The Mother of Movements: Spiritual Motherhood in the Sacred Sector

The purpose of this project is to unearth initial learnings on spiritual mothers as leaders nurturing the vitally needed underground relational networks, or roots, between sacred sector organizations that sustain the larger ecosystem. This project will challenge established preconceptions of movement-building focused solely on archetypical masculine-oriented, visibly quantifiable metrics of success, such scaling for external size and scope. This project posits that spiritual mothers nurture hidden relational networks in the sacred sector. Moreover, these deeply rooted relationships bind the sacred sector together. This project argues that the underground connections sustained by spiritual mothers in the sacred sector are just as important as the visible, growing fruits of the movement.