Your NameKaylee Cole
Email Addresskayleec3@gmail.com
Cohort AssignmentAmericas with In-Person Intensive in Santa Fe, Winter-Spring 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Developing a sense of interconnected purpose and value, dissolving an overarching sense of separation between myself and my world.
I have done and learned a large variety of things and am still developing my own sense of returning value to a larger system of my world. How I can interconnect with those with similar visions in an effective and regenerative way

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

To be honest, I have trouble defining that still. I play an organizational and directive role currently, and I find a lot of strength in that, but I also find a lot of insecurity in telling others what to do, and I no longer want to do that. I want to organize efforts of a team by holding space for others to play to their strengths and play their roles in the way that suits their growth process, and I simply facilitate and bring that out.

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

Defining it, strengthening it. I know that I have skills and strengths, and I have trouble leaning into them, owning them, and finding places to fit them appropriately.

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

Self confidence, removing barriers of overthinking and judgement

5. And for professional growth?

Same as above, but in the direction of leaning into my skills and presenting myself as a professional with certain aspects to offer.

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

A lot of books. Certain courses related to my specific field of current work, that helped connect me and helped me feel elevated as a professional.

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

I have been reading a lot of Carol Sanford specifically relating to regenerative work in business and life.
Robin Wall Kimmerer has been extremely influential to my perception of kinship with the natural world and humanity in new ways.
Dale Allen Hoffman, in the realm of mystic Christian spirituality, has been influential in reshaping my view of divinity, interconnection, and healing

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

I am definitely still reforming this, as I come from a protestant Christian background, which I rejected for many years, but am coming back to reclaim my sense of spiritual connection to myself and my world. Robin Wall Kimmerer specifically has been influential in my realizing my own sense that humans are, or can be, as functional a part of the ecosystems of Earth as moss and sweetgrass and deer and fire. But I believe due at least in part to religions like what is commonly practiced as Christianity, we became too big for our breetches, as they say, and need to remember why we're here, what our unique skills are and how to use them to the benefit of the whole system.
I believe our unique skills lie in the realm of being able to step back and plan, on the system level, and make changes and impacts to our environment, but perhaps we are in an immature phase of learning to hone that skill. The ways in which we use that planning and environment-changing skill, have been selfish, short-sighted, and incomplete in the scope of what is included in the "whole"

Date CreatedJanuary 25, 2024