Back this week at the Highlander Center in the Knoxville TN region, the training center MLK used to organize and energize the civil rights movement in the 50's and 60's. I'm training a group of the country's brightest and most talented sustainability leaders in high engagement leadership.
People are amazingly invigorated by the notion that leaders must engage communities in the common consciousness of their strengths. After practicing this, one of the people in the group reflected that even a short time practicing a collective obsession with strengths "makes you feel like you just want to get going" in the direction of your vision.
This is the power of a strengths-focus. It's why there is absolutely no power in conversations about problems, needs, faults, disappointments, deficiencies, and weaknesses - if our intention is to create new connections and the possibilities of a future different from the past.
