America’s Soul Community

We restore faith in American Leadership by training Reconciliation Leaders (www.global-leader.org) and hosting first Monday monthly America’s Soul Community from 7-8 00 pm eastern time. Bring paper and colored markers to do imaging, begun by Quaker peacebuilding Elise Boulding, my mentor.

I brought all I had learned at the United Nations to American leadership as I began America’s Soul Online Community in 2017. I use expressive art after guided visualization when I ask participants to draw an image that reflects their soul gifts to offer to the Phoenix. I believe that one by one we can claim our own spiritual and moral essence and offer our soul gifts to the Phoenix. The Phoenix gave me a hopeful way to look at 9/11 and a Covid19 America and World.

America’s Soul Community helps groups understand a set of issues at their own pace while supporting people reach a state of mutual understanding and alignment. 

A spiritual renaissance happens one soul at a time. America’s Soul Community is one way to begin. The Community is an online community building environment with zoom. It is also based on a new definition of politics and politician I defined and wrote in my master’s thesis from Lesley University in 1993. 

Learn more about our visioning process here: https://global-leader.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Imaging-A-Strategic-Visioing-Process.pdf.

Drawing on 30 years’ experience training Reconciliation Leaders in the United Nations, Virginia is now focused on American leaders. We must regain the collective spiritual and moral essence in American leaders. In resources provided by studies at the Fetzer institute, the link between spiritual development and the healing of our democracy is established. See our blog posts here. and here. Our action research for America’s Soul Community Vision and Strategy shows how engaging in deep dialogue, reflection, and collaboration will: Reduce fear, blame, projection and challenge division, racism, and oppression. Increase love, inquiry, trust, respect, humility, inclusiveness, and connectedness. Foster a just and sustainable America as a partner on the world stage. Virginia Swain, the founder of America’s Soul Community, was in New York City during the attacks of 9/11 and had a dream that evening in which a Phoenix rose from the ashes of Ground Zero. The Phoenix identified itself as our collective soul and offered a message of hope to people who wished to heal themselves. Each person in America can recover, cultivate, and nourish their spiritual and moral essence. We found we could co-create a community to take us beyond individual and group egoism and overcome the fear and mistrust that keeps us separate and isolated from each other and from the rest of the world. Read more by reading and hearing Virginia’s latest book on audible and in print: My Soul’s Journey to Redefine Leadership: A New Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of 9/11 (Xlibris 2016 and Audible 2022). For more https://global-leader.org/americas-soul-cafes/