{"id":1084,"date":"2019-06-11T19:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T02:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.wordpress.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2019-12-18T17:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:42:01","slug":"blazing-new-trails-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancymthurston.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/11\/blazing-new-trails-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazing New Trails: Why Blaze Together?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"11This is my fourth blog about Blazing New Trails, specifically about a 15-year partnership between Be Present, Inc.<\/a> and Wisdom & Money<\/a> and our most recent step deeper into our work together \u2013 the joint board meeting last February. At least, like the other three<\/a>, it was supposed<\/em> to be about the joint board meeting. Instead, all four are about the journey to get us ready for the meeting. I\u2019ve been trying to take the direct path in to write about our week together, but, try as I might, this trail isn\u2019t a direct one.<\/p>\n

\tTrails of transformation, trails of effective and sustainable partnership, trails powerful enough to support a shift in consciousness are rarely straight. Or fast. And they aren\u2019t simple to tame into mere words.<\/p>\n

\tOrganizations come together all the time, partnering for different reasons. Why is it\"path that this particular partnership is cutting a uniquely bold trail, passing through my heart and the heart of our world? What does each organization bring that is multiplied and strengthened when we work together? While still continuing the work of each individual organization, what new is emerging in the this growing partnership?<\/p>\n

\tBoth Wisdom & Money and Be Present, Inc. are seeking root level change. Not charity, not even policy change, but a change of consciousness beginning with the individual and continuing through the community, organizations and systems. Both organizations are committed to living the same justice and transformation\u2014personally and within the organizational structure\u2014that we seek in our programs.\u00a0 Both are committed to slowing down and taking the time to be curious when something emerges that feels out of alignment, and to compassionately and consistently support each other in our movement.<\/p>\n

\tThis is a demanding process. It requires gargantuan patience and an ability to see the true Spirit of each other and ourselves no matter what behavior has emerged in the moment. All aspects of our work seek movement toward freedom, justice, equality and spiritual transformation.<\/p>\n

\tThat commitment to continual alignment of the interior and the external, the personal and the global, the organizational and the programmatic is the only way I know that we can move together toward manifesting the world we long for. This is no pipe dream about what might happen far off in the future. It is already happening in both organizations and within friends and partners in this work. However, it doesn\u2019t stop there. As both individuals and these two organizations continue to work in widening circles\u2014the families, communities, organizations and systems where we live our lives\u2014the change ripples out farther than I can imagine.<\/p>\n

\tThis sort of work that requires both waking up to and seeing where behaviors too \"Banyonoften deemed normal and right in our culture but are actually disrespectful and unjust is very hard to do alone. That is why I stepped into Wisdom & Money and Be Present, Inc. seventeen years ago. And why I stayed.\u00a0 Since my awakening in my late20s (the topic of my book Big Topics at Midnight<\/a><\/em>) I\u2019ve been searching for partners committed to walking this path. It hasn\u2019t been an easy search, but I knew I\u2019d found strong partners in these two organizations.<\/p>\n

\tOrganizations that also recognized each other as partners.<\/p>\n

\tSlowly over the last 15 years, these two organizations have taken one step after another to support each other, learn from each other and, last February, to join together for the Trailblazing Joint Board of Directors meeting.<\/p>\n

\tIt has taken me months longer than I expected to find words for the power of the growing partnership of Be Present<\/a> and Wisdom & Money<\/a>. My next blog in this series will look at the Trailblazing Board meeting and our current glimpse of the future of our work together.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is my fourth blog about Blazing New Trails, specifically about a 15-year partnership between Be Present, Inc. and Wisdom & Money and our most recent step deeper into our work together \u2013 the joint board meeting last February. At least, like the other three, it was supposed to be about the joint board meeting. … <\/p>\n

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