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Do you know where my piece is?
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest blog about the Co-active Summit is from Amy Logan, a brand new CTI staff member. I think you’ll find she fits into our community beautifully—and in more ways than one.
There was no mistaking what word it was. The “p” was clipped on the right, but the puzzle piece I had received at the Summit was most of the word “Leap”. My heart pounded. It was the first day of the Summit as well as my first day of work at CTI as Director of Public Relations. This seemed like a very good harbinger.
Taking this job, making a major move and leaving a long-term relationship simultaneously, I was making my own personal leap into the unknown. Beholding “Leap”, I became acutely aware that hiring me and expanding the sales and marketing department was a big leap for CTI in their new push to bring Co-Activity to the world to create global transformational change.
Photo by David Taylor-Klaus.
Reluctantly, I followed the throng of puzzle-piece-wielding coaches into the chaos and din of the cavernous ballroom to locate our groups who had the same number on the backs of their pieces. Clutching my beloved, l somehow found the right table (#6) on the first try, which was a bit of a let-down as I had to surrender “Leap” immediately to the smaller puzzle taking shape there. I stood back as a man’s happy face appeared under my piece in the puzzle. The context was unclear but, I thought, soon I will know what my baby’s purpose is. I helped carry our puzzle up to the stage to add to the larger puzzle and bumped into Karen Kimsey-House there. She hugged and welcomed me to CTI. The Summit had barely begun and I already knew this job was going to be very different from any other I’d had.
Back at my table, I watched the puzzle come to life. When I saw The Compass, The Ascent, The Leap – also the names of the Pathway break-out sessions at the Summit – and how they lead to Transformational Change, the next step in evolution, I beamed with pride for my “Leap” being such a pivotal part of the equation. From afar, amidst 500 other pieces, it was hard to believe I had held it in my hands just 20 minutes before and now it was part of something larger, something even more meaningful. Suddenly, my “Leap” became our “Leap”. I could let go now.
Though I wanted to be mature about this, I secretly longed to get “Leap” back at the end of the Summit when we each got a piece of the puzzle to take home. Alas, I got a piece from puzzle #16, a spot between the trees on the path up. I choose to see this as every piece, whether it seems humble or exalted, matters.
Still I think about “Leap” and wonder who received it at the end of the Summit. Did you fall in love with it too? What does it mean in your life? Where does “Leap” live now? What’s your piece you wrote on the back? If you have “Leap” or know who does, please let me know!
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Gwendolyn
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