Changing our world begins with changing ourselves. Women stand at a powerpoint in this time in history...a place where we find that we ARE the difference that we seek! The Emerging Futures and Women conversation about leadership recognizes that women must redefine 'leadership' before we are willing to claim it for ourselves. An Emerging Futures perspective on 'leadership' leads us to consider, recognize and claim for ourselves that we are the conduit through which awakened consciousness and organic living systems connect.  We ARE the difference that will make the diference.

Each of the women below has stepped into and engaged an Emerging Futures exploration of Leadership Redefined - Reclaimed. Each of them has redefined and reclaimed something within themselves, making it possible for them to change how they live and how they move through their world. Their words are an invitation for you to reconsider how else you might live and, in doing so, enliven all that you come in contact with.

Priceless experience!    _{Annick Chenier}

I experienced great clarity and resonance in having leadership defined as a result of an authentic connection to Self rather than a strategy to achieve certain results.  I believe some have been trying to define leadership at the level of Being but have failed because of trying to do so within the old paradigm of “doing leadership”.  

I am very excited to now be able to understand, in my body, and to speak of this new understanding of leadership.   The WEL-Systems® body of knowledge applied to the experience of leadership is not only a conceptual shift in paradigm but also comes with an owner’s manual.

Thank you for this priceless experience !

Annick Chenier
Leadership Development Program Advisor
Ottawa, Ontario

My experience... was so exhilarating   _{Pat Donihee}

I have lived and participated in hundreds and hundreds of hours of WEL-Systems programs over the past four years and I thought I was living pretty large! In fact I am already a Catalyst, and CODE Model Coach™ and I was paying attention and shaping my life. And I certainly thought that I had been operating as a leader for many years, and I had held and operated multiple times as “the” leader. I could not have predicted in my wildest dreams the level of intensity I experienced in the program, and I so delighted that I chose to invest, time energy and money in me and then claimed the space necessary for me to be fully present throughout this Emerging Futures program.

I did seriously wonder why I felt so called to attend this particular program given that from time to time I perceived myself to be in the Golden Years of my career. And I did feel passionately called to attend this program. Golden Years what’s that! Even as I re-read those words I am aware of a smile on my face and a chuckle in my throat! What me retire….I don’t think so. I continue to approach every new day with passion and love the work that I have created and continue to manifest. So I was in the room I needed to be in and I created the call to be there. That was my first reclaiming of what I know to be true for me.

My experience in the great room at OceanStone was so exhilarating I was up writing at 3:30 in the morning writing and walking on the beach at dawn I had so much energy moving through my body. I was on fire and loving it! Loving every minute of it and the sense of power and direction that I felt in my commitment to my core value of growth …..constant growth. Since I returned home I have gotten my blog up and running…..something I had procrastinated about for a very long time. I have blogged about my commitment to live a decloaked life to stand in the clarity of my own convictions. I am committed to a continuous unfolding of me and all that I can be to me and to be a model for all that I come in contact with by creating space and inviting and allowing others to awaken to their own call….just as I did and will continue to do. As Louise says there is always more and my commitment to me is to step up to the plate and answer my call to the always more by paying attention to what is moving in me and live moment to moment and be always willing to change in a heart beat

Pat Donihee
Saint John, New Brunswick

Why wait? ....   _{Amy McNaughton}

As I sit here thinking about last week and the program, there is a lot to ponder.

When I stepped into the program I wondered if it was for me. Did I see myself as a leader? How did I view leadership?

Whether or not you own your own business, work for someone else or stay at home managing the many challenges of home, I can tell you that this program has made an impact on my life that I didn’t think was possible.

I left seeing myself differently than I had before and realized that I had strength and power from within that will make a difference not only in my future but others as well.

Since last week my life has changed. I feel more sure of myself and the decisions that I’m making. The thoughts for new business ideas are coming fast and furious and it’s an incredible feeling. I used to take more time before to “think” things out but now they just happen and work out just fine.

Louise LeBrun is an incredible Leader because she is present to herself and by doing so others do the same. What I like about her approach is the fact that there is no Good or Bad ,Right or Wrong,. It’s a win win situation. She creates a space where you can be honest and speak the truth of your own experience and not have to apologize for showing up and being yourself.

My life has changed and it’s because I stepped into this program and allowed myself to explore possibilities that would have normally taken me longer to consider. I now come up with ideas and before I know it, they’re up and running. I’ll be posting two programs in the next week before I leave for Ottawa that originally I had thought of not posting until September. Why wait? Now seems like a good time.

So indeed, why wait? If there is a program on Emerging Futures: Leadership Redefined – Reclaimed, step into it and watch how quickly your life will unfold in a way that would have normally taken longer or may not have even happened.

Amy McNaughton
Dartmouth N.S.

I have big intentions for the world....   _{Anne Thibeault-Berube}

I came to the experience pregnant. I felt like I was creating something in me but I didn’t know what it was. I also came with no stories. I felt fully present in the Now, deep down in my belly, ready to leap forward; like the past had burnt down in ashes and I had all the potential of a new life inside of me.

