Evolutionary Purpose

The Ground Rules: Evolutionary Purpose

We view the community as having a soul and a purpose of its own. It has its own creative impulse and sense of direction. We listen in to what our Center wants to be, and the noble purpose it wants to manifest in the world.
The community as a living organism has its own energy field, emerging potential, and unique evolutionary purpose. When we listen in to the organization’s deep creative potential to help it do its work in the world, maximum effect and grace is achieved.
Organizations have a calling and an evolutionary energy to move towards that calling, so listening, partnering with that energy, joining its dance, and discovering whether our intention is in alignment with its greater direction facilitates maximal grace between each member and the Community.

We have a duty to ourselves and to the organization to inquire into our personal sense of calling to see if and how it resonates with the community’s purpose1
We imbue our projects and roles with our souls, not our egos.
When we partner with the community’s sense of direction, when we listen to what its purpose wants to manifest in the world, the extent of our alignment with that purpose creates a super boost to our potential to achieve our individual goals.
Organizations have a calling and an evolutionary energy to move towards that calling, so listening, partnering with that energy, joining its dance, and discovering whether our intention is in alignment with its greater direction facilitates maximal grace between each member and the Community.

[1] We are at our most productive and joyful when ALL of who we are is energized by a broader purpose that nourishes our calling and our soul.

Everything unfolds with more grace when we stop trying to control and instead simply choose to sense & respond.
Trying to predict and control the future is futile. We make forecasts only when a specific decision requires us to do so.

In the long run, there are no trade-offs between purpose and profits. If we focus on purpose, profits will follow.