On Time Mastery

Thoughts from our CEO and Co-Founder, Amy Elizabeth Fox:

We have lost touch with the myriad dimensions of time that give life its potency, meaning, and blessing.

We tell ourselves we are deeply out of sorts, but really, we are profoundly out of synch. We are not synchronized with our place in the world, our place in time, and our place in our lineage.

The first kind of time worthy of consideration is ancestral time.

We do not honor our elders. We do not know the stories of earlier generations, often not even their names. We do not turn towards ancestral trauma and offer ourselves as beacons of restoration. We do not honor their lives, their pains, their sacrifices. We do not consciously inhabit their gifts and legacies.

In our programs, executives tell the story of their leadership values starting two generations back. All of a sudden, their own story becomes so much more dimensional. You get cultural color, stories of immigration, and delayed dreams. You begin to understand the atrocities our ancestors faced and whose long tail we inherited in parental coldness, fear, and fierce ambition for our safety and success. You can see leaders start to inhabit themselves when they place themselves in the long line of their family descendants.

The second kind of time is Presence.

Most of the executives we meet are outside of themselves. Decades ago, my friend Ram Dass wrote the spiritual masterpiece Be Here Now. This sage imperative has never been more important than in a time of massive distraction, endless stimulation, constant flux, and tireless communication.

In our programs, we help leaders to slow down and take space for reflection. We enter gossamer silence to source self-connection. We listen to the sounds of nature. We hold deep conversation. We paint. We sing. We dance. We walk. We do Aikido. We breathe.

As leaders re-inhabit themselves, you see their own spark of life take hold again. Counter-intuitively, going back to integrate early childhood hurts from the past brings more of your own immediacy online into the present time as well.

The final missing dimension of time is Eternal time. What the Greeks called Kairos.

We touch this liminal space when we pray. When we meditate. When we create sacred rituals of commemoration and transition. When we enter the domain of the artistic. When we witness one another profoundly.

All of this connects us to the numinous, the wider field in which all of life unfolds itself.

My teacher Thomas Hübl, PhD links these three types of time together in his beautiful teaching: Only when you are at perfect peace with your past can you virgin birth the part of the Future you came into life to give.

We can help people seek and find greater peace with their own past and do ancestral healing, which gives peace to the entire Line. This unburdens the future, bringing a portal of Hope and fresh possibility.