My name is Diane Rheos and I see systems. My ability to see systems is my spiritual gift.
I got my B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Oregon. I have spent my work career moving from one managerial position to another holding positions in every form of organization: small business, corporate, government, non-profit, entrepreneurial, and religious.
I came to realize that I could “see” how the structure of the organization was the cause of what was happening from the bottom up and most often, causing unintended consequences. As I came into leadership, I found my love of the startup phase, or when things were a mess and needed a new structural system.
As I grew into my managerial career I have also been on a profound spiritual unfolding and healing journey. As a systems person I have experienced multiple transformational experiences of a death and rebirth of myself. The death of one way of being (system) and the birth of a new way of being. I have a dragonfly tattoo on my third chakra in honor of being on a dragonfly path.
Knowing that I wanted to take my gifts, education and experience further I felt called to a master’s program and a M.B.A. wasn’t the right fit. I chose to obtain my Master in Whole Systems Design from the Center for Creative Change, at Antioch University. Knowing I am called to work with change, systems, business and communication it was the perfect fit.
The program helped me make sense of my gifts and experiences to identify more clearly what God is calling me to next. In the master’s program we began by studying natural systems. God created the world, the world operates with the systems we see in nature, and we humans aren’t aligned with how God created the world. Our current structures, government, social systems are out of sync with how we were intended to operate.
My final thesis was that the key to rewilding our human system is communication. Communication and conversation will need be used as a structure that can shift us from disconnected and nonfunctional to interconnected, and interdependent.