Fueled by curiosity and an intense desire to understand things, learning deepens our experiences and infuses everyday life with vitality, freshness, opportunities and joy. Learning is an invitation to develop a new relationship with our internal and external experiences through the harvesting of insights, wisdom and new perspectives that create more space for our full humanity, the pain and suffering, the joy and fulfillment. It’s through this enlivening process of awakening curiosity and increasing our growth mindsets that we are enabled to become more courageous and fully alive.
“The greatest and most important problems in life are fundamentally insoluble…. They can never be solved, but only outgrown when confronted with a new and stronger life urge” ~ Jung (1967)
“Relinquishing notions of development as a linear progression or ascension and seeing it instead as a multi-faceted ripening of what is already present.” ~ David Drake
“Almost every encounter in life presents possibilities for growth…..but these transformations require a person to be prepared to perceive unexpected opportunities.”~ (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
“Learning is the act of making new distinctions we otherwise wouldn’t be able to make, and it enables us to take actions we otherwise wouldn’t be able to take.” ~ David Drake
Partnership
As human beings, we are social creatures that long for connection and belonging. Creative, vibrant, co-creating partnerships represents the possibility of creating something bigger and better than we can do alone, something that can expand what’s possible, transform our relationships, expanding our capacity to achieve extraordinary results.
Partnerships enable us to break from the past and create a bigger and better future; to join together with other like-minded people on common ground, to cultivate a powerful community of colleagues working together to produce change, face challenges and shape the future together.
The key nutrients for partnering are learning, growing and nourishing and the first step is understanding how to create positive and healthy environments where learning, growth and nourishment can become a way of life. When we can do this, we ward off the toxicity that limits life, health and well-being.
Working together, no matter how daunting or monumental the challenge. Partnerships are not one-off events, they are life changing alliances that turnaround, recalibrate and reconnect the parties in conscious and unconscious ways shifting the way they work and interact and enlarging capacity to achieve extraordinary results..
“It is a time that calls all of us to do the real work of our quest and to join with others who are doing the same. Listen deeply into the silence, the earth and hearts of others. Look unflinchingly into your own soul to see what is calling you.” David Drake
