Collaborating from the inside out

Photo by Josh Felise

Today, the day I woke up and cried for a disconnected planet, I realised more than ever the importance of creating inclusive spaces for people to hold each other, to deeply connect and listen, to collaborate and create change together. Spaces where we can see and be seen, spaces to share knowledge and support each other, where groups of people can evolve into peer to peer support networks that create a ripple effect of thriving people, communities and planet.

Today, on this grey day, as I sit to reflect, I understand that it is time for me to not only keep empowering others to work together for the good of the whole, but to start collaborating with others to do so.

As a facilitator, coach and human being working with amity I commit to walk the talk - That means:

• collaborating with others in all projects and areas of life, evolving myself and amity to truly collaborate from the inside out
• sharing the skills to help people in a group to continue their work when we (the facilitators) are not there
• coaching people to see the truth of who they are and unleash their potential

Fulfilling this commitment means that I must unleash my own potential and stop being scared of not being enough.

As my next steps I am going to:

• bring people together at every opportunity to design solutions to the projects of life. In my day to day I facilitate others to collaborate and co-create solutions to the challenges they face. From now I want to do the same for my own life (that includes “work”), forming multidisciplinary teams to work together around a shared purpose
• collaborate with others to integrate in our work with groups the upskilling of participants, creating self-sustaining groups
• work more from co-working spaces, connecting with others and treating every conversation as a coaching opportunity
• share more my thoughts, sharing my progress on the commitments mentioned above
• work on my own interior conditions so my interventions are more effective and I can fully show up for others

“The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.” — Bill O’Brien

Would you like to collaborate around collaboration? Send me an email at maria@amityhcd.co

If you would like to know how I’m doing with my commitments, please get in touch.

Thank you to Mike, Eve, Nicola, Katie, Angel and Jane for the recent inspiration and support!