“There is more to us, more to our professions and more to our personal endeavors than we are currently experiencing,” said Rebeccah Bennett, founder and principal of Emerging Wisdom LLC. “And the only way to really discover that is to leave the comfort of the known world and step into the mystery.”
Bennett, who is also a life coach, made this advice she has shared with others part of her own narrative back in 2014.
She left her longtime post at Vector Communications to devote her time and professional energy to the organization she began back in 2006.
Emerging Wisdom designs and facilitates personal and professional growth programs, organizational improvement efforts and social transformation initiatives.
It serves corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, networks and individuals working to bring about positive change for themselves and their communities through coaching, training, consulting, facilitation and planning, and professional speaking.
In the year-and-a-half since she began operating Emerging Wisdom full-time, Bennett has secured more than 35 institutional clients.
“I just never anticipated that I would be so well received,” Bennett said. “What I kept hearing is, ‘We support you. You are fulfilling your purpose and we want to see you succeed.’”
On Tuesday, March 29, she will invite the world into her professional space with a special open house at her new location in South City.
“This office, however, is no ordinary office,” Bennett proclaims in the newsletter announcing the event.
Yoga classes, a bi-monthly spiritual renewal fellowship and a gratitude Mandala are on the schedule at Emerging Wisdom over the course of the next month.
The new office serves as the home for InPower Institute— Emerging Wisdom’s center for inspiration, transformation and empowerment.
Bennett said the center has been designed to be warm, relaxing and supportive and is ideal for classes, workshops, fellowship and group coaching – and that it’s a space where guests are invited to be their best selves.
“While it is where we support organizational development and social change, it is also where we focus on our third pillar—personal transformation,” Bennett said. “This office is not just where business is transacted; it is where change is made.”
During the open house, Bennett will reflect on “The Purpose Perspective” and how this practice and principle can be incorporated at the beginning of new endeavors.
“When you are doing what you are called to do in your heart, the entire universe conspires to help you execute that purpose,” Bennett said. “You are not alone. There’s a saying: ‘at one with God is a majority.’ As far as pursuing your life’s purpose, you have more support than you can ever imagine.”
It’s something Bennett has learned from experience by giving Emerging Wisdom her undivided professional attention.
“That was humbling and awesome because it showed me that all of my fears about not enough – perhaps being not good enough, not being sure enough or not having enough business to sustain myself and my family – were just fears,” Bennett said.
Her bold leap of faith outside of the familiar and into creating her own path is one that all those who aspire to a purpose-driven profession should reflect upon.
“In order for the path to be present to you, you have to be present on it,” Bennett said. “Thinking about it alone is not sufficient presence. It’s a beginning, but the best way to see what the path will bring for you is to walk on it.”
Emerging Wisdom’s Open House will take place from 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29. The office is located at 4125 Humphrey Street, 63116. For more information on the open house, the organization and a full schedule of events for InPower Institute, visit www.emergingwisdomllc.com.
