{"id":9617,"date":"2026-08-31T00:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syncleadership.com\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:17:28","slug":"reflections-from-connection-kristina-mcmullin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syncleadership.com\/fr\/reflections-from-connection-kristina-mcmullin\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections from Connection – Kristina McMullin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kristina McMullin, 2026 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

When Sarah invited me to join the Sync team a few months ago, I was thrilled!! I participated in Sync in June of 2020. A time, for many of us, myself included, defined by disruption and isolation. The five day intensive was like a buoy in a vast ocean, the cohort that gathered quickly became a safe, nourishing, and encouraging community. The five days, and the lessons I gained from them, guided the next chapter of my professional and personal life.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later, I joined Sync Twilight as an action learning coach. While I had spent much of the past two years putting into practice what I had learnt during Sync, Twilight coincided with a turbulent season of my life, again the program and the community became a buoy. I had assumed serving as a coach for Twilight would not return the same community I had prior, but, of course, I was wrong. The small group I was in became a tight knit community almost instantly, after a few sessions, we were all sharing things with one another we wouldn\u2019t normally share. That safety emboldened us to take bold next steps in our professional journeys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in summer 2026, we are not in the early days of a pandemic, and my home and personal life is devoid of chaos and turbulence, and Sync has found me again. The gift of this position is perspective and curiosity. I have been able to look back at who I was and where I was and how the lessons of Sync have changed me. With this perspective, my curiosity turned outward to the rest of the Sync community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When in people\u2019s lives did Sync find them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did Sync integrate with and influence their lives? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What lessons and learnings have they brought with them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What more can be done in service? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can I learn and grow from this wisdom? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have had the opportunity and privilege to speak with a few alumni of Sync, some who I know well, some I\u2019ve crossed paths with, and those who I met for the first time on our zoom call, all who brought a level of generosity to our conversation that has been both a gift and teacher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sync has a funny way of finding people in very specific times in their lives, whether that is while completing a different residency, while busy and not in the best place, and while delving deeper into an arts practice. Wherever one may be, Sync will meet you there, and how you arrive will be welcomed, desired, whole, and enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it came time to delve into what folks had learned about themselves through Sync, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura, an alumni of Sync Atlantic, called her leadership style symbiotic and patient while Louie, an alumni of Sync Alberta, called theirs bravely authentic, Seeley called hir leadership style adaptable, creative, curious, passionate, patient; naming that Sync\u2019s process allowed hir to look inward to name these traits.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What these three leadership styles signal, is a generosity to self and community. Community and generosity are central to Disabled leadership, how those materialize in each of us, is a unique art form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For each of them, Sync has offered both a community and proof that strong Crip communities can be formed when we centre honesty, intentionality, and accessibility. We carry our communities and the truths we know into our work, our relationships, our futures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like my first introduction to Sync in June 2020, these conversations have been transformational for me. An offering to look inward to guide my path forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through every conversation I\u2019ve had, a few things remain steadfast: Disabled folks know, intrinsically, how to build and maintain community, Disabled leadership is as multifaceted as our community is, there is purpose and meaning to the things that come into our lives, true magic occurs when we are supported wholly.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, my leadership metaphor was a microscope able to zoom in or zoom out, but hazy in the in-between. Six years later, I’m no longer looking for a crisp image, faulting myself for not finding it, I’ve found magic is found in the haziness, found in the journey, and the looking itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sync can be of service, a place of creation, reflection, wisdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wisdom we can all grow from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what Sync is, this is who we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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