The Soulfuledge

12/24/2021

Bringing Your Version of Soulfulness Into 2022 & Beyond! - Hello Soulfuledge Community! Happy Holidays! Here's to you continuing to lean into your soulful edge(s) in 2022 https://mailchi.mp/87844541c352/bringing-your-version-of-soulfulness-into-2022-beyond

12/18/2021

INTRODUCING FACILITATOR LABS FOR MEN

Building upon the insights from facilitatorEDGE, the design of the Soulful Facilitator Intensive, 20+ years of developing change agents and facilitators, and the roadmap I developed in my upcoming book Warrior Compassion, I'm creating a new facilitator mastermind experience specifically for Men in 2022:

Facilitator Labs for Men

Each Facilitator Lab is designed to strengthen men as facilitators to hold transformative space in the emergent - an approach that breaks the mold of traditional facilitation models - an approach that is heart-centered and soul-inspired and can drive sustainable change and deep transformation in organizations.

Here is a list of the Monthly Facilitator Labs scheduled for 2022

2022 FOUNDATION FACILITATION SERIES
What every man needs to know to facilitate transformative experiences in emergent spaces
1/11: Creating Powerful Spaces for Transformative Experiences
2/8: Embodying an Integrated Way of Being as Facilitators
3/8: Deepening Authentic Connection in the Space
4/12: Balancing Structure & Flow as Facilitators
5/10: Facilitating Through Conflict, Tension & Resistance
6/14: Mastering the Art of the Transformative Debrief

2022 ADVANCED FACILITATION SERIES
What every man needs to have in his toolbox to successfully facilitate and lead transformative experiences.
7/12: Creating Powerful Collaborations Among Facilitators
8/9: Introducing Rituals, Ceremonies, and Initiations in Facilitation
9/13: Facilitating with Trauma-Informed Insight & Awareness
10/11: Introducing Creativity & Play Facilitation Practices
11/8: Elevating Contemplative & Embodied Facilitation Practices
12/13: Design Fundamentals in Creating Transformative Experiences

Take a Session, Buy a Series or a 6-Pack, or Subscribe for the Year.

Learn more about the Labs, register and pay directly on the Warrior Compassion website:

https://warriorcompassion.com/facilitatorlabs

11/23/2021

Yesterday, I launched my pre-sale campaign for my book Warrior Compassion: Unlocking the Healing Power in Men, which will be released by my publisher, New Degree Press in May 2022.

I reached 40% of my weekly goal and almost 10% of my total goal of 200 books, which is the litmus test for my publisher to see if this book has what it takes to reach the audiences that would buy this book.

This book plays at the intersection of men's healing/personal growth, compassionate masculinity, spiritual understanding, and systems transformation.

I might be biased, but I have a feeling this book is going to be a game changer for men and their healing at that soul level, for gender bridge building, and for compassionate systems change and culture transformation.

Over the next 30 days, I'm going to need your help by 1) pre-ordering the book and 2) sharing the link of my campaign to your networks.

Help me spread the word about a new way forward in men's healing and transformation that will be a gateway to compassionate healing on a local, organizational and more ambitiously, global scale for everyone across the gender continuum.

When we begin healing men, we begin healing the world.

You can pre-order the book by clicking here:
https://igg.me/at/warriorcompassion

And, here's a video to let you know a little more about the book and my intentions behind the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPmhVc2AsU

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10/03/2021

Invitation to Complete a Survey on Men's Healing...

For the Upcoming Book: Warrior Compassion: Unlocking the Healing Power in Men

This book is evolving into a roadmap for men's soul healing as a catalyst for societal systems change.

I'm currently interviewing about 50 individuals across the gender continuum from diverse communities who are at the forefront of men's healing work. I'm hearing their stories about their own healing journeys and their perspectives on the healing men need most at this juncture in our history.

I want to keep expanding the circle of folks involved as this is becoming a co-creation for a movement of global compassionate healing.

A movement that will serve as a gateway to build compassionate bridges across gender, reframe leadership models and shift power dynamics from fear-based control into love-based empowerment, and reimagine crumbling systems and structures from a collective wisdom that will transform cultures that are more conscious, compassionate, and connected.

If this is speaking to you, here's an invitation to get involved by sharing your transformation story and/or perspective on the healing needs of men.

Or just hit me up at [email protected] and let's have a conversation to explore the ways we can begin to build something incredible together.

When we help unlock the healing power in men, we unleash a fierce healing power into the world.

