What is enough in your life? At what point do you feel abundant and full; that you have enough time, enough money and enough love. Jennifer Cohen asserts that we are enough and that all we need is right before us. Jennifer is the co-founder of Seven Stones Leadership Group, a consulting consortium, where she teaches a unique model of leadership development and is pioneering work in moving organizations and individuals to a partnership model of living and leading based on the mind set and practice of Exquisite Sufficiency first offered by Buckminster Fuller and popularized by Lynne Twist. Jennifer’s fresh approach is informed by communication theories ranging from quantum physics and philosophy to neuroscience and Somatics.
Jennifer is presenting her workshop, Exquisite Sufficiency: Source Your Passion and Move to Effortless Action in the Leading Your Life track.
This workshop will allow you to get at the source of creating a dream for your life and for the world that is juicy, alive and potent enough to heal a planet. We will work from a core belief system (not held by our dominant culture) in our Exquisite Enoughness to source our passions, make them visible through guided imagery, journaling and small group exercises and then begin to forge a path forward. We will explore your passion as it arises in the body/mind and listen for where it is calling us to act. Action born from this source is what is sometimes called effortless effort. Join us in this exploration of passion and action from a world sourced by Exquisite Sufficiency.
Jennifer shares with us how Lynne Twist and Buckminster Fuller's work influenced her passion, the affect women and girls have on the world, and the biggest take-away of her workshop.
1. What is your personal mission or passion that is helping to re-shape the future?
At Seven Stones Leadership Group, our mission is to bring the promise and practices of exquisite sufficiency – an idea whose time has come – to the world through coaching, consulting, speaking and learning materials. We believe that the context in which we are embedded could presently be described as a ping pong match between scarcity and abundance. This paradigm has given rise to an economic model that is unjust for the majority of humans and unsustainable for our ecosystems as well as a mental model that causes us to feel a chronic sense of inadequacy, spending billions to medicate our pain either with pills or products and denying our citizenship. If we re-shape the dream for our future and re-shape our consciousness then through the new practices that arise out of that dream, we can re-shape our social systems, our organizations, and our hearts.
2. Describe a significant moment or experience that inspired your personal mission or passion to make a difference?
The moment that inspired this particular passion was engaging with a group of leaders to investigate this paradigm of exquisite sufficiency, a concept first inserted into the collective consciousness by Buckminster Fuller and later popularized by Lynne Twist in her book The Soul of Money. This group has inspired three global summits exploring the relevance of sufficiency to the sustainability movement, to economics, and to the future of life on earth.
3. What do you hope will be the biggest take-aways for the attendees who participate in your workshop?
- You will leave deeply understanding that the context we create and live in sources our thinking, our experience, our social systems, and our organizational models.
- You will leave having tapped into your own creative capacity to re-shape the context towards a new dream. Yes, you are that powerful!
- Having tapped into it, you will design some next steps to turn your passion into action.
4. How do you see women and girls in the local and global communities affecting the future?
I see women and girls at the forefront of the transformation that is shaping our current collective experience. This is a moment when the power of women rises again to restore balance and support “the great turning” towards a world that can work for all beings. There is a lot of research out there right now that confirms that when women and girls are empowered, the entire community they are embedded in benefits.
5. Why is it so important to participate in groups and events that connect women and feature their talents, ideas and solutions right now?
Community is the source of our strength and our power. We are all woven into this fabric of life. We need one another, we require one another. We are tribal and social in nature and thrive when we gather.
6. What is your message to women around the world?
This is our moment. The world is reaching for your gifts. Be willing to offer yourself fully to the world while you are here, not because anything needs saving, but because everything needs loving.
To participate in Jennifer's workshop click here to register for Passion Into Action of go to www.seejanedo.com
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