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Imagine a world in which everyone experiences warmth, belonging, acceptance and abundance. Picture stepping over your fears into the endless adventure of living your passions, creating wealth from your talents, healing both yourself and others with your gifts and shining so brightly you touch lives all over the world. Can you see it?
My name is Kweku Aacht and this is my vision for AWO, the collective I formed last year that has grown to more than 100 leaders across three Continents.
AWO is short for Awotwi, the root of my family name Aacht - meaning eight in Dutch - a significant number representing infinity and manifesting endless abundance. This is the foundation of AWO.
AWO is built on the tools, therapies and practices I needed to heal myself. It has become the channel through which I have found balance and alignment with my community in order to deliver my healing gifts to the world.
AWO is…
STORY| LISTEN |SILENT
We begin in the Mineral Space: Most revered and compelling leaders in history mastered the magic of storytelling. Personal stories often mined from deep within. From within trauma, pain, struggle, conflict and challenge, precious gems are brought forth and refined into universally celebrated visions.
We have listened to the needs of many people. From black communities of London regarding representation of black heroes, to the stories of our one to one private wellness clients, many of them in search of healing and balance.
AWO Mineral inquiry:
What’s your vision and why are you here?
Where in life do you create space to be still and to be heard deeply and intentionally?
What spaces are you creating to listen to the precious treasures within those you love, those within your team, or those you collaborate with?
What support do you need to deepen and enhance your reflective practice and that of your people?
AWO is…
AVENTURE | STRETCH | CHANGE
In the space of discomfort, an excursion into unknown territory, the discovery of what I didn’t know I didn’t know is where growth and transformation happen. Whether it’s pushing your limits while on a long hike or reading a particularly challenging piece of literature, the benefits of stretching are massive.
As a community AWO takes on collective challenges that require us to boldly collaborate, holding hands as we step into the Emerald Forest, as coined by one of our members Deb Cain.
We hold each other individually accountable for living our passions and for taking bold moves towards our goals.
AWO Nature inquiry:
Where in life are you scaring yourself with the challenge of newness?
What brings you alive?
What are your passions and what opportunities are you creating to live and express them? Who’s holding you accountable and supporting you in your sometimes lonely leadership walk?
AWO is…
Visibility | knowledge | value
Commonly the most challenging element for leaders and changemakers is stepping into the fire space. Standing for your vision in authenticity. With AWO, I’m committed to reaching 1 million people with our Leadership philosophy by the end of 2021. Clearly I’m feeling the heat, though the elements are ever complimentary and the cooling influence of water is making the experience all the more bearable.
Our weekly online workshop AWO Global Changemakers Series is a chance for our members to step into the light and share their talents. Join us one Saturday, I’d love for you to experience it. Who knows? It could be you facilitating a future session!
AWO fire inquiry:
Who are you and who are you becoming?
What opportunities are you creating to reach larger audiences with your talents, your authentic self and your message?
What spaces are you creating for your team to step out and widen their reach?
What opportunities are you creating to see and reflect the value in others talents and to be seen and valued for yours?
AWO is…
Community | connection | needs | emotion
The Water Space has so much scope for healing, impact and reach. In leadership it’s the space where our unique healing gifts, projects, and services are delivered. Community organising, collaboration and collectivism are indeed what create the possibility of increased scale and wider impact.
AWO is built on a foundation of restorative philosophies including Ubuntu (the bedrock of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation movement), Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Rosenberg’s NVC and Leap Confronting Conflict’s Playing With Fire.
Within our community we have some of the world’s most gifted teachers and practitioners of mediation and conflict transformation, who create space for common grounds to be established.
AWO Water inquiry
What’s your role in society?
What healing gifts are you bringing that will provide as much healing for you as it does for your intended beneficiaries?
What methods are you using to ensure collaborations grow ever bigger and bolder in line with your world changing goals?
AWO is…HOME
The Earth Space is the root, the womb and the foundation that creates safety through physical resources such as money, food and shelter to the more abstract nourishment provided. Earth also represents the human body and the way we treat it. It represents our physical wellbeing.
Many of our clients come with the desire to transform their health and their bodies through our personal training and wellness coaching packages.
At AWO we believe that when a leader makes the decision to prioritise their health, they are entering into a whole new world of possibilities for their impact. Our consultation is indeed an elemental journey that begins with the individuals’ story as to how they reached their current level of wellness.
We ground our practice in earth taking body composition stats, therapeutic assessments and lab tests, explore any blockages to living and expressing passions. Finally we support our leaders to set stretching goals and action steps that often go way beyond the physical challenges they set out to address
AWO Earth inquiry:
Where are you going?
What are your big life goals?
What steps have you laid out to achieve them?
What are your ways of working, structures, agreements and guidelines?
Who’s holding you accountable?
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