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03/12/2021

There are a few more spots for the 3rd cohort of the Soulful Facilitator Intensive that starts on April 1st and we are still accepting applications.

This might be a facilitator training for you, if you identify with any of the following:

✅ Understanding that new bridges must be built across division, disconnection, and isolation from a place of deeper consciousness, the compassionate heart, and a collective wisdom

✅ Having a clarity that the existing societal and organizational systems and structures need rebuilding as they continue breakdown and crumble

✅ Being called to do deeper work that invites healing and lasting transformation in the world

✅ Craving a supportive community of like-minded people who are committed to doing the inner work for more authentic and genuine connection

✅ Desire to learn a new approach that taps into the deep intuitive knowing and allows a collective wisdom to emerge

If you do, we are holding INFO SESSIONS over the next week to learn more about the program.

Click below to register for an upcoming info session:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soulful-facilitator-intensive-info-session-tickets-137163767521

Soulful Facilitator Intensive INFO SESSION

01/29/2021

It's time to shift the conversation and narrative on Masculinity. By now, we've heard the terms: Toxic Masculinity, Healthy/Unhealthy Masculinity, Integrated/Unintegrated Masculinity. Implicit in these terms is often this idea that we need to fix something that is broken.

As Compassionate Bridge Builders, where we meet people where they are, there are a number of questions that we can begin to ask ourselves as we explore the topic of Masculinity:

✅What if we explore masculinity through a different lens that goes beyond dualistic (right and wrong/good and bad) thinking?

✅ What becomes possible when we infuse the construct of masculinity with compassion?

✅ What if we moved from this idea of fixing something that's broken to a conversation around compassionate healing?

✅ What if we took any judgment out of the conversation and became curious about our own relationship with masculinity and our masculine and feminine energies within regardless of our gender identity and expression?

✅ What if we fearlessly examined where we might have some strong reactions to, or might be triggered by, these concepts, constructs, or the language itself?

✅ And, what if we came together and embraced the transforming power of love and compassion within ourselves and each other as we get curious and explore these topics in deeper ways?

Rev. Sean Harvey, MSOD, MSEd, will guide us in an exploration of some of these questions and share his perspective on this paradigm shifting conversation that he believes is essential for healing and transforming our world. He will offer insights from multiple lenses (personal transformation, organizational and societal systems change, and a spiritual perspective).

Sean will introduce emerging ideas from his upcoming TedX: Compassion Makes the Warrior and his upcoming book, When the Black Bear Sings: The Healing Journey of a Compassionate Warrior. He will engage the group with thought-provoking questions and discussions as we explore a conversation that has been explored for years, but through a new lens and paradigm.

Click below to register and join the conversation:

Compassionate Masculinity: Transforming the Paradigm

01/21/2021

Sympónia Institute announces the launch of Cohort 3 of the Soulful Facilitator Intensive beginning March 18th.

We've entered a new era where coming together to build compassionate bridges for deep healing is more critical than ever. At Sympónia Institute, Soulful Facilitators are the space holders for Compassionate Bridge Building work across division, disconnection, and isolation.

The Soulful Facilitator Intensive is a virtual, 12-week certificate program for experienced facilitators, bridge builders, space holders, leaders, and change makers who are seeking a next-level facilitation learning experience that takes their work deeper.

Each week, you'll engage around thought-provoking and cutting-edge facilitation topics and learning experiences with other compassion-centered and soul-inspired collaborators. Each cohort has a maximum of 12 participants to ensure a deep and transformative experience with individual attention while forming a tight community.

Sympónia Institute for Global Compassionate Healing is a leadership institute based in Asheville NC and Washington DC with a growing community of Soulful Facilitators and Compassionate Bridge Builders around the world.

We are committed to developing the next generation of compassion-centered and soul-inspired bridge builders, facilitators, leaders, and change makers equipped to form authentic and soul-connected communities, redefine leadership models, reimagine systems & structures, and transform cultures.

Our work is grounded in deeper consciousness from an intuitive knowing, a compassionate heart, and an emerging collective wisdom.

