036 - The Co-Creative Power of Life

This is a special Portals conversation with a diverse group of practitioners and leaders who bring their insights into consciousness, and their skills in creating transformative change, to top executives, teams and communities around the world.  We’ve asked Anne Stadler, Grace Boda, Kate Sutherland, Royce Holladay, Jeff Vander Clute and Karin Jironet to share their sense of what is emerging and most alive at the moment in their work with a wide variety of individuals and groups. How do they facilitate a personal or collective journey to evolve and transform consciousness? What is the role and power of a community in creating and supporting real transformation? How are each one of us in any moment co - creating our own and humanity’ s future?  In this wide - ranging exchange we gain new insights into the power of silence and reflection; how to bring our presence to soften boundaries and open the heart; how to live with resilience, and how to make ourselves a conduit for the essential cr eative force of life to move through us with integrity and purpose. TWEETABLE QUOTES “It's not about being present, it's being presence. There's something that helps soften boundaries and really opens up the heart to the ground of being in exactly this moment, and that's characterized by silence. Silence is definitely a way there. And I’m endeavoring to being presence, less emphasis on doing and lists and more letting my intuition guide everything - moment by moment - how I move through the day and how sort of to really embrace not planning, strategizing, but being presence.” - Kate Sutherland“The first t hing t hat comes to me, because you reference joy, the way that I find the most joy in co - creation is in really sensing the co - creation I experienced with life itself, w here when there is an inquiry or something in front of me, a client's challenge or my own, or whatever, if my awareness is wide open and ready to receive and all the beautiful synchronicities, the little ones are even called quantum flirts, or the ways that just spontaneously something is handed to me or somebody says something, and it sort of bursts that little illusion of I'm an individual person all alone trying to solve this problem.” - Grace Boda“I think of transformation as the shifti ng of patterns in the human system. So, I shift my patterns; I transform my patterns on a daily basis. I'm recovering from two knee replacements this spring and summer, and so, each day , I'm doing a little more exercise, a little more exercise, a little mo re exercise, and it's shifting the patterns of the pain I feel, it’s shifting the patterns of how much I limp or don't limp, it's shifting the pattern of energy.” - Royce Holladay“What I see is the phrase “ simple rules, ” which I love. And simplicity is k ey. In my recent observing , and experiencing , and transformation, and being able to identify the essence and place attention on the essence, so much falls away that otherwise would be cluttering and obstructive of energy.” - Jeff Vander Clute“Well, I think it's palpable. I feel it. I absolutely feel it, in the group and in myself , and the thing that I hear, see, and love, are the vibrations. It isn't necessarily the words you hear, you hear the vibrations . And that's the essence of compassion to be hea rd, seen, and loved, and you get it, you just get it.” - Ann Stadler“It needs different inclinations and capacities, people that are into activism and spiritual activism, and people that are more in the introspective and people that are in the field in a variety of leadership capacities. All of those are needed. Nobody's going to organize it in one unified place.” - Aviv ShaharRESOURCES MENTIONED Portals of Perception WebsiteAviv’s LinkedIn