What my house taught me about life
The excercise Martha Beck gave us was to find the place in our home that we hated, and then explore that (that is the nutshell version). To my amazement my [...]
Finding my Path, Finding my Shine
This came from an Inhale, Exhale writing excercise (Martha Beck, Write Into Light) and was where I ended up after writing what came up when I asked the question, “The [...]
You aren’t looking in the right place – The power you have to change the world!
We all know the quote, be the Change. It is quite tired and hauled out regularly to inspire us workers. Ghandi's actual words are quite different and perhaps more powerful, [...]
What I Said to the Dalai Lama
Well, not yet! But much to my delight, my May trip to Dharamsala with Street School Journeys inclides the possibility of meeting him if he is in residence and it [...]
Leading using Freedom
I love how information suddenly pops up, especially information around my favorite topic, becoming free! I am not talking about physical freedom or even financial freedom, I am talking about the [...]
Where does the Change Sit ? With the Leaders or with Our Listening?
Changing culture isn’t easy, especially as culture can be seen to be the sum of all the individual identities, so it is inherently personal. One consistent narrative across organizations undergoing [...]
Lessons from Servant Leadership – If they wanted to speak, they would ! Really ?
One of the benefits of facilitating our in-house Servant Leadership program is getting to meet a wide variety of people and seeing how Leadership is both practiced and seen across [...]
Leading isn’t Helping, Love isn’t Fixing
"Please, don't try to fix me. I am not broken. I have not asked for your solutions." The title for an excerpt that connected ...and a paragraph became a blog [...]
From Performance to Transformation (Coaching & Change that Lasts)
One of the topics this year is how we generate a culture change that is long lasting and not just sitting in the external domain of process and skills. Over [...]
When Deep Purple writes a Concerto
Not your usual combination – orchestral music combined with rock. I am sure there are some die hard musico’s of both persuasions who shudder at the thought – where is [...]