Crossing the Great Divide: The Mid-Life Transition with Rachel Conerly
April 8, 2010 by Jory · Leave a Comment
Like the salmon that travel the long and often treacherous journey, we are following an instinct impossible to resist. Yet most of us find ourselves unprepared for the scope and magnitude of what we’ll face in mid-life. Life seems to come apart more than it comes together.
The things that generated life for us in the first half no longer do, and they may even sap life instead. Without a road map and an inner guide, we may perish. The mid-life transition is about birthing new life and new possibilities. It is a time when we’re to take everything we are and everything we’ve learned in the first half and use it for divine and purposeful work in the world. The mid-life transition is our calling to new and abundant life. Our understanding of and relationship to this archetypal transition will make all the difference!
Rachel Conerly’s mission is to help leaders find their purpose and lead in accordance with their calling. She founded Collaborative Leaders, Inc., an organization whose work is to create a critical mass of leaders capable of addressing the world’s most vexing and perplexing problems. She has worked for 15 years as an Organizational Development Coach and Consultant and consults to top leaders, teaching them a highly-productive alternative to traditional hierarchy. She also co-leads public and private retreats including the Inner Journey in Richmond, Va.
Her clients include executives from numerous fortune 100 organizations as well as high-performing men and women from other disciplines such as government, medicine, and law. She graduated from Presbyterian College with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 1986 and lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband and daughter.
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