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October 17, 2006 Soul at Work Cafe with Birute Regine |
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Birute Regine, EdD |
Soul at Work: Women leading in their own way Our cafe on October 17 was a great success. Twenty-nine women gathered to share practices, ideas, and experience about engaging their souls at work.
For more information about upcoming cafes and to be a part of our new "Women's Innovation Network" please contact us at or go back to our Soul at Work main page
email: inquiries@newcommons.com
The Soul at Work cafe was 'intiated' by Birute Regine on 10/17/06 with an intent to host these cafes at least once every 3 months. This cafe aims to convene women around the following topics that matter to innovate and support a new way of working.
Our Soul at work Cafes explore these questions:
Why do you go to work each day?
As a woman who leads, what enables your soul at work?
What blocks your soul at work?
And more...
Click here to learn more
In a time of constant change, what are women leaders doing to evolve work as a life perspective rather than just a 'company' perspective? In her groundbreaking book, "Weaving Complexity & Business: Engaging the Soul at Work", Birute with Roger Lewin showcase a new and powerful way of thinking about and working in the new economy, one that draws on science of complexity to prove that work is personal--and that our times demand that we be open to an organziation as a living structure--rather than as a machine with people as perscribed pieces of that machine.
>Iron Butterflies
Birute has now continued the conversation with Women leading in their own ways with her new book Iron Butterflies
Learn more about our Cafe Method:
Learning Cafes
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From Birute's New Book: "Path of the Iron Butterflies" |
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"In a global environment and interconnected reality, it is women’s skills that are most needed and effective--their holistic view of the world, their ability to see interconnections between things, their relational intelligence, their tendencies toward collaboration and inclusion, their ability to empathize, are all keenly pertinent to our new global reality.
In other words, it is time for high touch, for right brain, for the feminine aspects of our psyche to come fully into play. All these qualities of relational intelligence such as, empathizers, caregivers, consolers, are associated with women and feminine power. But, in the realm of politics and business, the public arenas where domination plays out, they have been disdained, marginalized, regarded as frivolous, and dismissed as touchy-feely. The very qualities that have kept women out of the mainstream are now the very same qualities that empower them to lead. Now is the time to actualize the power of feminine skills, in both men and women, and to recognize these skills for the strengths that they actually are and stand strong in our perspective."
....Birute Regine, 2006
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More about Birute Regine, EdD |
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Birute Regine is an author and developmental psychologist who specializes in the dynamics and development of relationships. Between 1996 and 1998 she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College in Massachusets. It was here that she developed a narrative approach to organizational change.
Her investigative work on organizations that have evolved as living organizations, is a pivotal inspiration to this series for women. She authored "Weaving Complexity & Business: Engaging the Soul at Work" and is currently publishing a new book called "Path of the Iron Butterflies: Revolutionary women transforming our world" in which she interviews leading women on their leadership approach.
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