Growing Edge Resources - Core Values

Here is a draft of our Core Values that will soon be going up on the www.growingedgeresources.com website...

CORE VALUES

Connection - Life is about connection and how we live out this interconnectedness. We seek to connect with ourselves and one another and find a place to belong. Our actions matter and effect all that is around us. As we connect, we live a life of wholeness.

Dignity - Everyone is created with inherent value, dignity, and potential. We grow and develop when we recognize our own dignity and the dignity inherent in others. We build a flourishing world when we uphold the dignity of one another.

Development - Development is that ongoing process of growing and developing as persons and organizations. It means that life is a process and growth is a process. Life is never static. We are invited into an ongoing journey of personal and organizational development. 

Potential - Each person and organization is inherently filled with potential. The root of “potential” is “potent” which means “being able” or “power”. Within all of us and our organizations is the inherent ability to act, grow, develop, and flourish. When we are empowered, we live into our potential.

Service - Life is best lived when lived in service to others. To live for only ourselves reduces our world down to our own self-interest. To live in service to others expands our heart, soul, and life and we experience the generative nature of life itself.

Authenticity - We are living our Best Self when we are living out who we truly are rather than role-playing or engaging in “impression management”. Part of living on a growing edge is discovering (or rediscovering) who we truly are and living that out with passion. This is true for both individuals and organizations.

Collaboration - We have individual gifts, talent, and abilities but life is best served when we can collaborate and multiply our efforts. In collaboration, we discover the power of the Abundance Mentality and experience the power of multiplied gifts. 

Transformation - Inherent in nature and creation is transformation. We see it in the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. We are invited into this transformational process so we can help to bring transformation to our world. This means embracing change and often deep change.

Wholeness - We are meant to live undivided lives. To live a divided life is to live a life that is fractured, fragmented, and divided from our Truest Self and our best intentions. Often a divided self brings divisiveness to all they do. To live on a growing edge is to live towards a wholeness that brings wholeness to our world and our daily activities. 

Evolution - We have been created to evolve. We must “...consciously evolve, we must orient our being toward new life and growth because the unity that we really are, the deep connective tissue of oneness, will not let us rest with separateness. Too much is at stake now to hide behind our secure walls.” (Illia Delio) As we evolve and grow, so our world is able to evolve and reach its fullest potential.