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The New Wave of Leadership

I had the pleasure of being the MC at the Women In Leadership Panel at the Leaders Causing Leaders Conference this past week-end.  I am so honored to have met the women who were a part of that panel.  They are leaders, mothers, business owners and visionaries and it was amazing to hear them speak. 

As we gathered before the panel and shared our ideas, we discussed the embodiment “masculine” qualities while in the workplace and “feminine” qualities while at home. As Dream Rockwell so beautifully put it during the panel, we have entered the Aquarian Age and there is a shift occurring.  We have been re-defining what it means for a woman to be in the workplace and we are still learning. 

I believe the shift is taking the form of learning how to embody our power while staying in our heart at the same time.  We are human beings with dualities within us at all times.  We are both male and female, strong and weak, happy and sad, light and shadow.   I propose that we choose to embody all of these energies simultaneously rather than separately.  To me, the old model is about either being in your power OR being in your heart (power being a traditionally male quality and heart being a traditionally female quality).  It seems to me that we have forced ourselves to exert our power in a way that has left the heart at home. 

I was challenged in this idea; that when we are around men we must be a certain way to gain their respect.  I believe we gain their respect by bringing our wholeness to the conversation.  Our mind, heart, body AND soul.  Not one or the other.   I spent most of the conference collaborating with very powerful men and women.  I made a conscious choice to stay in my power and also bring my heart to the collaboration.  One way I expressed this was by suggesting we open our meetings with an invitation to Spirit to join us and help us collaborate for the highest good of all involved.  My suggestion was honored and I believe Spirit did step in and collaborate with us creating a more heart centered connection between all of us.

As one of my male colleagues so beautifully put it: “Seeing your being, witnessing your ability to be present in the most ideal way… inspires me deeply Patty and is already a great support for the development of my own leadership. You in your naturalness are a teacher for me – thank you.  Keep on Patty – how you are prescence-ing is deeply important”.  Thank you for the kind words David.  I receive them with gratitude and humility in my heart.

Goddesses, I encourage you to bring your heart into everything you do.  It is so needed during these times of change.  In the Aquarian Age we have a duty as women to integrate our power and our hearts and to model it for others to witness.  That is our mission.  Be direct with people, state your point of view, express your opinion and stand up for yourself while being loving, compassionate, supportive and gentle at the same time.   

This is not to say that there aren’t men out there who have opened their hearts or that there aren’t women who have closed their hearts.  We all have our own Spiritual tasks in this lifetime.  Whichever Spiritual task belongs to you, I still encourage you to develop and integrate both energies. 

As Tami Walsh so beautifully put it, just BE.  Be who you are; whatever that may look like.  I guarantee that those who vibrate at your same level will gravitate towards you and those who don’t…won’t.  Trust your intuition and trust Spirit.