DG Peter has served as President of the Rotary Club of Key Biscayne, was District Membership Chair, and Zone 34 Covid-19 Foundation Sub Chair. Peter is a Major Rotary International Donor, member of the Bequest Society and District Rotarian of the Year 2017-2018. He is also a member of the Rotary International Haiti Handwash Committee. In District 6990, Peter works with the five Rotary Clubs in Grand Bahama who are still recovering from Hurricane Dorian. He has participated in 2 Polio National Immunization trips to India.
DG Peter had a wonderful speech. Himself was an good example of People of Action as we could see from his presentation he had been to so many countries to help people in need. Peter travels twice a year to Africa with projects that include Global Grants for building schools, water, sanitation, disease prevention and economic development projects. He proposed Four Priorities as follows:
At this Meeting, we had Mr. Mark Holingworth to speak on The 3 Levels of Consciousness
of Leadership in the 2020s thanks to our Fellow Member Larbi’s invitation.
-Mark Hollingworth M.Eng, EMBA: mark.hollingworth@5istrategicaffairs.com
President of 5i Strategic Affairs, Mark Hollingworth is an expert in strategic leadership who has worked as a management consultant, workshop leader/facilitator, university educator and ontological coach for clients in the profit and not-for-profit sectors for over 30 years.
Mr. Mark Hollingworth did a wonderful presentation on Leadership. He interpreted the Leadership today as follows:
A life-affirming leader is one who knows how to rely on and use the intelligence that exists
everywhere in the community, the company or the school or the organization. And so these leaders
act as hosts, as stewards of other people’s creativity and other people’s intelligence.
A leader these days needs to be one who convenes people, who convenes diversity, who convenes all viewpoints in processes where our intelligence can come forth. So these kinds of leaders do not give us the answers, but they help gather us together so that together we can discover the answers.”
Mark’s presentation covers the following points:
1) How does a Leader lead? Turning Conversation into Action
2)Four levels of Conversation
-Level 1 : Conversing to keep the peace
-Level 2: Conversing to stake my position
-Level 3. Conversing as part of the whole
-Level 4: Conversing while sensing what is moving through
3)3 levels of Consciousness
1)The Physical Body: Being fully present.
As leaders, we need to be not just aware of what our brains or intellect are telling us, we also need to be in contact with and sensing what our heart, guts or even our entire body is telling us.
2)The Social Body: Awareness of others
When we are called upon to play a leadership role, it implies that there are some “followers” or others involved too. Indeed, it is now extremely rare that major organizational or political decisions are taken by one person alone. Major decisions are now made in multi-stakeholder decision-making processes where individuals with diametrically-opposing points of view might need to be fully implicated and participating in the process.
3)The Global body: our world view
The third realm of consciousness, is the level of awareness of what is happening in the larger
interconnected system of the planet or eco-sphere. When taking organizational decisions, what is the
level of consciousness of any leader? What are they aware of in their macro-environment and what do they consider pertinent factors in their decision-making?
How does a Leader lead in an important meeting? Here were some discussions:
1)Have your own ideas before the meeting
2)Get to know your employees, team members or your clients.
3)Communication turns into action
4)Open to change, create new ideas
5)Identify the questions, open discussion and reach creative decision.
Founding President Santoso thanked Mr. Hollingworth on behalf of the Club. He commented that his presentation was very interesting and made us reflect deeply. He invited him to come back to speak to us again at his convenient to learn more about Leadership.
-DGN Michel announced that our Club received $11,500 from our old friend Yvon Gelinas. Among them, $10,000 was for our Club’s use and $1500 was for the use of DGN Michel for his Governancy expense.
-Zelé Montreal has donated $1000 to our Club for the appreciation of our help to transfer their donationa funds to Rotary Club of Zelé Békaa for Beirut project.
4. January 29th, 2021 Zoom Meeting
At this meeting, President Nominee James Zadralek spoke on the Environment and Service-A new focus for Rotary.
He reported that there would be an Earth Day on April 22nd and Rotary Club in District 7040 decided to join District 7090 for a River Cleaning on this day in partner with St-Laurence and Ottawa River keepers and we should support this initiative.
James thought Environmental Protection was added to the existing Six Area of Focus which meant so much for Rotary. He thought that all the six traditional area of focus are on People and only Environment focuses on nature where People are living in. By protecting the nature, we are building the harmony between People and the Environment.
Typical Rotary Actions needs the support of Education, Research, Polities, Community Activities, Individual activities and financial,personnel and organizational support.River Cleaning-up is the same thing. We need to support education to promote behaviors that protect the environment, we need to strengthen ecosystems and communities that are affected by climate change; we need to enhance the capacity of communities to manage and conserve natural resources etc.
There are many types of pollution in the environment we are living in, such as:
- Air pollution - Chemical (CO2, No2, methane)
- Air pollution - Physical (precipitation, soot, acid rain)
- Water pollution - Chemical (poisons, oxygen/fertiliser/heat)
- Water pollution - Physical (trash)
- Ground pollution - Chemical (water table poisons)
- Ground pollution - Physical (trash)
- Noise, light, heat, sound - Bird, bats migrating animals
Barriers (cars, dams, mines, wells, flow changes, earthquakes, drainage
In conclusion, we should support the river clean up as it meets the 4-way tests of Rotary
- True +
- Fair +
- Goodwill +++
- Beneficial ++
Founding President Santoso thanked James on behalf of the Club for his great presentation and thoughts about the new area of focus. The meeting ended by signing O, Canada!
