A Note & an Invitation
While we are here anyway let's make it count for something.
A note from Patrick
I have been on a learning journey my entire life moving ever deeper into the exploration of change and consciousness. How do we affect change? What is consciousness? What is needed so that we may live from the best of who we are more often? How do we live from love, oneness, and resourcefulness rather than from fear, separation, and reactiveness?
How do we move our systems and organizations towards their highest potential? How do we move ourselves? Do we ever really change?
That quest for understanding consciousness, change, creating, sustaining, has guided and inspired me since I was a kid and still informs my life choices to this very day.
My vision is that there is a time when all people, and the communities, organizations and systems that we create together have learned to live in joy, happiness, fulfillment, peace, acceptance, abundance, love, and courage.
My purpose is to contribute, as a Light Bearer, to the fulfillment of that vision working with individuals, communities and organizations utilizing the skills and talents that I have developed in support of creating and fulfilling this vision.
My mission is to coach, train, teach and provoke towards the fulfillment of that vision.
My challenge is to suspend my natural cynicism, judgment, and resistance, with openness, compassion and a good amount of fierceness.
My journey has taken me through times of great darkness, and lightness, only to emerge filled with optimism, creative energy, and a passion for supporting others
towards living their best life possible and to reshape our organizations and communities into loving, abundant, compassionate systems.
By saying yes to the call that wouldn’t leave me alone anyway, I have been taken on a journey that led me to work and journey through more countries then I can easily remember. I have explored through the lens of being a monk, an entrepreneur, a coach, a guide, a hypnotist, an author, a good man, a fallen man, a leader, a follower a leadership coach, ever an explorer, and so much more.
I have been blessed with profound and patient teachers ranging from indigenous elders, to corporate wizards, at least one enlightened master, and the many journeyers along the winding trails.
I am a private person by my nature, and I go against this protective instinct to share this with you in the chance that it may inspire you in some way, or it may help you to recognize whether we should work together, as a client, as a collaborator, as well intended fools creating tomorrow.
Leadership has been my intrigue, the context, the frame for generating intention, direction and understanding of what is emerging.
It is the movement of self, others, and the systems of family enterprises, communities, and businesses towards those possibilities bringing them into fulfillment.
Great leadership is a collective event. A factor of multiple minds informing vision, multiplied by the inspirational emotion of hearts, broken or inspired, converted into intentional movement, and informed by adaptive responses of what is needed each step along the way, closing the gap between the emerging dream, the vision of what is possible, and the current existing condition.
Above all else courage is needed because leadership generates change and change is both threatening to the status quo while at the same time essential for survival and expansion.
My part in this has been to play, learn, practice and to channel this through as a coach, multiplying the energy of many towards the emerging vision.
I have questions!
- How do we tune into the whispering dream?
- What is needed to truly open to vision?
- How do we mobilize a collective energy towards the fulfillment of the dream and vision?
- How do we navigate resistance and harness the energy of pushback towards forward momentum?
We each have a part to play. You will know when you are playing your part well when it taps into your particular genius, gifts, talent and the skills that you have developed.
For me that takes the form of coaching. I am in service to the ever-unfolding story and I call you to the same.
You may or may not be. That is only for you to know and you don’t have to know it alone.
If you are reading this trust that you are here for a reason.
Often times comprehending the full reason for any given moment is well beyond the pay grade of who we are. Part of my work has been to learn how to stay open, to the call, to synchronicity, to being guided to where I am needed on any given day, putting spin into one wheel or perhaps steadying a wobble or injecting the energy of possibility into another.
I call it coaching and on a good day it takes place at many levels.
Today, in presence, let us be alert to the emerging opportunities and have the courage to bring the best use of us into the service of this amazing unfolding story.
Cheers,
