Groups, like individuals, use their free will – a gift from the Divine – to determine their purpose, attitudes, structures, and activities, and to choose whether or not to manifest the group's personal destiny. Using their collective free will – the joined wills of group members – they engage in constructive or destructive actions within their own group and/or towards other groups.

Joining together to fulfill the destiny of our group or organization is a clarion call from the heart.

The Spiritual Destiny of Groups

The group's spiritual destiny emerges when the group begins the journey of the evolution of its soul. When the group's personal destiny joins its spiritual destiny, the heart of each group member is aligned with the Group Soul. When this alignment occurs, the group has one destiny, not two. 

Every group or organization has a destiny to discover, whether the group is conscious of it or not. Individuals are drawn to a certain group because they have similar destinies and are in a similar stage of soul development.

There is one overarching destiny of all groups: to discover what it means to be a group and to remember that the world is sacred. A group is truly blessed if it can eventually and authentically say, "We are living and fulfilling our highest potential. We have said yes to our destiny."

Every Group Has a Destiny

A group need not be famous or successful in worldly terms to claim a destiny. Destiny is not about competing or comparing ourselves to others. A group's destiny may be to be a family, a small business, a department in a large corporation, an academic department of a university, a civic office (such as a fire or police station), and so forth. Alternatively, a group's destiny may be an example of courage, patience, unconditional love, inner strength, or wisdom that emerged during a time of failure, misconduct, loss, or illegal behavior.

Group Destiny Emerges Through Synchronicity

Synchronicity, or the flow of unexpected events, is a signal that the group's destiny is unfolding. Synchronistic events guide the leader and group, alerting them to the next step needed in their destiny journey. Synchronicity events occur at the right time, in the right way, and for the right reason.  

The more the group slows down and awaits synchronistic events to show the way, the easier it will be for the group to notice when steps of its destiny emerge.

Many groups feel overwhelmed by problems and demands coming at them at lightning speed. If they wish to notice and benefit from the flow of synchronistic events, groups must slow down. The more the group slows down and awaits synchronistic events to show the way, the easier it will be for the group to notice when steps of its destiny emerge.

Finding the Right Environment

Groups typically experience challenges in attracting the right environment to live out their destiny. A group may have an outline of the story of its destiny, but there are different ways this destiny can be lived out.

For example, because a group is not isolated, its destiny story can be shaped by the choices of others, such as group members' families, the group's larger community, as well as local, national, and international events, including the results of elections and the choices of civic and world leaders, governments, countries, and so on.

In addition, individual group members, using their free will, make choices that can enhance, shift, or impede a group's destiny journey.

It Takes Time for a Group's Destiny to Be Revealed

I have observed that leaders and groups tend to expect their destiny to be quickly and easily revealed and even fulfilled. They, therefore, do not take time to educate themselves about how to work together towards fulfilling their destiny.

Destiny does not happen instantly. It emerges step by step over time.  Therefore, a wise motto for a group to remember is:  It takes time to save time – it takes time for a group to be born well and to stay well.

It takes time for a group to be born well and to stay well.

When we take time to be born well and stay well, we save time because less time and effort are needed to solve problems and conflicts. Unresolved problems become embedded and resistant to change. Said another way, we save time if we listen to the whispers before the problems become screams.

Welcoming the Emergence of Group Destiny

I have selected what I consider to be four essential processes that support the emergence of a group's destiny: shared vision, holographic systems thinking, shared decision making, and soul lessons of leaders and groups. When groups decide to engage wholeheartedly in these processes, they are welcoming the emergence of their group destiny. These processes, among others, are described in depth in my book, The Clarion Call: Leadership and Group Life in the Aquarian Era.

1. SHARED VISION

Individuals have a personal vision; groups have a shared vision. Many group leaders and members do not understand how a shared vision evolves and reveals itself over time. The initial shared vision of a group is simply where the group starts. A group needs to know where it is in its relationship to attaining its shared vision and where the group has yet to go.

Usually, as a group comes close to attaining its current shared vision, there is a lag of energy or a loss of focus, an absence of enthusiasm, and increased interpersonal conflicts, indicating that it is time for the leader and group to review and reset the shared vision. When a group has a shared vision, a group member's question, "What is mine to do?" matches the group's question, "What is ours to do?"