Living Resonance = Living in Connection

When we are living from Resonance—operating from a deep identity core that keeps us individually and collectively focused on?transformation—we?are:

Living on Purpose

Living in Connection

Living for Development

Living with Gratitude (Valuing life)

Living in Action

In this post, I focus on Living in Connection.

• What does it mean to connect to shared humanity around you?
• How do you know you are connected and not disconnected from the experiences of others?
• How do we maintain connection to others in the midst of an increasingly polarized world?

These questions continue to surface for me in the midst of my life’s work, my reading, writing, speaking and research on Resonance and Transformation. In particular, questions of connection within communities and across divides are ones that I have continued to work on and ask since my doctoral research, which has become a thread of my work, revealed that living in connection is a hallmark of transformational leaders working for social change. Living in Connection, meant the following to those transformational leaders as I wrote in?Transformation After Trauma: The Power of Resonance :

Human Connectedness / Social Consciousness. As a result of Resonance, the Transformational Leaders from my original study expressed a deep sense of social consciousness that they ascribed to a heightened sense of our human connectedness. In addition to their individual transformative learning, they described growing social awareness resulting from their experiences… They expressed a sense of oneness and global responsibility for social justice in the world. While they demonstrated narratives of transformation, part of their social consciousness was also described as an awareness of the capacity for human evil that increased their own capacities to be worldly wise, politically savvy and good citizens.

So what does it mean to live in connection in a way that supports transformation. I love looking up the original meaning of words when I am preparing to speak and I recently looked up the root meaning of humanity. I found the usual and expected dictionary meanings…to bind, to connect, to build a circle of intimate relations…but what most caught my attention was in a brief article in?Psychology Today , which makes the argument that to be human means to see the other as our own natural kind.

To see the other as our own natural kind!

What a revolutionary thought.

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