I didn’t speak very much at the beginning of the program. When someone would remind me of an experience of mine or was putting up a mirror for me to see something about myself, I didn’t feel like sharing. If something moved in my body, I would let it move trough, I would relax and breath to allow the information to be integrated.

On the afternoon of the first day, through a conversation with the group about my future project of putting on an Ideas Festival, I came to realize that when I get an idea and I get very excited about that idea, that very moment contains the essence of my higher self, all that is Me. So I went back to the moment of when I had the idea for the Festival. I was driving from Montreal to Québec city after having presented at a literary conference and wanted to create my own conference. In my mind, I saw a gathering of people exchanging thoughts and inspirations, people speaking their truth and awakening others. I saw people talking about love and noticing that we are all connected. I saw a joyful celebration. I saw people being inspired to create as they witness other people’s creation. I called it an Ideas Festival.

When the idea surface to my awareness, the prospect of such an event brought me to tears and filled me up with joy. I was so excited but right away, I started thinking of strategies I knew, that were familiar to me in order for the festival to become real. Because my background is academic, and in that world, knowledge is diffused in a certain way, I gave my Festival the rigid format of a conference. That is how I knew how to do things.

The same thing happened to my idea for a school. When I think about why I want to create a different kind of space for children to grow and learn, the freedom and joy I want to bring to then, my heart fills up with love and excitement. In order to create such a space, I felt I had to recreate what already existed, a school. When I think of a school, the initial excitement goes away. I realized through this program with Louise that I was trying to infuse new and immense ideas into an already existing environment that, as we know, doesn’t work anymore.

For the past few months, I thought that in order for me to manifest my vision, to make it real in our world, I had to dumb it down. I thought that the only way an idea that exists in the 5 th dimension, in my imagination, can exist in this 3rd dimensional world, was to make it denser, to slow down it’s vibration to fit this world.

Then, Louise spoke of emerging futures. An emerging future is like a child in-utero. It is unique, brand new and the only direction it follows is the one giving by the higher self through the tissue of the body. An emerging future starts with the higher self. It starts with the essence of who I am and is an expression of my god force. It is not dumb down by already existing strategies but it creates new strategies to fit the unique vision.

How do I know what my unique essence is, and how do I find the strategies if they don’t already exist?

To answer to first question, I think of what brings me joy, what I am the most passionate about, what moves me to tears and I try to find the essence of the feeling, the nature of the emotion that moves through me at that precise moment in time. For example, I am elated when I imagine a world of peace where love is the only truth. I cry when I watch a movie about child soldier in Africa and I am enraged when I see how easily we label children today and drug them to make them fit our dated system. I also remember how I felt when I had a moment of clarity, of enlightenment about a project like the Ideas Festival or the school. For me, the constant in all those moment is Love thru Joy and Connection.

Love, Joy and Connection are the principles of my higher self. I am not only an expression of those things but I Am those things. And the more I am those principles in my everyday life, the more they will be in my life. They will become more of a reality around me and for me.

The signal that I am, the Love that is me has an intelligence. As it goes through my body, it operated autopoetically and it self-creates without my intellect having to manage the unfolding. It is like a baby in it’s mother’s womb. There is nothing for the mother to do for the organs, limbs, nervous system etc… of the baby to develop. She can contribute to the development by making healthy choices but does not have any say on how it will unfold, prior to the unfolding. It is a job of the present.

It is the same thing with the strategies to build an emerging future. I cannot use pre-existing strategies if I want to manifest something that doesn’t already exist. An emerging future requires new strategies. And for me to find those, I need to live in the present, at every moment of my life to allow the autopoetic and organic system that I am to come up with the strategies. I need to listen to my body as it sends me cues to what he wants. I need to follow the impulses and act on them. I try to keep the old in the past, keep the stories behind me, let myself be guided by the SUN of Love and Light that I am and trust that the strategies will present themselves. I try to live through my body, let it lead because my intellect will only give me more of what I already have. Instead of trying to find the strategies to manifest my vision with my intellect, it’s letting the strategies find me. I have made the choice to engage from the Sun that I am at every moment of every day. That choice is already shaping a new reality for me.

Because when I am the Sun of Love, I attract Love and I create Love. That is the constant in my life.

I am amazed at the magic of this new way of going through the world. My wellbeing on all levels has improved and I feel much more connected to the people around me. I feel healthy and light as a feather. It's not that I wasn't living in my body before but I wanted x and I was doing a and b and now I decided to do c, the last piece of the puzzle. Time has changed too.
The way I experience it. It doesn't matter as much. I swear Louise; I am not the same person as I was last week. The things that come out of my mouth surprise me sometimes.

I am very dedicated to making the world a better place and I don't want to waste any time. I am grateful that you are in my life to help with my true path. You are a living expression of growth and it is very contagious. I am amazed at the courage you had the day you decided to choose Life. I also appreciate the friend that you are to me.

I have big intentions for the world.

Anne Thibeault-Bérubé
Indian Harbour, Nova Scotia

Questions?
If you have questions and/or would like to explore what this experience can offer you as a woman and as an emerging leader in living systems (family, community, work, etc), contact Louise directly at Louise@WEL-Systems.com.