Stepping up to: Collaboration
/We are thrilled to introduce you to Week 3 of our Stepping Up Together campaign, featuring Collaboration. Stepping Up Together is all about embracing the power of community and stepping boldly into our highest potential. Each week of this campaign features a theme for reflection, inviting us to consider how we may step up, join hands, and be the change we wish to see in the world. This week’s theme is collaboration.
Collaboration is one of those “buzz words” that sounds rosy in theory, but when put into practice it can be downright hard. In fact, we consider collaboration to be a spiritual practice in and of itself. Working with others provides us a mirror to better understand ourselves—our triggers, strengths, shadows, and human-ness. Effective collaboration requires building trust, shared intention, curiosity, creativity, and persistence, all served up with a big daily dose of compassion (both for ourselves and for others).
While collaboration isn’t always comfortable, it is certainly WORTH IT and has the potential to create magnificent and magical results. When we are willing to be vulnerable, listen deeply, share authentically, give openly, and receive gratefully—we have the potential to uplift and enlighten our entire globe. As Helen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
So, this week, we invite you to reflect on the following:
Have I had an experience in which collaboration felt difficult? What lessons could that experience be teaching me?
Have I had an experience in which collaboration felt easy and joyful? What lessons could that experience be teaching me?
How would my life be enriched by further embracing opportunities for collaboration?