Aren’t we all living in a pause?

A strange time for most of us to be “not working” I have been connecting with many women, who are feeling a sense of “inadequate” feeling of “not accomplishing” feeling of not in control of things in life and business.  These are the times when we need to show up for ourselves, for our clients, community and those in need.

One thing this pandemic is teaching us is about the connection, and how communities get affected by each other. It is reminding us how we all are connected, and how we all need each other.

Many of these women whom I have been talking to, who are incredible in their businesses, some were starting new projects, and some were planning to host retreats and many other visionaries were planning their next steps. Now because of this pandemic, we are in a pause in a certain way, that even if we don’t want to, we are in a pause.

In these times, our clients, our communities, this world need us more than anything else.

So how can you be more of service and can still stand out to be the transformational leader

The Qualities of feminine leadership is very different from the masculine. Even though for a successful career, profession or business, both feminine and masculine traits are very important, but today we will get to know the feminine ways of leadership.

Why?

Because in business, coaching or any other profession, masculine traits are already way in the lead and somewhere the traits of the feminine have got lost.

There is also a misconception about feminine leadership, that only women can have the feminine ways of leadership, but the truth is, each individual needs to awake the feminine ways of being.

Your gender doesn’t matter!!

 The feminine or the Masculine is No better or worse since both have their strengths and shadow aspects. To be clear, when I say feminine I don’t just mean women, and when I say masculine I don’t just mean men. As spiritual beings, we energetically operate beyond the limiting gender binary and can express both no matter our biological sex.

In my own honest opinion, men need to learn and embrace feminine ways of being more than women. The reason why men need to tap into their feminine essence is that the feminine essence doesn’t come naturally to most men. When I say most men, I mean most men, it doesn’t mean all men are same, Heck there are some women who are totally into their masculine power and forget about the feminine, and need to return to the feminine power they have hidden.

So this is not about gender!!

But because my clients are mostly women, so we will talk about women in leadership and what feminine coaching traits they need to have in order to become transformational coaches and consultants.

So let’s get right into it!!

I am a big believer of archetypal energies, that goes beyond the behavioural coaching. Now let’s get to know the divine feminine traits in-depth: 

1. Vulnerability

In archetypal psychology, vulnerability is represented by the Maiden archetype. The maiden archetype represents the original, core essence of a woman’s being as a young girl. She is innocent, playful, and creative. 

In coaching or any kind of business, where you are serving an audience, vulnerability is an important trait to have or develop. Because it is a fact that people feel better connected to and trust leaders more when they show vulnerability. This lends itself to a collaborative leadership style, with the understanding that nothing is ever achieved alone.

You may have a Maiden leadership style if you value transparent honesty, the creative process over the end result, and haven’t lost the ability to bring play into your work. Some of the most important things to have a successful business. 

2. Nurturance

 To create a new life and nurture growth comes naturally in women. We can call this trait of the feminine as a Mother archetype. This archetype is often expressed through child-rearing, but can also be satisfied with gardening, caring for animals, and fostering the growth of communities or projects.

The Mother archetype gives the gift of nurturing. This is her natural ability to tend to, care for, and protect life energy. 

 The feminine leadership has a very positive, exponential effect on communities since strong leaders create more strong leaders and mother archetype has the natural ability of a creatrix. 

If you value, looking out for your client’s well-being beyond work, enjoy feeling needed and appreciated for your caring nature, and like to take on projects to bring them to life then you naturally have the mother archetype Rise in you. 

3. Courage

Courage is the next trait that is needed to be successful in any business. To evokes a primal response in women of feeling strong, free, and uninhibited the archetype of wild woman is what is needed to be embraced. 

Wild woman archetype, the characteristic of this archetypes, strength, her power, ability to create and maintain boundaries, make her the most repressed archetype. 

Because she holds the power, she knows her power, she also has the ability to create fear, around her. 

