Let’s show up for ourselves so we can show up for the world.

Emergent Me is a community supporting our journeys towards authenticity, purpose, and stewardship — our growth into “right” relationship with community, work, livelihood, and all of the systems and life around us.

Who You Are:

• You’ve woken up, are cleaning up, and are ready to grow up and show up 

• You are someone yearning to live a life of meaning, purpose, and authenticity that supports the regeneration, healing, and transformation of ourselves, our relationships and communities, and our larger ecosystems and world

• You’re a millennial striving to embody “metamodern” leadership values and is working or wants to work in systems transformation — in stewarding a new paradigm of living, being and working into the world so that we can preserve and nurture life on earth 

What You See & Feel:

• You see the systemic & ecological collapse around you: you see how our economic systems and social structures are at odds with the flourishing of life on earth

• You feel a desperate need to shift the leadership paradigm — who and what a leader is, the values and qualities they embody, and the types of organizations they foster

• You feel disheartened by the present trajectory of our current system and feel a deep need to build a new world that is equitable, regenerative, and nourishing to all

Where You Feel Stuck: 

• How do I take skillful, impactful action amidst this much complexity, chaos, and uncertainty?

• How do I show up in my community, organization or context without abandoning parts of myself?

• How do I integrate the different, often contradictory, sides of me? 

• How do I make meaning of all of the suffering, culture wars and othering around me while showing up as an agent of positive change?

• How do I care for myself and nurture my agency while showing up and supporting others?

• How do I access, create, and make a living in integrity through the actualizing of my purpose?

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Reflections from our first Emergent Me pod

“This is a special little container...we’re starting to step higher... We built intimacy relatively quickly. And i think, for me at least, this combination has been rare, and yeah, really appreciating it. I think something about acceptance and authenticity, like growing to be more authentic, I think that feels to me like the base. And I’m only now coming to appreciate that more, or for the wonder that it is and that it flows through everything else and changes everything potentially.”
— Ivona Boroje

“We live in a really, really, really mental world. And that's now what we are moving out of hopefully in order to make a better world we have to move into our hearts and that involves a lot of shifts within leaders, within each of us, and it involves surrender, it involves love. I think what I’m finding I appreciate so much about this group is you know growing up it’s like you need to be someone for your parents, for your family, for your friends, then it’s in school you need to be someone for your teachers...then it’s work and you need to do all these things for your bosses and it’s like well what about you, you know like where is the space for you to figure out what you need, the space for you to be free to figure out who you are, what you love, how you express yourself, what your voice sounds like—what authenticity even feels like, and so what i have loved is just being able to show up to this space… and literally be completely heart-centered all the time and not feel like I have to perform… but literally just let what is in my heart come through and I think we all need practice doing that...I think we need to bring more of this energy into the workplace, especially as we’re talking about leaders… exploring what true leadership, authentic leadership, heart-centered leadership, servant leadership, really really looks like in practice.”
— Katie Bruzzone

“Once we settled into it, it started to feel like a watering hole, like a communal space of nourishment and reflection… I feel like when we’re all here we’re all looking out for each other, and I feel like kind of listening for those threats to the tenderness and to the questions and to the unknowing that a lot of the time just come from within and I think we all know that because we all feel it and its easier to see that in other people when we start to rise up to attack ourselves… Emergent me has made me, like honestly, being here because it’s so hard to leave this space like the space of at least we’re all here together throwing questions at the wall and like going through it and cycling and decomposing and growing all at the same time and when you leave this space and you’re left with just like I have more questions than ever feeling, it’s daunting, uh you’d like to think that once you start asking questions you start getting answers as opposed to more questions, but this space has helped me see the value of these blooming questions that once they open up they allow another question to open up and another and another, and maybe thats what emergence really is--allowing yourself to keep asking and keep seeing… I don’t think it’d be possible without you guys.”
— TC Christy

“The questions that we’ve generating in this group in the last six weeks are like an unraveling… and that’s uncomfortable, I’m often left feeling a bit messy at the end of these calls, and its like why would you sign up for a course that leaves you feeling messy, and yet there’s an honesty to that that is so important for us as people… it’s almost like we’re collectively grieving how the systems are or relationship issues we have—just to face those questions or feel that messiness… Emergent me to me is about the people, so it’s like each of you and then it’s knowing in my week that there are other people who are (in this) shared adventure, or shared spirit—y’all are facing some of these same questions I’m feeling because we just talked about it two days ago, and then there’s like a trust, or comfort there that comes about knowing that all I have to do is keep asking the questions because there are other people asking them too, so the answers will come to me whenever… and I just love all of that. Emergent Me to me is like redefining a lot of things and breaking apart labels around meaning or friendship or even this idea of healing… we’re redefining what healing is.”
— Benjamin Haynes

Watch the entire conversation of our reflections below