by Majka Baur
My second Vision Quest took me deeper into myself than I expected. What I thought would be about my professional path became a journey into anger, boundaries, and reclaiming my feminine power. Through four days of solitude, journaling, and reflection in nature, I confronted shadows, integrated my experience, and returned feeling whole — with new insight into life, leadership, and embodiment.
There are many reasons people go on Vision Quests. I share a personal story about my first one: 31 years, burnout, feeling like a failure, grieving my dad’s death. In the silence of the forest I came back home. I started laying down some of the weight I was carrying. I touched a deeper sense of belonging.
What are some of the major life transitions you went through? What can we learn from them for our collective transformation towards regenerative cultures and business?
Coming home to ourselves, to each other, and to the earth implies a new way of being and belonging to the World. My journey took me from learning to “fit in” to losing myself. Coming back home has been about coming back to my body and letting go of the judgemental mindset that permeated me.
Becoming “whole” is a process of developing different qualities and gaining insights about ourselves. Bill Plotkin’s description of the three realms of personal development helps to map various personal development practices, perceive how they relate to each other and which function they can play in our lifelong personal development process.
What are personal transformations? How do we know that we are entering one of these phases in which ´what we perceive as real shifts and we start searching for our own authentic way to be and belong?
