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Halloha Sheila,

What comes to my mind is the question:

What about individual responsibility of a leading artist towards the following people/artists?

As leader you will have the urgency to create/ conflicts to provide solutions to deal with resource / ownership imbalances by law.

I follow the leader through a conflict because I trust in his leadership ability to create real life solutions freedom … Especially in a time of world water (…) crises.

leading artists can loose their leadership ability because of fear of loosing opportunities.

How do you step back and start follow a time?

One solution is to think of the artists/genius creator as a SCENIUS

The intelligence of a whole Community (the scene of the person).

Thanks for your career so far.

how many artists/leaders can one follow in my lifetime.

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Hello there,

Thank you so much for providing such a thoughtful and thought provoking response. I always appreciate people who respond from a place of curiosity and enquiry.

You share some incredible points. It certainly helps me to clarity my post and also ask my own questions in return.

Stepping into a leadership role, whether it is conscious or not, is an act of individual responsibility or what I would prefer to describe as agency. Many leaders are beholden to systems, structures, and constructs that define what it is to be an effective leader. Your questions lean towards this idea of what does it mean to be successful in a role that requires us to take action/responsibility.

What I am about to say may seem philosophical or spiritual in nature, however, in the way these insights are guided to me, it's not surprising it would come from this place. My purpose and advocacy of Arts & Healing is not dependent on how many and who I lead. What is inherent is this belief that by carving my own path as a leader with purpose, integrity, and clarity, that it would inspire others to find their own way to do the same.

In essence by being an individual leader, I am connecting with others who are self-led yet collectively guided. My art is very much about tapping into the collective unconscious, community and connection. It is at the foundation of everything I do.

With this knowledge, I trust that my actions are guided in spirit and in alignment with the greatest good of human kind in mind.

I believe your point about "the intelligence of the whole community" is how I approach this topic.

Hope this sheds further light. Thank you again for engaging in this conversation.

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