Making Our True Move

Mary Stacey, of Context Consulting, and Arawana Hayashi, a master meditation teacher, dancer, and movement instructor, recently teamed up in Toronto to run the workshop Making Our True Move. I was lucky enough to attend.

Arawana has been running variations of her workshop “The Art of Making a True Move” for decades. Mary brings her coaching training, leadership and consulting expertise, and her strengths as a MasterMIND facilitator.

I took away from the workshop a personal realization: that the people I most believe in and look up to are people who have fully realized themselves. They are a variety of people with a variety of strengths – so it’s not that I look at one of them and think, “She’s really good at x; I need to become really good at x.” They just each have become very good at being who they are. They have fully realized themselves. They have come into a full expression of their being.

So rather than look at people twenty years older than me searching for the answer to “How can I be like that 20 years from now?”, I’m realizing that the question of authentic leadership is more something like, “How can I become more fully myself over the next 20 years?”

Otto Scharmer, who, like Arawana, is a faculty member at the Shambhala Institute, writes about the idea of attentional violence:

Attentional violence is to not to be seen and recognized in terms of who you really are–in terms of your highest future possibility. Instead you are only seen in terms of your journey of the past, that is, in terms of the circumstances of the past, in terms of who you happen to be today. People are blind or ignorant of that aspect of your self, that isn’t (fully) born or manifest as of yet.

Who is the victim of such attentional violence? It’s our highest future possibility, our essential or authentic Self.

Coming out of the workshop, I’m thinking about how to grow into my highest future possibility, and support others to do the same.