To register for an upcoming information session, click:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soulful-facilitator-intensive-info-session-tickets-137445442017?aff=erelexpmlt

To learn more about the Soulful Facilitator Intensive program or apply to become a Soulful Facilitator, click: https://symponiainstitute.com/intensive

Soulful Facilitator Intensive INFO SESSION

01/15/2021

Expanding Our Soul-Inspired Compassion

To become a Compassionate Bridge Building, we must first look within and engage in the deep and rigorous inner-bridge work to allow our soul-inspired compassion to come through. In this session, we will focus on understanding and deeply connecting with what we mean by soul-inspired compassion. We'll engage in activities and conversations that help us explore the blocks that might be preventing us from tapping into soul-inspired compassion fully and consistently especially when it's difficult. To be a compassionate bridge builder, we must examine the places where are able to freely access our open compassionate heart and the places where we find it most difficult to access.

About The Compassionate Bridge Builder Call to Action

We're beginning a new era where compassionate bridge building is so critical for our relationships, communities, nations, and world. Without true bridge building, we'll never be able to come together to innovate and solve the world's challenges in the ways that are most needed. The type of bridge building today requires a deeper level of compassion and empathy to honor the journey of each of us walking our paths so we can begin to see each other in our essence and deeper humanity.

During each weekly conversation, compassion-centered and soul-inspired bridge builders, facilitators, leaders, and change makers will come together to:

✅ Explore thought-provoking discussions and topics around the opportunities, struggle, and practice of building compassionate bridges across deep division, disconnection, and isolation,

✅ Engage in skill enriching and enhancing experiences that deepen our level of compassion for self and other and elevate our capacity to build bridgesl,

✅ Examine real-life scenarios that bring these conversations to life in concrete and practical ways,

✅ Elevate a new paradigm that is emerging when we tap into the deep intuitive knowing and allow our collective wisdom to guide us, and

✅ Embrace a new way forward as we build compassionate bridges within ourselves and across our relationships, communities, organizations, and society.

Join us next Thursday, January 21st @ Noon EDT for this powerful conversation in community. I look forward to seeing many of you next week!

Expanding Our Soul-Inspired Compassion

01/08/2021

If it wasn't clear before, Compassionate Bridge Building is needed more than ever in our nation and in our world. After yesterday's Call to Action where we reflected, processed and openly shared our thoughts and feelings about this week's events, it became abundantly clear that the question that was top of mind for so many -

Where Do We Start?

What does it look like to be a compassionate bridge builder in our current times? How do we become compassionate bridge builders when we have diametrically opposing views in the space? How do we become compassionate bridge builders when our own deeply held values and beliefs are challenged in the space? How do we become compassionate bridge builders when we are feeling into our own emotions of anger, broken heartedness, and fear? And what inner work is required to be able to show up as a compassionate bridge builder consistently, especially in difficult times and when our values and beliefs are challenged? We'll begin a discussion next Thursday to break down where to start and explore the answers of these questions in community.

Click below to join the conversation.

Compassionate Bridge Building: Where to Start

01/04/2021

In December, Sympónia Institute launched the Compassionate Bridge Builder Call to Action. We're excited to launch the 2021 weekly conversations this Thursday at Noon EDT with the first discussion focused on Demystifying the Inner-Bridge Work.

We often hear the phrase, "do the work," but most of us have never been given the roadmap for how to do the work. In this conversation, we'll begin to share insights and wisdom to explore and demystify the roadmap for doing the work. As we continue to learn and are reminded that we can't be true bridge builders until we do our own work - the self-love work, the shadow work, the healing our wounds work, and the manifesting our purpose as bridge builders work.

To join the conversation and the Compassionate Bridge Builder Community, click on the link below:

Demystifying the Inner-Bridge Work: A Compassionate Bridge Builder Call to Action

11/24/2020

Join the Compassionate Bridge-Builder Call to Action beginning Thursday, December 3rd @ Noon ET.

During each weekly conversation, compassion-centered and soul-inspired bridge builders, facilitators, leaders, and change makers will come together to:

✅ Explore thought-provoking discussions and topics around the opportunities, struggle, and practice of building compassionate bridges across deep division, disconnection, and isolation,

✅ Engage in skill enriching and enhancing experiences that elevate our bridge building game,

✅ Examine real-life scenarios that bring these conversations to life in concrete and practical ways,

✅ Elevate a new paradigm that is emerging when we tap into the deep intuitive knowing and allow our collective wisdom to guide us, and

✅ Embrace a new way forward as we build compassionate bridges within ourselves and across our relationships, communities, organizations, and society.

If this conversation and approach is speaking to your heart and to your spirit, click below to register and join this free weekly discussion and become part of the community.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-compassionate-bridge-builder-call-to-action-tickets-130121891079

Compassionate Bridge-Builder Call to Action