NOVEMBER - Action & Leadership

Illustration by Miki Howenstein

…….. yet creating opportunities and spaces for concerned people to take action requires direction and leadership. In this sense of the word (rather than meaning to lead a group of followers), true leadership means listening closely to others to find the strengths they can use to build their self-esteem and forge important connections to enhance their sense of self-worth. By building up others, leaders diminish their own importance to the movement since others become capable of sustaining the initiative. Rather than making others dependent on her, a leader’s true work lies in providing a vision of the good life which fills people with hope, keeping this hope alive, and making people believe in themselves sufficiently to carry it out. In this sense, leadership is multi-faceted, and each person can enact some aspect thereof which is most suitable to her.　(From page 346 of the book “Jumbo Jumble”)


Author’s Comment:　Bringing people of different kinds together in action-oriented activities, and instilling a spirit of hope, appreciation, and self-esteem—this is the mission of JAMBO.  And to go beyond the various human and nature building relationship so that people build confidence to take leadership positions (providing activities, building up strong ties, instilling others to “break out and become leaders” in their own ways)—this is the challenge for JAMBO. Today’s world is too often structured to keep people of different political beliefs, religions, social status, etc apart. In our meaning of action and leadership, we bring them together in the spirit of working cooperatively to better the world (based on the foundation set in the book Jumbo Jumble).