She is bold, confident, and knows her boundaries. The archetype of wild woman, gives courage to the leaders, to have the persistence to continue in the face of adversity.  This archetype gives us the power to know when to let go and when to start creating without any fear. 

In business, there are times when we need to make decisions, when we might feel in between the two paths, take new roles, build new connections, and to make it happen, we need the courage that this archetype gives us. 

Commitment to your passion, your purpose, takes courage. Commitment to your cause, belief that you can accomplish what you are setting out to do. Courage helps the leader to move forward. 

If you value being a trailblazer, working on larger scale projects and bigger stages, and aren’t afraid of the push-back you get from being outspoken and successful. 

4. Compassion

We all have the ability to have compassion within our hearts. The archetype which carries this trait the most is of the Healer. The healer archetype exists in both masculine and feminine expressions. 

This divine feminine leadership trait is filled with empathy and forgiveness. 

Because of the sensitive nature of the healer’s archetype, some take this archetype as a weak one. An archetype which is highly sensitive can be fooled and have been fooled and backstabbed by others if not supported by wild woman archetype to create boundaries and knowing your power. 

5. Manifestation

We all know how important it is to create new projects, new visions, new goals in our business and with our clients to help them reach where they want to reach. It is very crucial and important for a leader to own the manifestation process. 

If you consider yourself empowered with divine feminine qualities, you are the creatrix. You know how to manifest things. Creatrix is the archetype of manifestation. 

This archetype engages with our creative expression and manifestation abilities. The Creatrix assists us with giving birth to our ideas and bringing our dreams into form.

The way of feminine manifestation is very different from the masculine since it is typically more receptive and flowing rather than active and driven.

Leaders are expected to bring ideas and plan to life, so they must possess this ability to not only create concepts but to bring them to reality.   This archetype helps women leaders bring creativity to their projects.

In Coaching your brainstorming sessions are a hit if you are a creatrix. if you are an innovator, your creative thinking is valued at every brainstorming session, and you have an uncanny ability to make shift happen. Your clients come back to you when they need help in creating new projects, new ideas and new visions for their business and or lives. 

6. Vision

The divine feminine is incomplete without honouring her intuition and wisdom coming from her life experiences. Because of the modern ways of thinking and working, these qualities and gifts of vision, intuition, and wisdom have been gifted to us from the crone archetype. 

From the modern attractive woman to the selfless mother, this archetype of the crone is the most undervalued gift in modern society. 

What we forgot is this, that feminine leadership as a visionary wise woman is deeply rooted in intuition for what is in the highest good of all. This quality is essential for us to look at the bigger picture, as well as longer-term goals.

If you value, (which we all must) Expertise and knowledge, you may have crone archetype style in your leadership. 

7. Transformation

A divine feminine leader is someone who has been on a transformational journey themselves. For a complete transformation, it is very much needed to embody all other traits, characteristics and archetypes of the divine feminine. 

The Qualities to harmonize all other archetypes and embody each one of their characteristics, essence brings to evoke the Priestess. 

The Priestess archetype has the ability to shape-shift our realities, to transmute negative experiences into positive wisdom, and to elevate the mundane human experience into one of divine exaltation — this is the alchemy of feminine leadership as a Priestess.

It requires a special fusion of understanding universal laws, being deeply connected to the Divine, and applying the magic into our daily lives, in our businesses, while helping our clients. 

It requires to be connected with Love and Light along with honouring our Shadows of each archetype (which we will discuss in our part 2 of the divine feminine.)

When we bring light and shadow together, only then, the transformation can occur on a large scale.

To connect to the multi-dimensional nature of your clients, we as a coach need to learn how to go deeper to understand their souls on a mythic level with feminine archetypes and by connecting with the cosmic womb. 

I have personally experienced and witness that when you go deeper into the depths of the soul of your clients and apply this psychology and soul work in your career or business, you reach a new level of self-mastery.

You attain a harmony between honouring yourself and reclaiming your strength and power, while also showing compassion, kindness and love to others. You prosper as you lead with integrity, vulnerability and authenticity.