Feminine Leadership in our World

This past weekend Dr. Judith Wright led the Woman’s Essential Experience—a powerful 3 day training for women. Dr. Wright has been interviewed many times about what it means embrace the feminine for positive change in the world. Here are some of Judith’s thoughts on the topic:

“We live in a society that overvalues the masculine and undervalues the feminine. I’m not even talking about men and women here, but the masculine and feminine values, characteristics, and attributes. We see masculine attributes—physical prowess, competition, aggression, territoriality, and confrontation—as powerful, while femininity is seen as weak or fragile. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Although femininity can include the stereotypical ruffles and sensuality, it consists of much more—the power to embrace, include, receive, attract, and synergize as well as the aptitude for relationship, vulnerability, holistic thinking, multitasking, collaboration, emotional expression, and communication. The reality is that each of us—male and female—has within us a complement of feminine and masculine qualities with different distribution. It is our job to harness our masculine abilities us in the service of our feminine values.”

As Dr. Wright goes on to share, each of us has a responsibility to embrace the complement within each of us for right purpose:
—to embrace our masculine assertiveness to take a stand for feminine values like relationships or people or collaboration
—to use the masculine drive to build but to use the feminine to guide us on what to build, like structures that serve humanity
—to embrace the masculine attribute of competition but towards feminine quality outcomes, like positive solutions to our planet’s health

If we are all leading all the time then this inquiry is an important one for each of us.