Being a great mum to my boys (4 and 8). My oldest is very intelligent, highly sensitive and intense in his emotions.
This has been my focus the last years. I am slowly getting to a more balanced point or maybe there is just more room now, to also concentrate more on the outside world/professional life more.
I have always felt very deeply about EVERYTHING being connected and little place to merge that with my work life. Like I couldnt bring my whole self to work.

I get mirrored often I ask a lot of critical questions with help my colleagues/people I interview to dig deeper. I wouldn't call them critical though, I am just curious to understand. Connections, motivations, underlying principles, why we do what we do, if there is something we can do less of, etc.

I am trying to create a space at work - in my sphere of influence - where everyone can be themselves. I am not sure about my role yet. Hopefully, I know more by the end of the course.

To go where love and light leads me. That I can surrender when its necessary and have faith and trust.

Dealing with my highly sensitive personality traits. So that I can keep on doing (more) important contributions to the world trough my work, but also so that I can be a happy, healthy person so I can be the mum my kids need and deserve.

At this point, I need to deal with the above mentioned points first before I can ask myself this question. I am busy with it of course, but I feel I first need to learn to deal with the high sensitivity to make more steps and not lose myself on the way.

I have invested constantly reflecting, changing course when things didnt fit anymore/ I or a family member was unhappy, staying true to myself and not take the path laid out for me/do what was expected.

Concepts of social entrepreneurship; Noam Chompsky; Yogic philosophy/my two Yoga teachers from India, my political science teacher in Mexico, originally from El Salvador, who was living in exile there for being a communist 'de sangre rojo'; Paulo Coelho, Sufisim, Anthroposophy, mother nature

Everything is connected. We are one.
As I child, I was a child of nature, running around unattended and barefoot. It kept me sane when I didn’t fit in.
From nature/mother earth comes all that we are and have.
We have lost this deep connection, appreciation, gratefulness and awe at our cost and at cost to everyone else.
Nature invites us to be here and now, to observe without judgement.
Through learning to observe without judgement, we can apply it to ourselves and others (first step to self-compassion).
Nature teaches us to understand the cyclic nature of life (including ours).
In nature it is easier to connect to our heart and feel (self-compassion).
Good for (child) development, physical and mental health
Through appreciation & gratefulness for nature we can make more conscious choices and are happier with less:
refuse, reduce, reuse, recyle and focus on what is really important /moving away from a material world/capitalistic system to a world of appreciation and taking actions for the greater good of all.