Why Women - Why Now

I am often asked why I have chosen to work primarily with women - in particular, women over 50. This choice was based in the feeling I have had for a long time that there is a simmering caldron of potential change bubbling underground, which is the power of women to rise up individually and en masse to change the world.

I do not want to paint all women with the same brush, but I do want to say that it is the feminine qualities of nurturing and cooperation which I believe are going to come to the fore and begin to change the world in ways previously unimagined. As Carl Jung pointed out, these feminine qualities are also present in men, but they tend to be closer to the surface in most women. We have had more opportunity to cultivate these qualities through years of childbearing and rearing - we have more practice than men. Beyond that, women have been conditioned culturally to make a priority of building relationships, while men have been conditioned to build careers.

While one isn't better than another, the focus on relationship building is one of the elements which can make a very big difference in the world at this time, where so much division is taking place in culture and religion. We need to build bridges and to reach out all across the globe, to identify and encourage all the ways we are the same rather than focusing on how we are different.

When the Dalai Lama was in Calgary last year, he spoke of the need to extend maternal love beyond our children and to offer it to each other and to the world. We need to see every child as our child, so that any child starving anywhere is identified as one of our own in need.

If the nurturing capacity of women is moved beyond the home and unleashed on the world, there will be tremendous change. Women are beginning to realize this, and to recognize the power they have at their fingertips to work together to make a significant difference. They are beginning to mobilize.

Marianne Williamson is facilitating programs called "Sister Giant" http://www.sistergiant.com/index.htm which are forums to help women establish how they can create change. The group "Women on the Edge of Evolution" WomenOnTheEdgeofEvolution.com facilitates weekly calls with some of the leading female innovators in the world. Currently they host 35,000 women on each call, and their goal is to reach 100,000. Women are beginning to take note of what is possible, to get involved and to move forward.

In order to create significant change in the world through nurturing co-operation, we need to get clear inside of ourselves - to get unstuck from our personal issues. My job is to help you get clear and unstuck so you feel very good inside and free to create a life you will love. The joy of you living a life you love is a major contribution to the world, and a natural next step is to choose to join other women in taking direct action to impact the world.

This blog is about some of the elements involved in the process of getting clear. We have an incredibly exciting time ahead of us - it will be fun and deeply satisfying, so I encourage you to look inside yourself to see if you are drawn to develop your own inner resources and to be a part of creating a different world than the one in which we are currently living.