Why would a successful woman with a well-paid position in a company, a real sense of influence and decision-making power, leave a high-level life among the intellectual and business elite for a quiet, simple life in the countryside? And where did the idea of holding Women's Circles come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently I listened to an interview with a woman in her 30s, in the life phase of \"I can do everything, I want everything \u2014 fast, a lot, and I take no prisoners.\" She is constantly switched on \u2014 working at work, working at home, working on vacation, working around the kids. She silences her family with money, she is controlling and demanding. I imagine the only place where she might be \"gentle\" is with her employees, because she depends on them at least a little. But at home the frustrated dragon has to come out and cry it all out \u2014 at the husband, at the children... I don't know if my life once looked exactly like that, or perhaps in a milder version. My memory fails me a bit. But what my body felt while listening to that interview tells me I must have been very close to that picture. I listened to it in pieces \u2014 it was simply too painful to absorb all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Przytulam t\u0119 kobiet\u0119, i jednocze\u015bnie przytulam siebie z \u201cwtedy\u201d. Moniu, jak\u017ce du\u017co Ci\u0119 kosztowa\u0142 ten sukces, ta walka, to bycie w m\u0119skiej grze, w m\u0119skich jako\u015bciach i warto\u015bciach. Musi up\u0142yn\u0105\u0107 czas, musi wydarzy\u0107 si\u0119 jakie\u015b mityczne za\u0142amanie, \u017ceby zobaczy\u0107 co jest nie tak. Na moje wielkie szcz\u0119\u015bcie nie odby\u0142o si\u0119 to poprzez chorob\u0119 czy wypadek.\u00a0 W pewnym momencie zm\u0119czenia, frustracji, braku poci\u0105gaj\u0105cej wizji zacz\u0119\u0142am si\u0119 sobie przygl\u0105da\u0107 i rozwa\u017ca\u0107 zmian\u0119. Ostatecznie jestem tutaj, na wsi, siedz\u0119 sobie w oknie sypialni i pisz\u0119 tego bloga wygl\u0105daj\u0105c na drog\u0119, kt\u00f3r\u0105 bardzo rzadko przeje\u017cd\u017caj\u0105 auta. Pod oknem pierwsze wiosenne kwiaty, krokusy i tulipany, nie\u015bmia\u0142o wychylaj\u0105 z ziemi. \u015apiewaj\u0105 kosy na orzechu w\u0142oskim, szczeka Whiskers, piesek s\u0105siada. Synek w szkole, a ja mog\u0119 odda\u0107 si\u0119 mojej pasji. Pracowa\u0107 dla Was Kobiety \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In office jobs like accounting or HR, regardless of your level in the organization, you surrender to the rhythm of the process. The cycle is yearly, or sometimes several years long when you work at the strategic level. But they are still cycles of the same goals, the same tasks.\n\n\n\nMore than twenty years in HR management \u2014 and every year the same: the same battles, the same goals, the same reviews, the same salary discussions. Sometimes the corporation would bring cost cuts, so there were layoffs. Sometimes a development project appeared \u2014 so there were trainings and new hires.\n\n\n\nAfter years, it started to bore me deeply. And frustrate me at the same time.\n\nOccasionally a breath of fresh air came with a promotion or a new business leader. I would rise a little for a moment... and then the frustration would return.\n\n\n\nMaybe at some point I simply burned out. Years of high stress must have done their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite all that, I had two passions in my work that I truly loved. In the last years they were the reason I stayed.\n\n\n\nThe first was developing young managers \u2014 both women and men.\n\nThe second was working with women: supporting their career paths, helping them build their sense of value, power and agency.\n\n\n\nMy favorite meetings were those focused on women's leadership, women's networking, and women's mentoring programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I've been working on my emotional and spiritual side since around the age of thirty. It's a path of understanding. Sometimes it takes a very long time. And sometimes a whole new level of understanding appears just from hearing a single sentence.\n\n\n\nI believe each of us has her own path. Your path is the best one for you, just as mine is for me. We cannot speed it up and we cannot skip parts of it.\n\n\n\nIf I want to travel from Warsaw to Pozna\u0144, sooner or later I must pass \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. Unless I want to avoid \u0141\u00f3d\u017a so much that I decide to go to Pozna\u0144 in a very, very roundabout way \u2014 for example through Tokyo.\n\n\n\nIt's possible. But does it make sense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So now, back to the main point.\n\n\n\nI've been sitting here in this peaceful countryside for a few years now. My son has grown, our little Piece of Paradise is arranged and cared for \u2014 flowers, fruit, nuts, a cat. Everything is here. A dream fulfilled.\n\n\n\nI've rested. I've discovered new qualities within myself. And I'm looking for the next ones.\n\n\n\nMost importantly, I have matured enough to return to one of my professional passions \u2014 supporting women on their path. That's where the idea of holding Women's Circles came from \u2014 here in the countryside, but also in Warsaw.\n\n\n\nI started two years ago, but it didn't really flow. Women came, the circles happened \u2014 yet I was extremely tired afterwards, completely drained of energy. I couldn't wait for the meetings, but at the same time I felt stress and fear about how I would feel afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was my husband who encouraged me to find someone who teaches how to hold such circles \u2014 to understand what might be happening to me and why it was so heavy.\n\n\n\nAnd that's how I found a wonderful course with Marta Duczman. Four beautiful months of inner work and preparation.\n\n\n\nAnd what I can say now is that only now I truly feel I am beginning to hold the Circles \u2014 to hold the space, to allow things to unfold. Now my energy actually grows during the Circle and afterwards.\n\n\n\nLearning how to surrender to guidance from above, instead of pushing everything from my own head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I not only know what I want to do \u2014 I know how and why.\n\n\n\nAnd that makes the Circles light, joyful, alive, stimulating and nourishing for all the women who participate \u2014 and for me as the facilitator.\ud83d\ude42\n\n\n\nIn one word: I feel that I am home with what I still want to give to the world.\n\n\n\nAnd what I want to give to the world \u2014 to you, dear Women \u2014 is a space to discover your own power and agency.\n\n\n\nNow is the time of women.\ud83d\ude42\n\n\n\nLet's take this power and start from our small places \u2014 our homes, our villages, wherever we are. And slowly, step by step, we will make this world a better place. With love \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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