Big dreams, new beginnings and gifts of the heart

This is my first newsletter to mark the beginning of a new journey with Tribe in Transition. I saved this in a new folder called, Love Letters to my Tribe, and it is in that spirit I reach out to you now. Don’t miss the gift I offer you at the end of the page.

It’s exactly twenty years today since I left Scotland and set off on the journey that brought me to New Zealand. I remember standing in Heathrow Airport waiting for my plane to Sydney, feeling anxious. I was telling myself the story that I would be returning in a few months yet at a deeper level of my being I already knew I was setting out on a big adventure, which I would later come to call my soul journey.  I was entering a process that would strip away everything familiar and reveal some big dreams with my name on them which would become the vehicle for my growth.

The dream that first ousted me from the discomfort of a life that had become too small for me, was the dream of being a writer and in 1993 I made the decision to follow my creative process wherever it led me. The second vision arrived in 1995 after I had been in Aoteraoa – New Zealand for two months and this was to create a holistic learning centre – and this later morphed into a transformational learning community and a Whole New World. In 2006, I was electrified into action by the impulse to create an e-publishing enterprise in a new co-creative way so that it would not only support me but also many others and would ultimately finance the fourth, heartfelt dream of creating a Soul Sanctuary in Golden Bay.

These are big ambitious projects and they’ve been a long time cooking. It feels good to say them out loud to you now. They are no longer seeds hiding underground but healthy seedlings reaching towards the sun. In the beginning was the word. In the beginning is the intention.

Some dreams grab hold of you and won’t let you go, they walk a few steps ahead, egging you on. They dare you,   “Come on, come and get us” You don’t have a choice really. You just have to follow and do the best you can. You could call these seeds of destiny or potential, they hold out the possibility of what we could become. But in order to realize this potential we have to be willing to risk and to believe in something that’s almost impossible to achieve, setting off on a heroic journey like the salmon returning to the spawning ground, swimming against the stream, leaping up the waterfalls, defying the odds. This journey calls out everything you’ve got and takes everything from you that doesn’t truly belong with you, until you are stripped down to your essential truth.

I’m sure you have some big dreams too? Maybe you have already realised some whilst others have been banished to the “too hard” or “save for later” basket.  Many of us are nurturing big dreams now because it’s in the collective consciousness that now is the time when we can and must transform and recreate our world.

Eight years ago I committed to my visions and I’ve been working towards them ever since in a series of creative experiments, trial and error and a big learning curve. There have been many times when I have doubted my ability to manifest anything worthy and many times when I have attempted to put the work aside to make way for something more relaxing. But I’ve never been able to give up and walk away, even when the process made no sense and seemed to be demanding bigger sacrifices than I wanted to make, the dreams kept calling to me, enticing me on. At times it felt as if some huge creative force had picked me up by my pants, spun me out into the uncertainty of radical change and dared me to find my way home.

I decided this year to pull together the body of work I’ve created and co-created during these eight years – the books, e-books, audios, more than 100 interviews, teleseminars and transformational programmes.  And through this compIetion process I discovered that rather than moving forward in a straight line or a seemingly rational manner, I’ve been intuitively soul weaving, following what called to me, and now, in the emerging pattern of the weaving I see without a doubt who I am, why I’m here and how we are all interconnected.

Following my big dreams has kept me young in heart and mind, I’ve been inspired by all the kindred souls I’ve met who are on a similar journey and, despite the bad news which constantly bombards us from the world at large, I’ve grown ever more positive as I’ve gathered stories about the myriad new culture making projects that are flowering in the desert. Following my dreams, visions and passions   has given my life meaning and purpose and carried me through some lean times and dark nights of the soul. So much so that I am now convinced creative empowerment is the key to personal and collective liberation and it’s become my mission to pass on everything I’ve learned to others, to sow the seeds as I gather the harvest.

Some of you have already joined me in the Tribe in Transition community and over the next few months I will be introducing you to the books and materials I’ve generated in my attempts to make sense of the process of transition and transformation and what it means to live our passion and how together we can make a new culture, a whole new world. I’ll let you know very soon when it’s all ready.

Now I’m in the final few days of getting my new website ready and I’m putting the finishing touches to Migration to the Heartland: A Soul Journey in the Land of the Awakening Dawn, a story of transition, which I’m about to offer as an ebook and an audio book.

First, I have a gift for you. In line with my mission to develop and offer tools and practices which will transform confusion and uncertainty into creative empowerment,  I’ve made a set of audio meditations to be used as a daily practice, which when used over time, will ease your mind into positive channels: 7 Essential Keys to unlock your Creative Power with Ease and Joy.  You will find them here:   dev.doitsimply.co.uk/tribe/keys

I hope you enjoy the 7 Keys and that you will join me in the coming months to share and grow some big dreams.

Kia Kaha, Be strong

 

Rose Diamond