Alchemi’s Values

We also strive to be smart, strategic, and soulful.

Lindsey

Your coach

Alchemi

The philosophy

Values

What we stand for

Alchemi is a business and an online space that serves people and organizations that want to change the world.

Alchemi helps soul-centered professionals and organizations transform themselves and their world. Alchemi exists to inspire, educate, and empower people to be and become their best selves, and to use their unique gifts to make the world better for all of us, by walking their true path—the one that leads them to both the highest possible use and their greatest joy.

We do this by helping them connect with who they are, clarify what they want, and strategize how to get there—and then challenge and inspire them to do it. We see the practical challenges and emotional blocks between where they are and where they want to go, and help them discover creative and joyful ways to get past them.

Alchemi strives to help people step into their power and take responsibility for changing themselves and the world. Sitting at the intersection of social change, personal transformation, and organizational development, this is a place to find and share strategies and tactics to make things better.

What do we mean by striving to be soulful?

Connected to the essence of what is good, beautiful, and interconnected, to the inner fire, divine radiance, and peace we each have within us. Led by a higher calling. We know this means different things to different people, takes different forms, and has different names—and that’s ok.

Soulful world change is change that starts from this place of inner conviction, goodness, and peace, and spreads to touch all of us.

Each of us does change the world—it’s up to us to decide how.

People say “each of us can change the world” but really, our very existence already does. What will we do with this incredible power? The world needs us to show up in the fullness of who we are, with our unique gifts and experiences, and become our best selves, because when we do — when we commit each day to courageously show up in the fullness of who we are — we make the world better simply by living. We commit to responding to the call and answering the question: how am I healing or changing the world for the better?

We start with ourselves.

Change happens on many levels: the individual, the organization, the community, the nation, the world. We always start with ourselves. We know that who we are matters infinitely more than what title we have or what position we hold, and that it affects how we interact with those closest to us, and the others in our organizations and communities. When we start from the inside, we start where we have the most power, and build a solid foundation from which to grow our sphere of influence. Transforming our world begins with each of us transforming ourselves.

We strive to live our values.

Our values are what we stand for — our truth in the world. We strive to know what our personal values mean in our daily life, and work to actively practice and honor them.

We seek the truth, even when it’s difficult.

We don’t just look for what we want to see, or listen for what we want to hear. We know that it’s not just our intentions that matter, but our impact, and that it’s possible that our actions may be ineffective, or making things worse. We always strive to be curious and open to understand the full impact of our actions.

Be effective.

When several methods are aligned with your values, then the question becomes—what works? We are open to any ethical method of change if it works. There are many ways to do things. The way of change is the one that works.

The tangible and intangible are both vital and connected in social change.

Hard skills and soft skills. Culture and the bottom line. Respect, dignity, and love, combined with electricity, food, shelter, and water. Both tangible and intangible elements of change are necessary and vital to create the kind of world we want to live in. One without the other is not sufficient.

We honor and care for ourselves and each other, and work to dissolve the forces inside and outside of ourselves that do not honor our shared humanity.

Each one of us is one of a kind, special, and vital — endowed with gifts, experiences, and value beyond measure — yet the societies we live in do not honor and value us equally. To fully honor ourselves and others, we must work to heal the wounds of separation — prejudice, discrimination, systems of oppression, and power that is used to separate or control.

We are all connected — to each other, and to the Earth.

We don’t pretend to fully understand this, but we know it — in our bones, in the depths of our souls — to be true. Even when we don’t know how, we know that we are connected not only tangibly, materially, through soil, air, and water, but spiritually, soulfully. We know that our healing and our ability to thrive are tied to the healing and thriving of the Earth. We know that our lives and our world have been shaped by the ancestors who came before us, and that our actions will shape the world for those who will come after us. We need each other.

These values are why we strive to be and do all we are capable of, to show up powerfully for each other, to work for equity, and to heal and steward the Earth, because doing so is an act of love for all.

External Challenges

Strategic / Tactical / Practical

Changing the world comes with its own unique set of practical challenges. Alchemi coaching helps you solve the practical, tactical challenges that are the biggest roadblocks for you and your organization right now.

Funding & Cash Flow

Building a funding model, raising money, & managing cash flow in a way that aligns with the vision, values and keeps both your organization (and yourself) sustainably supported.

People

Collaborating with and managing volunteers, stakeholders, community members and colleagues with positive relationships, clear expectations, proactive communication, and a supportive culture.

Systems & Operations

Creating and maintaining systems that work and help the work actually flow so that not only can tasks be delegated and responsibilities lifted, but you might even get to take a vacation — and not worry about what’s going on without you.

Internal Challenges

Mental / Emotional / Spiritual

When you’re trying to do the work that matters most to you — work that is truly meaningful – can be scary, overwhelming, and paralyzing just as often as it is exhilarating and gratifying. Alchemi coaching helps you get out of your own way.

Time & Energy

You’re more than your many roles, and creating a way of working that’s personally sustainable and energy-giving over the long haul is the most critical to-do item that never gets done.

Values Alignment

Are the actions you’re taking aligned with who you are and who you stand for, personally? How about on a team level? Organizationally? Feeling good about the choices you’re making and the way you do your work is transformational.

Personal Mission

Ensuring the work that you’re doing is your best and highest use, that you are building the legacy you want to leave, and becoming the kind of ancestor you want to be.

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