“All meetings are transformations, what brings you here?” Kwakwaka’wakw saying

This quote made me stop and think. My first thought was that the meetings I attend at work are far from transformational. I bet you can even picture the eye roll that accompanied my first thought. Much has been written about how to make meetings more effective but I have yet to see many of those tactics be sustainable. This includes my own meetings. This is a pretty damning admission given my previous roles and experience as both an Organizational Development Consultant and a trainer/facilitator.

As I gave second thought to the quote I thought of the other definition of a meeting  - an act or process of coming together– and realized that a) my head space was clearly preoccupied with work and b) this more personal definition of a meeting also happened at work and in those other types of meetings but I had not considered my professional relationships in this profound way. I wonder if doing so will make all my meetings transformational?