JEAN SHINODA BOLEN, M.D. I know, as so many of us who are fortunate to be in one know, how supportive a sacred circle can be–as an incubator-womb space in which the courage to be authentically ourselves leads to creative acts of expression. This may include what is usually meant by expressive arts—writing, painting, sculpture, dance, theater, films—or political and personal activism, transforming relationships to others, or changing institutions. Inevitably, perhaps because experiences of the sacred are so deep and deeply personal, creative acts of expression are expressions of awakening that begin with trusting our own feelings and perceptions, of realizing it is up to us to be real and act on the premise that what matters to us, really matters. This is soul knowledge that becomes soul work when we take steps to bring what we know into our personal world and into the world. At times of crisis, what we do — or not, can tilt a situation in either direction. In the silence of undirected inner reflection, prayer, or meditation, which is an element in this kind of a circle, we tap into a center in ourselves that is also at the center of the circle. In Jung’s psychology, this is the archetype of meaning, the Self. By meeting as a circle of women, we invite the sacred feminine to come into our midst. This form is archetypal. It connects us to suppressed sources of women’s spiritual power, much as an aquifer lies below the surface until it is tapped into, bubbles up and flows. We tap into an awareness that goes back in time to when divinity was worshipped in many forms, as female, as the Great Mother, Gaia. In the last third of the twentieth century, Merlin Stone’s When God was a Woman got archeological support from Marija Gimbutas and other archeologists who literally dug up evidence. Scrolls that had been hidden and preserved by the dryness in Egyptian caves near Nag Hammadi, were found in this same period. These became known as the Gnostic Gospels through Elaine Pagels. These early Christian writings were rich in metaphor and included Sophia, the Sacred Feminine. Gnostic churches were egalitarian rather than hierarchal in form, leadership was shared: who did what—the sermon, communion, greeting newcomers, could be chosen by lot. Everyone was welcome. Women served in all roles. Once the Church at Rome had the power to condemn heresy, the Gnostic Christians were persecuted, its gospels destroyed. Our only knowledge of them came from the church fathers, which systematically had destroyed all previous copies of these gospels. This time, it was different. Circumstances had changed. Through the influence of feminism and the women’s movement, there now were women scholars in all fields including theology. In the United States before the women’s movement, women did not define themselves; men did–using religion as authority. “Women’s spirituality” emerged after women spoke for themselves and about themselves. Only then, did we speak of what we experienced as sacred and what we knew to be spiritual information. This is gnosis, intuitively felt soul knowledge, it is what we recognize in the marrow of our bones, what our heart recognizes as true for us—and from this insight, true for other humans and for the planet. Sacred circles support trust in our own perceptions of divinity which can be felt as transcendent spirit or felt in embodied holy moments. This is empowering, especially for women who have been told that God is male, demands obedience, and that women since Eve are the source of evil, when her choice was knowledge of the difference between good and evil. Re-imaging God as other than and more than a male authority, will shake the foundation of patriarchy, which is historically based upon theology and hierarchy to justify having and using power over others. Monotheism has brought us fratricidal wars of religion in Europe during the Middle Ages as well as the current conflicts in the Middle East. Jew, Muslim, Christian — all descend from Abraham, and thus are brothers. Women’s spirituality is in conflict with monotheistic, Abrahamic beliefs based on words attributed to what prophetic men in ages past said God said. Five women friends sitting around a round table began the women’s suffrage movement in 1848, an effort that took seven decades for women to achieve, until women got the right to vote in 1920. Once accomplished, it became a non-issue. Of course women vote! This is what success looks like. This same pattern is seen in the economic and social gains for women by women in the late 1960s and 70s. In consciousness-raising groups, women learned about being stereotyped and stifled. Speaking truth to power emerged as a ringing intention, done through demonstrations, conferences, marches, legal suits, and personal confrontations. The idea of equal rights spread. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was a starting point. Others wrote articles and essays, many were published in Ms. Magazine or in anthologies of women’s writings. Women challenged the invisible assumptions of women’s inferiority and the right of men and male institutions to limit access to education, professions and occupations. The consequences of sexism and the idea of equality brought about a huge cultural change in the United States and influenced the world. That gains are taken for granted is a measure of success. Young women now assume that they have opportunities and rights that women never have had as a gender before, and still do not in many parts of the world. Just like the right to vote, once the perceptions and voices of a critical number of empowered women are heard, what was radical and opposed becomes the new normal. When I wrote The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World as a guide to women’s circles in 1999, the mechanism through which women’s circles with a spiritual center could bring about an end to patriarchy was based upon theoretical biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s work on morphic fields and morphogenesis. The millionth circle like the allegorical hundredth monkey that inspired my title, was a metaphoric number. It was the final one to tip the scales, the one that added to all the rest formed a critical mass, after which a new idea or attitude or behavior becomes accepted. A recent example would be Global Warming, an idea that was resisted and even ridiculed, until almost overnight, a critical number of people accepted it. I was aware that it happened between the hardcover publication of Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World in 2005 and the paperback edition in 