To our wonderful community:
It’s that time of year again: we are gathering for our legacy journaling event “Make 2024 Count.”
Join us on December 17th, at 2pm ET.
You can register yourself and everyone you appreciate and love, by submitting your registration here.
As always, this is a free event, with the chance to donate at the end.
The proceeds will go towards a charity that we have yet to choose. Since our children are bigger now, our idea is to let them choose.
For those who have joined this New Year’s Reflection event before:
we’re so excited to see you again.
For all our new friends:
we’re so excited to meet you.
We will once again convene to center into what has been, what needs release, what needs continued nurturing on the path toward excellence, and what needs change.
Whether you can make it to this gathering or not, I want to take a moment to ground this 2023 bravespace event in our current world’s events and honor the universal leadership task that calls each of us forward.
Please take a moment to read this and meditate on what’s emergent for you…
When we started bravespace in 2020 during the pandemic we were driven by a spur of inspiration, urgency, and desire for connection in a time of dire isolation and uncertainty. We didn’t ever expect to come together with so many of you. We expected to journal with just a few close friends... and then we had 248 people sign up for our very first event! It was beautiful. We created a moment of deep belonging and shared growth while affording ourselves the individual space to let our frustrations, fears, wants, and aspirations breathe.
Since that first event, we’ve continued to come together, with hundreds of people joining from around the world.
This year, we feel called more than ever to do it again.
This is a time of universal contradiction.
Of sorrow and pain.
Of confusion and uncertainty.
Of apathy and activism.
We as human beings are embodying a rising collective divide while our desire to belong, experience safety, and harness dignity is greater than ever. The implications of artificial intelligence drive us to seek more truthful exchange in our human circles of trust, while we tip-toe optimistically into an inevitable great unknown, believing in the promise of new technology. We find ourselves repeating patterns of intergenerational traumas and warfare, even as species-wide awakenings around mental health enlighten us on the patience and love required to find forgiveness, peace, and surrender on even an individual level.
The duality of our time is real, at both the grandest and most granular level.
Anyone who has ever tipped their body into befriending emotions knows that two things can feel true and resonant at the same time. As a conscious collective like bravespace, it is our shared leadership to recognize this responsibility.
This responsibility is first to stop and think, to hold multiple opposing perspectives at once, to slow down and realize the importance of intentional action, and then to move and rise out of reactivity.
Moving out of reactivity also means tempering our habitualized rush towards synthesizing a conclusion. Our modern social media culture encourages us to project certainty, definitive opinion, and premature articulation, rather than harmony. Harmony has a lot more to do with co-existence, fluidity, and greyness, than with forced blending.
I invite us all into a moment of silence. Literally. Real silence.
To shed judgment and let our collective heartbeat do the work of silent understanding despite our differences. From that place, we get to ask: What is wanted of me, and us, now? What is the felt urge that pulls us into leadership? What future is emergent that needs our authoring?
And so we want to use this moment on December 17th, 2023 at 2 pm ET to lean into leading with and because of–not in spite of–the duality of our time.
Collectively and individually. We are all on our own journey.
And of course, it will include the bravespace mix of lightness, laughter, some of Ted’s bad jokes, deep somatic grounding to kick us off, and your favorite beverage. This is the moment to determine your themes for 2024, to align with your partner, co-founder, friends, or family by letting them join you. This is the moment to realize what you’ve done and to celebrate yourself and others for a moment.
Like always: This is our moment to grow ourselves. Together.
On a final note for the event: I want to say that I want you there, but really… I need you there. We’re all in it together, so let’s set our audacious goals and aspirations for 2024 together and walk into it together.
All the love,
Franzi
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Additional offerings for December, January, and February:
** For anyone desiring a deeper, and more contextualized sense of clarity (for themselves, their teams, their organization, or the entire family system), please schedule a discovery call with me here.
I am offering Validation and Clarity Calls for anyone in December, January, and February. To honor your personal economy, you will get the chance to pay on a sliding scale afterward.
** (ongoing) I am also offering free trauma-release calls for anyone currently affected by the war.