On this website, I am going to be asking questions about power. What is it? How can we have more of it? How can we use it wisely?
I’m going to start with women, because I am one, and because so much has been written and said about it. The power of women is something we all understand. Except that when we look more closely, it’s not so clear that we do.
Do all women really exercise power differently from men? I know men who embody qualities associated with femininity, like gentleness and receptivity, to a degree that many women fail to match. And I know women who are ambitious strategic thinkers.
And then there are people who move between genders, or define themselves in some other way. They may appear as one gender but have the conditioning of the other. In fact, the closer we look the harder it becomes to say anything about anybody.
And maybe that is the point, because finding our power might be about dropping the labels and beliefs that define us and stepping into a bigger view of what humanity can be.
We start where we are, grounded in the reality of our day to day lives, but we come to see that we are so much more than that. We see things that we hadn’t noticed before, and we take a much bigger view of what’s possible.
And then we bring that back to where we are now, and the tasks that are ours to do, and we can change the world.
Finding Our Power 