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Toward a Vision of Oneness

Dear Friends, Brothers and Sisters,

I’d like to extend a special hello to each of you as we enter this traditional holiday season around the world. I’m really pleased to be in touch with you! There are exciting things going on in Humanity’s Team!

At our Bard College Global Council meeting, we approved a Humanity’s Team Purpose Statement. We also asked that it perhaps be slightly adjusted. That slight adjustment has been made — we added two words — and we are now ready to release it to the world. I think you will enjoy it! Here it is:

The purpose of Humanity’s Team is to communicate and implement the belief that we are all one, one with God and one with Life, in a shared global state of being, so that the behavior of humanity may shift to reflect this understanding.

We can now share this very short and powerful Purpose Statement when people ask us why we formed Humanity’s Team.

Statement of Direction

The Global Council also recently voted overwhelmingly to approve a Statement of Direction for Humanity’s Team. This momentous, eight-page document talks very specifically about where “we are going” as a movement and how we are organizing to get there. It is written from a global perspective, but its principles apply equally to the movement everywhere. I’ll briefly describe the Statement in a moment. But before I do, I’d like you to imagine . . .

Imagine what it looks like when we see people all over the world, from over 90 countries and many different cultures, holding hands and rejoicing in the truth of our oneness and the unity of all Life. Imagine experiencing deeper and deeper awarenesses of this truth through a host of educational programs, campaigns and events, celebration programs, and more!

Imagine the message we will send to ourselves and to everyone around the world when we model oneness throughout our movement, through our coordinated action worldwide, when as a united movement, in oneness, we take action together.

Imagine how it will feel when we share that creating the space for the New Spirituality to emerge on the earth may be too big for me and too big for you, but that together, with coordination and cooperation, in oneness, there is no job too big!

This is the world we are creating, for ourselves and future generations. I hope it feels as inviting for you as it does for me!

Our Statement of Direction points to this vision. It states that we are an active, coordinated spiritual movement. It shares that we will create strong and effective collective action globally, with every country participating in oneness.

Following the guidance of the CwG material and other New Spirituality teachings, we see clearly that, wherever we are in the world, when we come together in oneness, we become part of something bigger than us all! When we come together in oneness, we have the power to produce results that are grander than we could produce alone or in a smaller group.

Oneness doesn’t mean that we don’t support local or countrywide initiatives. On the contrary, the Statement of Direction encourages “the full expression of individual, community and countrywide inspirations and passions — and community, national and cultural identities — so that the movement reflects the people whom it serves and always has meaning and relevance.”

It also says that, in unity and oneness, the whole movement agrees to give its full support to global initiatives.

Commitment in Unity and Oneness

The Global Council will, of course, approve — and collaborate on the development of — all major new global initiatives before we put them into action. Then, after the countries on the Global Council reach a consensus on implementing a global initiative, we will move into a phase of “commitment in unity and oneness.”

What if a Country Coordinator feels his or her country lacks the resources to carry out its role in a global initiative? Then we invite that coordinator to reach out to other countries and to Humanity’s Teammates worldwide for assistance. Our intent is to make this workable!

To that end, the Statement also lays out a clear accountability structure for coordinating and overseeing the activities and affairs of the movement. Our Council of Trustees issues end statements that guide and anchor Humanity’s Team. The Worldwide Coordinating Director, with the assistance of the Teams and Operations Coordinator, coordinates and oversees the operations of the movement, guided by the end statements. Geography Coordinators carry out this responsibility in each of the six multi-country geographic regions we’ve created, and Country Coordinators carry out this responsibility in their countries.

The most important initiatives and decisions of the movement are discussed and approved by a consensus of the Worldwide Outreach Team, composed of servant leaders from around the world. Major initiatives of global importance are discussed and approved by a consensus of the Global Council, composed of Country Coordinators and Worldwide Team members from all over the world.

Country Coordinators worldwide have been reviewing the Statement of Direction with their servant-leadership teams so that each country can be clear about the Statement’s significant and fine points. Before voting on the Statement, there was a great deal of question-and-answer dialogue within the Global Council. The question-and-answer dialogue developed into a 27-page document so that each country team could go through the Q&A’s to see with great clarity the road map we have created for Humanity’s Team as we move forward in the world.