2008. Also pivotal for me, was Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point based on geometrical progression, another way of explaining how evolutionary ideas spread. It’s how a virus spreads or a YouTube video goes viral. It’s like how a snowball starts as the size of a baseball, gathers snow and momentum and as it rolls downhill could become an avalanche. It is what I sense is happening: there is momentum, circles form easier and easier, and the more there are, the easier it is and the less time it takes for more to form. A circle with a spiritual center provides support for authentic acts of expression, to discern and commit to what I call your “assignment.” Mine is about writing and speaking and spreading the word about circles and assignments. The current vehicle for my message is Like a Tree: How Women, Trees, and Tree People Can Save the Planet. I call upon mystical activists and Sacred Feminine feminists, the men and women I call “tree people” who feel deep connections to trees and the sacred world. If you find yourself wanting to give back or make a difference and are drawn to the possibility, I suggest that you will recognize an assignment that is yours by three characteristics, by your answers to three questions that only you can answer: One: Is it meaningful — to you? Two: Will it be fun? If it draws upon your skills and experience, calls on your creativity and if you are in the company of people who share your values and commitment –it will be fun. And three: Is it motivated by love? In the first half of adult life, parenting can fit this description as can developing an innate talent that will require years of perseverance and discipline, or following a calling into a helping profession. Like Joseph Campbell’s “Follow your bliss.” it does not mean that this will be easy, or that you will be successful or that others will understand. It is however, living your personal myth, which we do through the choices we make. Heed the Goethe quote that begins, “Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it now!” Once you make a heart commitment to take up an assignment or sacred mission, a trustworthy circle provides spiritual and emotional support. In circle, what is meaningful is important. Prayers are requested. Gratitude expressed. Often a candle is placed in the center. With or without awareness, the sacred feminine is represented by it. For this is a symbol of Hestia the Greek Goddess of the Hearth and Temple, who was present in the fire at the center of a round hearth; her fire was the source of light, warmth and nourishment. In women’s circles such as these, we are catalysts, witnesses, and midwives for each other’s growth and path of individuation. Meanwhile, the world is now in crisis—danger and opportunity exist side by side. There are more than 6.7 billion of us on the planet, doubling since 1960, adding about 78 million every year. For all the concern about sustainability and global warming, left out of the solution is the need for reproductive rights for all women, and universal education that includes girls. Conflicts that could escalate into nuclear warfare continue, while political leaders posture and threaten each other. Conflict resolution knowledge and women are notably not brought to the table, at a time when growing numbers of us and weapons of mass destruction could make this beautiful planet uninhabitable. Demonstrations for democracy and social justice, a resurgence of feminism, research support that humans are born good and that meditation changes brain patterns, and at the quantum physics level, we are all one suggest the potential for evolutionary change. It depends upon what we do. It would be fair to say that whether matters will get better or much worse will be decided in our lifetime. I take to heart, the Dalai Lama’s words at the Vancouver Peace conference in 2009, when he said that it is up to Western women to save the world. I’d expand “western” to mean everywoman anywhere who has been liberated by the women’s movement to define herself by the choices she makes. Western women are the beneficiaries of education, responsibilities, authority, opportunities, democracy, medical advances, and reproductive choice that women have never had in history. As members of the female gender, women respond to stress differently than men, and have empathic, collaborative and communication abilities that to contribute to decision making and conflict resolution. When women’s maternal concerns for their children extend to all children, when women have an equal say with men in making decisions at every level, when women’s ability to look after others and budget limited resources is valued, then peace and a sustainable world will be possible. Never doubt that small groups of committed women can change the world: we did before, we can do it again! With love and hope, Jean Shinoda Bolen (1943 words) Article written for Women of Spirit and Faith anthology: Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power. Edited by Kay Lindahl. Kathe Schaaf, Kathleen Hurty, Rev. Guo Cheen, publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing, a division of Longhill Partners, Inc.Woodstock, VT. Pubdate in 2011-2012. Copyright Jean Shinoda Bolen, 2011, jeanbolen@gmail.com (www.jeanbolen.com) Permission granted to share this with others. http://fireitupwithcj.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/jean-shinoda-bolen.jpg About our Guest Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don’t Whine, Urgent Message from Mother, and Like a Tree with over eighty foreign translations. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing’s “Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award”, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She was in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film Women—For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board’s Goddess Remembered. The Millionth Circle Initiative (www.millionthcircle.org) was inspired by her book and led to her involvement at the UN. She is the initiator and the leading advocate for a UN 5th World Conference on Women (www.5wcw.org), which was supported by the Secretary General and the President of the General Assembly on March 8, 2012. Jean Shinoda Bolen shares the power of woman’s circles & how the sacred circle can feed activism & fuel change. Environmental | Inspirational | Motivational | Spiritual | Spirituality | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspiration | Motivation For More Info Visit: www.FireItUpWithCJ.com
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