Currently - and it has been just about 6 years already - my primary work is the one of raising my kids, actually. I am very deeply connected with my work as their Mother - and that has many layers to it. I am busy with sharing my values, listening to who they are, and observing and gently assisting their development, I am also working on my role as a Mother in the sense of being "a good Ancestor" for them - looking into how to I co-create w world for mz children. their children, children of their children...

A lot of this current work is also actually a work on myself. Getting rid of some old patterns of behaviour, re-connecting with myself so that I can be the Parent they deserve... A lot going on there!

See, this is where I am currently struggling. So, in all honesty - I DO NOT KNOW. And it is tough time.
I feel like there is a greater purpose - I cannot just go through my life, without contributing to the well-being of the living systems. I feel like there is so many things inherently wrong around us, that each of us can have a thing that is theirs, and that pushes us all in right direction. Thing is - I cannot put my finger on what is mine... or I feel like I do not have enough knowledge, experience, expertise... I am passionate about food - both growing of it, as well as making it - in a sustainable, healthy way (and enjoying it as well). I am also passionate about all things parenting related (see my identity above). I do have a thing for arts - music and dance... I love community work... See, and I just seem to be stuck in not being able to pick a focus. Tiring.

Well, with what is said above, my aim is to find this purpose, this role, and start working towards making as significant contribution as I can. So clearly, I am very much embarking on a self-reflection journey here with you.

Definitely unwrapping my other roles from under my Mother role (which still needs constant evolution) - I do need to reclaim myself as a Partner to my husband.
I actually need to reclaim myself for myself in the first place. And then -- soul searching!

I would love to be able to connect this purpose / meaning to my work. How to weave it into my practice as consultant / facilitator? How do I serve best through my work? I have this deep need of my work to be a part of the greater good as well (it does not sit well with me to be working in a "for profit" framework...).
Lucky for me, the place where I work now can be - and wants to be - a part of that transformation!

First and foremost, I invested in working through some personal traumas - a work that never ends, but I am doing the work.
I did invest a lot into growing in the Mother role - put my career on the back burner for a longer while (though I was never really a career-oriented person anyway, it did feel like shifting gears).
I did teak time to try and learn about things that are important and dear to me, and that hold value. Again, a never-ending process, right?

On the educational and community work side: Augusto Boal. Big time.
On the whole parenting perspective: Jesper Jull and Alfie Kohn.
I am also attracted to - but admittedly, need to learn much more on systems theory, as well as permaculture.
A recent fascination is also the discussion on ethics of technological advance (very much into Johan Hari's work on attention at the moment...)

I think we are part of a whole - and as such, we are interdependent, and we carry a responsibility not only to maintain the ecosystems but to work to make them thrive. We do have a privileged position as a species - and it is our duty to use it to the advantage of the planet and its inhabitants.
Based on my Christian values / spirituality, I see that we have a certain stewardship - a role that was entrusted to us - we are invited to care for, protect, and regenerate Life.