If you are interested in seeing this material, please be in touch with your Country Coordinator. He or she will be very happy to share it with you. If your country has no coordinator at present, please reach out to your Geography Coordinator.

I referred a moment ago to the Humanity’s Team end statements, created by our Council of Trustees. These are important, so I include them here:

That Humanity’s Team is an active, coordinated spiritual movement with uniform and unifying programs worldwide (allowing for community and cultural differences).
That Humanity’s Team is always creating the space for the emergence of the New Spirituality.
That Humanity’s Team is open and transparent in its operations and finances.
That Humanity’s Team always operates with the knowingness that we are all one.
That Humanity’s Team uses the Five Steps to Peace as the anchor in all that we are being and doing.
That Humanity’s Team is a MOVEMENT (a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul).
It is clear to me that for the past two years, we have not developed as fully as our end statements call for, due to our not having a definite direction and a clear accountability structure.

The Global Council and I believe we have now taken firm control of our destiny. Humanity’s Team is encouraging those with a shared vision and resonance with our Statement of Direction to join with us. We feel many people will be excited and energized to see that we are boldly and courageously moving forward. Neale Donald Walsch, the creator of Humanity’s Team, has often said that the challenge in our world is that the civil are not organized and the organized are not civil. Now, that is changing. The civil are getting organized!

Of course, the Statement of Direction is not “The Answer.” As we know, ours is not a better way; ours is merely another way. If you or anyone else does not resonate with the Statement — and we can imagine that some people may not — we encourage you to speak your truth. We also invite you to create other forms of organization, complementary to Humanity’s Team, that you can honestly and deeply resonate with.

No matter what, we are all one!

Worldwide Team Planning Session

In other news, stewards on the Worldwide Team met near San Francisco, California, in the United States for a week in October to review and develop plans for our global initiatives. As part of that meeting, we brought in a leading consulting firm, the Adizes Institute, for the first couple of days to offer guidance on our organizational process and to offer resources, methods and tools to help us achieve sustainable exceptional performance.

After reviewing our progress, one of the key recommendations the Adizes people made was that we give authority to leadership all across the movement — from global through geographies and countries to provinces, states, counties, cities and towns. It said that because Humanity’s Team is early in the growth process — we are at the beginning of the infancy stage, Adizes said — leadership must be empowered if we are to grow into the full promise of our vision.

The Statement of Direction gives this authority to our leadership — authority that was reaffirmed by every steward on the team attending the planning session. We exited the session with a great deal of enthusiasm for our vision and plans. We’ll report more on our initiatives and plans in future Nexus communications.

Western European Planning Session

Almost immediately after the California meeting, many of us went to Normandy, France, for a Western European planning session.

Duysal Askun, Teams and Operations Coordinator; Lynn Launer, HT Special Projects Consultant and a member of the Council of Trustees; Stefano Russo, Country Coordinator for Italy and Worldwide Team member; George Lockett, Country Coordinator for Wales and Worldwide Team member; and I met with Philippe Pasqualini, Geography Coordinator for Western Europe, and many of the Country Coordinators from that region.

Those coordinators included our hosts, Jacque Schecroun and Nicole Aknin, Country Coordinator for France; Claudia Christine Pieper, Country Coordinator for Germany; Maria Ribeiro Ferreira, Country Coordinator for Portugal; Ejvind Jacobsen, Country Coordinator for Denmark; Philippe Demarche, Country Coordinator for Belgium; and David Kirby and ZoZo Endacott, Co-Country Coordinators for England.

We discussed global and regional campaigns, events and plans, and ended the meeting with a clear vision for the next steps in Western Europe. We were all very energized by our time together. If you’d like to read my post about this meeting, based on an e-mail that I sent to the Global Council, please click here.

That’s all for now. On behalf of all of all our servant leaders, I thank each of you around the world for your invaluable contributions and for the many forms of support that you bring to Humanity’s Team and to humanity. May God continue to express gloriously through you!

With all my love,

Steve Farrell

Worldwide Coordinating Director