Helping Humanity is the title of one of the chapters in our book, Midlife, New Life: Living Consciously in Midlife and Beyond. In the chapter, we explore environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and leadership in governments and business, and consider how we can each contribute to making the world a better place to live and work. In our communities, we practice helping humanity in many ways including financial contributions to important humanitarian causes.
I host Conscious Conversation Circles including a monthly Conscious Leadership Mastermind, a bi-monthly Midlife New Life Wisdom Exchange, and open drop-in groups for people seeking deeper exploration of member-selected topics. We contribute a significant percentage of our conversation circle membership fees to humanitarian causes selected by participants. During the past year, members selected Habitat for Humanity and Feeding America for our contributions to helping humanity.
Our Conscious Living approach embraces the three themes of noticing what is going on, setting intention, and acting responsibly, or more simply Attention, Intention, and Action (A-I-A). For a recent conversation circle, we explored the question, “What humanitarian causes inspire you to action?” So many good causes need our attention and we can all contribute. What are you noticing and where is your attention? What is your intention for helping humanity? What actions will you take to contribute to making the world a better place to live and work?
