Leadership: The feminine way
Leadership is a choice, not a rank.
Simon Sinek
The feminine way talks about living in alignment with our unique soul and natural rhythm instead of our societal conditioning and expectations.
The feminine* way of leadership is the leadership we’re (slowly, yet steadily) stepping into. It is supportive, nurturing, flexible and magnetic.
Despite what we see in our world today, true leadership is not about control over others but rather authority over ones’ own life.
Leadership is also the choice and willingness to guide and support others in their evolution without the need or the expectation to have control over them in any shape or form.
Leadership takes courage and often calls for decisions that may be uncomfortable, even scary, yet the intention is always to serve and support the evolution and (spiritual) growth of all involved in those decisions.
Leadership is open, flexible and adaptable to the necessary change that supports (personal and collective) evolution.
Leading our own lives gives us freedom when we are ready to assume also the responsibility of that freedom.
A true leader leads by example, not with control, manipulation or force. The latter is an authoritarian figure, not a leader.
The ‘feminine way leadership’ does not chase, does not force, does not push through. Instead, it is about setting a clear intention and effortlessly attract and receive in resonance with our natural rhythms.
The feminine way calls us to connect with our body first, before acting. As a result, we move into action from inspiration and inner safety instead from compulsive conditioning and precisely detailed long term planning(i.e., control).
We create daily structures and routines that support us in connecting with ourselves, so that we can hear our inner guidance before we choose how or even if to act in that moment.
We follow our inner guidance, step by step, moment to moment. We flow with clear intention in mind and heart, yet we don’t attach to or try to control the outcome.
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Perhaps you reading this, think these are idealistic or even delusional or unrealistic statements. After all, the experience of our current (worldwide) reality teaches us otherwise. Yet, allow me to argue that the rising of the feminine power and way of leading/living one’s life (i.e., living in alignment with our unique soul and natural rhythm instead of our societal conditioning) , is becoming more and more collectively adopted and it will eventually become the new normal. We can all find evidence of this in our realities, if we choose to look out for those examples around us.
We can even choose to become one ourselves and consciously take the lead (i.e., responsibility) and live our own life in a way that is aligned with who we actually are, instead of who others have taught us we are.
Once again, your life…your choice!
*In energetic/spiritual terms, the feminine energy is the energy of creation. It’s a ' natural super power available to all of us (all human beings, regardless their gender), yet not greatly appreciated or utilized in today’s world. Women embody also physically the feminine energy and therefore our nature (as women) ‘demands’ from us to live in resonance with and honor that nature, if we want to experience healthy, balanced, thriving, and meaningful lives.
