Definition: Sourced co-leadership

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Revision: 8 Jun 2026

Sourced co-leadership

The practice of collective leadership in which the individuals listen deeply for guidance and information from beyond ego and the individual personality, share what they receive, and discern together an optimal course of action.
Sourced co-leadership works best when the individuals are operating beyond ego (to the extent possible). The higher levels of sourced co-leadership are inaccessible to ego.
Sourced co-leadership is enhanced as the individuals who are sourcing release their fears and traumas (which tend to reinforce the egoic patterns of defendedness and victimhood).
The levels or degrees of sourced co-leadership may be understood in relation to the Stages of Sourcing.
An awakened collective employs sourced co-leadership to operate and make decisions as a highly coherent and intelligent superorganism.
Sourced co-leadership can include the beings and intelligences of nature, the land and elements, and beings in other realms of existence.
Sourced co-leadership is a form of governance that works optimally for all beings and is completely equitable.
As collectivity dissolves into oneness, sourced co-leadership transitions into the single process of Source sourcing all of creation.