“The two most important days in your life are the day you were bornÂ
and the day you find out why”Â
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– Mark Twain
Connection Deficit is the condition of our modern state
THE GREAT RETURNING MAPÂ &Â THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ARCHETYPES
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The epoch of massive disconnection that humanity is now facing is a calling to attention of unprecedented scope. Disconnection from ourselves, each other, nature and our sense of purpose. Confusion, despair, and global instability are peaking.Â
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The call to service is most earnestly felt in the historical context of our times, evidenced when we have a deep longing to be more. More connected to something greater beyond ourselves. A deep need to belong to a broader, collective sense of purpose.
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These times ask us to pay attention, step forth and serve with the best within us.Â
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But how do we best understand our context from which to serve?

The Great Returning Map
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Reveals how over the last ten thousand years, we transitioned from being 100% connected to now being closer to zero percent connection than we have ever been.Â
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Our evolutionary biology, neurology and psychology show us, however, that we are designed for connection. Connection is our hardwiring. If we were designed for disconnection, wouldn’t it be a comfortable and safe state, rather than the anxious state that we are suffering from?Â
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Connection must be, then, our destiny.
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How do we achieve that when we are so far from our connected essence?
The Great Returning Map
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Not only charts our path to our current disconnected state from our origins, but also provides a path back towards our birthright of connection - in harmony within ourselves, with each other, the natural world and our joyful purpose.
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We are at a crossroads where the inborn genius of each person’s gift is called to joyfully serve through the wisdom of one or more of the changemaker archetypes.


Visionary
Qualities: Future-thinking, Creative, Innovative
Examples: Da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Brene’ Brown

Peacemaker
Qualities: Diplomatic, Harmonizing, Just
Examples: Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader
Qualities: Strategic, Charismatic, Action-Oriented
Examples: Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Winston Churchill

Healer
Qualities: Empathic, Restorative, Nurturing
Examples: Carl Jung, Gabor Mate’, Marianne Williamson

Mentor
Qualities: Wise, Guiding, Supportive
Examples: Socrates, Oprah, Bell HooksÂ
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
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– Winston Churchill
 THE BIG PICTURE
HOW DOES THIS AFFECT US?

As our Human Systems became more complex, we moved away from our Natural Systems and legacy of connection, losing our integrated state and connection wisdom.

The Great Returning is the activation of our innate connectionÂ
system in our Human Design and in our Human SystemsÂ
through the re-engagement with Natural Systems.
OUR MODERN STATE:
Brink of 100% Disconnection –
- Nature exploitive
- Generationally segregated
- Hierarchical governance
- Centralized society
- Risk/Opportunity Imbalance
- Degenerative society
- Socially isolated
- Trauma afflicted
- Purpose-confused
- Transformational Archetype Depressed
OUR ANCESTRAL LEGACY:
100% Connection –
- Nature related
- Intergenerationally integrated
- Egalitarian governance
- Decentralized culture
- Risk/Opportunity Balance
- Regenerative culture
- Belonging
- Trauma resilient
- Purpose-alive
- Transformational Archetype Integrated
“The genius of a devoted changemaker is an irrepressible force that moves through them. Their curiosity, humility to learn and grow - intellectually and spiritually - deep desire to serve and collaborate with discernment is an inner momentum that possesses them like the essence of a wolf possesses the being of a wolf. The changemaker is destined to innocently be and become more of who they were born to be. This is why they not only don’t just think outside the proverbial “box”, but don’t really acknowledge the limits of some perceived “box”. They are imbued with a sense of possibility and imagination that is empowered to manifest what has not been conceived before or of which there is no previous precedent or pattern in history. The changemaker, therefore, creates the wings of history-in-the-making as they are purposefully and courageously flying by the seat of their pants, and, like any pilot flying through air, are drawn forth and supported by a presence they cannot see, but implicitly trust.”
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-Â Lonner Holden, Co-Founder, Connection Wave