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An Open Letter to the First Co-active Summit
Editor’s Note: For two weeks the Transforum will feature personal experiences from participants in the Co-active Summit. Michael K. Spayd, Managing Director of Collective Edge Coaching, wrote the following declaration for his personal blog as a way to put a finishing touch on his personal experience. Due to popular response to his words, Michael then set up a Facebook page “Co-Active Summit Attendee Promises” to give people a place to register their own thoughts on the topic.
I regret that I did not say it then. But I was not ready, we were not ready. In the intervening hours, I have talked to some of you—bemoaned that we did not collectively ‘get to closure’—and I promised to do something. Here is a first thing.
This is one man’s proclamation for our summit, our summit communique. I hope YOU will consider whether you could align yourself with this statement, for the good of our mother Earth and our human family. Change it as you need to make it true for you. Then, please pass it on.
The 400 leaders and coaches of the first Co-active Summit in Marco Island, Florida, representing 22 countries throughout the world, make known the following Promise to our Co-Active colleagues, to friends and loved ones, to our communities and to the people of the world:
We believe the human community is at the critical time to change the dream of the world, a dream we have created together, a dream that leads to the destruction of the planet through overconsumption, the wasting of our human environment through social injustice, and the loss of spiritual fulfillment through disconnection and fear.
We believe that by uniting together, We can make the critical difference. We are committing ourselves to changing the dream to one that envisions a sustainable environment, spiritual fulfillment, and social justice for all people and beings. We hold that by taking this stand, our decision can provide the tipping point that the world needs now.
Each in our own way, we will help change the dream: in our selves, in our families, with our children, in front of our friends, inspiring our communities. Because we are leaders, we are coaches, we are human activists. Our weapon is love.
We have less than four years to take decisive action. To change our own life, to change our world, to change our collective dream, to alter the Earth’s destiny. For the sake of our humanness, for the sake of our grandchildren’s grandchildren. In the words of Henry Kimsey-House, we must act from the paradox of Love AND Power, Feminine AND Masculine energies, Co AND Active. We can’t pick sides any more, coming from one OR the other. We must act from both.
One action we can all take right now, together, is to align with over 6,000 others who have taken the pledge at http://www.fouryearsgo.org/commit/
Because if not us, then who will? And if not now, then when, exactly?
We are the ones we have been waiting for. The time is now.
Four years…
Go!
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