Leadership for Sustainability: Land and Community

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Permalink Reply by Jackie Bergman on June 7, 2010 at 5:06pm

Well Tim, I think it is by realizing that love is your deepest essence and that you are actually fearful and in some way threatened whenever we are not happy and joyful.

First you nead to realize this concept through thought, then you need to FEEL what is present in your body and figure out the reason. If you do not feel, you stay in your thoughts and will not get out of the fears that keep you cought up in untruth and dysfunctionality.

The pedagogy of making this accepted and acted upon is what I work with today. Would you have any suggestion on how to get this idea understandable?

Kind regards,
Jackie

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Collins on June 15, 2010 at 10:26am

Came across this article while putting together a monthly resource list for the Community Development Society newsletter: The Roots of Compassion: To be compassionate toward others, we first have to learn to be merciful with ourselves. http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/interfaith-amigos/the-roots-of-com...

Timothy Collins said:

Thanks to all for your recent contributions to this discussion.

I think we all know how complicated leadership for sustainability is, given the complexities of our world today.

If love is the answer, and, at some level, I realize it is, how do we make it so compelling that it not only affects our personal relationships, but also extends t the planet and all of its inhabitants - human, other animals, and plants, as well as our water air and soil?

Tim

Jackie Bergman said:

Hi Tim!

My name is Jackie Bergman and I live in Stockholm, Sweden.

During thirty years I have been working as an environmentally driven project manager in the energy utility sector. My absoulutely outstanding leadership compass has been that all motivations come out of emotions and that there are only two basic ones, fear and love. Fear will cause separation to others and that we will not tell our truth. Love automatically brings affinity to others and curiousity to the truth of our selves and others. I claim that there are some truths that we dare not see and that therer are some separation to others that we support.

Good luck with your leadership leadership, Tim. We need it!

Kind regards
Jackie Bergman

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