When I was younger one lesson my father taught me that still resonates today was the concept of 6 Degrees of Separation. From April 7th - April 10th, I lived this concept during LeaderShape's Lead Retreat & 25th Anniversary in Chicago, IL. As I was welcomed into a room full of members of LeaderShape's community, I quickly found out that I was connected to so many within one degree of separation! As I thought more about this both during the retreat and post retreat, I came to the realization that:
A group of people coming together + united by a common purpose + guided by a shared vision = COMMUNITY at it's best.
The LeaderShape community is currently 40,000+ and will continue to grow with more participants graduating from LeaderShape Institutes/Catalyst programs and an increase of new cluster facilitators to assist the Lead Facilitators, and on-site coordinators in teaching the vision of LeaderShape: "A just, caring, and thriving world that leads with integrity, and has a healthy disregard for the impossible." What was so special about being apart of this historic moment for LeaderShape was being amongst people who not only believe in this vision, but have already experienced it from their own LeaderShape experiences.
While iBELIEVE continues to develop its community, it's empowering to know that an organization such as LeaderShape is not only doing similar work to help others reach their potential, but recognizes that iBELIEVE is doing this work too. As iBELIEVE continues to evolve, there is no doubt our organization's paths will continue run beside each other, cross at certain points, and even become intertwined in the near future.
In leadership it is important to remind ourselves that our ability to create positive change enhances as we utilize more of our networks. When we find allies whom are bettering this world with their contributions, it not only significantly shrinks the degrees of separation, but it also grows our networks of support.
As iBELIEVE continues to reach out, searching for others that are putting their passion(s) into action, will you be one to answer our call to help? Want to join our CommuniTEAM? We'll see you (with)in 6 degrees.
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