Category Archives: Radiance

Moving Toward Wholeness

Not long ago my friend, Ed Batista tweeted that he felt inspired by how I had connected leadership to psychological wholeness in a recent post. That was very kind, and it also planted a seed. I’ve written before about what I think wholeness is for leaders, but looking back to that 2011 post, I was […]

June 29, 2017 – 4:14 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Fate and Destiny, Radiance, Self-Knowledge, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (4)

On Worthiness

In many ways, worthiness is the very first and the very last topic of leadership. From the start a leader is someone who is concerned with knowing and relying upon his or her self-value. Without it the person who wants to lead, to create change, to bring people together around a new idea or movement […]

May 29, 2016 – 2:18 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Angels, Beyond the Edge, Openness, Radiance, Transformation | Comments (7)

The Horse

I stopped along a country road to take a photograph. I had been down by the river under the mountain, but the shadows had grown longer and now on my way home the mountain was immersed in late afternoon light. At first, two horses galloped to see me, but they soon wandered off, distracted by […]

May 27, 2015 – 6:32 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Healing, Openness, Power, Radiance, Trust | Comments (2)

Season of Belief

Many have written about the stresses of the holidays, how the time calls up unruly expectations, uncomfortable memories and unresolved losses. All of that is true, and yet as I write this evening, it also seems to hold an acute irony. This is a season of belief and giving, isn’t it? But the one person […]

December 19, 2013 – 9:10 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Radiance | Comments (2)