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.
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"While many people believe that transforming organizations and systems in the world is the most difficult, the truth is that transforming ourselves is the hardest job. And if we transform ourselves, we transform our world."
--Dag Hammarskjöld
We're looking forward to sharing information, content, happenings, news and stories as they relate to leadership, transformational leadership, personal transformation and more!
The Wright Leadership Institute, http://www.wrightliving.com/, was founded by Dr. Robert Wright and Dr. Judith Wright, http://www.judithwright.com/, as a personal and professional development organization dedicated to empowering individuals to maximize their potential and live great lives. At the Wright Leadership Institute, we believe that we are all leading all the time--"Lead Your Life. Lead Your World."
It's always been true that the world is in transformation but now more than ever--the issue is forcing us to reevaluate our lives individually and globally.
Just this morning Judith Wright and Bob Wright met His Excellency, Sergey I. Kislyak, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States as he shared his thoughts on “U.S. and Russia: Prospects for Cooperation," http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090507005974&newsLang=en with the Executives Club of Chicago.
As we initiate this blog, we hope it will further the dialogue on transformational leadership in a way that inspires and empowers each of us to look at ourselves and our capacities in a way that we, as Gandhi said, "be the change we wish to see in the world."
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